Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Water Science and Technology journal rankings 2008
49 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Water Science and Technology has 49 ranked journals in 2008. The median journal has an OJR of 0.50, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2007; Q1 starts at OJR 1.15. The top three are Hydrology and earth system sciences, Water Resources Research, and Journal of Membrane Science.
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)
49 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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1Hydrology and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.00Q1 | 3.22 0.34 up from 2007 | 266 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
2Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.40Q1 | 3.18 0.13 up from 2007 | 1,149 | 60% | $3,000 | ||
3Journal of Membrane ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.23Q1 | 3.16 0.54 up from 2007 | 2,018 | 7% | $4,890 | ||
4Separation and Purification TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 2.46 0.49 up from 2007 | 856 | 7% | $4,060 | ||
5Hydrological ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.61Q1 | 1.82 0.08 down from 2007 | 1,095 | 7% | $5,230 | ||
6JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources AssociationWiley · United States | 1.49Q1 | 1.61 0.24 down from 2007 | 390 | 28% | $3,200 | ||
7DesalinationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.28Q1 | 1.41 0.29 up from 2007 | 2,259 | 3% | $4,580 | ||
8Aquacultural EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 1.24 0.07 down from 2007 | 168 | 14% | $3,500 | ||
9Hydrological Sciences JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 1.49 0.77 down from 2007 | 258 | 93% | — | ||
10Journal of Hydrologic EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.24Q1 | 1.29 0.07 up from 2007 | 224 | 5% | — | ||
11International Journal of Mineral ProcessingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q1 | 1.27 0.28 up from 2007 | 252 | 9% | $2,500 | ||
12Minerals EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 1.10 0.06 up from 2007 | 544 | 5% | $4,220 | ||
13Journal of Chemical Technology & BiotechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.15Q1 | 1.85 0.27 up from 2007 | 586 | 7% | $4,100 | ||
14Journal of Environmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.04Q2 | 1.10 0.03 up from 2007 | 599 | 5% | — | ||
15Water SAOAWater Research Commission · South Africa | 1.03Q2 | 0.90 0.40 down from 2007 | 195 | 100% | — | ||
16Water Science & TechnologyOAPergamon Press | 1.02Q2 | 1.00 0.09 down from 2007 | 2,148 | 15% | — | ||
17Separation Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.95Q2 | 1.20 0.17 up from 2007 | 650 | 9% | — | ||
18Journal of Environmental Engineering and ScienceThomas Telford Ltd. · Canada | 0.82Q2 | 0.88 0.20 up from 2007 | 197 | 3% | — | ||
19Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriquesTaylor & Francis · Canada | 0.80Q2 | 0.88 0.38 up from 2007 | 76 | 94% | — | ||
20International Journal of Environmental & Analytical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.78Q2 | 1.31 0.20 up from 2007 | 289 | 5% | — | ||
21Environmental TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.57Q2 | 0.68 0.08 down from 2007 | 417 | 14% | — | ||
22International Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.55Q2 | 0.66 0.10 up from 2007 | 200 | 72% | $3,490 | ||
23Water Quality Research JournalUWA Publishing | 0.54Q2 | 0.55 0.22 down from 2007 | 145 | 55% | — | ||
24Water and Environment JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.52Q2 | 0.60 0.17 up from 2007 | 146 | 19% | $4,000 | ||
25International Journal of River Basin ManagementTaylor & Francis | 0.50Q2 | 0.69 0.24 up from 2007 | 89 | 24% | — | ||
26Journal of Dispersion Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.41Q3 | 0.68 0.22 down from 2007 | 507 | 2% | — | ||
27Water Science & Technology Water SupplyIWA Publishing | 0.39Q3 | 0.28 0.03 down from 2007 | 368 | 3% | — | ||
28American Water Works AssociationWiley · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.22 0.03 down from 2007 | 918 | 5% | $3,050 | ||
29Australasian Journal of Water ResourcesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.34Q3 | 0.56 0.02 up from 2007 | 82 | 8% | — | ||
30Adsorption Science & TechnologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.33Q3 | 0.56 0.13 up from 2007 | 205 | 54% | $1,500 | ||
31Water Practice & TechnologyUWA Publishing | 0.29Q3 | 0.25 0.03 down from 2007 | 228 | 5% | — | ||
32Asian Journal of Water Environment and PollutionIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.26Q3 | 0.25 0.03 up from 2007 | 107 | 5% | — | ||
33IAHS-AISH publicationInternational Association of Hydrological Sciences | 0.21Q3 | 0.21 0.12 down from 2007 | 467 | 0% | — | ||
34International Journal of Nuclear DesalinationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.20Q3 | 0.08 0.02 down from 2007 | 48 | 5% | — | ||
35Landform AnalysisOABogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe · Poland | 0.18Q3 | 0.20no 2007 value | 46 | 100% | $107 | ||
36Journal of Contemporary Water Research & EducationWiley · United States | 0.18Q3 | 0.15 0.05 down from 2007 | 46 | 45% | $3,000 | ||
37Environmental Claims JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.17Q3 | 0.11 0.18 down from 2007 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
38Ambiente e Agua - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied ScienceOAInstituto de Pesquisas Ambientais em Bacias Hidrográficas (IPABHi) · Brazil | 0.16Q4 | 0.32 0.12 up from 2007 | 38 | 100% | $225 | ||
39Physicochemical Problems of Mineral ProcessingOAOficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawsjiej · Poland | 0.15Q4 | 0.15 0.10 down from 2007 | 91 | 0% | — | ||
40La Houille BlancheOASociété hydrotechnique de France · France | 0.14Q4 | 0.19 0.01 up from 2007 | 282 | 65% | — | ||
41Revue des sciences de l eauINRS-Eau, Terre et Environnement · France | 0.11Q4 | 0.09 0.15 down from 2007 | 636 | 30% | — | ||
42Filtration & SeparationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.11Q4 | 0.07 0.01 up from 2007 | 448 | 0% | — | ||
43Journal of Water and Environment TechnologyOAJapan Society on Water Environment · Japan | 0.07Q4 | 0.20 0.15 up from 2007 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
44Membrane TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.07Q4 | 0.03 0.04 down from 2007 | 699 | 1% | — | ||
45Environmental Engineering ResearchOAKorean Society of Environmental Engineering · South Korea | 0.05Q4 | 0.07 0.02 up from 2007 | 300 | 22% | — | ||
46Arid Zone ResearchScience Press · China | 0.04Q4 | 0.05 0.02 up from 2007 | 311 | 0% | — | ||
47Bulletin of Soil and Water ConservationOAChinese Academy of Forestry Science | 0.03Q4 | 0.03 0.01 up from 2007 | 451 | 0% | — | ||
48Journal of Water Chemistry and TechnologyPleiades Publishing · United States | 0.03Q4 | 0.03no 2007 value | 40 | 2% | — | — | |
| 0.01Q4 | 0.01no change | 281 | 1% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Water Science and Technology 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.
26 additional Water Science and Technology 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
- 49
- Window papers (baseline)
- 40,771 +42.8% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 0.50 -22.5% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 34 | 36 | 38 | 39 | 41 | 43 | 46 | 47 | 49 | 52 | 58 | 66 | 67 | 72 | 82 | 87 | 95 | 101 | 103 | 97 | 101 | 101 | 103 | 104 | 103 | 103 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 14,781 | 17,791 | 20,498 | 23,486 | 25,734 | 28,549 | 32,247 | 36,403 | 40,771 | 44,936 | 50,005 | 54,989 | 59,878 | 63,966 | 68,372 | 71,167 | 71,057 | 68,448 | 68,167 | 70,866 | 75,349 | 79,702 | 82,811 | 85,893 | 88,063 | 92,086 | |
| Median OJR | 0.596 | 0.603 | 0.650 | 0.663 | 0.62 | 0.651 | 0.684 | 0.514 | 0.50 | 0.45 | 0.47 | 0.512 | 0.645 | 0.590 | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.61 | 0.589 | 0.57 | 0.597 | 0.656 | 0.677 | 0.654 | 0.664 | 0.70 | 0.75 |
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.