Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2004
96 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 96 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR rose 0.12 on 2003 to 0.90, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.73. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Global Environmental Politics, and Environment and Planning B Planning and Design.
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 of Environmental Science (11)
96 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 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% | — | ||
3Environment and Planning B Planning and DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 1.08 0.73 down from 2003 | 180 | 17% | — | ||
4Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.73Q1 | 4.30 0.31 down from 2003 | 875 | 47% | — | ||
5Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.69Q1 | 4.13 0.33 up from 2003 | 271 | 12% | $3,790 | ||
6Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 2.38 0.18 down from 2003 | 826 | 7% | $4,030 | ||
7Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 3.03 0.33 down from 2003 | 347 | 3% | $3,590 | ||
8Conservation EcologyResilience Alliance · Canada | 2.36Q1 | 1.78 1.52 down from 2003 | 195 | — | — | ||
9Environmental ConservationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 2.14 0.12 up from 2003 | 109 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
10Reviews in Fisheries ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.28Q1 | 2.90 1.72 up from 2003 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
11Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 1.45 0.18 up from 2003 | 84 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
12Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 1.53 0.55 up from 2003 | 134 | 16% | $3,830 | ||
13Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 2.56 0.66 up from 2003 | 175 | 7% | $4,390 | ||
14Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.19Q1 | 2.26 0.48 down from 2003 | 308 | 6% | $4,390 | ||
15Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 2.46 0.66 up from 2003 | 113 | 12% | $5,000 | ||
16BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.09Q1 | 1.63 0.67 down from 2003 | 644 | 35% | $5,088 | ||
17Tree PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 2.96 0.50 up from 2003 | 430 | 31% | $4,253 | ||
18Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.92Q1 | 2.77 0.01 up from 2003 | 3,701 | 58% | $3,190 | ||
19Society & Natural ResourcesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 1.43 0.44 up from 2003 | 245 | 5% | — | ||
20Natural Resource ModelingOAWiley · United States | 1.79Q1 | 0.88 0.59 down from 2003 | 79 | 4% | $2,290 | ||
21Fisheries OceanographyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 2.27 0.68 up from 2003 | 129 | 5% | $4,650 | ||
22International Journal of ClimatologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 2.35 0.13 down from 2003 | 342 | 8% | $3,920 | ||
23Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 1.43 0.21 down from 2003 | 144 | 6% | $4,250 | ||
24Forest Ecology and ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.73Q1 | 2.07 0.38 up from 2003 | 1,399 | 4% | $3,560 | ||
25Environmental ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.69Q2 | 1.28 0.09 up from 2003 | 447 | 6% | $2,690 | ||
26Climate ResearchInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 1.67Q2 | 1.91 0.25 up from 2003 | 214 | 84% | — | ||
27Ecological ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.67Q2 | 2.43 0.31 up from 2003 | 730 | 6% | $2,810 | ||
28Environmental ReviewsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.62Q2 | 1.30 0.04 down from 2003 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
29Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.56Q2 | 0.86 0.13 up from 2003 | 74 | 22% | — | ||
30International Journal of Wildland FireCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.49Q2 | 1.53 0.17 down from 2003 | 113 | 16% | — | ||
31Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q2 | 1.36 0.41 up from 2003 | 58 | 3% | $3,220 | ||
32Forest ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 1.47Q2 | 1.49 0.16 up from 2003 | 231 | 93% | $2,690 | ||
33Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 1.48 0.03 down from 2003 | 305 | 9% | $3,500 | ||
34Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 0.40 0.27 down from 2003 | 180 | 3% | $3,560 | ||
35Human EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.29Q2 | 1.05 0.40 up from 2003 | 113 | 3% | $2,290 | ||
36TreesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.24Q2 | 1.69 0.40 up from 2003 | 193 | 3% | $3,690 | ||
37Natural HazardsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.20Q2 | 1.11 0.10 up from 2003 | 181 | 5% | $3,990 | ||
38Theoretical and Applied ClimatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.20Q2 | 1.20 0.22 down from 2003 | 163 | 15% | $3,190 | ||
39AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 1.19Q2 | 1.10 0.05 up from 2003 | 615 | 11% | $4,490 | ||
40Natural hazards and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.18Q2 | 1.24 0.52 up from 2003 | 137 | 100% | $1,553 | ||
41Ecosystem HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.17Q2 | —no 2003 value | 39 | — | — | ||
42Regional Environmental ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.04Q2 | 0.96 0.35 up from 2003 | 38 | 20% | $3,990 | ||
43Journal of Environmental RadioactivityElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 1.43 0.09 up from 2003 | 520 | 4% | $3,800 | ||
44ICES Journal of Marine ScienceOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 1.31 0.02 down from 2003 | 465 | 49% | $3,686 | ||
45Forest Policy and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.92Q2 | 1.00 0.18 up from 2003 | 172 | 9% | $4,370 | ||
46Atmospheric Science LettersOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 0.40 1.32 down from 2003 | 36 | 54% | $2,670 | ||
47Aquatic Living ResourcesOAEDP Sciences · France | 0.91Q2 | 1.15 0.29 up from 2003 | 157 | 91% | $0 listed | ||
48Environmental and Ecological StatisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.90Q2 | 0.66 0.08 down from 2003 | 84 | 0% | $2,290 | ||
49Atmospheric ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.90Q3 | 1.11 0.09 down from 2003 | 260 | 15% | $3,310 | ||
50Fisheries ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.87Q3 | 1.06 0.15 down from 2003 | 583 | 6% | $3,680 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change highlighted.
- 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.
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 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
- 96
- Window papers (baseline)
- 34,111 +12.3% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.90 +13.8% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 | 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.