Journal rankings · indicator year 2006

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Subfield ranking · 2006

Waste Management and Disposal journal rankings 2006

12 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science

Indicator year

Waste Management and Disposal has 12 ranked journals in 2006. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2005 to 0.16, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.90. The top three are Waste Management, Resources Conservation and Recycling, and Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular Economy.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 score is computed on.

2% 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.

0.16+0.06 vs 2005

This subfieldAll 0.84World 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.

17%

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.

$4,400

Median positive listed APC: $4,400 among 5 journals. 7 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Environmental Science (11)

12 ranked journals

Filters

Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access

APC (list price)

Publisher country

Waste Management and Disposal ranking, 2006
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 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.
1Waste ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom	2.33Q1	1.48 0.01 down from 2005	451	7%	$4,450
2Resources Conservation and RecyclingElsevier BV · Netherlands	2.16Q1	1.46 0.22 up from 2005	258	8%	$5,270
3Waste Management & Research The Journal for a Sustainable Circular EconomySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom	0.90Q1	0.60 0.14 up from 2005	174	7%	$4,400
4Journal of Material Cycles and Waste ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan	0.69Q2	0.68 0.21 up from 2005	63	10%	$3,190
5Practice Periodical of Hazardous Toxic and Radioactive Waste ManagementAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States	0.52Q2	0.36 0.07 down from 2005	116	5%	—
6Water environment & technologyWater Environment Federation · United States	0.18Q2	0.11 0.08 up from 2005	199	0%	—
7Environment Protection EngineeringPoland	0.14Q3	0.10 0.07 up from 2005	77	0%	—
8Proceedings of the Water Environment FederationWater Environment Federation · United States	0.11Q3	0.12 0.03 up from 2005	2,897	0%	—
9Environmental Engineering and Management JournalOAPolytechnic Institute of Iasi · Romania	0.07Q3	0.04 0.01 up from 2005	169	100%	—
10Journal of Environmental SystemsUnited States	0.05Q4	0.00 0.07 down from 2005	67	—	—
11Journal of Ecological EngineeringOAPolish Society of Ecological Engineering · Poland	0.05Q4	0.03 0.19 down from 2005	243	0%	$330
12Additives for PolymersElsevier BV · United States	0.01Q4	0.01 0.01 up from 2005	657	0%	—

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.

4 additional Waste Management and Disposal 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals: 12
Window papers (baseline): 15,884 +29.6% from indicator year 2003
Median OJR: 0.16 +35.7% from indicator year 2003
Rising journals (2025): 0

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.

Category by indicator year
Measure	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	6	8	10	13	13	13	12	12	12	13	13	14	16	16	17	17	19	20	20	21	21	22	21	21	25	24
Window papers (baseline)	8,866	9,956	11,257	12,254	13,257	14,496	15,884	17,730	19,397	20,950	22,094	23,321	24,696	25,812	26,991	27,325	26,621	25,576	25,286	26,652	28,255	30,414	32,325	34,285	36,841	41,084
Median OJR	0.246	0.17	0.254	0.12	0.099	0.102	0.16	0.11	0.33	0.56	0.50	0.40174	0.40166	0.35	0.38	0.49	0.36	0.249	0.22	0.285	0.26	0.281	0.43	0.46	0.577	0.575

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.