Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Field ranking · 2012
Environmental Science journal rankings 2012
752 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 752 ranked journals in 2012. The median journal has an OJR of 0.92, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2011; Q1 starts at OJR 1.57. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Particle and Fibre Toxicology, and Landslides.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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 Sciences752 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 11.57Q1 | 19.55 0.61 up from 2011 | 54 | 50% | $3,880 | ||
2Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 6.91Q1 | 13.52 2.01 up from 2011 | 109 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
3LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 6.41Q1 | 2.87 0.13 up from 2011 | 165 | 24% | $4,590 | ||
4Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 6.33Q1 | 7.67 0.15 down from 2011 | 115 | 38% | $3,970 | ||
5Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.53Q1 | 4.60 1.06 up from 2011 | 148 | 9% | $4,380 | ||
6Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.33Q1 | 8.19 0.72 up from 2011 | 825 | 26% | $4,550 | ||
| 5.27Q1 | 4.79 0.10 down from 2011 | 208 | 14% | $3,310 | |||
8Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 5.16Q1 | 5.75 1.72 up from 2011 | 153 | 12% | $5,450 | ||
9The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 5.14Q1 | 8.84 0.35 up from 2011 | 561 | 100% | $4,153 | ||
10Global Ecology and BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.96Q1 | 7.12 0.53 up from 2011 | 292 | 32% | $5,000 | ||
11Economic Systems ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.91Q1 | 2.55 3.63 down from 2011 | 66 | 17% | — | ||
12Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.71Q1 | 5.81 0.24 down from 2011 | 470 | 50% | $3,610 | ||
13The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.63Q1 | 1.78 0.30 up from 2011 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
14Methods in Ecology and EvolutionOAWiley · United States | 4.60Q1 | 5.86 0.64 up from 2011 | 171 | 60% | $3,500 | ||
15Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.54Q1 | 7.18 0.68 down from 2011 | 75 | 32% | — | ||
16Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 4.52Q1 | 5.80 0.67 up from 2011 | 383 | 100% | $975 | ||
17Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.40Q1 | 2.29 0.20 down from 2011 | 154 | 15% | — | ||
18Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 4.30Q1 | 6.12 0.05 down from 2011 | 436 | 31% | $4,750 | ||
19Diversity and DistributionsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 6.28 0.64 up from 2011 | 321 | 65% | $3,430 | ||
20Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.28Q1 | 5.71 0.04 down from 2011 | 493 | 54% | $3,610 | ||
21Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 4.16Q1 | 6.11 0.47 down from 2011 | 823 | 19% | $4,450 | ||
22Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 4.13Q1 | 3.17 0.55 up from 2011 | 118 | 42% | — | ||
23Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 2.19 0.02 down from 2011 | 181 | 14% | $3,560 | ||
24Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 4.09Q1 | 4.33 0.71 up from 2011 | 352 | 32% | $3,970 | ||
25Impact Assessment and Project AppraisalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.01Q1 | 2.25 0.50 up from 2011 | 79 | 77% | — | ||
26EcographyOAWiley · Denmark | 3.99Q1 | 5.40 0.04 up from 2011 | 402 | 27% | $3,190 | ||
27Resources Conservation and RecyclingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.98Q1 | 3.48 0.47 up from 2011 | 423 | 10% | $5,270 | ||
28Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.96Q1 | 4.93 0.63 up from 2011 | 299 | 29% | $4,250 | ||
29Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.85Q1 | 3.59 2.79 down from 2011 | 134 | 16% | — | ||
30Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.84Q1 | 5.13 0.15 down from 2011 | 138 | 27% | $5,000 | ||
31Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.72Q1 | 6.24 0.06 up from 2011 | 4,208 | 14% | $4,500 | ||
32Critical Reviews in ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.65Q1 | 8.36 1.79 up from 2011 | 119 | 50% | — | ||
33Journal of Cleaner ProductionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 4.40 0.35 up from 2011 | 794 | 17% | $4,660 | ||
34Journal of Environmental ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 3.66 0.07 down from 2011 | 995 | 14% | $3,750 | ||
35Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 5.15 0.24 up from 2011 | 1,796 | 11% | $4,660 | ||
36Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part CTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.56Q1 | 4.30 3.45 down from 2011 | 36 | 8% | — | ||
37Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 4.96 0.14 up from 2011 | 432 | 58% | $3,610 | ||
38EcologyWiley · United States | 3.52Q1 | 4.61 0.21 down from 2011 | 1,271 | 30% | $3,970 | ||
39Hydrology and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.51Q1 | 5.32 0.76 up from 2011 | 639 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
40Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.50Q1 | 4.74 0.92 up from 2011 | 780 | 35% | $4,390 | ||
41Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 3.48Q1 | 4.67 0.35 up from 2011 | 171 | 49% | $3,550 | ||
42Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.41Q1 | 4.36 0.23 up from 2011 | 668 | 19% | $3,400 | ||
43Ecological ApplicationsWiley · United States | 3.38Q1 | 4.56 0.32 down from 2011 | 762 | 20% | $3,970 | ||
44Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsOAWiley · United States | 3.37Q1 | 7.11 2.58 up from 2011 | 52 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
45Environmental Health PerspectivesOANational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · United States | 3.36Q1 | 5.00 0.04 up from 2011 | 1,431 | 100% | $4,500 | ||
46Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 5.27 0.24 up from 2011 | 399 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
47Environmental MicrobiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.32Q1 | 6.09 0.79 down from 2011 | 846 | 26% | $4,640 | ||
48International journal of greenhouse gas controlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.29Q1 | 4.72 0.60 down from 2011 | 384 | 14% | $4,100 | ||
49Biological ConservationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 4.65 0.29 down from 2011 | 1,046 | 16% | $3,830 | ||
50Waste ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 3.02 0.21 up from 2011 | 938 | 8% | $4,450 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- Ecology249
- Global and Planetary Change155
- Water Science and Technology67
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis66
- Nature and Landscape Conservation59
- Pollution47
- Environmental Engineering40
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law39
- Waste Management and Disposal16
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling4
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
241 additional Environmental Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 752
- Window papers (baseline)
- 488,219 +25.9% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.916 +10.1% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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.