Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2012
155 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 155 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2011 to 1.06, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.00. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, and Ecology and Society.
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 of Environmental Science (11)
155 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 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 | ||
2Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 5.16Q1 | 5.75 1.72 up from 2011 | 153 | 12% | $5,450 | ||
3Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 4.52Q1 | 5.80 0.67 up from 2011 | 383 | 100% | $975 | ||
4Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 4.13Q1 | 3.17 0.55 up from 2011 | 118 | 42% | — | ||
5Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.10Q1 | 2.19 0.02 down from 2011 | 181 | 14% | $3,560 | ||
6Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.96Q1 | 4.93 0.63 up from 2011 | 299 | 29% | $4,250 | ||
7Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.84Q1 | 5.13 0.15 down from 2011 | 138 | 27% | $5,000 | ||
8Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.50Q1 | 4.74 0.92 up from 2011 | 780 | 35% | $4,390 | ||
9Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsOAWiley · United States | 3.37Q1 | 7.11 2.58 up from 2011 | 52 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
10Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 5.27 0.24 up from 2011 | 399 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
11Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.23Q1 | 3.01 0.31 down from 2011 | 346 | 16% | $3,830 | ||
12Carbon Balance and ManagementOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 3.69 0.56 down from 2011 | 37 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
13Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.17Q1 | 4.61 0.43 up from 2011 | 505 | 17% | $3,500 | ||
14Environmental Policy and GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 2.21 0.14 down from 2011 | 101 | 39% | $3,800 | ||
15Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.05Q1 | 3.90 0.04 up from 2011 | 1,579 | 13% | $4,030 | ||
16Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.95Q1 | 5.22 0.09 down from 2011 | 3,509 | 62% | $3,190 | ||
17Atmospheric measurement techniquesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.70Q1 | 5.53 0.06 up from 2011 | 363 | 100% | $1,585 | ||
18BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.66Q1 | 2.81 0.05 up from 2011 | 579 | 42% | $5,088 | ||
19Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 4.19 0.51 down from 2011 | 517 | 19% | $3,590 | ||
20Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 3.09 0.14 up from 2011 | 342 | 15% | $3,220 | ||
21Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 2.48Q1 | 3.93 1.99 up from 2011 | 83 | 12% | $3,890 | ||
22Climate ResearchInter-Research Science Center · Germany | 2.48Q1 | 3.68 0.70 up from 2011 | 281 | 95% | — | ||
23Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.43Q1 | 5.49 0.88 up from 2011 | 1,261 | 50% | — | ||
24Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.37Q1 | 2.51 1.40 up from 2011 | 62 | 15% | — | ||
25Human EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.32Q1 | 1.72 0.29 down from 2011 | 234 | 18% | $2,290 | ||
26Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 3.17 0.17 down from 2011 | 377 | 19% | $4,390 | ||
27Environment and Planning B Planning and DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 1.85 0.33 up from 2011 | 206 | 16% | — | ||
28Journal of Environmental InformaticsPublisher not listed | 2.26Q1 | 4.14 0.61 up from 2011 | 66 | 94% | — | ||
29Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.25Q1 | 4.61 0.51 up from 2011 | 739 | 35% | $3,790 | ||
30Environmental ReviewsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 2.18Q1 | 2.85 0.49 up from 2011 | 62 | 18% | — | ||
31Environmental ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.15Q1 | 2.38 0.13 up from 2011 | 576 | 14% | $2,690 | ||
32Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.27 0.02 up from 2011 | 603 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
33Environmental ConservationCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 3.10 1.09 up from 2011 | 174 | 40% | $3,550 | ||
34Forest Ecology and ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 3.06 0.40 down from 2011 | 1,594 | 10% | $3,560 | ||
35Tree PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 3.86 0.18 down from 2011 | 399 | 33% | $4,253 | ||
36Nature Climate ChangeNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 3.25 2.68 up from 2011 | 449 | 19% | $12,690 | ||
37AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 2.05Q1 | 2.85 0.53 up from 2011 | 291 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
38International Journal of Digital EarthOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 2.24 0.35 up from 2011 | 146 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
39Ecological ComplexityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.00Q1 | 2.74 0.06 down from 2011 | 152 | 10% | $2,990 | ||
40Natural hazards and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.00Q2 | 2.55 0.32 down from 2011 | 703 | 100% | $1,553 | ||
41Regional Environmental ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.00Q2 | 2.87 0.70 up from 2011 | 182 | 26% | $3,990 | ||
42Remote SensingOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.95Q2 | 3.38 1.30 up from 2011 | 360 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
43Society & Natural ResourcesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.91Q2 | 1.74 0.01 down from 2011 | 300 | 13% | — | ||
44International Journal of Wildland FireCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.89Q2 | 3.33 0.05 up from 2011 | 315 | 18% | — | ||
45International Journal of ClimatologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.84Q2 | 3.32 0.28 up from 2011 | 620 | 17% | $3,920 | ||
46Ecological ModellingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q2 | 2.65 0.10 down from 2011 | 1,050 | 12% | $2,810 | ||
47Natural HazardsSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.73Q2 | 2.10 0.37 up from 2011 | 714 | 12% | $3,990 | ||
48Annual Review of Environment and ResourcesOAAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.72Q2 | 8.76 0.41 down from 2011 | 58 | 30% | — | ||
49Reviews in Fisheries ScienceTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.72Q2 | 4.05 1.68 up from 2011 | 88 | 12% | — | ||
50Aquaculture Environment InteractionsOAInter-Research · Germany | 1.70Q2 | 3.00 0.72 up from 2011 | 38 | 100% | $2,157 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change highlighted.
- 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.
65 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 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
- 155
- Window papers (baseline)
- 65,138 +29.7% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.061 +14.0% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 |
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| 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.