Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2003
94 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 94 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.78, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.63. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Conservation Ecology, and Journal of Climate.
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 of Environmental Science (11)
94 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 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 | ||
2Conservation EcologyResilience Alliance · Canada | 4.28Q1 | 3.30 2.00 up from 2002 | 174 | 100% | — | ||
3Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 3.42Q1 | 4.61 0.58 up from 2002 | 834 | 43% | — | ||
4Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.32Q1 | 3.80 0.20 down from 2002 | 238 | 10% | $3,790 | ||
5Environment and Planning B Planning and DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 1.81 0.73 up from 2002 | 189 | 15% | — | ||
6Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.01Q1 | 2.57 0.45 up from 2002 | 769 | 6% | $4,030 | ||
7Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 1.90 1.16 down from 2002 | 177 | 6% | $4,390 | ||
8Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 2.74 0.95 up from 2002 | 306 | 9% | $4,390 | ||
9Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 3.36 1.05 up from 2002 | 359 | 3% | $3,590 | ||
10BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.49Q1 | 2.30 0.45 up from 2002 | 604 | 31% | $5,088 | ||
11Environmental ConservationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 2.01 0.13 up from 2002 | 114 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
12Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 0.98 0.10 down from 2002 | 129 | 13% | $3,830 | ||
13Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.02Q1 | 2.76 0.01 up from 2002 | 3,433 | 55% | $3,190 | ||
14Tree PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 2.46 0.11 up from 2002 | 439 | 36% | $4,253 | ||
15Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 1.79 0.08 up from 2002 | 104 | 14% | $5,000 | ||
16Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 0.95 0.16 up from 2002 | 67 | 4% | $3,220 | ||
17Ecological ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 2.12 0.40 up from 2002 | 656 | 7% | $2,810 | ||
18Reviews in Fisheries ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.76Q1 | 1.17 0.21 up from 2002 | 42 | 15% | — | ||
19ICES Journal of Marine ScienceOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 1.33 0.61 down from 2002 | 498 | 94% | $3,686 | ||
20Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 1.27 0.45 down from 2002 | 55 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
21Environmental ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.66Q1 | 1.20 0.14 up from 2002 | 431 | 3% | $2,690 | ||
22Forest Ecology and ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 1.69 0.04 down from 2002 | 1,175 | 5% | $3,560 | ||
23Regional Environmental ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.64Q1 | 0.61 0.05 up from 2002 | 42 | 14% | $3,990 | ||
24Climate ResearchInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 1.63Q1 | 1.66 0.32 up from 2002 | 211 | 84% | — | ||
25International Journal of ClimatologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.61Q2 | 2.48 0.92 up from 2002 | 400 | 8% | $3,920 | ||
26AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 1.60Q2 | 1.05 0.13 up from 2002 | 574 | 4% | $4,490 | ||
27Society & Natural ResourcesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.57Q2 | 0.98 0.38 up from 2002 | 241 | 7% | — | ||
28Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.51Q2 | 0.74 0.39 up from 2002 | 110 | 14% | — | ||
29Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 1.51 0.44 up from 2002 | 212 | 7% | $3,500 | ||
30Fisheries OceanographyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.44Q2 | 1.59 1.09 down from 2002 | 105 | 6% | $4,650 | ||
31Forest ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 1.34Q2 | 1.33 0.08 up from 2002 | 212 | 90% | $2,690 | ||
32TreesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.32Q2 | 1.29 0.02 up from 2002 | 194 | 10% | $3,690 | ||
33Atmospheric Science LettersOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 1.72 0.99 up from 2002 | 55 | 50% | $2,670 | ||
34International Journal of Wildland FireCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.25Q2 | 1.70 0.73 up from 2002 | 100 | 23% | — | ||
35Fisheries ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q2 | 1.21 0.03 down from 2002 | 465 | 8% | $3,680 | ||
36Natural Resource ModelingOAWiley · United States | 1.20Q2 | 1.47 0.16 down from 2002 | 75 | 13% | $2,290 | ||
37Ecosystem HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.19Q2 | 1.26 0.87 up from 2002 | 67 | — | — | ||
38Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 0.67 0.39 down from 2002 | 133 | 2% | $3,560 | ||
39Environmental ReviewsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.13Q2 | 1.33 0.79 up from 2002 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
40Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 1.64 0.64 up from 2002 | 173 | 5% | $4,250 | ||
41Theoretical and Applied ClimatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.08Q2 | 1.42 0.58 up from 2002 | 161 | 7% | $3,190 | ||
42Natural HazardsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.00Q2 | 1.01 0.32 up from 2002 | 138 | 3% | $3,990 | ||
43Fishery BulletinOANational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · United States | 1.00Q2 | 1.20 0.23 down from 2002 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Environmental RadioactivityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 1.33 0.50 up from 2002 | 467 | 4% | $3,800 | ||
45Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 0.86Q2 | 0.79 0.06 up from 2002 | 61 | 10% | — | ||
46Atmospheric ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.82Q2 | 1.20 0.39 up from 2002 | 229 | 5% | $3,310 | ||
47HerpetologicaHerpetologists' League · United States | 0.80Q2 | 0.93 0.13 down from 2002 | 66 | 8% | — | ||
48EnvironmetricsWiley · United Kingdom | 0.76Q3 | 0.66 0.03 up from 2002 | 192 | 4% | $4,780 | ||
49Aquatic Living ResourcesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.76Q3 | 0.86 0.31 up from 2002 | 140 | 11% | $0 listed | ||
50Environmental and Ecological StatisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.75Q3 | 0.75 0.04 up from 2002 | 74 | 3% | $2,290 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change highlighted.
- 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.
43 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 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
- 94
- Window papers (baseline)
- 35,500 +47.7% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.78 +11.4% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 | 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.