Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Subfield ranking · 2010
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2010
138 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 138 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.98, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.05 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 1.80. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Ecology and Society, and Fish and Fisheries.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 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)
138 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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010. | Compare |
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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 8.58Q1 | 9.28 0.01 down from 2009 | 78 | 68% | $3,880 | ||
2Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.94Q1 | 4.97 0.92 up from 2009 | 281 | 100% | $975 | ||
3Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 7.01 2.91 up from 2009 | 117 | 25% | $5,000 | ||
4Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 3.80 0.16 down from 2009 | 230 | 12% | $4,250 | ||
5Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 3.81 1.02 down from 2009 | 605 | 29% | $4,390 | ||
6Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 4.55 0.16 up from 2009 | 267 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
7Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 3.54Q1 | 2.77 1.07 up from 2009 | 124 | 40% | — | ||
8Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 1.74 0.47 up from 2009 | 162 | 13% | $3,560 | ||
9Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.05Q1 | 2.69 0.38 up from 2009 | 299 | 17% | $3,830 | ||
10Environmental Policy and GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 2.21 2.21 up from 2009 | 35 | 22% | $3,800 | ||
11BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.76Q1 | 3.23 0.72 up from 2009 | 588 | 39% | $5,088 | ||
12Atmospheric measurement techniquesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.73Q1 | 4.41 4.41 up from 2009 | 61 | 100% | $1,585 | ||
13Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.66Q1 | 4.56 0.33 up from 2009 | 4,204 | 61% | $3,190 | ||
14Environmental ReviewsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 2.65Q1 | 3.23 0.42 down from 2009 | 31 | 4% | — | ||
15Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 3.43 0.33 up from 2009 | 1,360 | 10% | $4,030 | ||
16Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 3.15 0.07 up from 2009 | 439 | 16% | $3,500 | ||
17Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 2.52Q1 | 1.83 0.30 down from 2009 | 87 | 29% | $3,890 | ||
18Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 3.82 0.14 down from 2009 | 498 | 13% | $3,590 | ||
19Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.44Q1 | 3.29 0.03 up from 2009 | 385 | 17% | $4,390 | ||
20AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 2.40Q1 | 2.08 1.03 down from 2009 | 311 | 99% | $4,490 | ||
21Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 1.45 0.77 down from 2009 | 66 | 14% | — | ||
22Carbon Balance and ManagementOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 3.32 0.11 down from 2009 | 30 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
23Climate ResearchInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 2.28Q1 | 2.94 0.27 down from 2009 | 175 | 94% | — | ||
24Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.26Q1 | 4.88 0.69 up from 2009 | 1,352 | 55% | — | ||
25Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 3.50 1.22 up from 2009 | 120 | 8% | $3,220 | ||
26Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 2.95 0.16 up from 2009 | 332 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
27Human EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 1.82 0.07 up from 2009 | 221 | 17% | $2,290 | ||
28Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.05Q1 | 3.48 0.22 down from 2009 | 499 | 32% | $3,790 | ||
29Environmental ConservationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.02Q1 | 1.99 0.57 down from 2009 | 129 | 20% | $3,550 | ||
30Environmental ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.02Q1 | 2.29 0.54 up from 2009 | 551 | 22% | $2,690 | ||
31Forest Ecology and ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 2.89 0.21 up from 2009 | 1,811 | 10% | $3,560 | ||
32Society & Natural ResourcesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 1.75 0.39 up from 2009 | 228 | 10% | — | ||
33Regional Environmental ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.83Q1 | 2.40 0.25 up from 2009 | 80 | 28% | $3,990 | ||
34Environment and Planning B Planning and DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 1.20 0.22 down from 2009 | 237 | 19% | — | ||
35International Journal of Digital EarthOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 2.05 0.46 up from 2009 | 65 | 94% | $2,390 | ||
36Natural hazards and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.78Q2 | 2.56 0.88 up from 2009 | 390 | 100% | $1,553 | ||
37International Journal of Wildland FireCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.71Q2 | 3.28 0.49 up from 2009 | 253 | 17% | — | ||
38International Journal of ClimatologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.70Q2 | 2.65 0.26 up from 2009 | 600 | 19% | $3,920 | ||
39Ecological ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.68Q2 | 2.38 0.05 up from 2009 | 1,127 | 12% | $2,810 | ||
40Tree PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.68Q2 | 2.85 0.10 down from 2009 | 530 | 32% | $4,253 | ||
41Journal of Land Use ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 1.41 1.18 down from 2009 | 48 | 80% | — | ||
42EcohydrologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.60Q2 | 2.32 0.08 up from 2009 | 98 | 7% | $4,650 | ||
43Natural HazardsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 1.66 0.48 up from 2009 | 426 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
44Reviews in Fisheries ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.45Q2 | 2.10 0.39 down from 2009 | 120 | 14% | — | ||
45Ecological ComplexityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.34Q2 | 2.16 0.09 down from 2009 | 147 | 11% | $2,990 | ||
46Forest ScienceOxford University Press · United States | 1.32Q2 | 1.52 0.09 down from 2009 | 196 | 86% | $2,690 | ||
47Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Parts A/B/CElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 1.57 0.53 up from 2009 | 413 | 12% | $2,900 | ||
48Fisheries OceanographyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 2.22 0.61 down from 2009 | 110 | 17% | $4,650 | ||
49ICES Journal of Marine ScienceOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 2.30 0.30 down from 2009 | 711 | 78% | $3,686 | ||
50Atmospheric ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 2.09 0.48 up from 2009 | 545 | 7% | $3,310 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change highlighted.
- Ecology235
- Global and Planetary Change138
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis64
- Water Science and Technology58
- Nature and Landscape Conservation56
- Pollution42
- Environmental Engineering37
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law34
- Waste Management and Disposal13
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
57 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 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 138
- Window papers (baseline)
- 55,090 +32.2% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.977 +5.2% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.