Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2002
90 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 90 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.79, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 1.57. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Climate Dynamics, and Habitat International.
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 of Environmental Science (11)
90 ranked journals
Filters
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 | ||
2Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.34Q1 | 4.01 0.34 down from 2001 | 218 | 9% | $3,790 | ||
3Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 1.07 0.16 up from 2001 | 107 | 2% | $3,560 | ||
4Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.93Q1 | 3.06 1.02 up from 2001 | 158 | 8% | $4,390 | ||
5Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.92Q1 | 4.03 0.26 up from 2001 | 832 | 44% | — | ||
6Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 2.11 0.14 up from 2001 | 666 | 3% | $4,030 | ||
7Environment and Planning B Planning and DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 1.08 0.26 up from 2001 | 201 | 5% | — | ||
8Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.23Q1 | 1.08 0.19 up from 2001 | 103 | 4% | $3,830 | ||
9Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.20Q1 | 2.75 0.05 down from 2001 | 3,142 | 56% | $3,190 | ||
10Human EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.18Q1 | 1.24 0.66 up from 2001 | 130 | 2% | $2,290 | ||
11Environmental ConservationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 1.89 0.95 up from 2001 | 119 | 13% | $3,550 | ||
12Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.03Q1 | 1.79 0.44 down from 2001 | 316 | 3% | $4,390 | ||
13Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 2.31 0.39 up from 2001 | 416 | 7% | $3,590 | ||
14Conservation EcologyResilience Alliance · Canada | 1.99Q1 | 1.30 0.11 down from 2001 | 108 | 100% | — | ||
15BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 1.95Q1 | 1.85 0.43 up from 2001 | 604 | 35% | $5,088 | ||
16Natural Resource ModelingOAWiley · United States | 1.92Q1 | 1.63 1.25 up from 2001 | 74 | 7% | $2,290 | ||
17Tree PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 2.35 0.19 down from 2001 | 422 | 36% | $4,253 | ||
18Fisheries OceanographyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 2.68 0.61 up from 2001 | 131 | 10% | $4,650 | ||
19Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 1.71 0.16 up from 2001 | 59 | 10% | $5,000 | ||
20Forest Ecology and ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 1.74 0.48 up from 2001 | 969 | 4% | $3,560 | ||
21Environmental ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.58Q1 | 1.05 0.02 down from 2001 | 372 | 5% | $2,690 | ||
22ICES Journal of Marine ScienceOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 1.94 0.74 up from 2001 | 461 | 80% | $3,686 | ||
23Forest ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 1.57Q1 | 1.25 0.42 up from 2001 | 200 | 89% | $2,690 | ||
24AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 1.52Q2 | 0.92 0.12 down from 2001 | 427 | 6% | $4,490 | ||
25Ecological ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q2 | 1.72 0.24 up from 2001 | 618 | 12% | $2,810 | ||
26Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 1.37Q2 | 0.73no 2001 value | 37 | 19% | — | — | |
27Reviews in Fisheries ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.36Q2 | 0.96 0.33 down from 2001 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
28Climate ResearchInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 1.36Q2 | 1.34 0.33 up from 2001 | 180 | 93% | — | ||
29Fishery BulletinOANational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · United States | 1.36Q2 | 1.43 0.09 up from 2001 | 45 | — | — | ||
30Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.33Q2 | 1.07 0.27 up from 2001 | 184 | 3% | $3,500 | ||
31Society & Natural ResourcesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 0.60 0.30 down from 2001 | 240 | 7% | — | ||
32Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 1.00 0.43 up from 2001 | 172 | 9% | $4,250 | ||
33TreesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.22Q2 | 1.27 0.10 up from 2001 | 182 | 5% | $3,690 | ||
34Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 0.79 0.12 up from 2001 | 71 | 6% | $3,220 | ||
35Regional Environmental ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.16Q2 | 0.56 0.73 down from 2001 | 31 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
36Fisheries ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.14Q2 | 1.24 0.09 up from 2001 | 392 | 5% | $3,680 | ||
37International Journal of ClimatologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 1.56 0.06 up from 2001 | 431 | 11% | $3,920 | ||
38International Journal of Wildland FireCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.02Q2 | 0.97 0.35 up from 2001 | 69 | 9% | — | ||
39Environmental and Ecological StatisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.92Q2 | 0.71 0.19 down from 2001 | 74 | 10% | $2,290 | ||
40Forest Policy and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.92Q2 | 0.80 0.20 up from 2001 | 75 | 8% | $4,370 | ||
41Theoretical and Applied ClimatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.90Q2 | 0.83 0.04 up from 2001 | 169 | 4% | $3,190 | ||
42Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.86Q2 | 0.56 0.09 up from 2001 | 83 | 15% | $4,090 | ||
43Atmospheric ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.84Q2 | 0.81 0.23 down from 2001 | 189 | 6% | $3,310 | ||
44Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 0.34 0.40 down from 2001 | 135 | 13% | — | ||
45Environmental ReviewsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.80Q2 | 0.55 0.18 up from 2001 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
46Natural HazardsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.79Q3 | 0.69 0.30 up from 2001 | 133 | 6% | $3,990 | ||
47HerpetologicaHerpetologists' League · United States | 0.75Q3 | 1.06 0.29 up from 2001 | 35 | 2% | — | ||
48Journal of Environmental RadioactivityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 0.84 0.10 down from 2001 | 393 | 5% | $3,800 | ||
49Atmospheric Science LettersOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 0.73 0.38 up from 2001 | 44 | 46% | $2,670 | ||
50Journal of HerpetologyThe Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles · United States | 0.71Q3 | 0.74 0.09 up from 2001 | 340 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change highlighted.
- 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.
39 additional Global and Planetary Change 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
- 90
- Window papers (baseline)
- 32,743 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.794 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 | 74 | 78 | 90 | 94 | 96 | 102 | 105 | 106 | 114 | 124 | 138 | 145 | 155 | 164 | 177 | 186 | 193 | 195 | 201 | 209 | 218 | 221 | 232 | 236 | 236 | 241 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 24,031 | 30,384 | 32,743 | 35,500 | 34,111 | 36,298 | 39,005 | 41,671 | 45,634 | 50,223 | 55,090 | 60,147 | 65,138 | 70,955 | 77,964 | 84,036 | 88,379 | 90,518 | 91,924 | 95,134 | 98,815 | 106,095 | 113,902 | 120,307 | 123,368 | 123,867 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.789 | 0.794 | 0.78 | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.97 | 0.928 | 0.92 | 0.931 | 0.977 | 0.999 | 1.061 | 1.09 | 1.07 | 1.011 | 1.064 | 1.04 | 0.96 | 0.99 | 1.013 | 1.03 | 1.02 | 0.975 | 0.982 | 0.978 |
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.