Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2008
114 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 114 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.92, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.84. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Climatic Change, and Fish and Fisheries.
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 of Environmental Science (11)
114 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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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 7.34Q1 | 9.91 0.41 up from 2007 | 45 | 24% | $3,880 | ||
2Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 4.35 0.41 up from 2007 | 495 | 24% | $4,390 | ||
3Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 3.57 0.52 down from 2007 | 90 | 12% | $5,000 | ||
4Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.11Q1 | 4.56 0.59 up from 2007 | 242 | 100% | $975 | ||
5Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.91Q1 | 6.97 1.62 up from 2007 | 1,095 | 58% | — | ||
6Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 3.24 1.21 up from 2007 | 210 | 11% | $4,250 | ||
7Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.72Q1 | 4.51 0.19 down from 2007 | 378 | 22% | $3,790 | ||
8Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 2.68 1.14 up from 2007 | 69 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
9Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 4.27 1.38 up from 2007 | 462 | 19% | $3,590 | ||
10Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 1.09 0.22 up from 2007 | 116 | 12% | $3,560 | ||
11Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.41Q1 | 4.04 0.38 up from 2007 | 4,839 | 55% | $3,190 | ||
12Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.32Q1 | 2.55 0.01 down from 2007 | 1,306 | 8% | $4,030 | ||
13BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.31Q1 | 1.96 0.36 down from 2007 | 668 | 38% | $5,088 | ||
14Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 3.01 0.47 up from 2007 | 450 | 8% | $3,500 | ||
15Regional Environmental ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.20Q1 | 2.14 0.34 down from 2007 | 48 | 24% | $3,990 | ||
16Environment and Planning B Planning and DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 1.49 0.04 up from 2007 | 221 | 10% | — | ||
17Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.00Q1 | 3.01 0.34 up from 2007 | 394 | 14% | $4,390 | ||
18Society & Natural ResourcesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 1.84 0.04 up from 2007 | 204 | 11% | — | ||
19Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 1.99Q1 | 1.07 0.09 up from 2007 | 108 | 27% | — | ||
20Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 1.19 0.26 down from 2007 | 62 | 15% | — | ||
21Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 2.10 0.82 up from 2007 | 145 | 19% | $3,830 | ||
22Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 2.06 0.41 up from 2007 | 57 | 8% | $3,220 | ||
23Fisheries OceanographyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 3.45 0.83 up from 2007 | 137 | 5% | $4,650 | ||
24Reviews in Fisheries ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.94Q1 | 2.69 0.85 up from 2007 | 41 | 7% | — | ||
25International Journal of ClimatologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.40 0.74 down from 2007 | 520 | 13% | $3,920 | ||
26Environmental ConservationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.29 0.52 up from 2007 | 119 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
27Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 2.63 0.64 up from 2007 | 221 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
28Natural hazards and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 2.20 0.72 up from 2007 | 267 | 100% | $1,553 | ||
29Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.84Q1 | 2.32 1.39 up from 2007 | 37 | 22% | $3,890 | ||
30Earth InteractionsOAAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.83Q2 | 2.62 0.03 up from 2007 | 74 | 44% | — | ||
31Ecological ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.82Q2 | 2.42 0.12 up from 2007 | 1,152 | 11% | $2,810 | ||
32Climate ResearchInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 1.75Q2 | 2.52 0.33 up from 2007 | 178 | 92% | — | ||
33Tree PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.67Q2 | 2.81 0.03 up from 2007 | 484 | 40% | $4,253 | ||
34Environmental ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.66Q2 | 1.63 0.08 down from 2007 | 498 | 5% | $2,690 | ||
35Forest Ecology and ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q2 | 2.45 0.14 up from 2007 | 1,671 | 10% | $3,560 | ||
36AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 1.61Q2 | 2.37 0.98 up from 2007 | 452 | 4% | $4,490 | ||
37Annual Review of Environment and ResourcesOAAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.61Q2 | 7.19 0.87 up from 2007 | 53 | 8% | — | ||
38Forest ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 1.43Q2 | 1.72 0.31 up from 2007 | 216 | 86% | $2,690 | ||
39ICES Journal of Marine ScienceOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 2.06 0.22 down from 2007 | 564 | 70% | $3,686 | ||
40Human EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.41Q2 | 1.32 0.11 up from 2007 | 211 | 16% | $2,290 | ||
41International Journal of Wildland FireCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.39Q2 | 2.25 0.09 up from 2007 | 188 | 14% | — | ||
42Natural HazardsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.36Q2 | 1.33 0.17 up from 2007 | 332 | 12% | $3,990 | ||
43Journal of Environmental InformaticsPublisher not listed | 1.36Q2 | 1.20 0.72 up from 2007 | 63 | 75% | — | ||
44Ecological ComplexityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.35Q2 | 1.85 0.51 down from 2007 | 103 | 13% | $2,990 | ||
45Systematics and BiodiversityTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 1.68 0.32 down from 2007 | 75 | 10% | — | ||
46Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/CElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 1.68 0.83 up from 2007 | 417 | 9% | $2,900 | ||
47Theoretical and Applied ClimatologySpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.26Q2 | 1.64 0.12 down from 2007 | 240 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
48TreesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.23Q2 | 1.65 0.31 down from 2007 | 231 | 14% | $3,690 | ||
49Meteorologische ZeitschriftOAE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 1.21Q2 | 1.59 0.02 up from 2007 | 230 | 37% | $1,402 | ||
50Atmospheric ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.11Q2 | 1.87 0.28 up from 2007 | 432 | 7% | $3,310 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change highlighted.
- 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.
55 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 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
- 114
- Window papers (baseline)
- 45,634 +25.7% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.92 +3.5% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 | 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.