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Best Environmental Chemistry journals

156 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Environmental Chemistry. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 39 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Environmental Chemistry Letters 49.9 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Energy and Environmental Science 42.6 99th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Chem 30.4 98th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry 27 97th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Chemosphere 21.1 97th Q1 – – No
6 Sustainable Production and Consumption 21.1 96th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
7 Global Change Biology 21.1 95th Q1 SCIE – No
8 Journal of Hazardous Materials 20.8 95th Q1 SCIE – No
9 Chemical Engineering Journal 19.6 94th Q1 SCIE – No
10 Environmental Science and Technology 18.9 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
11 Science of the Total Environment 18.8 93rd Q1 – – No
12 Current Research in Green and Sustainable Chemistry 18.2 92nd Q1 – – Yes
13 Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 16.9 92nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
14 Green Chemistry 16 91st Q1 SCIE – No
15 Current Opinion in Environmental Science and Health 15.1 90th Q1 ESCI – No
16 Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters 15 90th Q1 ESCI – Yes
17 Microplastics and Nanoplastics 14.9 89th Q1 ESCI – Yes
18 Environmental Advances 14.3 88th Q1 – – Yes
19 Journal of Environmental Sciences (China) 14.3 88th Q1 SCIE – No
20 Environmental Science and Technology Letters 14.2 87th Q1 SCIE – No
21 Ambio 13.6 86th Q1 SCIE – No
22 Chemical Engineering Journal Advances 12.9 86th Q1 ESCI – Yes
23 Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances 12.8 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
24 Process Safety and Environmental Protection 12.8 85th Q1 SCIE – No
25 Environmental Science and Pollution Research 12.1 84th Q1 – – No
26 ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 12 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
27 Journal of Analysis and Testing 11.9 83rd Q1 ESCI – No
28 Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering 11.6 82nd Q1 – – Yes
29 Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy 11.6 81st Q1 SCIE – No
30 npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 11.4 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
31 ACS ES and T Engineering 11 80th Q1 ESCI – No
32 Analytica Chimica Acta 10.9 79th Q1 SCIE – No
33 Groundwater for Sustainable Development 10.7 79th Q1 ESCI – No
34 Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews 10.2 78th Q1 SCIE – Yes
35 Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10 78th Q1 SCIE – No
36 Environmental Science: Advances 9.8 77th Q1 ESCI – Yes
37 ChemSusChem 9.4 76th Q1 SCIE – No
38 Green and Low-Carbon Economy 8.7 76th Q1 – – No
39 Reactive and Functional Polymers 8.6 75th Q1 SCIE – No
40 Ecosystems 8.5 74th Q2 SCIE – No
41 Communications Chemistry 8.3 74th Q2 SCIE – Yes
42 International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry 8.3 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
43 International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 8.2 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
44 Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 8.2 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
45 Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 8.1 71st Q2 ESCI – Yes
46 Fish and Shellfish Immunology 8.1 71st Q2 SCIE – No
47 Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 8 70th Q2 SCIE – No
48 Biogeochemistry 8 69th Q2 SCIE – No
49 Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 8 69th Q2 SCIE – Yes
50 Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 7.8 68th Q2 SCIE B No
51 Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts 7.7 67th Q2 SCIE – No
52 Sustainable Chemistry for the Environment 7.3 67th Q2 – – Yes
53 Land Degradation and Development 7.3 66th Q2 SCIE – No
54 International Journal of Phytoremediation 7.3 65th Q2 SCIE – No
55 Nanotechnology for Environmental Engineering 7.1 65th Q2 – – No
56 Green Processing and Synthesis 7.1 64th Q2 SCIE – Yes
57 Environmental Geochemistry and Health 7 64th Q2 SCIE – No
58 Environmental Science: Atmospheres 7 63rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
59 Applied Geochemistry 6.8 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
60 Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 6.7 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
61 Environmental Geotechnics 6.4 61st Q2 SCIE – No
62 Geomicrobiology Journal 6.4 60th Q2 SCIE – No
63 ACS ES and T Water 6.3 60th Q2 ESCI – No
64 Analyst 6.3 59th Q2 SCIE – No
65 Journal of Hydro-Environment Research 6.2 58th Q2 SCIE – No
66 Aerosol and Air Quality Research 5.9 58th Q2 SCIE – Yes
67 Geochemical Perspectives Letters 5.8 57th Q2 SCIE – Yes
68 Methane 5.7 57th Q2 ESCI – Yes
69 Journal of Analytical Toxicology 5.6 56th Q2 SCIE – No
70 Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology 5.5 55th Q2 SCIE – No
71 Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action 5.5 55th Q2 ESCI – Yes
72 Journal of Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste 5.4 54th Q2 ESCI – No
73 Drug Testing and Analysis 5.4 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
74 Environmental Earth Sciences 5.4 53rd Q2 SCIE – No
75 Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry 5.3 52nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
76 Asian Journal of Green Chemistry 5.3 51st Q2 – – No
77 Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 5.3 51st Q2 SCIE – No
78 Environmental Technology (United Kingdom) 5.3 50th Q2 SCIE – No
79 Environmental Pollution and Management 5 50th Q2 – – Yes
80 Ozone: Science and Engineering 5 49th Q3 SCIE – No
81 Biodegradation 5 48th Q3 SCIE – No
82 Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy 4.8 48th Q3 SCIE – No
83 Water Resources Protection 4.8 47th Q3 – – No
84 Egyptian Journal of Soil Science 4.7 46th Q3 ESCI – No
85 Marine Chemistry 4.6 46th Q3 SCIE – No
86 Aerosol Science and Engineering 4.6 45th Q3 ESCI – No
87 Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 4.4 44th Q3 SCIE – No
88 Safety in Extreme Environments 4.4 44th Q3 – – No
89 Environmental Fluid Mechanics 4.2 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
90 Cambridge Prisms: Plastics 4.2 42nd Q3 ESCI – Yes
91 Journal of AOAC International 4.2 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
92 Chemistry Africa 4.1 41st Q3 ESCI – No
93 Materials and Corrosion 4.1 41st Q3 SCIE – No
94 Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 4.1 40th Q3 SCIE – No
95 River Research and Applications 4 39th Q3 SCIE – No
96 Environmental Engineering Science 3.9 39th Q3 SCIE – No
97 Mountain Research and Development 3.9 38th Q3 SCIE – Yes
98 Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 3.9 37th Q3 AHCI, SCIE, SSCI – No
99 Journal of Hydrologic Engineering - ASCE 3.9 37th Q3 SCIE – No
100 Aerosol Science and Technology 3.8 36th Q3 SCIE – No
101 Water Environment Research 3.8 35th Q3 SCIE – No
102 Wetlands 3.8 35th Q3 SCIE – No
103 Soil and Sediment Contamination 3.6 34th Q3 SCIE – No
104 Environmental Chemistry 3.5 34th Q3 SCIE – No
105 Climate Research 3.3 33rd Q3 SCIE – No
106 Journal of Environmental Engineering (United States) 3.3 32nd Q3 SCIE – No
107 Coastal Management 3.2 32nd Q3 SCIE, SSCI – No
108 Journal of Fluorine Chemistry 3.1 31st Q3 SCIE – No
109 Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S 3.1 30th Q3 SCIE – No
110 Sustainable Chemistry One World 3.1 30th Q3 – – No
111 Acque Sotterranee - Italian Journal of Groundwater 2.9 29th Q3 ESCI – Yes
112 Clean - Soil, Air, Water 2.9 28th Q3 SCIE – No
113 Geochemical Perspectives 2.9 28th Q3 SCIE – No
114 Polar Research 2.8 27th Q3 SCIE – Yes
115 Environment and Natural Resources Journal 2.7 26th Q3 – – Yes
116 Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies 2.5 25th Q3 – – Yes
117 Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing and Chemistry 2.4 25th Q3 – – No
118 Handbook of Environmental Chemistry 2.3 24th Q4 – – No
119 Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 2.3 23rd Q4 SCIE – No
120 American Chemical Society Environmental Science and Technology Air 2.2 23rd Q4 ESCI – No
121 Applied Environmental Biotechnology 2.1 22nd Q4 – – No
122 Advances in Environmental Technology 2.1 21st Q4 – – Yes
123 Applied Chemical Engineering 2.1 21st Q4 – – No
124 Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment 1.9 20th Q4 ESCI – No
125 Detritus 1.8 20th Q4 ESCI – Yes
126 Journal of Agro-Environment Science 1.7 19th Q4 – – No
127 Journal of Chemical Health Risks 1.7 18th Q4 – – No
128 WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development 1.7 18th Q4 – – No
129 Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry 1.7 17th Q4 SCIE – No
130 Chemistry, Didactics, Ecology, Metrology 1.6 16th Q4 ESCI – No
131 Mongolian Journal of Chemistry 1.6 16th Q4 – – Yes
132 Journal of Environmental Informatics Letters 1.4 15th Q4 – – No
133 Huanjing Kexue Xuebao / Acta Scientiae Circumstantiae 1.4 14th Q4 – – No
134 Avicenna Journal of Environmental Health Engineering 1.3 14th Q4 – – Yes
135 Environmental Chemistry 1.3 13th Q4 – – No
136 Rock and Mineral Analysis 1.3 13th Q4 – – Yes
137 Molekul 1.2 12th Q4 – – No
138 Developments in Environmental Science 1 11th Q4 – – No
139 Journal of King Abdulaziz University, Marine Science 1 11th Q4 – – No
140 Azerbaijan Chemical Journal 1 10th Q4 – – No
141 Chemistry Journal of Moldova 0.9 9th Q4 ESCI – Yes
142 Chinese Journal of Environmental Engineering 0.9 9th Q4 – – No
143 Pakistan Journal of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry 0.9 8th Q4 ESCI – Yes
144 Chinese Journal of Applied Chemistry 0.9 7th Q4 – – Yes
145 Agricultural and Environmental Sciences 0.8 7th Q4 – – No
146 Voprosy Khimii i Khimicheskoi Tekhnologii 0.8 6th Q4 – – No
147 RSC Detection Science 0.7 6th Q4 – – No
148 Analytical Science and Technology 0.7 5th Q4 ESCI – No
149 Journal of Fudan University (Natural Science) 0.7 4th Q4 – – No
150 RSC Green Chemistry 0.7 4th Q4 – – No
151 Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation 0.5 3rd Q4 – – No
152 Springer Atmospheric Sciences 0.4 2nd Q4 – – No
153 Waste Forum 0.4 2nd Q4 – – No
154 Earozoru Kenkyu 0.2 1st Q4 – – No
155 World of Metallurgy - ERZMETALL 0.2 0th Q4 – – No
156 Journal of the IEST 0.1 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Environmental Chemistry Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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