Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Field ranking · 2006
Environmental Science journal rankings 2006
565 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 565 ranked journals in 2006. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2005 to 0.82, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.43. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Ecological Monographs, and Landslides.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 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 Sciences565 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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006. | Compare |
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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 8.55Q1 | 12.08 0.11 down from 2005 | 41 | 21% | $3,880 | ||
2Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 7.03Q1 | 9.33 2.53 up from 2005 | 92 | 8% | $3,970 | ||
3LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.68Q1 | 1.70 0.97 down from 2005 | 82 | 11% | $4,590 | ||
4Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.65Q1 | 6.29 0.62 up from 2005 | 518 | 21% | $4,550 | ||
5Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.50Q1 | 6.05 0.03 down from 2005 | 336 | 57% | $3,610 | ||
| 4.38Q1 | 1.52 1.66 down from 2005 | 88 | 6% | $3,310 | |||
7Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 4.38Q1 | 4.90 0.59 down from 2005 | 514 | 12% | $3,970 | ||
8American Fisheries Society SymposiumPublisher not listed | 4.23Q1 | 0.65 0.24 down from 2005 | 40 | 0% | — | ||
9EcologyWiley · United States | 4.22Q1 | 5.22 0.45 up from 2005 | 1,227 | 20% | $3,970 | ||
10Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.03Q1 | 1.91 0.28 down from 2005 | 120 | 5% | $4,380 | ||
11Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 5.24 1.09 down from 2005 | 347 | 60% | $3,610 | ||
12Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.86Q1 | 4.27 0.57 up from 2005 | 40 | 19% | — | ||
13EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.67Q1 | 3.78 1.03 down from 2005 | 204 | 12% | $4,790 | ||
14Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.65Q1 | 3.90 1.11 down from 2005 | 327 | 26% | $4,390 | ||
15Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.53Q1 | 4.25 0.01 down from 2005 | 100 | 18% | $5,000 | ||
16Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.49Q1 | 1.10 0.18 down from 2005 | 97 | 6% | — | ||
17Global Ecology and BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 3.78 0.19 down from 2005 | 189 | 13% | $5,000 | ||
18Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.46Q1 | 3.92 0.22 up from 2005 | 841 | 13% | $3,400 | ||
19Diversity and DistributionsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 3.96 0.29 up from 2005 | 199 | 56% | $3,430 | ||
20EcographyOAWiley · Denmark | 3.33Q1 | 4.52 1.06 up from 2005 | 257 | 18% | $3,190 | ||
21Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.33Q1 | 4.21 1.70 up from 2005 | 122 | 100% | $975 | ||
22Journal of Wildlife ManagementWiley · United States | 3.31Q1 | 2.23 2.65 down from 2005 | 410 | 2% | $4,270 | ||
23Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 3.31Q1 | 4.22 0.08 down from 2005 | 677 | 6% | $4,450 | ||
24Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.22Q1 | 4.34 0.05 down from 2005 | 3,005 | 9% | $4,500 | ||
25Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 4.17 0.42 up from 2005 | 355 | 52% | $3,610 | ||
26Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.17Q1 | 1.80 0.34 up from 2005 | 124 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
27Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 3.16Q1 | 1.37 0.47 down from 2005 | 90 | 24% | — | ||
28Advances in Environmental ResearchPergamon Press · United States | 3.08Q1 | 0.80 1.41 down from 2005 | 106 | — | — | ||
29Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.02Q1 | 2.95 0.34 down from 2005 | 457 | 10% | $4,750 | ||
30Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.97Q1 | 4.39 2.26 down from 2005 | 340 | 15% | $3,790 | ||
31OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.92Q1 | 3.86 0.25 up from 2005 | 1,034 | 12% | $3,790 | ||
32Engineering GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 1.42 0.02 up from 2005 | 365 | 3% | $4,210 | ||
33Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 3.04 0.07 up from 2005 | 1,577 | 8% | $4,660 | ||
34BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.81Q1 | 3.25 0.57 up from 2005 | 310 | 8% | $3,390 | ||
35Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 4.48 0.08 up from 2005 | 602 | 11% | $4,640 | ||
36Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | 3.66 0.36 up from 2005 | 212 | 14% | $4,390 | ||
37Critical Reviews in ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.68Q1 | 4.91 0.38 down from 2005 | 70 | 10% | — | ||
38BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.65Q1 | 2.69 0.19 up from 2005 | 696 | 44% | $5,088 | ||
39Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote SensingAmerican Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · United States | 2.54Q1 | 2.28 0.23 up from 2005 | 309 | 74% | — | ||
40Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 3.70 0.39 up from 2005 | 983 | 9% | $3,830 | ||
41Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.51Q1 | 4.31 0.47 up from 2005 | 48 | 6% | — | ||
42Conservation EcologyResilience Alliance · Canada | 2.51Q1 | —no 2005 value | 68 | — | — | ||
43Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 1.64 0.33 down from 2005 | 177 | 19% | $3,830 | ||
44Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.51Q1 | 4.43 0.24 down from 2005 | 1,000 | 60% | — | ||
45Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.47Q1 | 2.70 0.26 down from 2005 | 1,004 | 58% | $3,000 | ||
46Freshwater BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 3.04 0.03 down from 2005 | 486 | 19% | $4,940 | ||
47Journal of BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 3.08 0.24 up from 2005 | 583 | 18% | $4,830 | ||
48Austral EcologyWiley · Australia | 2.38Q1 | 2.53 0.24 down from 2005 | 289 | 17% | $3,310 | ||
49Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 2.43 0.07 down from 2005 | 1,214 | 8% | $4,030 | ||
50Waste ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 1.48 0.01 down from 2005 | 451 | 7% | $4,450 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- Ecology193
- Global and Planetary Change105
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis56
- Water Science and Technology46
- Nature and Landscape Conservation45
- Pollution35
- Environmental Engineering30
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law29
- Waste Management and Disposal12
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
192 additional Environmental Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, 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: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 565
- Window papers (baseline)
- 295,719 +20.6% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.820 +8.7% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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.