Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Water Science and Technology journal rankings 2012
67 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Water Science and Technology has 67 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR rose 0.13 on 2011 to 0.65, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are Hydrology and earth system sciences, Journal of Membrane Science, and Water Resources 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)
67 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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1Hydrology and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.51Q1 | 5.32 0.76 up from 2011 | 639 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
2Journal of Membrane ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.93Q1 | 4.78 0.59 up from 2011 | 2,098 | 7% | $4,890 | ||
3Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.90Q1 | 4.37 0.10 up from 2011 | 1,450 | 58% | $3,000 | ||
4DesalinationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.42Q1 | 3.74 0.79 up from 2011 | 2,559 | 5% | $4,580 | ||
5Separation and Purification TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 3.15 0.14 up from 2011 | 1,089 | 8% | $4,060 | ||
6Hydrological ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 2.76 0.07 down from 2011 | 1,206 | 14% | $5,230 | ||
7JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources AssociationWiley · United States | 1.95Q1 | 2.55 0.32 up from 2011 | 321 | 13% | $3,200 | ||
8International Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 1.93Q1 | 2.22 0.89 down from 2011 | 238 | 75% | $3,490 | ||
9WaterOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.65Q1 | 1.93 0.39 up from 2011 | 150 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
10Hydrological Research LettersOAJapan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources · Japan | 1.63Q1 | 2.45 0.16 up from 2011 | 50 | 100% | $414 | ||
11International Journal of Mineral ProcessingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 1.56 0.17 down from 2011 | 255 | 12% | $2,500 | ||
12Water Intelligence OnlineUWA Publishing | 1.42Q1 | 0.79 0.88 down from 2011 | 156 | 12% | — | ||
13Hydrological Sciences JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 1.71 0.32 down from 2011 | 311 | 100% | — | ||
14Journal of Chemical Technology & BiotechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 2.73 0.29 up from 2011 | 656 | 12% | $4,100 | ||
15Minerals EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.31Q1 | 1.59 0.02 down from 2011 | 567 | 9% | $4,220 | ||
16Water SAOAWater Research Commission · South Africa | 1.30Q1 | 1.60 0.03 down from 2011 | 284 | 100% | — | ||
17Journal of Contemporary Water Research & EducationWiley · United States | 1.05Q1 | 0.97 0.25 up from 2011 | 98 | 47% | $3,000 | ||
18Water Science & TechnologyOAPergamon Press | 1.01Q2 | 1.29 0.14 up from 2011 | 2,094 | 15% | — | ||
19Journal of Environmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.00Q2 | 1.14 0.37 down from 2011 | 607 | 7% | — | ||
20Journal of Hydrologic EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.99Q2 | 1.51 0.13 down from 2011 | 526 | 4% | — | ||
21Separation Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.92Q2 | 1.35 0.19 up from 2011 | 814 | 11% | — | ||
22Water and Environment JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.14 0.47 up from 2011 | 156 | 11% | $4,000 | ||
23International Journal of Environmental & Analytical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.85Q2 | 1.15 0.54 down from 2011 | 431 | 14% | — | ||
24Environmental TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 1.38 0.42 down from 2011 | 709 | 7% | — | ||
25Aquacultural EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 1.30 0.59 down from 2011 | 132 | 13% | $3,500 | ||
26FluorideInternational Society for Fluoride Research Inc. · New Zealand | 0.80Q2 | 0.95 0.38 up from 2011 | 45 | 0% | — | ||
27International Journal of Environmental ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.76Q2 | 1.61 0.68 up from 2011 | 134 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
28Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriquesTaylor & Francis · Canada | 0.75Q2 | 1.14 0.29 up from 2011 | 90 | 94% | — | ||
29Water Quality Exposure and HealthSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 0.70Q2 | 1.14 0.18 down from 2011 | 52 | 9% | — | ||
30Australasian Journal of Water ResourcesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.70Q2 | 1.09 0.13 up from 2011 | 37 | 24% | — | ||
| 0.67Q2 | 0.75 0.45 up from 2011 | 178 | 82% | — | |||
32Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S-chemia I Inzynieria Ekologiczna SPublisher not listed | 0.67Q2 | 0.69 0.29 up from 2011 | 104 | 0% | — | ||
33MembranesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.66Q2 | 1.23 0.83 up from 2011 | 30 | 100% | $2,654 | ||
34Journal of Water Resource and ProtectionOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.65Q2 | 0.88 0.34 up from 2011 | 286 | 100% | — | ||
35Water Science & Technology Water SupplyIWA Publishing | 0.58Q3 | 0.58 0.03 down from 2011 | 287 | 17% | — | ||
36International Journal of River Basin ManagementTaylor & Francis | 0.53Q3 | 0.85 0.07 up from 2011 | 91 | 6% | — | ||
37Physicochemical Problems of Mineral ProcessingOAOficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawsjiej · Poland | 0.46Q3 | 0.73 0.35 up from 2011 | 89 | 0% | — | ||
38Desalination and Water TreatmentOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.42Q3 | 0.97 0.23 up from 2011 | 1,632 | 65% | $1,000 | ||
39Adsorption Science & TechnologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.36Q3 | 0.60 0.14 down from 2011 | 216 | 55% | $1,500 | ||
40Journal of Dispersion Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.36Q3 | 0.84 0.23 up from 2011 | 734 | 3% | — | ||
41Membrane Water TreatmentSouth Korea | 0.35Q3 | 0.46 0.54 down from 2011 | 41 | 5% | — | ||
42American Water Works AssociationWiley · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.33 0.03 up from 2011 | 751 | 3% | $3,050 | ||
43Environmental Research Engineering and ManagementOAKaunas University of Technology · Lithuania | 0.34Q3 | 0.33 0.26 down from 2011 | 105 | 100% | — | ||
44International Journal of Environmental EngineeringInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.33Q3 | 0.11 0.37 down from 2011 | 85 | 0% | — | ||
45Water Quality Research JournalUWA Publishing | 0.33Q3 | 0.32 0.19 down from 2011 | 122 | 60% | — | ||
46Revista Brasileira de CartografiaOAFederal University of Uberlândia · Brazil | 0.33Q3 | 0.19 0.09 down from 2011 | 276 | 100% | — | ||
47International Journal of Nuclear DesalinationInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.32Q3 | 0.37 0.02 up from 2011 | 42 | — | — | ||
48Revue des sciences de l eauINRS-Eau, Terre et Environnement · France | 0.31Q3 | 0.43 0.13 up from 2011 | 84 | 22% | — | ||
49Environmental Engineering ResearchOAKorean Society of Environmental Engineering · South Korea | 0.29Q3 | 0.45 0.27 up from 2011 | 151 | 70% | — | ||
50Ambiente e Agua - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied ScienceOAInstituto de Pesquisas Ambientais em Bacias Hidrográficas (IPABHi) · Brazil | 0.28Q3 | 0.51 0.15 up from 2011 | 155 | 100% | $225 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Water Science and Technology 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.
33 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 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
- 67
- Window papers (baseline)
- 59,878 +33.3% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 0.645 +42.8% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 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.