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Journal rankings · indicator year 2005

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Subfield ranking · 2005

Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2005

102 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science

Global and Planetary Change has 102 ranked journals in 2005. The median journal has an OJR of 0.88, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2004; Q1 starts at OJR 1.70. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Climatic Change, and Climate Dynamics.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 score is computed on.

102
18% of Environmental Science
Median OJR

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.

0.88-0.01 vs 2004
This subfieldAll 0.79World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

26%
All fields: 15%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,555
Median positive listed APC: $3,555 among 58 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 43 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Environmental Science (11)

102 ranked journals

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Global and Planetary Change ranking, 2005

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.

OJR

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 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 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 2005.

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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States
8.56Q112.19 2.23 up from 20044436%$3,880
2Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
4.32Q15.01 2.75 up from 20043118%$4,390
3Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
3.97Q16.65 2.52 up from 200430118%$3,790
4Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States
3.74Q11.84 0.12 down from 20048822%—
5Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
2.78Q13.29 0.74 up from 20041819%$4,390
6Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada
2.75Q12.51no 2004 value53100%$975
7Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States
2.71Q14.67 0.37 up from 200490856%—
8Environmental ConservationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
2.70Q11.70 0.44 down from 20041125%$3,550
9Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.65Q12.51 0.12 up from 20041,0828%$4,030
10Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.55Q11.98 0.45 up from 20041748%$3,830
11Conservation EcologyResilience Alliance · Canada
2.53Q12.63 0.85 up from 2004171——
12Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.49Q13.13 0.10 up from 20043553%$3,590
13Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom
2.46Q14.26 1.80 up from 20041158%$5,000
14BioScienceOxford University Press · United States
2.43Q12.50 0.87 up from 200469142%$5,088
15Reviews in Fisheries ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States
2.35Q12.94 0.05 up from 2004350%—
16Environment and Planning B Planning and DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
2.26Q11.31 0.23 up from 200418113%—
2.24Q11.82 0.23 up from 20043995%—
18Society & Natural ResourcesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
2.20Q11.75 0.32 up from 20041969%—
19Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States
2.15Q13.39 0.63 up from 20043,95957%$3,190
20International Journal of ClimatologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.91Q13.40 1.05 up from 20043537%$3,920
21Tree PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.88Q12.77 0.18 down from 200442031%$4,253
22Climate ResearchInter-Research Science Center · Germany
1.86Q11.82 0.09 down from 200419894%—
23Environmental ReviewsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada
1.82Q11.76 0.46 up from 2004340%—
24Theoretical and Applied ClimatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Austria
1.78Q12.60 1.40 up from 20041885%$3,190
25Human EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.75Q11.04no change1126%$2,290
26Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.70Q11.67 0.24 up from 20041703%$4,250
27Environmental ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.70Q21.29 0.01 up from 20044995%$2,690
28Forest Ecology and ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.64Q22.10 0.03 up from 20041,6345%$3,560
29Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.57Q21.20 0.15 down from 20046319%$3,220
30Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.54Q21.66 0.20 up from 20041086%$3,650
31International Journal of Wildland FireCSIRO Publishing · Australia
1.53Q22.43 0.90 up from 200412116%—
32Forest ScienceOxford University Press · United States
1.49Q21.80 0.30 up from 200424287%$2,690
33Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.47Q20.68 0.28 up from 20041944%$3,560
34Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.44Q22.07 0.58 up from 20043919%$3,500
35Fisheries OceanographyWiley · United Kingdom
1.42Q22.25 0.01 down from 200413631%$4,650
36Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.41Q21.00 0.14 up from 20045915%—
37Ecological ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.41Q21.95 0.48 down from 20049649%$2,810
38AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden
1.40Q20.99 0.12 down from 20046363%$4,490
39Natural HazardsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.36Q21.27 0.15 up from 20042157%$3,990
40Ecological ComplexityElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.19Q21.45no 2004 value3312%$2,990—
41Earth InteractionsOAAmerican Meteorological Society · United States
1.17Q21.62 0.27 up from 20044045%—
42Environmental and Ecological StatisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.16Q21.44 0.78 up from 20048311%$2,290
43TreesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.15Q21.53 0.17 down from 20042447%$3,690
44Systematics and BiodiversityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.01Q21.30 0.05 down from 2004437%—
45Regional Environmental ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.00Q20.66 0.30 down from 20044914%$3,990
46Atmospheric ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.99Q21.30 0.19 up from 20042735%$3,310
47Natural Resource ModelingOAWiley · United States
0.97Q20.27 0.61 down from 20046917%$2,290
48Natural hazards and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany
0.95Q20.89 0.34 down from 2004179100%$1,553
49ICES Journal of Marine ScienceOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.94Q21.32 0.01 up from 200452460%$3,686
50Aquatic Living ResourcesOAEDP Sciences · France
0.92Q21.21 0.06 up from 200416495%$0 listed

Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

37 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 2002–2004, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
102
Window papers (baseline)
36,298 +10.9% from indicator year 2002
Median OJR
0.88 +11.3% from indicator year 2002
Rising journals (2025)
13

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals7478909496102105106114124138145155164177186193195201209218221232236236241
Window papers (baseline)24,03130,38432,74335,50034,11136,29839,00541,67145,63450,22355,09060,14765,13870,95577,96484,03688,37990,51891,92495,13498,815106,095113,902120,307123,368123,867
Median OJR0.700.7890.7940.780.900.880.970.9280.920.9310.9770.9991.0611.091.071.0111.0641.040.960.991.0131.031.020.9750.9820.978

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.