Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Field ranking · 2004
Environmental Science journal rankings 2004
542 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 542 ranked journals in 2004. The median journal has an OJR of 0.75, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2003; Q1 starts at OJR 1.40. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Global Environmental Politics, and Global Change Biology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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)
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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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 6.87Q1 | 9.97 1.61 down from 2003 | 48 | 39% | $3,880 | ||
2Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 4.46Q1 | 1.96 1.18 up from 2003 | 92 | 22% | — | ||
3Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.24Q1 | 5.24 0.18 up from 2003 | 349 | 25% | $4,550 | ||
4EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.86Q1 | 3.82 0.33 down from 2003 | 192 | 8% | $4,790 | ||
5Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 1.19 0.64 down from 2003 | 79 | 3% | — | ||
6Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 3.60Q1 | 4.47 1.36 up from 2003 | 146 | 26% | $3,970 | ||
7Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 3.50Q1 | 4.54 0.96 up from 2003 | 553 | 7% | $4,450 | ||
8Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 4.61 1.25 up from 2003 | 339 | 51% | $3,610 | ||
| 3.39Q1 | 2.37 1.42 up from 2003 | 102 | 0% | $3,310 | |||
10Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 4.07 0.17 up from 2003 | 318 | 42% | $3,610 | ||
11Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.26Q1 | 4.36 0.80 up from 2003 | 324 | 48% | $3,610 | ||
12Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.26Q1 | 3.94 0.28 up from 2003 | 2,340 | 8% | $4,500 | ||
13Journal of Wildlife ManagementWiley · United States | 3.19Q1 | 4.32 2.07 up from 2003 | 351 | 1% | $4,270 | ||
14Advances in Water ResourcesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.17Q1 | 2.66 0.52 up from 2003 | 289 | 7% | $3,840 | ||
15OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.13Q1 | 3.61 0.22 down from 2003 | 920 | 12% | $3,790 | ||
16Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 2.97Q1 | 3.64 0.85 up from 2003 | 838 | 15% | $3,400 | ||
17Environment and Planning B Planning and DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 1.08 0.73 down from 2003 | 180 | 17% | — | ||
18ArdeaNetherlands | 2.78Q1 | 3.98 1.34 down from 2003 | 43 | 0% | — | ||
19Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.75Q1 | 1.31 0.64 down from 2003 | 134 | 20% | $3,900 | ||
20Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.73Q1 | 4.30 0.31 down from 2003 | 875 | 47% | — | ||
21Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.70Q1 | 2.68 0.34 up from 2003 | 986 | 37% | $3,000 | ||
22Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.69Q1 | 4.13 0.33 up from 2003 | 271 | 12% | $3,790 | ||
23Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 2.38 0.18 down from 2003 | 826 | 7% | $4,030 | ||
24Animal ConservationWiley · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 3.00 0.97 up from 2003 | 121 | 8% | $4,430 | ||
25Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote SensingAmerican Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · United States | 2.63Q1 | 2.18 0.18 up from 2003 | 227 | 87% | — | ||
26Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 4.22 0.65 up from 2003 | 397 | 12% | $4,640 | ||
27EcographyOAWiley · Denmark | 2.57Q1 | 3.41 1.47 up from 2003 | 279 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
28EcologyWiley · United States | 2.56Q1 | 3.34 0.99 up from 2003 | 1,827 | 14% | $3,970 | ||
29BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.52Q1 | 2.60 0.58 down from 2003 | 222 | 7% | $3,390 | ||
30Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 2.62 0.24 up from 2003 | 1,760 | 5% | $4,660 | ||
31Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 3.03 0.33 down from 2003 | 347 | 3% | $3,590 | ||
32Journal of Contaminant HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 2.40 0.18 up from 2003 | 384 | 6% | $3,640 | ||
33Conservation EcologyResilience Alliance · Canada | 2.36Q1 | 1.78 1.52 down from 2003 | 195 | — | — | ||
34Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 2.35Q1 | 3.04 0.69 up from 2003 | 727 | 16% | $3,970 | ||
35Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 2.54 0.05 down from 2003 | 958 | 5% | $4,090 | ||
36Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 1.36 0.47 down from 2003 | 111 | 6% | $4,380 | ||
37Impact Assessment and Project AppraisalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 0.62 0.52 down from 2003 | 102 | 94% | — | ||
38Environmental ConservationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 2.14 0.12 up from 2003 | 109 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
39Reviews in Fisheries ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.28Q1 | 2.90 1.72 up from 2003 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
40Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 1.45 0.18 up from 2003 | 84 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
41Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 1.53 0.55 up from 2003 | 134 | 16% | $3,830 | ||
42Global Ecology and BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 3.06 1.09 up from 2003 | 197 | 15% | $5,000 | ||
43Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 2.56 0.66 up from 2003 | 175 | 7% | $4,390 | ||
44Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 2.26 0.48 down from 2003 | 308 | 6% | $4,390 | ||
45Health & PlaceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 2.03 0.09 down from 2003 | 118 | 8% | $3,380 | ||
46International Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 3.39 0.09 up from 2003 | 575 | 25% | $4,514 | ||
47Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 2.44 0.20 down from 2003 | 903 | 8% | $3,830 | ||
48Journal of Membrane ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 2.09 0.14 up from 2003 | 1,309 | 4% | $4,890 | ||
49Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 2.46 0.66 up from 2003 | 113 | 12% | $5,000 | ||
50BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.09Q1 | 1.63 0.67 down from 2003 | 644 | 35% | $5,088 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- Ecology188
- Global and Planetary Change96
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis59
- Nature and Landscape Conservation45
- Water Science and Technology41
- Pollution32
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law28
- Environmental Engineering26
- Waste Management and Disposal13
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
187 additional Environmental Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 542
- Window papers (baseline)
- 251,131 +20.6% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.753 +3.4% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.