Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Pollution journal rankings 2012
47 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Pollution has 47 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.14 on 2011 to 0.88, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.78. The top three are Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, Journal of Environmental Management, and Water Research.
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)
47 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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1Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.85Q1 | 3.59 2.79 down from 2011 | 134 | 16% | — | ||
2Journal of Environmental ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 3.66 0.07 down from 2011 | 995 | 14% | $3,750 | ||
3Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 5.15 0.24 up from 2011 | 1,796 | 11% | $4,660 | ||
4Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 4.30 0.15 up from 2011 | 1,384 | 15% | $4,090 | ||
5Journal of Hazardous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.05Q1 | 4.25 0.06 up from 2011 | 4,528 | 7% | $4,340 | ||
6Bioresource TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 5.47 0.08 up from 2011 | 4,169 | 9% | $4,880 | ||
7The Science of The Total EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.82Q1 | 3.77 0.26 down from 2011 | 2,042 | 18% | $4,250 | ||
8ChemosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 3.69 0.05 up from 2011 | 2,604 | 11% | $4,010 | ||
9Aquatic ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.39Q1 | 3.82 0.70 down from 2011 | 677 | 13% | $3,320 | ||
10Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable developmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.30Q1 | 3.66 0.54 up from 2011 | 145 | 6% | $2,750 | ||
11Marine Pollution BulletinElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.81 0.29 down from 2011 | 1,112 | 15% | $3,740 | ||
12Environmental Geochemistry and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 1.89 0.47 down from 2011 | 205 | 15% | $2,590 | ||
13International Biodeterioration & BiodegradationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q2 | 2.71 0.34 up from 2011 | 429 | 8% | $3,870 | ||
14Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.58Q2 | 2.45 0.68 up from 2011 | 107 | 13% | $5,190 | ||
15BiodegradationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 2.36 0.47 up from 2011 | 287 | 22% | $3,590 | ||
16Integrated Environmental Assessment and ManagementWiley · United States | 1.43Q2 | 2.17 0.60 up from 2011 | 328 | 28% | $3,500 | ||
17Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologyOAPakistan | 1.42Q2 | 1.90 0.36 up from 2011 | 112 | 36% | — | ||
18Environmental Monitoring and AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.28Q2 | 1.61 0.13 up from 2011 | 1,721 | 12% | $2,790 | ||
19Environmental Chemistry LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.26Q2 | 2.23 0.96 up from 2011 | 147 | 14% | $3,190 | ||
20Water Air & Soil PollutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.25Q2 | 1.79 0.34 up from 2011 | 1,052 | 16% | $3,890 | ||
21CLEAN - Soil Air WaterWiley · Germany | 1.15Q2 | 2.07 0.02 down from 2011 | 467 | 12% | $4,220 | ||
22Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.00Q2 | 1.46 0.04 up from 2011 | 870 | 9% | $3,990 | ||
23Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part APublisher not listed | 0.95Q2 | 1.62 0.17 up from 2011 | 582 | 9% | — | ||
24Journal of Environmental Chemistry and EcotoxicologyOAAcademic Journals · Nigeria | 0.88Q2 | 0.98 0.15 down from 2011 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
25Environmental Engineering ScienceMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.86Q3 | 1.16 0.05 up from 2011 | 408 | 22% | — | ||
26Water Environment ResearchWiley · United States | 0.79Q3 | 1.15 0.14 up from 2011 | 485 | 15% | $3,240 | ||
27Research Journal of Environmental SciencesOAPakistan | 0.75Q3 | 1.09 0.23 up from 2011 | 226 | 35% | — | ||
28Development EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.74Q3 | 0.14 0.14 up from 2011 | 30 | 0% | $2,220 | ||
29Environmental Sciences EuropeOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.72Q3 | 1.53 1.11 up from 2011 | 99 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
30American Journal of Environmental SciencesOAUnited Arab Emirates | 0.70Q3 | 0.72 0.72 down from 2011 | 292 | 100% | — | ||
31Chemistry and EcologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.69Q3 | 1.15 0.28 up from 2011 | 236 | 12% | — | ||
32Journal of Environmental ProtectionOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.69Q3 | 0.81 0.19 up from 2011 | 218 | 100% | — | ||
33International Oil Spill Conference ProceedingsAtlantis Press · United States | 0.64Q3 | 0.14no 2011 value | 221 | — | — | ||
34International Journal on Environmental SciencesNational Environmental Science Academy · India | 0.62Q3 | 0.80 0.35 up from 2011 | 219 | 0% | — | ||
35Bioremediation JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.61Q3 | 0.95 0.12 down from 2011 | 62 | 0% | — | ||
36Soil and Sediment Contamination An International JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.61Q3 | 0.69 0.32 down from 2011 | 162 | 4% | — | ||
37Environmental Quality ManagementWiley · United States | 0.55Q4 | 0.40 0.05 up from 2011 | 109 | 2% | $3,300 | ||
38Journal of Bioremediation & BiodegradationOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.53Q4 | 0.72 3.45 down from 2011 | 50 | 97% | — | ||
39Journal of Energy in Southern AfricaOAUniversity of Cape Town · South Africa | 0.51Q4 | 0.74 0.25 up from 2011 | 52 | 100% | $271 | ||
40Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry ReviewsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.49Q4 | 0.90 0.39 up from 2011 | 511 | 6% | — | ||
41International Journal of Environment and PollutionInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.40Q4 | 0.56 0.08 up from 2011 | 339 | 13% | — | ||
42Chemical Speciation and BioavailabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.32Q4 | 0.42 0.11 down from 2011 | 92 | 76% | $1,270 | ||
43Frontiers of Environmental Science & EngineeringHigher Education Press · China | 0.28Q4 | 0.31 0.31 up from 2011 | 51 | 5% | $2,490 | ||
44International Journal of Environment and HealthOAInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.25Q4 | 0.29 0.30 down from 2011 | 70 | 25% | — | ||
45Land Contamination & ReclamationUnited Kingdom | 0.25Q4 | 0.20 0.27 down from 2011 | 87 | — | — | ||
46Journal of Urban and Environmental EngineeringOAUniversity do Vale do Paraíba · Brazil | 0.24Q4 | 0.16 0.05 up from 2011 | 58 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.06Q4 | 0.10 0.09 down from 2011 | 62 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Pollution 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.
8 additional Pollution 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
- 47
- Window papers (baseline)
- 27,933 +24.7% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.878 +11.3% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 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.