The Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (JESS) is an important journal due to its the importance of its focus, the growing number of environmental science and studies graduate and undergraduate programs, stated intent to be interdisciplinary, and links to AESS. A vareity of studies have noted that who publishes in academic journals can impact its content, readership, how articles are assigned, and by whom. In the spirit of self-reflection, this paper examines the gender and instiuttional location of JESS authors, the breakdown of natural science versus social science articles, and other issues. For comparison, similar information is gathered for Global Environmental Politics, a highly ranked journal also started by a scholarly association but one 10 years older than JESS.