Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Pollution journal rankings 2011
44 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Pollution has 44 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR rose 0.11 on 2010 to 1.01, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.02. The top three are Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of Environmental Management, and Water Research.
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)
44 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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1Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.44Q1 | 6.38 0.84 up from 2010 | 58 | 10% | — | ||
2Journal of Environmental ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 3.73 0.16 up from 2010 | 919 | 14% | $3,750 | ||
3Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 4.91 0.20 up from 2010 | 1,622 | 9% | $4,660 | ||
4Journal of Hazardous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.10Q1 | 4.20 0.47 up from 2010 | 4,931 | 8% | $4,340 | ||
5Bioresource TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.04Q1 | 5.39 0.44 up from 2010 | 3,661 | 10% | $4,880 | ||
6The Science of The Total EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.93Q1 | 4.03 0.14 up from 2010 | 1,988 | 13% | $4,250 | ||
7Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 4.15 0.38 up from 2010 | 1,335 | 12% | $4,090 | ||
8Aquatic ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 4.52 0.75 up from 2010 | 620 | 11% | $3,320 | ||
9ChemosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 3.64 0.02 up from 2010 | 2,662 | 11% | $4,010 | ||
10Marine Pollution BulletinElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.09 0.38 up from 2010 | 1,033 | 12% | $3,740 | ||
11Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable developmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 3.13 1.77 up from 2010 | 121 | 13% | $2,750 | ||
12Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.80Q2 | 1.77 0.52 down from 2010 | 94 | 24% | $5,190 | ||
13International Biodeterioration & BiodegradationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.69Q2 | 2.37 0.05 down from 2010 | 408 | 11% | $3,870 | ||
14Environmental Geochemistry and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.64Q2 | 2.35 0.35 up from 2010 | 233 | 10% | $2,590 | ||
15BiodegradationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 1.89 0.19 down from 2010 | 275 | 14% | $3,590 | ||
16Environmental Chemistry LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.30Q2 | 1.27 0.21 down from 2010 | 175 | 15% | $3,190 | ||
17Environmental Monitoring and AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.19Q2 | 1.48 0.32 up from 2010 | 1,689 | 8% | $2,790 | ||
18Water Air & Soil PollutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.15Q2 | 1.45 0.01 down from 2010 | 1,077 | 14% | $3,890 | ||
19Integrated Environmental Assessment and ManagementWiley · United States | 1.14Q2 | 1.56 0.46 up from 2010 | 360 | 11% | $3,500 | ||
20Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologyOAPakistan | 1.05Q2 | 1.54 1.05 up from 2010 | 72 | 49% | — | ||
21American Journal of Environmental SciencesOAUnited Arab Emirates | 1.04Q2 | 1.44 0.66 up from 2010 | 309 | 92% | — | ||
22Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.03Q2 | 1.42 0.17 up from 2010 | 855 | 7% | $3,990 | ||
23Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part APublisher not listed | 1.00Q3 | 1.45 0.19 up from 2010 | 611 | 8% | — | ||
24CLEAN - Soil Air WaterWiley · Germany | 0.97Q3 | 2.10 0.76 up from 2010 | 442 | 10% | $4,220 | ||
25Environmental Engineering ScienceMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.78Q3 | 1.11 0.08 up from 2010 | 480 | 13% | — | ||
26Water Environment ResearchWiley · United States | 0.74Q3 | 1.01 0.02 up from 2010 | 509 | 19% | $3,240 | ||
27Soil and Sediment Contamination An International JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.68Q3 | 1.01 0.06 up from 2010 | 155 | 0% | — | ||
28Research Journal of Environmental SciencesOAPakistan | 0.67Q3 | 0.86 0.40 up from 2010 | 199 | 47% | — | ||
29Chemistry and EcologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.64Q3 | 0.87 0.03 down from 2010 | 194 | 9% | — | ||
30Bioremediation JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.57Q3 | 1.08 0.30 up from 2010 | 57 | 4% | — | ||
31International Journal of Environment and PollutionInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 0.48 0.30 down from 2010 | 365 | 10% | — | ||
32Journal of Environmental ProtectionOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.50Q3 | 0.63 0.63 up from 2010 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
33Environmental Quality ManagementWiley · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.36 0.14 up from 2010 | 113 | 5% | $3,300 | ||
34Chemical Speciation and BioavailabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.42Q4 | 0.53 0.21 down from 2010 | 83 | 59% | $1,270 | ||
35International Journal of Environment and HealthOAInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.41Q4 | 0.59 0.12 up from 2010 | 78 | 13% | — | ||
36Land Contamination & ReclamationUnited Kingdom | 0.40Q4 | 0.47 0.10 down from 2010 | 116 | — | — | ||
37International Oil Spill Conference ProceedingsAtlantis Press · United States | 0.40Q4 | —no 2010 value | 205 | 3% | — | ||
38International Journal on Environmental SciencesNational Environmental Science Academy · India | 0.35Q4 | 0.45 0.45 up from 2010 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
39Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry ReviewsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.34Q4 | 0.51 0.10 up from 2010 | 465 | 3% | — | ||
40Journal of Energy in Southern AfricaOAUniversity of Cape Town · South Africa | 0.31Q4 | 0.48 0.31 up from 2010 | 49 | 100% | $271 | ||
41Environmental Sciences EuropeOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.21Q4 | 0.43 0.21 down from 2010 | 88 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
42Journal of Urban and Environmental EngineeringOAUniversity do Vale do Paraíba · Brazil | 0.18Q4 | 0.11 0.03 down from 2010 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
43Water PracticeWater Environment Federation · United States | 0.12Q4 | 0.00 0.19 down from 2010 | 36 | — | — | ||
| 0.10Q4 | 0.19no change | 66 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Pollution 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.
6 additional Pollution 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
- 44
- Window papers (baseline)
- 25,933 +26.6% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 1.01 +10.1% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 35 | 35 | 39 | 41 | 42 | 44 | 47 | 48 | 51 | 53 | 56 | 58 | 58 | 59 | 61 | 58 | 61 | 67 | 69 | 67 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 11,570 | 12,501 | 12,964 | 14,045 | 14,764 | 16,051 | 17,166 | 18,647 | 20,488 | 22,398 | 24,122 | 25,933 | 27,933 | 30,140 | 32,685 | 34,957 | 36,086 | 36,732 | 37,609 | 39,899 | 43,429 | 49,249 | 56,189 | 62,921 | 68,045 | 73,512 | |
| Median OJR | 0.785 | 0.843 | 0.89 | 0.96 | 0.855 | 0.864 | 0.945 | 0.933 | 0.921 | 0.789 | 0.90 | 1.01 | 0.878 | 0.917 | 0.919 | 0.875 | 0.87 | 0.909 | 0.78 | 0.831 | 0.834 | 0.839 | 0.935 | 0.911 | 0.927 | 1.04 |
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.