Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Pollution journal rankings 2002
29 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Pollution has 29 ranked journals in 2002. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2001 to 0.89, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.48. The top three are Environmental Pollution, Water Research, and Aquatic Toxicology.
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)
29 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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1Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 2.29 0.66 up from 2001 | 626 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
2Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 1.82 0.25 up from 2001 | 1,515 | 6% | $4,660 | ||
3Aquatic ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.93Q1 | 2.78 1.02 up from 2001 | 289 | 3% | $3,320 | ||
4The Science of The Total EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 1.76 0.26 up from 2001 | 1,233 | 4% | $4,250 | ||
5Marine Pollution BulletinElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 1.71 0.57 up from 2001 | 733 | 2% | $3,740 | ||
6Bioremediation JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.54Q1 | 1.14 0.22 down from 2001 | 82 | 4% | — | ||
7Journal of Environmental ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 0.94 0.06 down from 2001 | 242 | 7% | $3,750 | ||
8ChemosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 1.76 0.46 up from 2001 | 1,560 | 4% | $4,010 | ||
9Journal of Hazardous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q2 | 0.98 0.37 up from 2001 | 503 | 3% | $4,340 | ||
10Bioresource TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 1.47 0.35 up from 2001 | 577 | 5% | $4,880 | ||
11Environmental Engineering ScienceMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 1.16Q2 | 0.99 0.11 up from 2001 | 107 | 4% | — | ||
12BiodegradationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 1.09 0.14 up from 2001 | 136 | 9% | $3,590 | ||
13International Oil Spill Conference ProceedingsAtlantis Press · United States | 1.06Q2 | 0.12 0.04 up from 2001 | 508 | — | — | ||
14Water Air & Soil PollutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 0.71 0.31 down from 2001 | 951 | 2% | $3,890 | ||
15Environmental Monitoring and AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.89Q2 | 0.75 0.30 up from 2001 | 471 | 5% | $2,790 | ||
16Water Environment ResearchWiley · United States | 0.89Q3 | 0.79 0.14 up from 2001 | 403 | 30% | $3,240 | ||
17International Biodeterioration & BiodegradationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.80Q3 | 0.79 0.12 up from 2001 | 192 | 1% | $3,870 | ||
18International Journal of Environment and PollutionInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.77Q3 | 0.63 0.20 up from 2001 | 249 | 2% | — | ||
19Environmental Geochemistry and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.74Q3 | 0.44 0.02 up from 2001 | 94 | 3% | $2,590 | ||
20Soil and Sediment Contamination An International JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.69Q3 | 0.46no 2001 value | 35 | 0% | — | ||
21Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part APublisher not listed | 0.65Q3 | 0.58 0.11 up from 2001 | 408 | 5% | — | ||
22Journal of Soil ContaminationPublisher not listed | 0.64Q3 | 0.55 0.29 down from 2001 | 73 | — | — | ||
23Chemical Speciation and BioavailabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.59Q4 | 0.68 0.20 up from 2001 | 38 | 50% | $1,270 | ||
24Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.54Q4 | 0.40 0.03 up from 2001 | 1,018 | 9% | $3,990 | ||
25Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable developmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.50Q4 | 0.37 0.21 down from 2001 | 68 | 0% | $2,750 | ||
26Environmental Quality ManagementWiley · United States | 0.25Q4 | 0.11 0.05 up from 2001 | 190 | 2% | $3,300 | ||
27Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry ReviewsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.24Q4 | 0.25 0.02 up from 2001 | 362 | 0% | — | ||
28Chemistry and EcologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.19Q4 | 0.24 0.20 down from 2001 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
| 0.06Q4 | 0.11 0.07 down from 2001 | 74 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Pollution 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.
7 additional Pollution 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
- 29
- Window papers (baseline)
- 12,964 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.89 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 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.