Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Field ranking · 2009
Environmental Science journal rankings 2009
658 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 658 ranked journals in 2009. The median journal has an OJR of 0.83, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2008; Q1 starts at OJR 1.46. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, and International journal of greenhouse gas control.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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 Sciences658 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 7.24Q1 | 9.29 0.62 down from 2008 | 72 | 40% | $3,880 | ||
2Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.52Q1 | 4.18 3.48 down from 2008 | 38 | 5% | — | ||
3International journal of greenhouse gas controlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.19Q1 | 5.23 2.32 up from 2008 | 141 | 11% | $4,100 | ||
4Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.11Q1 | 6.82 0.06 down from 2008 | 745 | 22% | $4,550 | ||
5Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 5.08Q1 | 6.84 1.48 down from 2008 | 48 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
6Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 4.90Q1 | 6.24 1.02 down from 2008 | 100 | 29% | $3,970 | ||
7Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.63Q1 | 2.71 0.38 up from 2008 | 122 | 18% | $4,380 | ||
8Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.61Q1 | 5.91 0.56 up from 2008 | 372 | 47% | $3,610 | ||
9Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.43Q1 | 5.31 0.26 up from 2008 | 464 | 49% | $3,610 | ||
10The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 4.42Q1 | 7.14 1.43 up from 2008 | 235 | 18% | $4,153 | ||
11EcologyWiley · United States | 4.26Q1 | 5.61 0.10 up from 2008 | 1,210 | 27% | $3,970 | ||
12Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 4.26Q1 | 4.24no 2008 value | 45 | 50% | $3,550 | — | |
13Global Ecology and BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 6.81 1.89 up from 2008 | 286 | 30% | $5,000 | ||
14Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.96Q1 | 2.11 0.63 up from 2008 | 124 | 13% | — | ||
15Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.96Q1 | 4.05 0.51 down from 2008 | 275 | 100% | $975 | ||
16ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote SensingElsevier BV | 3.95Q1 | 3.38 0.33 up from 2008 | 178 | 10% | $3,310 | ||
17Critical Reviews in ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.95Q1 | 5.96 1.64 down from 2008 | 105 | 11% | — | ||
18Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.84Q1 | 4.83 0.48 up from 2008 | 534 | 28% | $4,390 | ||
19Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 3.79Q1 | 5.21 0.12 down from 2008 | 597 | 15% | $3,970 | ||
20Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 4.29 1.14 down from 2008 | 460 | 49% | $3,610 | ||
21Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.64Q1 | 4.70 0.51 up from 2008 | 429 | 26% | $4,750 | ||
22Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.59Q1 | 5.43 0.14 up from 2008 | 3,569 | 13% | $4,500 | ||
23Diversity and DistributionsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.59Q1 | 5.54 1.54 up from 2008 | 327 | 69% | $3,430 | ||
24EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.58Q1 | 5.08 0.45 up from 2008 | 323 | 17% | $4,790 | ||
25EcographyOAWiley · Denmark | 3.53Q1 | 3.89 0.61 down from 2008 | 320 | 24% | $3,190 | ||
26Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.50Q1 | 1.95 0.07 up from 2008 | 150 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
27Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 4.39 1.71 up from 2008 | 151 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
28Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.45Q1 | 3.97 0.40 down from 2008 | 813 | 22% | $3,400 | ||
29Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 3.43Q1 | 4.18 0.77 up from 2008 | 404 | 22% | $3,970 | ||
30LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.41Q1 | 1.55 0.20 up from 2008 | 116 | 17% | $4,590 | ||
31Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.32Q1 | 4.58 0.93 up from 2008 | 1,540 | 9% | $4,660 | ||
32The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.27Q1 | 1.68 0.94 up from 2008 | 69 | 5% | — | ||
33Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 3.23Q1 | 4.89 0.22 up from 2008 | 828 | 15% | $4,450 | ||
34Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 4.10 0.53 up from 2008 | 104 | 19% | $5,000 | ||
35Resources Conservation and RecyclingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.17Q1 | 2.45 0.69 up from 2008 | 279 | 9% | $5,270 | ||
36Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.06Q1 | 5.08 0.59 up from 2008 | 68 | 12% | — | ||
37Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 4.38 0.18 down from 2008 | 921 | 14% | $3,830 | ||
38Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.02Q1 | 5.53 0.34 up from 2008 | 851 | 22% | $4,640 | ||
39Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 3.96 0.72 up from 2008 | 209 | 19% | $4,250 | ||
40Environmental Health PerspectivesOANational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · United States | 2.95Q1 | 4.13 0.28 up from 2008 | 1,649 | 100% | $4,500 | ||
41Journal of Cleaner ProductionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.93Q1 | 2.56 0.83 up from 2008 | 562 | 7% | $4,660 | ||
42Journal of BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.92Q1 | 4.08 0.49 down from 2008 | 626 | 24% | $4,830 | ||
43Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.87Q1 | 1.27 0.18 up from 2008 | 123 | 8% | $3,560 | ||
44Hydrology and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.84Q1 | 3.59 0.37 up from 2008 | 313 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
45Waste ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.81Q1 | 2.35 0.61 up from 2008 | 804 | 12% | $4,450 | ||
46OecologiaSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.80Q1 | 3.73 0.29 up from 2008 | 910 | 23% | $3,790 | ||
47Bioresource TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.79Q1 | 4.05 0.64 up from 2008 | 2,143 | 10% | $4,880 | ||
48International Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 4.35 0.13 down from 2008 | 606 | 45% | $4,514 | ||
49Toxicological SciencesOxford University Press · United States | 2.68Q1 | 5.37 0.22 up from 2008 | 884 | 56% | $4,671 | ||
50Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.65Q1 | 4.20 2.78 down from 2008 | 1,348 | 62% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- Ecology232
- Global and Planetary Change124
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis58
- Nature and Landscape Conservation55
- Water Science and Technology52
- Pollution41
- Environmental Engineering34
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law33
- Waste Management and Disposal13
- Environmental Chemistry12
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
219 additional Environmental Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 658
- Window papers (baseline)
- 387,726 +31.1% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 0.832 +1.5% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.