Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Subfield ranking · 2000
Pollution journal rankings 2000
28 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Pollution has 28 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.79, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.15. The top three are Bioremediation Journal, Water Research, and Journal of Environmental Management.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Environmental Science (11)
28 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1Bioremediation JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.77Q1 | 1.64no 1999 value | 95 | 4% | — | — | |
2Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 1.32no 1999 value | 1,284 | 5% | $4,660 | — | |
3Journal of Environmental ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 1.01no 1999 value | 229 | 1% | $3,750 | — | |
4Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 1.29no 1999 value | 673 | 5% | $4,090 | — | |
5Aquatic ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.34Q1 | 1.89no 1999 value | 229 | 3% | $3,320 | — | |
6Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.21Q1 | 1.42no 1999 value | 54 | 13% | — | — | |
7BiodegradationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.15Q1 | 1.06no 1999 value | 153 | 7% | $3,590 | — | |
8The Science of The Total EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 1.28no 1999 value | 1,132 | 5% | $4,250 | — | |
9ChemosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 1.10no 1999 value | 1,536 | 2% | $4,010 | — | |
10Journal of Soil ContaminationPublisher not listed | 0.94Q2 | 0.82no 1999 value | 134 | 0% | — | — | |
11Environmental Engineering ScienceMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.89Q2 | 0.78no 1999 value | 92 | 0% | — | — | |
12Marine Pollution BulletinElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 0.85no 1999 value | 805 | 4% | $3,740 | — | |
13Journal of Hazardous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.84Q2 | 0.58no 1999 value | 409 | 3% | $4,340 | — | |
14Environmental Monitoring and AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.80Q2 | 0.88no 1999 value | 411 | 2% | $2,790 | — | |
15Water Environment ResearchWiley · United States | 0.77Q3 | 0.58no 1999 value | 430 | 18% | $3,240 | — | |
16International Journal of Environment and PollutionInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 0.30no 1999 value | 89 | 4% | — | — | |
17Water Air & Soil PollutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.69Q3 | 0.71no 1999 value | 1,018 | 6% | $3,890 | — | |
18International Oil Spill Conference ProceedingsAtlantis Press · United States | 0.67Q3 | 0.03no 1999 value | 499 | — | — | — | |
19Bioresource TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.66Q3 | 0.72no 1999 value | 459 | 5% | $4,880 | — | |
20International Biodeterioration & BiodegradationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.60Q3 | 0.88no 1999 value | 218 | 1% | $3,870 | — | |
21Chemical Speciation and BioavailabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.59Q3 | 0.62no 1999 value | 50 | 69% | $1,270 | — | |
22Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.59Q4 | 0.55no 1999 value | 758 | 3% | $3,990 | — | |
23Environmental Quality ManagementWiley · United States | 0.56Q4 | 0.23no 1999 value | 105 | 2% | $3,300 | — | |
24Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part APublisher not listed | 0.50Q4 | 0.43no 1999 value | 218 | 1% | — | — | |
25Environmental Geochemistry and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.42Q4 | 0.32no 1999 value | 78 | 0% | $2,590 | — | |
26Chemistry and EcologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.37Q4 | 0.23no 1999 value | 77 | 0% | — | — | |
27Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry ReviewsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.25Q4 | 0.26no 1999 value | 449 | 0% | — | — | |
| 0.20Q4 | 0.18no 1999 value | 75 | 100% | — | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Pollution highlighted.
- Ecology147
- Global and Planetary Change74
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis47
- Nature and Landscape Conservation37
- Water Science and Technology34
- Pollution28
- Environmental Engineering24
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law21
- Environmental Chemistry7
- Waste Management and Disposal6
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
8 additional Pollution journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 28
- Window papers (baseline)
- 11,570 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.785 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 28 | 28 | 29 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 35 | 35 | 39 | 41 | 42 | 44 | 47 | 48 | 51 | 53 | 56 | 58 | 58 | 59 | 61 | 58 | 61 | 67 | 69 | 67 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 11,570 | 12,501 | 12,964 | 14,045 | 14,764 | 16,051 | 17,166 | 18,647 | 20,488 | 22,398 | 24,122 | 25,933 | 27,933 | 30,140 | 32,685 | 34,957 | 36,086 | 36,732 | 37,609 | 39,899 | 43,429 | 49,249 | 56,189 | 62,921 | 68,045 | 73,512 | |
| Median OJR | 0.785 | 0.843 | 0.89 | 0.96 | 0.855 | 0.864 | 0.945 | 0.933 | 0.921 | 0.789 | 0.90 | 1.01 | 0.878 | 0.917 | 0.919 | 0.875 | 0.87 | 0.909 | 0.78 | 0.831 | 0.834 | 0.839 | 0.935 | 0.911 | 0.927 | 1.04 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.