Table 7 The top 20 journals with 2021 JIF scores that benefited the most.
From: Citation beneficiaries of discipline-specific mega-journals: who and how much
Ranka | Journal name | Citable items in 2019–2020 | Citations to citable items in 2019–2020 | 2021 JIF | DSMJs’ citations to citable items 2019–2020 | Five DSMJs’ contribution to the 2021 JIF (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Environmental and Ecological Statistics | 52 | 123 | 2.365 | 42 | 34.15 |
2 | Carbon Management | 94 | 331 | 3.52 | 111 | 33.55 |
3 | Sustainability | 17,754 | 69,045 | 3.889 | 21,522 | 31.17 |
4 | International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment | 322 | 1,693 | 5.257 | 479 | 28.30 |
5 | Journal of Environmental Informatics | 48 | 491 | 10.22 | 138 | 28.13 |
6 | Journal of Cleaner Production | 8983 | 99,460 | 11.072 | 25,574 | 25.71 |
7 | Resources Conservation and Recycling | 891 | 12,221 | 13.716 | 3,071 | 25.13 |
8 | Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences | 22 | 69 | 3.143 | 17 | 24.59 |
9 | Mountain Research and Development | 38 | 57 | 1.506 | 14 | 24.46 |
10 | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 8129 | 42,190 | 5.190 | 10,071 | 23.87 |
11 | Journal of Industrial Ecology | 256 | 1844 | 7.202 | 419 | 22.73 |
12 | Science of the Total Environment | 13,107 | 140,940 | 10.753 | 31,875 | 22.62 |
13 | Biology and Environment-Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy | 23 | 9 | 0.393 | 2 | 22.13 |
14 | Natural Resources Forum | 41 | 112 | 2.732 | 24 | 21.43 |
15 | Environmental Pollution | 3694 | 36,896 | 9.988 | 7481 | 20.28 |
16 | Ecological Indicators | 1977 | 12,382 | 6.263 | 2456 | 19.84 |
17 | Ecological Economics | 575 | 3758 | 6.536 | 740 | 19.69 |
18 | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 1775 | 12,427 | 7.001 | 2439 | 19.63 |
19 | Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry | 23 | 77 | 3.360 | 15 | 19.41 |
20 | Environmental Sciences Europe | 236 | 1294 | 5.481 | 243 | 18.79 |
