Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

Aims & Scope

The relationship between human rights and the environment is fascinating, uneasy and increasingly urgent.

This international journal provides a strategic academic forum for an extended interdisciplinary and multi-layered conversation that explores emergent possibilities, existing tensions, and multiple implications of entanglements between human and non-human forms of liveliness.

We invite critical engagements on these themes, especially as refracted through human rights and environmental law, politics, policy-making and community level activisms.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.5
2024	3.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.037

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	17

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	4534

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	141

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Environmental Science and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Climate dreaming: negative emissions, risk transfer, and irreversibility

  Citation: 58

  Authors: Henry

• Community stewardship: the foundation of biocultural rights

  Citation: 45

  Authors: Kabir Sanjay, Tom

• Climate justice, loss and damage and compensation for small island developing states

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Sam

• The politics of environmental migration and climate justice in the Pacific region

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Silja, Johannes

• Lived bodies, place, and phenomenology: implications for human rights and environmental justice

  Citation: 36

  Authors: David

• Indigenous peoples and REDD+ safeguards: rights as resistance or as disciplinary inclusion in the green economy?

  Citation: 36

  Authors: Julia

• Climate change and displacement: protecting ‘climate refugees’ within a framework of justice and human rights

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Sumudu

• The vulnerable living order: human rights and the environment in a critical and philosophical perspective

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Anna

• Do human rights help or hinder environmental protection?

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Conor

• The Anthropocene, Earth system vulnerability and socio-ecological injustice in an age of human rights

  Citation: 33

  Authors: Louis J.

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