Environmental Science journals by time to acceptance (2025)
129 journals with 2025 figures · median days from submission to acceptance, measured from PubMed dates · data as of Sep 15, 2026
Sorted by median days from submission to acceptance in 2025. Faster is not better — this is a planning aid, not a ranking of quality. Click a column to re-sort.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doklady Biological Sciences | 22 (15–31) | 53 | 87 | — | — | 0.0 |
| Toxics | 35 (28–45) | 1,078 | 2 | ≈$3,178 | Open access (DOAJ) | 1.46 |
| Membranes | 37 (29–47) | 413 | 4 | ≈$3,300 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Journal of Xenobiotics | 50 (38–69) | 211 | 4 | ≈$1,956 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Biodiversity Data Journal | 56 (40–84) | 305 | 15 | ≈$750 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Journal of Applied Toxicology | 60 (38–90) | 301 | 14 | ≈$3,940 | — | 0.0 |
| Toxicology | 61 (48–85) | 257 | 2 | ≈$4,250 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife | 61 (43–87) | 142 | 1 | $2,770 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Archives of Toxicology | 64 (42–87) | 314 | 21 | ≈$5,690 | — | 0.0 |
| Biological Trace Element Research | 66 (48–95) | 445 | 13 | ≈$4,290 | Hybrid | 0.86 |
| Biology Letters | 68 (53–87) | 50 | — | No fee (DOAJ) | Open access (DOAJ) | 1.15 |
| Biodegradation | 76 (48–108) | 134 | 11 | ≈$3,590 | — | 0.0 |
| Bioresource Technology | 78 (57–113) | 1,614 | 1 | ≈$4,880 | Hybrid | 2.11 |
| MethodsX | 78 (52–121) | 608 | 1 | $1,380 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Frontiers in Toxicology | 78 (57–102) | 148 | 24 | ≈$3,117 | Open access (DOAJ) | 1.86 |
| Environmental Research | 79 (57–111) | 2,493 | 1 | ≈$3,880 | Hybrid | 11.84 |
| Toxicology Reports | 79 (56–118) | 276 | 2 | $1,360 | Open access (DOAJ) | 2.68 |
| Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology | 82 (56–110) | 361 | 2 | ≈$4,200 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Reproductive Toxicology | 82 (65–119) | 243 | 2 | ≈$3,800 | — | 1.25 |
| Integrative and Comparative Biology | 82 (69–104) | 145 | — | ≈$4,243 | — | 0.0 |
| Aquatic Toxicology | 85 (61–118) | 363 | 1 | ≈$3,320 | — | 0.0 |
| Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 85 (55–126) | 149 | — | — | Hybrid | 0.36 |
| Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology | 86 (58–111) | 128 | 2 | ≈$3,380 | — | 1.48 |
| Water Research | 88 (69–119) | 1,979 | 1 | ≈$4,660 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Marine Pollution Bulletin | 88 (57–135) | 1,529 | 8 | ≈$3,740 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Journal of Environmental Radioactivity | 88 (58–117) | 191 | 8 | ≈$3,800 | — | 0.0 |
| Journal of Hazardous Materials | 90 (71–116) | 3,859 | 1 | ≈$4,340 | Hybrid | 0.2 |
| NeuroToxicology | 92 (68–136) | 130 | 2 | ≈$4,030 | Hybrid | 4.9 |
| Microbial Ecology | 94 (75–115) | 200 | 19 | ≈$4,590 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Environmental Pollution | 95 (70–131) | 1,740 | 1 | ≈$4,090 | Hybrid | 0.5 |
| ACS Environmental Au | 95 (72–135) | 55 | 12 | $3,500 | Open access (DOAJ) | — |
| Environmental Health Insights | 97 (62–182) | 54 | 45 | $2,650 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Environmental Geochemistry and Health | 98 (68–143) | 606 | 17 | ≈$2,590 | — | 0.0 |
| NanoImpact | 98 (80–127) | 64 | 3 | ≈$3,600 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & Pharmacology | 99 (73–127) | 229 | 2 | ≈$3,220 | — | 0.0 |
| Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology | 101 (76–139) | 163 | 1 | ≈$4,210 | — | 1.3 |
| Journal of Contaminant Hydrology | 102 (77–136) | 276 | 2 | ≈$3,640 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Environmental Health | 103 (68–154) | 104 | 27 | $3,690 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology | 104 (68–149) | 222 | 1 | ≈$3,540 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Systematic Parasitology | 104 (66–152) | 54 | 25 | ≈$3,690 | — | 0.0 |
| Marine Environmental Research | 105 (74–161) | 781 | 1 | ≈$3,440 | — | 0.0 |
| Chemosphere | 105 (77–146) | 666 | 7 | ≈$4,010 | Hybrid | 3.12 |
| Environmental Epidemiology | 105 (80–135) | 86 | 38 | $1,200 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| The Science of The Total Environment | 107 (79–145) | 2,791 | 8 | ≈$4,250 | Hybrid | 1.62 |
| The Anatomical Record | 109 (74–143) | 177 | 23 | ≈$4,430 | — | 2.04 |
| Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | 110 (66–158) | 54 | — | ≈$3,090 | — | 0.0 |
| Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | 111 (84–153) | 1,955 | 5 | $3,630 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.39 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE | 111 (67–169) | 62 | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| Systematic and Applied Microbiology | 111 (70–150) | 57 | 2 | ≈$4,010 | — | 0.0 |
| The Innovation | 114 (78–169) | 206 | 3 | $5,000 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Current Research in Toxicology | 114 (77–149) | 56 | 9 | $2,850 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Global Change Biology | 116 (83–171) | 630 | — | ≈$4,550 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| BioMetals | 117 (74–174) | 121 | 14 | ≈$4,090 | — | 0.0 |
| Journal of Environmental Management | 118 (84–168) | 4,279 | 6 | ≈$3,750 | Hybrid | 0.52 |
| Harmful Algae | 118 (96–163) | 167 | 2 | ≈$4,910 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Waste Management | 120 (87–166) | 590 | 6 | ≈$4,450 | — | 0.0 |
| Environment International | 121 (95–159) | 762 | 2 | $5,030 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.58 |
| The ISME Journal | 122 (83–167) | 288 | — | ≈$4,241 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health | 122 (96–149) | 157 | 7 | ≈$3,800 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management | 124 (82–182) | 170 | — | ≈$3,500 | — | 0.0 |
| Water Science & Technology | 125 (89–189) | 186 | 22 | $3,100 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| ACS ES&T Water | 125 (81–158) | 79 | 12 | ≈$4,500 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| ACS ES&T Air | 126 (92–161) | 66 | 12 | ≈$4,500 | Hybrid | — |
| Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | 127 (92–175) | 1,335 | 15 | ≈$2,790 | Hybrid | 0.17 |
| Royal Society Open Science | 128 (83–172) | 525 | 40 | ≈$1,888 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Water Environment Research | 129 (95–178) | 250 | — | ≈$3,240 | — | 0.0 |
| Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 129 (77–179) | 138 | 27 | ≈$7,030 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology | 132 (86–200) | 217 | 1 | ≈$3,700 | — | 0.0 |
| Ecology and Evolution | 133 (89–182) | 1,999 | 18 | $2,700 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.28 |
| Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology | 133 (83–187) | 169 | 22 | ≈$3,990 | — | 0.0 |
| Toxicology Letters | 134 (102–182) | 188 | 2 | ≈$4,270 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Brazilian Journal of Biology | 135 (85–186) | 420 | 73 | $680 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.51 |
| Toxicology Research | 136 (92–184) | 183 | 15 | ≈$2,560 | — | 0.0 |
| Journal of Thermal Biology | 138 (94–195) | 300 | 9 | ≈$3,360 | — | 0.0 |
| Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry | 138 (95–189) | 278 | — | ≈$3,500 | — | 0.0 |
| Environmental Microbiology | 140 (101–175) | 188 | — | ≈$4,640 | — | 0.0 |
| PeerJ | 141 (104–192) | 1,910 | 39 | $1,995 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.1 |
| Journal of Experimental Biology | 141 (94–194) | 365 | 43 | — | — | 0.52 |
| BMC Ecology and Evolution | 141 (106–188) | 136 | 28 | $2,990 | Open access (DOAJ) | 1.41 |
| Conservation Physiology | 143 (90–231) | 88 | 22 | ≈$2,587 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Tree Physiology | 144 (99–199) | 164 | — | ≈$4,253 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Environmental Management | 145 (102–209) | 259 | 22 | ≈$2,690 | — | 1.11 |
| FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 145 (102–193) | 125 | — | ≈$3,371 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Scientific Data | 147 (106–214) | 864 | 17 | $2,690 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Journal of Fish Biology | 148 (104–208) | 343 | 21 | ≈$4,480 | — | 0.0 |
| Integrative Zoology | 148 (106–195) | 142 | 58 | ≈$3,760 | — | 0.0 |
| ISME Communications | 149 (84–209) | 245 | 3 | ≈$2,539 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Environmental Microbiome | 153 (115–195) | 183 | 19 | $2,590 | Open access (DOAJ) | 2.15 |
| Eco-Environment & Health | 154 (108–229) | 63 | 6 | $2,200 | Open access (DOAJ) | — |
| Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 156 (114–226) | 149 | 3 | ≈$3,830 | Hybrid | 1.04 |
| GeoHealth | 156 (111–220) | 116 | 49 | $3,000 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| mLife | 158 (122–185) | 56 | 124 | $2,500 | Open access (DOAJ) | — |
| The Lancet Planetary Health | 159 (104–238) | 143 | 53 | $7,860 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Carbon Balance and Management | 159 (119–255) | 103 | 28 | $1,990 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology | 159 (118–197) | 71 | 27 | ≈$3,990 | — | 0.0 |
| Environmental Microbiology Reports | 161 (116–200) | 197 | — | ≈$3,300 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Journal of Water and Health | 163 (94–228) | 99 | 12 | $2,940 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Annals of Work Exposures and Health | 163 (119–234) | 88 | — | ≈$3,686 | — | 0.0 |
| Ecotoxicology | 165 (123–197) | 55 | 16 | ≈$3,990 | — | 0.0 |
| Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology | 166 (118–226) | 93 | 13 | ≈$4,000 | — | 0.0 |
| Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 169 (118–262) | 1,369 | 14 | ≈$2,790 | Hybrid | 8.79 |
| International Journal of Biometeorology | 170 (119–235) | 263 | 26 | ≈$3,890 | — | 0.0 |
| Ground Water | 170 (124–253) | 57 | 20 | ≈$4,100 | — | 0.0 |
| AMBIO | 171 (115–234) | 191 | 37 | ≈$4,490 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Journal of Environmental Quality | 171 (130–228) | 143 | 32 | ≈$1,910 | — | 0.0 |
| Ecology Letters | 176 (139–237) | 225 | — | ≈$5,300 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Molecular Ecology | 178 (123–246) | 396 | 14 | ≈$5,150 | Hybrid | 0.49 |
| Movement Ecology | 179 (122–243) | 90 | 27 | $2,890 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Ecology | 180 (113–244) | 269 | — | ≈$3,970 | — | 0.0 |
| Environmental Science and Ecotechnology | 183 (149–212) | 74 | 3 | $2,600 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Microbiome | 188 (129–256) | 278 | 52 | $5,190 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Communications Earth & Environment | 188 (141–243) | 140 | 23 | $3,690 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| BioScience | 190 (134–239) | 64 | 53 | ≈$5,088 | Hybrid | — |
| Molecular Ecology Resources | 191 (128–283) | 148 | 16 | ≈$5,250 | — | 2.39 |
| AoB Plants | 191 (140–226) | 79 | 6 | ≈$1,367 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências | 198 (119–267) | 331 | 140 | No fee (DOAJ) | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Journal of Animal Ecology | 198 (127–315) | 212 | 34 | ≈$3,610 | — | 0.0 |
| The Journal of Climate Change and Health | 198 (148–267) | 119 | 42 | $2,710 | Open access (DOAJ) | — |
| Evolutionary Applications | 200 (155–266) | 118 | 23 | $4,320 | Open access (DOAJ) | 1.28 |
| Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology | 209 (154–254) | 87 | 20 | ≈$5,490 | — | 0.0 |
| Behavioral Ecology | 213 (154–278) | 86 | 9 | ≈$3,906 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Oecologia | 216 (133–305) | 186 | 15 | ≈$3,790 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Ecological Applications | 218 (127–295) | 182 | — | ≈$3,970 | — | 0.0 |
| Environmental Toxicology | 222 (169–300) | 98 | 13 | ≈$4,120 | — | 57.9 |
| Nature Ecology & Evolution | 231 (175–320) | 172 | 42 | ≈$12,690 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| Conservation Biology | 250 (172–330) | 232 | 88 | ≈$3,400 | — | 0.0 |
| Zoo Biology | 296 (226–404) | 70 | 14 | ≈$3,920 | — | 0.0 |
| Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society | 303 (254–385) | 128 | 14 | ≈$5,390 | — | 0.0 |
| Nature Food | 371 (270–465) | 84 | 38 | ≈$12,690 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
Journals are listed where at least 25% of their articles' topics fall in Environmental Science (OpenAlex).
Latest available year: 2024
9 journals without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2024 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water Research X | 63 (48–89) | 82 | 1 | $2,690 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Environment & Health | 81 (59–98) | 110 | 15 | $3,500 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Journal of Environmental Sciences | 99 (65–130) | 492 | 10 | ≈$3,000 | Hybrid | 0.42 |
| European Journal of Protistology | 101 (67–135) | 50 | 2 | ≈$3,270 | — | 0.0 |
| Plant Phenomics | 129 (105–159) | 97 | 38 | $2,500 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Journal of Comparative Physiology B | 148 (94–217) | 65 | 29 | ≈$3,890 | — | 0.0 |
| Particle and Fibre Toxicology | 152 (108–211) | 52 | 14 | $4,290 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Marine Life Science & Technology | 184 (146–236) | 58 | 54 | ≈$2,290 | — | 0.0 |
| Zoological studies | 193 (147–353) | 51 | 118 | — | — | 0.0 |
Latest available year: 2023
1 journal without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2023 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environment Development and Sustainability | 244 (176–327) | 107 | 14 | ≈$2,290 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
Latest available year: 2022
5 journals without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2022 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building and Environment | 76 (67–94) | 64 | 7 | ≈$4,280 | Hybrid | — |
| Reviews on Environmental Health | 86 (60–117) | 76 | 24 | ≈$2,712 | — | 0.0 |
| Indoor Air | 110 (79–150) | 163 | — | ≈$2,490 | Hybrid | 0.0 |
| BMC Zoology | 175 (119–251) | 53 | 20 | $1,990 | Open access (DOAJ) | — |
| Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering | 258 (160–453) | 60 | 22 | ≈$3,890 | — | 0.0 |
Latest available year: 2021
5 journals without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2021 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 64 (49–91) | 104 | 60 | No fee (DOAJ) | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.76 |
| Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine | 90 (72–122) | 99 | 14 | $2,360 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Sustainable Cities and Society | 110 (70–154) | 94 | 4 | ≈$4,870 | Hybrid | — |
| Frontiers in Zoology | 116 (89–168) | 60 | 21 | $3,190 | Open access (DOAJ) | 0.0 |
| Zoology | 181 (142–237) | 54 | 4 | ≈$4,101 | — | — |
Latest available year: 2020
2 journals without enough usable 2025 data. Their 2020 figures are shown separately so they are never compared with 2025 figures.
| Open access | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extremophiles | 93 (59–137) | 59 | 15 | ≈$2,590 | — | — |
| BMC Ecology | 195 (152–270) | 63 | 11 | $2,990 | Open access (DOAJ) | — |
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Among 129 Environmental Science journals with enough dated articles in 2025, the shortest median time from submission to acceptance was 22 days (Doklady Biological Sciences). The middle journal's median was 128 days. Speed is not a measure of quality; check scope, indexing and fees too.
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