Where Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Funded Research Is Published: Top 50 Journals

In shortNatural Environment Research Council (United Kingdom) is named as a funder in the recent research articles of 127 journals we checked, most often in People and Nature (18 of 200 recent articles). The journals below publish its funded work most often; open a journal for its indexing, review time, reviewer comments and fee waivers.

Journals that publish Natural Environment Research Council funded research most often

#	Journal	Articles naming it	Indexing	Impact factor*	Median review time
1	People and Nature	18 of 200	SCIE	4.67	282 days
2	Journal of the Geological Society	14 of 200	SCIE	2.58	174 days
3	Palaeontology	14 of 110	SCIE	2.06	230 days
4	Space Weather	14 of 200	SCIE	4.28	148 days
5	The cryosphere	14 of 200	SCIE	5.41	n/a
6	Ecological Solutions and Evidence	13 of 200	ESCI	2.57	n/a
7	Evolution Letters	13 of 109	SCIE	4.79	n/a
8	Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface	13 of 200	SCIE	3.35	240 days
9	Ocean science	13 of 200	SCIE	3.82	n/a
10	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences	13 of 200	SCIE	9.07	n/a
11	Ecology Letters	12 of 200	SCIE	7.48	204 days
12	Geoscientific model development	12 of 200	SCIE	5.81	n/a
13	Atmospheric chemistry and physics	11 of 200	SCIE	6.17	n/a
14	Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society	11 of 200	SCIE	12.66	306 days
15	Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology	11 of 200	SCIE	2.15	180 days
16	Climate of the past	10 of 200	SCIE	4.31	n/a
17	Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers	10 of 200	SCIE	2.33	n/a
18	Journal of Animal Ecology	10 of 200	SCIE	2.82	207 days
19	Journal of Applied Ecology	10 of 200	SCIE	4.42	219 days
20	Earth System Dynamics	9 of 189	SCIE	7.87	n/a
21	Hydrology and earth system sciences	9 of 200	SCIE	8.80	n/a
22	Plants People Planet	9 of 200	SCIE	4.43	155 days
23	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	9 of 200	SCIE	3.42	192 days
24	Biological Conservation	9 of 200	SCIE	4.59	n/a
25	AGU Advances	8 of 200	SCIE	5.52	144 days
26	Animal Behaviour	8 of 200	SCIE	2.20	n/a
27	Environmental Science Atmospheres	8 of 200	ESCI	2.22	n/a
28	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	8 of 200	SCIE	5.12	176 days
29	ICES Journal of Marine Science	8 of 200	SCIE	3.07	n/a
30	Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research	8 of 200	SCIE	2.35	n/a
31	Meteorological Applications	8 of 200	SCIE	2.20	197 days
32	Systematic Biology	8 of 185	SCIE	6.87	n/a
33	Behavioral Ecology	7 of 200	SCIE	2.44	n/a
34	Organic Geochemistry	7 of 200	SCIE	2.39	n/a
35	Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation	7 of 134	SCIE	3.96	194 days
36	Weather and Climate Dynamics	7 of 200	ESCI	4.32	n/a
37	Annales Geophysicae	6 of 117	SCIE	2.02	n/a
38	Atmospheric measurement techniques	6 of 200	SCIE	5.06	n/a
39	Conservation Biology	6 of 200	SCIE	4.55	255 days
40	Journal of Evolutionary Biology	6 of 200	SCIE	2.57	n/a
41	Journal of Flood Risk Management	6 of 200	SCIE	3.30	223 days
42	Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans	6 of 200	SCIE	3.05	188 days
43	Natural hazards and earth system sciences	6 of 200	SCIE	7.25	n/a
44	Quaternary Science Reviews	6 of 200	SCIE	3.28	n/a
45	Animal Conservation	5 of 143	SCIE	2.48	266 days
46	Boreas	5 of 120	SCIE	2.16	139 days
47	Diversity and Distributions	5 of 200	SCIE	3.48	211 days
48	Earth Surface Processes and Landforms	5 of 200	SCIE	3.02	244 days
49	European Journal of Soil Science	5 of 200	SCIE	4.65	192 days
50	FEMS Microbes	5 of 74	ESCI	3.40	n/a

"Articles naming" counts the research articles (of up to 200 from the last 24 months) whose funder list names Natural Environment Research Council. *Impact factor calculated from OpenAlex open data, not the official Clarivate value. Review time: median days from submission to acceptance, from the dates publishers deposit in Crossref.

Funders named alongside Natural Environment Research Council

Other funders that appear in the same journals. Their pages show where their funded research is published.

National Natural Science Foundation of China National Science Foundation Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft National Key Research and Development Program of China Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico Japan Society for the Promotion of Science European Research Council Australian Research Council Agence Nationale de la Recherche European Commission National Aeronautics and Space Administration Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung UK Research and Innovation Norges Forskningsråd

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Frequently asked questions

Which journals publish the most Natural Environment Research Council funded research?

In the recent research articles we checked, the journals that name Natural Environment Research Council as a funder most often are People and Nature, Journal of the Geological Society, Palaeontology, Space Weather, The cryosphere. In all, 127 journals name it.

Does publishing in these journals help my Natural Environment Research Council grant?

These journals already publish work supported by Natural Environment Research Council, so editors and reviewers know this kind of research. Whether a journal suits your paper still depends on its scope, indexing and review time, shown for each journal in the table.

Does Natural Environment Research Council pay the article processing charge (APC)?

Many funders pay or reimburse open access fees under their open access policy, but the rules differ by funder and by grant. Check Natural Environment Research Council's open access policy and your grant terms; for country-based waivers, use the free APC waiver checker.

Where does this data come from?

From the funder information publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. For each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name. Not every publisher deposits funders, so a journal can be missing.

Source, method and date. Source: the funder information publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. Method: for each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name; spelling variants of a funder are combined. Updated: 29 October 2026. ScholarsColab is not affiliated with Natural Environment Research Council or these journals.