Journal rankings · indicator year 2010
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Subfield ranking · 2010
Water Science and Technology journal rankings 2010
58 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Water Science and Technology has 58 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.47, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 0.91. The top three are Hydrology and earth system sciences, Water Resources Research, and Journal of Membrane Science.
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)
58 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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1Hydrology and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.16Q1 | 3.72 0.13 up from 2009 | 420 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
2Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.68Q1 | 3.80 0.63 up from 2009 | 1,417 | 61% | $3,000 | ||
3Journal of Membrane ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 3.85 0.59 up from 2009 | 2,136 | 7% | $4,890 | ||
4Separation and Purification TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 2.93 0.23 up from 2009 | 983 | 8% | $4,060 | ||
5Hydrological ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 2.79 0.45 up from 2009 | 1,072 | 9% | $5,230 | ||
6DesalinationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.77Q1 | 2.09 0.11 down from 2009 | 2,537 | 3% | $4,580 | ||
7Hydrological Sciences JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 2.11 0.05 up from 2009 | 268 | 93% | — | ||
8JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources AssociationWiley · United States | 1.68Q1 | 1.81 0.11 down from 2009 | 373 | 13% | $3,200 | ||
9International Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 1.50Q1 | 3.71 1.65 up from 2009 | 227 | 81% | $3,490 | ||
10Minerals EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 1.44 0.20 up from 2009 | 501 | 6% | $4,220 | ||
11International Journal of Mineral ProcessingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.28Q1 | 1.35 0.13 up from 2009 | 212 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
12Journal of Chemical Technology & BiotechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.26Q1 | 2.00 0.12 up from 2009 | 682 | 8% | $4,100 | ||
13Journal of Hydrologic EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.17Q1 | 1.23 0.27 down from 2009 | 437 | 9% | — | ||
14Water Science & TechnologyOAPergamon Press | 1.02Q1 | 1.25 0.07 up from 2009 | 1,925 | 17% | — | ||
15Water SAOAWater Research Commission · South Africa | 0.91Q1 | 1.12 0.02 up from 2009 | 272 | 100% | — | ||
16Journal of Contemporary Water Research & EducationWiley · United States | 0.90Q2 | 0.69 0.51 up from 2009 | 110 | 54% | $3,000 | ||
17Journal of Environmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.10 0.14 up from 2009 | 549 | 5% | — | ||
18Journal of Environmental Engineering and ScienceThomas Telford Ltd. · Canada | 0.86Q2 | 0.69 0.21 down from 2009 | 151 | — | — | ||
19Separation Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.85Q2 | 1.18 0.11 up from 2009 | 703 | 5% | — | ||
20International Journal of Environmental & Analytical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.83Q2 | 1.23 0.58 down from 2009 | 267 | 13% | — | ||
21International Journal of River Basin ManagementTaylor & Francis | 0.75Q2 | 0.86 0.19 up from 2009 | 104 | 47% | — | ||
22Environmental TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.75Q2 | 1.05 0.18 up from 2009 | 447 | 11% | — | ||
23World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008Publisher not listed | 0.73Q2 | 0.17 0.02 up from 2009 | 674 | — | — | ||
24Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriquesTaylor & Francis · Canada | 0.67Q2 | 0.71 0.01 up from 2009 | 85 | 98% | — | ||
25Aquacultural EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.66Q2 | 0.88 0.31 down from 2009 | 136 | 14% | $3,500 | ||
26Desalination and Water TreatmentOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.63Q2 | 0.93 0.93 up from 2009 | 506 | 97% | $1,000 | ||
27Water and Environment JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.56Q2 | 0.60 0.05 up from 2009 | 148 | 15% | $4,000 | ||
28Water Science & Technology Water SupplyIWA Publishing | 0.49Q2 | 0.46 0.08 up from 2009 | 290 | 3% | — | ||
29Revista Brasileira de CartografiaOAFederal University of Uberlândia · Brazil | 0.48Q2 | 0.29 0.21 up from 2009 | 190 | 100% | — | ||
30International Journal of Nuclear DesalinationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.60 0.49 up from 2009 | 52 | 5% | — | ||
31American Water Works AssociationWiley · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.30 0.04 down from 2009 | 826 | 3% | $3,050 | ||
32Water Quality Research JournalUWA Publishing | 0.34Q3 | 0.40 0.07 up from 2009 | 119 | 68% | — | ||
33Journal of Dispersion Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.33Q3 | 0.67 0.04 up from 2009 | 619 | 1% | — | ||
34Adsorption Science & TechnologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.30Q3 | 0.76 0.40 up from 2009 | 202 | 68% | $1,500 | ||
35Revue des sciences de l eauINRS-Eau, Terre et Environnement · France | 0.29Q3 | 0.28 0.09 up from 2009 | 109 | 39% | — | ||
36Ambiente e Agua - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied ScienceOAInstituto de Pesquisas Ambientais em Bacias Hidrográficas (IPABHi) · Brazil | 0.26Q3 | 0.34 0.01 up from 2009 | 103 | 100% | $225 | ||
37Australasian Journal of Water ResourcesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.25Q3 | 0.28 0.02 down from 2009 | 61 | 0% | — | ||
38WaterOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.24Q3 | 0.19 0.17 down from 2009 | 37 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
39Physicochemical Problems of Mineral ProcessingOAOficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawsjiej · Poland | 0.24Q3 | 0.53 0.22 up from 2009 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
40La Houille BlancheOASociété hydrotechnique de France · France | 0.23Q3 | 0.36 0.13 up from 2009 | 269 | 58% | — | ||
41Journal of Water Resource and ProtectionOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.20Q3 | 0.25no 2009 value | 55 | 100% | — | — | |
42Journal of Water and Environment TechnologyOAJapan Society on Water Environment · Japan | 0.20Q3 | 0.38 0.15 up from 2009 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
43IAHS-AISH publicationInternational Association of Hydrological Sciences | 0.19Q3 | 0.19 0.02 down from 2009 | 659 | 0% | — | ||
44Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S-chemia I Inzynieria Ekologiczna SPublisher not listed | 0.18Q3 | 0.23 0.17 up from 2009 | 65 | 0% | — | ||
45Environmental Research Engineering and ManagementOAKaunas University of Technology · Lithuania | 0.18Q4 | 0.18 0.18 up from 2009 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
46Water Practice & TechnologyUWA Publishing | 0.17Q4 | 0.16 0.01 up from 2009 | 258 | 1% | — | ||
47Asian Journal of Water Environment and PollutionIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.17Q4 | 0.12 0.08 down from 2009 | 161 | 0% | — | ||
48Environmental Engineering ResearchOAKorean Society of Environmental Engineering · South Korea | 0.17Q4 | 0.28 0.14 up from 2009 | 232 | 39% | — | ||
49International Journal of Environmental EngineeringInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.16Q4 | 0.12no 2009 value | 50 | 0% | — | — | |
50Filtration & SeparationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.15Q4 | 0.11no change | 433 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Water Science and Technology 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.
28 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 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
- 58
- Window papers (baseline)
- 50,005 +37.4% from indicator year 2007
- Median OJR
- 0.47 -8.7% from indicator year 2007
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 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.