Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Field ranking · 2011
Environmental Science journal rankings 2011
730 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 730 ranked journals in 2011. The median journal has an OJR of 0.88, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2010; Q1 starts at OJR 1.55. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Particle and Fibre Toxicology, and Ecological Monographs.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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 Sciences730 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 9.54Q1 | 18.94 9.66 up from 2010 | 70 | 50% | $3,880 | ||
2Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 6.03Q1 | 11.51 3.88 up from 2010 | 95 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
3Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 5.75Q1 | 7.83 0.34 down from 2010 | 121 | 21% | $3,970 | ||
4Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.46Q1 | 3.54 0.87 up from 2010 | 160 | 5% | $4,380 | ||
5Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.44Q1 | 6.38 0.84 up from 2010 | 58 | 10% | — | ||
6Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.04Q1 | 7.47 0.83 up from 2010 | 856 | 24% | $4,550 | ||
7Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part CTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.02Q1 | 7.75 1.00 up from 2010 | 35 | 8% | — | ||
8LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.97Q1 | 2.73 0.68 up from 2010 | 129 | 20% | $4,590 | ||
9Methods in Ecology and EvolutionOAWiley · United States | 4.85Q1 | 5.22 2.28 down from 2010 | 83 | 51% | $3,500 | ||
10Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.77Q1 | 2.21 0.47 up from 2010 | 175 | 17% | $3,560 | ||
11The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 4.75Q1 | 8.49 1.12 up from 2010 | 481 | 100% | $4,153 | ||
12Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.74Q1 | 6.05 0.19 down from 2010 | 436 | 43% | $3,610 | ||
13ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote SensingElsevier BV | 4.68Q1 | 4.88 1.16 up from 2010 | 178 | 15% | $3,310 | ||
14Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 2.49 0.58 up from 2010 | 125 | 16% | — | ||
15Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.61Q1 | 7.86 2.27 up from 2010 | 77 | 48% | — | ||
16Economic Systems ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.59Q1 | 6.18 0.79 up from 2010 | 69 | 8% | — | ||
17International journal of greenhouse gas controlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.48Q1 | 5.32 1.26 up from 2010 | 301 | 8% | $4,100 | ||
18Global Ecology and BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.45Q1 | 6.59 0.99 up from 2010 | 239 | 31% | $5,000 | ||
19Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 4.36Q1 | 6.16 0.79 up from 2010 | 436 | 17% | $4,750 | ||
20Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 5.76 0.17 down from 2010 | 491 | 51% | $3,610 | ||
21Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 4.24Q1 | 4.03 1.28 up from 2010 | 97 | 27% | $5,450 | ||
22Diversity and DistributionsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 4.17Q1 | 5.64 0.18 down from 2010 | 280 | 62% | $3,430 | ||
23The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.07Q1 | 1.49 0.21 down from 2010 | 70 | 6% | — | ||
24Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 4.03Q1 | 3.63 0.66 down from 2010 | 384 | 27% | $3,970 | ||
25Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 4.00Q1 | 6.59 1.04 up from 2010 | 749 | 18% | $4,450 | ||
26EcographyOAWiley · Denmark | 3.93Q1 | 5.36 0.12 up from 2010 | 384 | 26% | $3,190 | ||
27Journal of Cleaner ProductionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.84Q1 | 4.04 0.36 up from 2010 | 630 | 13% | $4,660 | ||
28EcologyWiley · United States | 3.84Q1 | 4.82 1.18 down from 2010 | 1,405 | 26% | $3,970 | ||
29Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.83Q1 | 5.28 1.73 down from 2010 | 132 | 17% | $5,000 | ||
30Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 3.82Q1 | 4.32 0.16 down from 2010 | 159 | 58% | $3,550 | ||
31Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.81Q1 | 5.13 0.16 up from 2010 | 341 | 100% | $975 | ||
32Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 4.29 0.49 up from 2010 | 252 | 22% | $4,250 | ||
33Resources Conservation and RecyclingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.75Q1 | 3.02 0.38 up from 2010 | 371 | 8% | $5,270 | ||
34Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 3.75Q1 | 2.62 0.15 down from 2010 | 121 | 22% | — | ||
35Journal of Environmental ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 3.73 0.16 up from 2010 | 919 | 14% | $3,750 | ||
36Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.69Q1 | 6.18 0.55 up from 2010 | 4,105 | 12% | $4,500 | ||
37Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 6.88 0.65 up from 2010 | 905 | 22% | $4,640 | ||
38Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.57Q1 | 4.82 0.09 down from 2010 | 449 | 50% | $3,610 | ||
39Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 3.56Q1 | 4.89 0.60 down from 2010 | 734 | 22% | $3,970 | ||
40Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 4.91 0.20 up from 2010 | 1,622 | 9% | $4,660 | ||
41Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.55Q1 | 4.13 0.04 down from 2010 | 770 | 20% | $3,400 | ||
42Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 4.94 0.12 up from 2010 | 1,032 | 15% | $3,830 | ||
43Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 5.02 0.47 up from 2010 | 310 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
44Environmental Health PerspectivesOANational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · United States | 3.42Q1 | 4.96 0.66 up from 2010 | 1,493 | 100% | $4,500 | ||
45EcosystemsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.42Q1 | 4.46 0.44 down from 2010 | 291 | 13% | $4,790 | ||
46Impact Assessment and Project AppraisalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.35Q1 | 1.75 0.62 up from 2010 | 85 | 92% | — | ||
47Engineering GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.33Q1 | 1.80 0.26 down from 2010 | 437 | 9% | $4,210 | ||
48Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.30Q1 | 1.63 0.38 down from 2010 | 144 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
49Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.15Q1 | 3.82 0.01 up from 2010 | 603 | 32% | $4,390 | ||
50Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 4.19 1.03 up from 2010 | 480 | 17% | $3,500 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- Ecology248
- Global and Planetary Change145
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis67
- Water Science and Technology66
- Nature and Landscape Conservation59
- Pollution44
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law37
- Environmental Engineering36
- Waste Management and Disposal14
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
212 additional Environmental Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 730
- Window papers (baseline)
- 454,259 +27.9% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.885 +5.7% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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.