Communications Earth & Environment

Communications Earth & Environment is a peer-reviewed, open-access, scientific journal in environmental science and planetary science published by Nature Portfolio in 2020. The editor-in-chief is Heike Langenberg. Communications Earth & Environment was created as a sub-journal to Nature Communications following the introduction of Communications Biology, Communications Chemistry, and Communications Physics in 2018.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:


 * Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
 * Science Citation Index Expanded
 * Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 7.9, ranking it 36th out of 274 journals in the category "Environmental Sciences" and 10th out of 201 journals in the category "Geosciences, Multidisciplinary".