Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2011
145 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 145 ranked journals in 2011. The median journal has an OJR of 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2010; Q1 starts at OJR 1.78. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Habitat International, and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change.
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 of Environmental Science (11)
145 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 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 | ||
2Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.77Q1 | 2.21 0.47 up from 2010 | 175 | 17% | $3,560 | ||
3Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 4.24Q1 | 4.03 1.28 up from 2010 | 97 | 27% | $5,450 | ||
4Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.83Q1 | 5.28 1.73 down from 2010 | 132 | 17% | $5,000 | ||
5Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.81Q1 | 5.13 0.16 up from 2010 | 341 | 100% | $975 | ||
6Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 4.29 0.49 up from 2010 | 252 | 22% | $4,250 | ||
7Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 3.75Q1 | 2.62 0.15 down from 2010 | 121 | 22% | — | ||
8Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.47Q1 | 5.02 0.47 up from 2010 | 310 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
9Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.15Q1 | 3.82 0.01 up from 2010 | 603 | 32% | $4,390 | ||
10Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 4.19 1.03 up from 2010 | 480 | 17% | $3,500 | ||
11Atmospheric measurement techniquesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.01Q1 | 5.48 1.07 up from 2010 | 183 | 100% | $1,585 | ||
12Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.00Q1 | 3.32 0.64 up from 2010 | 352 | 14% | $3,830 | ||
13Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.91Q1 | 3.86 0.43 up from 2010 | 1,380 | 12% | $4,030 | ||
14Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.87Q1 | 5.32 0.75 up from 2010 | 3,695 | 60% | $3,190 | ||
15BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.84Q1 | 2.76 0.48 down from 2010 | 569 | 45% | $5,088 | ||
16Environmental Policy and GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 2.35 0.14 up from 2010 | 72 | 17% | $3,800 | ||
17Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsOAWiley · United States | 2.72Q1 | 4.53 2.35 up from 2010 | 32 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
18Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 2.51Q1 | 1.94 0.11 up from 2010 | 86 | 14% | $3,890 | ||
19Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 4.70 0.88 up from 2010 | 522 | 16% | $3,590 | ||
20Environmental ReviewsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 2.48Q1 | 2.37 0.86 down from 2010 | 46 | 4% | — | ||
21Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.43Q1 | 4.61 0.28 down from 2010 | 1,389 | 49% | — | ||
22Climate ResearchInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 2.33Q1 | 2.98 0.04 up from 2010 | 245 | 95% | — | ||
23Environment and Planning B Planning and DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 1.53 0.32 up from 2010 | 211 | 11% | — | ||
24Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 3.25 0.30 up from 2010 | 398 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
25Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 2.95 0.55 down from 2010 | 216 | 17% | $3,220 | ||
26Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.17Q1 | 3.34 0.04 up from 2010 | 373 | 13% | $4,390 | ||
27Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.15Q1 | 4.10 0.62 up from 2010 | 599 | 30% | $3,790 | ||
28Tree PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 4.04 1.19 up from 2010 | 468 | 33% | $4,253 | ||
29Forest Ecology and ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 3.46 0.57 up from 2010 | 1,737 | 11% | $3,560 | ||
30Human EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 2.01 0.20 up from 2010 | 224 | 19% | $2,290 | ||
31Environmental ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.01Q1 | 2.25 0.04 down from 2010 | 562 | 12% | $2,690 | ||
32AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 1.99Q1 | 2.32 0.24 up from 2010 | 297 | 99% | $4,490 | ||
33Society & Natural ResourcesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 1.75no change | 255 | 9% | — | ||
34International Journal of Wildland FireCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.89Q1 | 3.28no change | 282 | 12% | — | ||
35Natural hazards and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 2.87 0.31 up from 2010 | 551 | 100% | $1,553 | ||
36International Journal of ClimatologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 3.04 0.39 up from 2010 | 619 | 16% | $3,920 | ||
37Ecological ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 2.75 0.36 up from 2010 | 1,068 | 15% | $2,810 | ||
38Ecological ComplexityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q2 | 2.80 0.64 up from 2010 | 153 | 7% | $2,990 | ||
39Environmental ConservationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.76Q2 | 2.02 0.03 up from 2010 | 153 | 39% | $3,550 | ||
40EcohydrologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.75Q2 | 2.39 0.07 up from 2010 | 187 | 13% | $4,650 | ||
41Journal of Environmental InformaticsPublisher not listed | 1.72Q2 | 3.53 2.41 up from 2010 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
42Regional Environmental ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.68Q2 | 2.18 0.22 down from 2010 | 151 | 25% | $3,990 | ||
43Forest Policy and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.56Q2 | 2.17 0.94 up from 2010 | 240 | 15% | $4,370 | ||
44Remote SensingOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.56Q2 | 2.08 0.71 up from 2010 | 220 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
45International Journal of Digital EarthOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 1.89 0.16 down from 2010 | 109 | 91% | $2,390 | ||
46Advances in MeteorologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.54Q2 | 2.20 1.70 up from 2010 | 54 | 100% | $1,630 | ||
47Natural HazardsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.53Q2 | 1.73 0.07 up from 2010 | 504 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
48Meteorologische ZeitschriftOAE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 1.49Q2 | 1.74 0.22 down from 2010 | 199 | 22% | $1,402 | ||
49Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.48Q2 | 1.12 0.34 down from 2010 | 60 | 24% | — | ||
50ICES Journal of Marine ScienceOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.47Q2 | 2.51 0.21 up from 2010 | 709 | 76% | $3,686 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change highlighted.
- 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.
56 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 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
- 145
- Window papers (baseline)
- 60,147 +31.8% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.999 +9.2% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 | 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.