因为环境属于交叉学科，所以生态学、环境地学、环境化学、纳米科技、环境微生物等都可以包含在内。

超高水平刊：Nature Geoscience, Nature Climate Change, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Ecology Letters, Ecological Monographs, PNAS, Environmental Health Perspectives, ISME Jounal, Global Change Biology, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Nature Communications等。

高水平刊：Environmental Science & Technology, Environment International, Environmental Microbiology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Water Research, Atmospheric Chemistry And Physics, Soil Biology & Biochemistry, Limnology and Oceanography, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Geophysical Research Letters, Environmental Science: Nano等。

此外，Carbon, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Langmuir, Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Pollution, Chemosphere等都是优秀的期刊。

特别说明的是地学类期刊发行量和引用量较少，所以影响因子不如其他高，但是有些期刊比ES&T更权威，如Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta。