Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Water Science and Technology journal rankings 2011
66 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Water Science and Technology has 66 ranked journals in 2011. The median journal has an OJR of 0.51, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2010; Q1 starts at OJR 1.03. The top three are Hydrology and earth system sciences, Water Resources Research, and Journal of Membrane Science.
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)
66 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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1Hydrology and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.91Q1 | 4.56 0.84 up from 2010 | 474 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
2Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.74Q1 | 4.27 0.47 up from 2010 | 1,432 | 63% | $3,000 | ||
3Journal of Membrane ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.72Q1 | 4.19 0.35 up from 2010 | 2,219 | 10% | $4,890 | ||
4Separation and Purification TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.17Q1 | 3.00 0.08 up from 2010 | 968 | 6% | $4,060 | ||
5Hydrological ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 2.83 0.04 up from 2010 | 1,016 | 10% | $5,230 | ||
6DesalinationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.00Q1 | 2.95 0.86 up from 2010 | 2,532 | 5% | $4,580 | ||
7Water Intelligence OnlineUWA Publishing | 1.93Q1 | 1.67 1.69 down from 2010 | 86 | 6% | — | ||
8International Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 1.80Q1 | 3.11 0.60 down from 2010 | 223 | 80% | $3,490 | ||
9WaterOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.72Q1 | 1.54 1.36 up from 2010 | 90 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
10JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources AssociationWiley · United States | 1.67Q1 | 2.22 0.42 up from 2010 | 355 | 26% | $3,200 | ||
11Hydrological Research LettersOAJapan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources · Japan | 1.63Q1 | 2.29 0.40 up from 2010 | 47 | 100% | $414 | ||
12Hydrological Sciences JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 2.03 0.08 down from 2010 | 297 | 93% | — | ||
13Water SAOAWater Research Commission · South Africa | 1.39Q1 | 1.63 0.51 up from 2010 | 194 | 100% | — | ||
14International Journal of Mineral ProcessingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 1.73 0.38 up from 2010 | 235 | 2% | $2,500 | ||
15Journal of Chemical Technology & BiotechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 2.44 0.44 up from 2010 | 742 | 11% | $4,100 | ||
16Minerals EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.27Q1 | 1.61 0.17 up from 2010 | 523 | 8% | $4,220 | ||
17Aquacultural EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.03Q1 | 1.89 1.02 up from 2010 | 124 | 14% | $3,500 | ||
18Water Quality Exposure and HealthSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 1.00Q2 | 1.32 1.05 down from 2010 | 31 | 0% | — | ||
19Water Science & TechnologyOAPergamon Press | 0.99Q2 | 1.15 0.10 down from 2010 | 1,997 | 18% | — | ||
20Journal of Hydrologic EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.65 0.42 up from 2010 | 502 | 8% | — | ||
21Journal of Environmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.52 0.42 up from 2010 | 556 | 2% | — | ||
22Environmental TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 1.80 0.76 up from 2010 | 494 | 5% | — | ||
23International Journal of Environmental & Analytical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.88Q2 | 1.69 0.46 up from 2010 | 255 | 10% | — | ||
24Separation Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.84Q2 | 1.16 0.02 down from 2010 | 794 | 4% | — | ||
25Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriquesTaylor & Francis · Canada | 0.82Q2 | 0.84 0.13 up from 2010 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
26International Journal of River Basin ManagementTaylor & Francis | 0.76Q2 | 0.78 0.07 down from 2010 | 99 | 4% | — | ||
27World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2008Publisher not listed | 0.71Q2 | —no 2010 value | 674 | — | — | ||
28Water and Environment JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 0.67 0.07 up from 2010 | 150 | 17% | $4,000 | ||
29Journal of Contemporary Water Research & EducationWiley · United States | 0.69Q2 | 0.71 0.02 up from 2010 | 126 | — | $3,000 | ||
30Water Science & Technology Water SupplyIWA Publishing | 0.65Q2 | 0.61 0.15 up from 2010 | 289 | 14% | — | ||
31Journal of Environmental Engineering and ScienceThomas Telford Ltd. · Canada | 0.59Q2 | —no 2010 value | 78 | — | — | ||
32International Journal of Environmental ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.53Q2 | 0.93 0.70 down from 2010 | 45 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
33Australasian Journal of Water ResourcesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.52Q2 | 0.95 0.67 up from 2010 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
34FluorideInternational Society for Fluoride Research Inc. · New Zealand | 0.51Q3 | 0.57 0.69 down from 2010 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
35Journal of Water Resource and ProtectionOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.51Q3 | 0.54 0.29 up from 2010 | 183 | 100% | — | ||
36Desalination and Water TreatmentOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.49Q3 | 0.74 0.19 down from 2010 | 1,024 | 92% | $1,000 | ||
37Environmental Research Engineering and ManagementOAKaunas University of Technology · Lithuania | 0.44Q3 | 0.59 0.41 up from 2010 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
38International Journal of Environmental EngineeringInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.42Q3 | 0.48 0.36 up from 2010 | 58 | 4% | — | ||
39American Water Works AssociationWiley · United States | 0.39Q3 | 0.31no change | 778 | 3% | $3,050 | ||
40Water Quality Research JournalUWA Publishing | 0.36Q3 | 0.51 0.11 up from 2010 | 126 | 76% | — | ||
41Journal of Dispersion Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.61 0.05 down from 2010 | 693 | 2% | — | ||
42Adsorption Science & TechnologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.34Q3 | 0.73 0.03 down from 2010 | 208 | 55% | $1,500 | ||
43Revista Brasileira de CartografiaOAFederal University of Uberlândia · Brazil | 0.30Q3 | 0.28no change | 199 | 100% | — | ||
44Ambiente e Agua - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied ScienceOAInstituto de Pesquisas Ambientais em Bacias Hidrográficas (IPABHi) · Brazil | 0.29Q3 | 0.36 0.02 up from 2010 | 140 | 100% | $225 | ||
45Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S-chemia I Inzynieria Ekologiczna SPublisher not listed | 0.28Q3 | 0.40 0.17 up from 2010 | 100 | 0% | — | ||
| 0.28Q3 | 0.30no 2010 value | 88 | 84% | — | — | ||
47International Journal of Nuclear DesalinationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.27Q3 | 0.35 0.25 down from 2010 | 54 | 0% | — | ||
48La Houille BlancheOASociété hydrotechnique de France · France | 0.26Q3 | 0.35 0.01 down from 2010 | 248 | 55% | — | ||
49Journal of Water and Environment TechnologyOAJapan Society on Water Environment · Japan | 0.25Q3 | 0.38no change | 80 | 100% | — | ||
50Physicochemical Problems of Mineral ProcessingOAOficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawsjiej · Poland | 0.24Q3 | 0.38 0.15 down from 2010 | 65 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Water Science and Technology 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.
26 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 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
- 66
- Window papers (baseline)
- 54,989 +34.9% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 0.512 +1.5% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 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.