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Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture
ISSN 1752-4032 · eISSN 1752-4040 · Taylor & Francis
Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture: CAS Zone 3 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.83; JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 245 days to acceptance (81 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 10% (journal website); 140 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Climate Change Communication and Perception, Environmental Education and Sustainability and Rhetoric and Communication Studies, together about 47.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science and Communication. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
IECA members can subscribe to Environmental Communication at a discounted rate. To become an IECA member, please visit https://theieca.org/membership. Aims and Scope As the flagship journal of the International Environmental Communication Association, Environmental Communication is a premiere international and interdisciplinary publishing outlet for original research on the ways communication matters to ecological relations and vice versa. The journal is intended for scholars, students, and broadly engaged audiences attuned to the ethical stakes of environmental communication. Communication is understood as pragmatic and constitutive—that is, influencing, moving, naming, negotiating, orienting, reacting to, and otherwise shaping the world in complex ways. We publish significant research in critical, theoretical, and applied fields, such as: business & organizational communication; critical advertising, public relations, & design; Critical Environmental Justice Studies; critical legal studies & policy; critical theory & ethics; Cultural Studies; discourse, linguistics and social interaction; ecocultural, interpersonal, & intercultural communication; Ethnic Studies; Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; health and risk communication; critical information studies & communication technologies; journalism & mass communication; media studies, including fashion, film, games, music, photography, podcasting, radio, & television; pedagogy; performance studies, including ethnography; public participation & governance; rhetoric & public culture; science communication; and social & behavioral change. We foster historical, current, and futurist research on environmental topics, including: abolitionist ecologies; air & wind; animals & animality; apocalypse; biodiversity & extinction; blue ecology & oceans; buildings and infrastructure; climate; consumer studies and market-based advocacy; disasters; disinformation and misinformation campaigns; eco-ableism; eco-fascist myths; eco-feminisms; environmental historiography; environmental and climate justice; energy; environmental law and rights; fire & heat; food systems; greenwashing; heat; Indigenous epistemologies; intergenerational studies; just transition; labor; land; militarism; nature; natural resource management; outdoor recreation & tourism; plants; pollution; popular culture & trends; public controversies; public health; queer ecologies; racial ecologies; social movements, protests, and revolution; sovereignty; spo
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Jagadish ThakerPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 17%); most named Mainland China 1, Canada 1, Australia 1, Norway 1, South Africa 1 (6 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Climate Change Communication and PerceptionSocial Sciences27.5%
- Environmental Education and SustainabilityEnvironmental Science11.4%
- Rhetoric and Communication StudiesArts and Humanities9%
- Media Studies and CommunicationSocial Sciences8.5%
- Social Media and PoliticsSocial Sciences5.4%
- Geographies of human-animal interactionsSocial Sciences3.8%
- Risk Perception and ManagementSocial Sciences3.7%
- Public Relations and Crisis CommunicationSocial Sciences3.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Communication | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Communication | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 3 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Communication | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Studies | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Current ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, Communication Abstracts
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 3.83LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 4.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 7.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.54LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 1.54Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.94LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.94Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 83OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 669OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.1OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 21.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 24.4%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 95LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 407,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,247 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 66 | 26 | 18 |
| 2025 | 140 | 49 | 275 |
| 2024 | 156 | 57 | 828 |
| 2023 | 71 | 27 | 907 |
| 2022 | 63 | 25 | 1,458 |
| 2021 | 76 | 37 | 1,807 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
245 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 186 days – 304 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (81 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 264 days
- Sample
- 81 articles with submission and acceptance dates (240 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 63 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 103 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted3, with length limits
- book, film, & performance reviewsBook, Film, & Performance Reviews are identifiably assessed by the Review Editor.Length not stated
- research articlenger accepting Special Issue proposals. Research Article (6-9,000 words, including title, abstract, notes, references, and figures)main text ≤ 9,000 words
- reviewors engage multiple languages. Advanced Review (6– 8,000 words): Comprehensive synthesis and review of research and develomain text ≤ 8,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Environmental Communication is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Statement
Publications will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Model summary
Environmental Communication is an international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1752-4032
- Electronic ISSN
- 1752-4040
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 20, Issue 6 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture
What CAS zone is Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture is in Zone 3 of Sociology, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Environmental Studies / Communication. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.83; CiteScore 7.8, h-index 83.
How long does peer review take at Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture?
Based on the dates recorded on 81 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 245 days (interquartile range 186–304 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 10%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What JCR quartile is Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Sociology.
Where are the editorial board members of Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture based?
Of the 6 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 17%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (1), Canada (1) and Australia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture open access, and what is the APC?
Environmental Communication-A Journal of Nature and Culture is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-24). Last updated: .