Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Field ranking · 2008
Environmental Science journal rankings 2008
621 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 621 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.84, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.47. The top three are Ecological Monographs, Reviews of Geophysics, and Particle and Fibre Toxicology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. 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 2005–2007, the window the 2008 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 Sciences621 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 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 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 2008. | Compare |
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1Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 7.45Q1 | 7.26 3.15 down from 2007 | 96 | 23% | $3,970 | ||
2Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 7.34Q1 | 9.91 0.41 up from 2007 | 45 | 24% | $3,880 | ||
3Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 6.85Q1 | 8.32 0.03 up from 2007 | 39 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
4Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.17Q1 | 7.67 3.18 up from 2007 | 40 | 18% | — | ||
5Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.06Q1 | 6.88 0.49 up from 2007 | 649 | 26% | $4,550 | ||
6Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.57Q1 | 2.33 0.13 down from 2007 | 109 | 13% | $4,380 | ||
7Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.31Q1 | 5.35 0.65 down from 2007 | 375 | 51% | $3,610 | ||
8The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 5.70no 2007 value | 101 | 18% | $4,153 | — | |
9Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 5.05 0.65 down from 2007 | 447 | 58% | $3,610 | ||
10EcologyWiley · United States | 4.10Q1 | 5.51 0.01 up from 2007 | 1,215 | 22% | $3,970 | ||
11Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.98Q1 | 5.43no change | 416 | 55% | $3,610 | ||
12ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote SensingElsevier BV | 3.97Q1 | 3.04 0.43 up from 2007 | 152 | 5% | $3,310 | ||
13Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 3.97Q1 | 5.33 0.21 up from 2007 | 577 | 19% | $3,970 | ||
14LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.83Q1 | 1.35 0.03 down from 2007 | 134 | 14% | $4,590 | ||
15Critical Reviews in ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.66Q1 | 7.60 1.23 up from 2007 | 95 | 16% | — | ||
16Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 4.35 0.41 up from 2007 | 495 | 24% | $4,390 | ||
17EcographyOAWiley · Denmark | 3.57Q1 | 4.49 0.61 down from 2007 | 308 | 18% | $3,190 | ||
18Global Ecology and BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 4.92 0.53 up from 2007 | 279 | 23% | $5,000 | ||
19Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.51Q1 | 5.29 0.56 up from 2007 | 3,489 | 11% | $4,500 | ||
20Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 3.40Q1 | 4.67 0.48 up from 2007 | 813 | 8% | $4,450 | ||
21Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.40Q1 | 4.38 0.41 up from 2007 | 843 | 16% | $3,400 | ||
22Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the EnvironmentInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.40Q1 | 0.75no 2007 value | 44 | — | — | — | |
23Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.25Q1 | 1.48 0.45 up from 2007 | 119 | 11% | — | ||
24Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.18Q1 | 4.19 1.05 up from 2007 | 382 | 10% | $4,750 | ||
25EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.17Q1 | 4.63 1.00 up from 2007 | 290 | 15% | $4,790 | ||
26Diversity and DistributionsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 4.00 0.26 up from 2007 | 322 | 67% | $3,430 | ||
27Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 3.57 0.52 down from 2007 | 90 | 12% | $5,000 | ||
28Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.11Q1 | 4.56 0.59 up from 2007 | 242 | 100% | $975 | ||
29Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 3.65 0.10 up from 2007 | 1,620 | 8% | $4,660 | ||
30Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.06Q1 | 1.89 0.01 up from 2007 | 126 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
31Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 4.56 0.76 up from 2007 | 935 | 8% | $3,830 | ||
32International journal of greenhouse gas controlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 2.91no 2007 value | 70 | 6% | $4,100 | — | |
33Engineering GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.02Q1 | 1.54 0.23 up from 2007 | 364 | 6% | $4,210 | ||
34Hydrology and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.00Q1 | 3.22 0.34 up from 2007 | 266 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
35International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and GeoinformationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 2.84 0.90 up from 2007 | 106 | 14% | $3,550 | ||
36Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.91Q1 | 6.97 1.62 up from 2007 | 1,095 | 58% | — | ||
37Environmental Health PerspectivesOANational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · United States | 2.84Q1 | 3.85 0.30 up from 2007 | 1,808 | 100% | $4,500 | ||
38Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 5.19 0.25 up from 2007 | 780 | 22% | $4,640 | ||
39OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.83Q1 | 3.45 0.32 down from 2007 | 936 | 20% | $3,790 | ||
40Journal of BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 4.57 0.51 up from 2007 | 631 | 22% | $4,830 | ||
41Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 3.24 1.21 up from 2007 | 210 | 11% | $4,250 | ||
42Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.72Q1 | 4.51 0.19 down from 2007 | 378 | 22% | $3,790 | ||
43BiogeochemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.66Q1 | 3.82 0.88 up from 2007 | 338 | 7% | $3,390 | ||
44Bioresource TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 3.40 0.25 up from 2007 | 1,701 | 7% | $4,880 | ||
45International Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 4.47 0.18 up from 2007 | 572 | 38% | $4,514 | ||
46Journal of Industrial EcologyWiley · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.11 0.59 down from 2007 | 189 | 33% | $3,750 | ||
47Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 2.68 1.14 up from 2007 | 69 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
48Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote SensingAmerican Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · United States | 2.53Q1 | 2.79 0.81 up from 2007 | 309 | 95% | — | ||
49FEMS Microbiology EcologyOAOxford University Press · Netherlands | 2.52Q1 | 4.14 0.72 up from 2007 | 601 | 69% | $3,297 | ||
50Aquatic ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.52Q1 | 3.89 0.67 up from 2007 | 603 | 10% | $3,320 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- Ecology221
- Global and Planetary Change114
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis56
- Nature and Landscape Conservation51
- Water Science and Technology49
- Pollution39
- Environmental Engineering32
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law32
- Waste Management and Disposal12
- Environmental Chemistry11
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
218 additional Environmental Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, 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: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 621
- Window papers (baseline)
- 355,145 +30.3% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.84 +10.2% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 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.