Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Field ranking · 2002
Environmental Science journal rankings 2002
498 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 498 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.76, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 1.33. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Global Change Biology, and Ecological Monographs.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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 in Environmental Science (11)
Up to Physical Sciences498 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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 8.27Q1 | 7.37 1.42 down from 2001 | 56 | 53% | $3,880 | ||
2Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 4.17 0.31 up from 2001 | 261 | 14% | $4,550 | ||
3Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 3.80Q1 | 3.15 0.38 down from 2001 | 150 | 11% | $3,970 | ||
4EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.74Q1 | 2.97 0.11 down from 2001 | 158 | 9% | $4,790 | ||
5Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 2.91 0.46 down from 2001 | 347 | 48% | $3,610 | ||
6Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 1.42 0.59 up from 2001 | 67 | 11% | — | ||
7Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.43Q1 | 4.50 1.18 down from 2001 | 33 | 17% | — | ||
8Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.34Q1 | 4.01 0.34 down from 2001 | 218 | 9% | $3,790 | ||
9Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 1.07 0.16 up from 2001 | 107 | 2% | $3,560 | ||
10Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.25Q1 | 2.58 0.08 up from 2001 | 873 | 16% | $3,400 | ||
11OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.07Q1 | 3.08 0.34 up from 2001 | 824 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
12ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote SensingElsevier BV | 2.97Q1 | 0.72 1.14 down from 2001 | 77 | 2% | $3,310 | ||
13Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.95Q1 | 2.31 0.17 down from 2001 | 347 | 44% | $3,610 | ||
14Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.93Q1 | 3.06 1.02 up from 2001 | 158 | 8% | $4,390 | ||
15Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.92Q1 | 4.03 0.26 up from 2001 | 832 | 44% | — | ||
16Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.89Q1 | 2.52 0.08 up from 2001 | 976 | 53% | $3,000 | ||
17Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 3.35 0.55 up from 2001 | 358 | 51% | $3,610 | ||
18Advances in Water ResourcesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.70Q1 | 2.37 0.94 up from 2001 | 183 | 9% | $3,840 | ||
19Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 2.68Q1 | 2.17 0.20 down from 2001 | 816 | 7% | $3,970 | ||
20Journal of Contaminant HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.64Q1 | 2.33 0.46 up from 2001 | 318 | 4% | $3,640 | ||
21Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 2.11 0.14 up from 2001 | 666 | 3% | $4,030 | ||
22EcologyWiley · United States | 2.50Q1 | 2.18 0.24 up from 2001 | 1,950 | 6% | $3,970 | ||
23Critical Reviews in ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.48Q1 | 4.60 1.90 down from 2001 | 55 | 6% | — | ||
24Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 2.47Q1 | 2.58 0.52 up from 2001 | 365 | 4% | $4,450 | ||
25Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.46Q1 | 2.84 0.96 up from 2001 | 2,832 | 8% | $4,500 | ||
26Journal of Wildlife ManagementWiley · United States | 2.43Q1 | 2.79 0.63 up from 2001 | 410 | 9% | $4,270 | ||
27Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote SensingAmerican Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · United States | 2.43Q1 | 1.51 0.67 up from 2001 | 169 | 0% | — | ||
28FisheriesWiley · United States | 2.40Q1 | 1.82 0.13 down from 2001 | 110 | 0% | $3,500 | ||
29Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 3.29 0.54 up from 2001 | 247 | 7% | $4,640 | ||
30BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.35Q1 | 2.99 0.93 up from 2001 | 263 | 9% | $3,390 | ||
31Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 2.54 0.59 up from 2001 | 582 | 5% | $3,830 | ||
32Aquatic Microbial EcologyInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 2.28Q1 | 2.63 0.23 up from 2001 | 282 | 96% | — | ||
33Bird StudyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 0.98 0.71 down from 2001 | 160 | 100% | — | ||
34Environment and Planning B Planning and DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 1.08 0.26 up from 2001 | 201 | 5% | — | ||
35Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 2.29 0.66 up from 2001 | 626 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
36Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.23Q1 | 1.08 0.19 up from 2001 | 103 | 4% | $3,830 | ||
37Journal of Environmental QualityWiley · United States | 2.20Q1 | 2.19 0.46 up from 2001 | 853 | 5% | $1,910 | ||
38Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.20Q1 | 2.75 0.05 down from 2001 | 3,142 | 56% | $3,190 | ||
39Journal of Membrane ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 1.97 0.29 up from 2001 | 1,077 | 3% | $4,890 | ||
40Human EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.18Q1 | 1.24 0.66 up from 2001 | 130 | 2% | $2,290 | ||
41Journal of Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 2.04 0.02 down from 2001 | 323 | 14% | $3,600 | ||
42Environmental ConservationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 1.89 0.95 up from 2001 | 119 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
43Ocean Development & International LawTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 0.67 0.25 up from 2001 | 48 | 7% | — | ||
44EcographyOAWiley · Denmark | 2.10Q1 | 1.59 0.12 up from 2001 | 365 | 32% | $3,190 | ||
45Journal of Avian BiologyOAWiley · Denmark | 2.10Q1 | 2.29 0.60 up from 2001 | 192 | 19% | $2,860 | ||
46Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.09Q1 | 2.65 1.10 up from 2001 | 169 | 3% | — | ||
47Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 2.09Q1 | 2.45 0.42 up from 2001 | 1,299 | 94% | — | ||
48Health & PlaceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 1.42 0.31 up from 2001 | 90 | 4% | $3,380 | ||
49Microbial EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.05Q1 | 2.35 0.14 down from 2001 | 222 | 6% | $4,590 | ||
50Review of European Community & International Environmental LawWiley · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 0.38 0.23 up from 2001 | 128 | 4% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- Ecology175
- Global and Planetary Change90
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis53
- Nature and Landscape Conservation44
- Water Science and Technology38
- Pollution29
- Environmental Engineering24
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law22
- Waste Management and Disposal10
- Environmental Chemistry9
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
193 additional Environmental Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 498
- Window papers (baseline)
- 224,441 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.763 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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 | 429 | 465 | 498 | 528 | 542 | 555 | 565 | 584 | 621 | 658 | 691 | 730 | 752 | 781 | 816 | 854 | 879 | 894 | 910 | 907 | 926 | 945 | 982 | 992 | 992 | 998 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 177,914 | 208,192 | 224,441 | 245,259 | 251,131 | 272,523 | 295,719 | 323,264 | 355,145 | 387,726 | 421,450 | 454,259 | 488,219 | 520,283 | 555,752 | 588,865 | 606,383 | 609,229 | 603,145 | 613,842 | 636,773 | 681,372 | 729,009 | 768,184 | 799,466 | 839,315 | |
| Median OJR | 0.68 | 0.73 | 0.763 | 0.755 | 0.753 | 0.7599 | 0.820 | 0.814 | 0.84 | 0.832 | 0.85 | 0.885 | 0.916 | 0.917 | 0.90 | 0.879 | 0.89 | 0.86 | 0.829 | 0.815 | 0.824 | 0.80 | 0.757 | 0.7602 | 0.77 | 0.79 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.0% | 780 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.062 per 1,000 | 688 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -2.4% | 896 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 79.2% | 998 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,120 | 607 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 30.3% | 956 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 998 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.80 | 989 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 26.5% | 998 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 41.9% | 995 journals |
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.