Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Field ranking · 2003
Environmental Science journal rankings 2003
528 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 528 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.75, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.38. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Ardea, and Global Change Biology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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 Sciences528 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 8.69Q1 | 11.58 4.21 up from 2002 | 51 | 48% | $3,880 | ||
2ArdeaNetherlands | 5.71Q1 | 5.32 4.89 up from 2002 | 45 | 0% | — | ||
3Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.38Q1 | 5.06 0.89 up from 2002 | 286 | 19% | $4,550 | ||
4Conservation EcologyResilience Alliance · Canada | 4.28Q1 | 3.30 2.00 up from 2002 | 174 | 100% | — | ||
5EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 4.22Q1 | 4.15 1.18 up from 2002 | 175 | 13% | $4,790 | ||
6Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 3.86Q1 | 3.11 0.04 down from 2002 | 165 | 19% | $3,970 | ||
7BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.63Q1 | 3.18 0.18 up from 2002 | 196 | 10% | $3,390 | ||
8OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.54Q1 | 3.83 0.75 up from 2002 | 857 | 9% | $3,790 | ||
9Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.53Q1 | 3.56 1.26 up from 2002 | 344 | 46% | $3,610 | ||
10Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 3.42Q1 | 4.61 0.58 up from 2002 | 834 | 43% | — | ||
11Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 3.91 0.56 up from 2002 | 319 | 53% | $3,610 | ||
12Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 1.83 0.41 up from 2002 | 74 | 12% | — | ||
13Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.32Q1 | 3.80 0.20 down from 2002 | 238 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
14Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 3.36 0.45 up from 2002 | 345 | 52% | $3,610 | ||
15Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 3.18Q1 | 3.57 0.99 up from 2002 | 465 | 4% | $4,450 | ||
16Environment and Planning B Planning and DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 1.81 0.73 up from 2002 | 189 | 15% | — | ||
17Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.01Q1 | 2.57 0.45 up from 2002 | 769 | 6% | $4,030 | ||
18Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 2.96Q1 | 2.78 0.21 up from 2002 | 884 | 12% | $3,400 | ||
19Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.92Q1 | 3.66 0.81 up from 2002 | 2,591 | 9% | $4,500 | ||
20Advances in Water ResourcesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.76Q1 | 2.14 0.23 down from 2002 | 250 | 8% | $3,840 | ||
21Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 1.83 0.97 up from 2002 | 95 | 10% | $4,380 | ||
22Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.67Q1 | 2.33 0.19 down from 2002 | 948 | 56% | $3,000 | ||
23Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 1.90 1.16 down from 2002 | 177 | 6% | $4,390 | ||
24Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 2.66Q1 | 2.35 0.18 up from 2002 | 856 | 15% | $3,970 | ||
25Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 2.74 0.95 up from 2002 | 306 | 9% | $4,390 | ||
26Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.60Q1 | 1.96 1.03 up from 2002 | 136 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
27Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 3.36 1.05 up from 2002 | 359 | 3% | $3,590 | ||
28Impact Assessment and Project AppraisalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 1.14 0.38 up from 2002 | 97 | 90% | — | ||
29Restoration EcologyWiley · United States | 2.52Q1 | 1.92 0.47 up from 2002 | 205 | 6% | $3,300 | ||
30Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 3.58 0.28 up from 2002 | 300 | 9% | $4,640 | ||
31Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 2.59 0.31 up from 2002 | 812 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
32BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.49Q1 | 2.30 0.45 up from 2002 | 604 | 31% | $5,088 | ||
33Journal of Wildlife ManagementWiley · United States | 2.46Q1 | 2.25 0.54 down from 2002 | 385 | 14% | $4,270 | ||
34Journal of the North American Benthological SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press · United States | 2.42Q1 | 2.73 0.08 up from 2002 | 175 | 4% | — | ||
35Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 2.38 0.56 up from 2002 | 1,718 | 7% | $4,660 | ||
36EcologyWiley · United States | 2.38Q1 | 2.34 0.16 up from 2002 | 2,137 | 12% | $3,970 | ||
37Journal of Contaminant HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 2.22 0.11 down from 2002 | 328 | 7% | $3,640 | ||
38Environmental ConservationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 2.01 0.13 up from 2002 | 114 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
39Geomicrobiology JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.27Q1 | 2.03 0.38 up from 2002 | 99 | 4% | — | ||
40Marine Ecology Progress SeriesInter-Research · Germany | 2.22Q1 | 2.52 0.07 up from 2002 | 1,421 | 96% | — | ||
41Journal of Vegetation ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 2.06 0.02 up from 2002 | 417 | 10% | $3,600 | ||
42Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 2.65 0.11 up from 2002 | 694 | 5% | $3,830 | ||
43Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote SensingAmerican Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · United States | 2.18Q1 | 2.00 0.49 up from 2002 | 206 | 89% | — | ||
44Aquatic Microbial EcologyInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 2.17Q1 | 2.48 0.15 down from 2002 | 256 | 97% | — | ||
45Journal of Membrane ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.16Q1 | 1.95 0.02 down from 2002 | 1,278 | 4% | $4,890 | ||
46Global Ecology and BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 1.96 0.68 up from 2002 | 198 | 29% | $5,000 | ||
47Indoor AirWiley · Denmark | 2.14Q1 | 2.14 0.32 down from 2002 | 100 | 51% | $2,490 | ||
48The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.12Q1 | 0.59 0.13 up from 2002 | 94 | 4% | — | ||
49Journal of BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 2.14 0.48 up from 2002 | 388 | 15% | $4,830 | ||
50Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 0.98 0.10 down from 2002 | 129 | 13% | $3,830 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- Ecology182
- Global and Planetary Change94
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis56
- Nature and Landscape Conservation46
- Water Science and Technology39
- Pollution31
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law27
- Environmental Engineering26
- Waste Management and Disposal13
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
182 additional Environmental Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 528
- Window papers (baseline)
- 245,259 +37.9% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.755 +10.5% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.