Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Pollution journal rankings 2013
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Pollution has 48 ranked journals in 2013. The median journal has an OJR of 0.92, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2012; Q1 starts at OJR 1.88. The top three are Water Research, Journal of Environmental Management, and Environmental Pollution.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
48 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.89Q1 | 5.85 0.70 up from 2012 | 1,832 | 14% | $4,660 | ||
2Journal of Environmental ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 3.82 0.15 up from 2012 | 1,220 | 15% | $3,750 | ||
3Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 4.56 0.26 up from 2012 | 1,311 | 18% | $4,090 | ||
4Journal of Hazardous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.13Q1 | 4.76 0.51 up from 2012 | 3,694 | 10% | $4,340 | ||
5Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.06Q1 | 3.95 0.36 up from 2012 | 179 | 22% | — | ||
6The Science of The Total EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.77Q1 | 3.99 0.22 up from 2012 | 2,509 | 18% | $4,250 | ||
7Bioresource TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 5.28 0.19 down from 2012 | 4,772 | 11% | $4,880 | ||
8ChemosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 3.90 0.22 up from 2012 | 2,742 | 12% | $4,010 | ||
9Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable developmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 3.50 0.16 down from 2012 | 176 | 13% | $2,750 | ||
10Aquatic ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.29Q1 | 3.63 0.18 down from 2012 | 716 | 18% | $3,320 | ||
11Marine Pollution BulletinElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 3.14 0.33 up from 2012 | 1,212 | 21% | $3,740 | ||
12Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 2.72 0.27 up from 2012 | 114 | 21% | $5,190 | ||
13International Biodeterioration & BiodegradationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.76Q2 | 2.67 0.04 down from 2012 | 524 | 12% | $3,870 | ||
14Environmental Chemistry LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.74Q2 | 2.57 0.34 up from 2012 | 122 | 7% | $3,190 | ||
15BiodegradationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.65Q2 | 2.42 0.06 up from 2012 | 290 | 12% | $3,590 | ||
16Integrated Environmental Assessment and ManagementWiley · United States | 1.55Q2 | 1.89 0.28 down from 2012 | 302 | 27% | $3,500 | ||
17Environmental Geochemistry and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.49Q2 | 1.74 0.15 down from 2012 | 216 | 21% | $2,590 | ||
18Environmental Sciences EuropeOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.48Q2 | 2.99 1.45 up from 2012 | 100 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
19Water Air & Soil PollutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.39Q2 | 2.02 0.23 up from 2012 | 1,058 | 14% | $3,890 | ||
20Environmental Monitoring and AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.33Q2 | 1.68 0.07 up from 2012 | 1,688 | 10% | $2,790 | ||
21CLEAN - Soil Air WaterWiley · Germany | 1.16Q2 | 2.16 0.09 up from 2012 | 578 | 14% | $4,220 | ||
22Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.09Q2 | 1.50 0.04 up from 2012 | 1,003 | 10% | $3,990 | ||
23Journal of Environmental Chemistry and EcotoxicologyOAAcademic Journals · Nigeria | 1.09Q2 | 1.30 0.32 up from 2012 | 90 | 100% | — | ||
24Bioremediation JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.92Q2 | 1.20 0.25 up from 2012 | 69 | 3% | — | ||
25Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part APublisher not listed | 0.92Q3 | 1.40 0.22 down from 2012 | 634 | 9% | — | ||
26Energy Sustainability and SocietyOASpringer Nature · Germany | 0.86Q3 | 0.97 0.47 up from 2012 | 31 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
27Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologyOAPakistan | 0.86Q3 | 1.07 0.83 down from 2012 | 132 | 11% | — | ||
28Journal of Environmental Health Science and EngineeringSpringer International Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.85Q3 | 1.21no 2012 value | 38 | 99% | $3,890 | — | |
29Chemistry and EcologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.76Q3 | 1.16 0.01 up from 2012 | 241 | 11% | — | ||
30Frontiers of Environmental Science & EngineeringHigher Education Press · China | 0.73Q3 | 1.14 0.82 up from 2012 | 136 | 2% | $2,490 | ||
31Environmental Engineering ScienceMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.73Q3 | 1.11 0.05 down from 2012 | 347 | 27% | — | ||
32Water Environment ResearchWiley · United States | 0.67Q3 | 1.06 0.09 down from 2012 | 463 | 20% | $3,240 | ||
33American Journal of Environmental SciencesOAUnited Arab Emirates | 0.67Q3 | 0.82 0.10 up from 2012 | 233 | 98% | — | ||
34Journal of Environmental ProtectionOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.66Q3 | 0.81no change | 403 | 100% | — | ||
35Journal of Bioremediation & BiodegradationOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.65Q3 | 0.78 0.06 up from 2012 | 126 | 98% | — | ||
36Research Journal of Environmental SciencesOAPakistan | 0.63Q3 | 0.99 0.10 down from 2012 | 145 | 20% | — | ||
37Soil and Sediment Contamination An International JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.61Q4 | 0.81 0.12 up from 2012 | 179 | 4% | — | ||
38Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry ReviewsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.61Q4 | 1.02 0.12 up from 2012 | 526 | 5% | — | ||
39International Oil Spill Conference ProceedingsAtlantis Press · United States | 0.61Q4 | 0.19 0.05 up from 2012 | 221 | — | — | ||
40Environmental Quality ManagementWiley · United States | 0.58Q4 | 0.51 0.11 up from 2012 | 110 | 5% | $3,300 | ||
41International Journal on Environmental SciencesNational Environmental Science Academy · India | 0.57Q4 | 0.71 0.09 down from 2012 | 417 | 0% | — | ||
42Journal of Urban and Environmental EngineeringOAUniversity do Vale do Paraíba · Brazil | 0.50Q4 | 0.51 0.35 up from 2012 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
43International Journal of Environment and PollutionInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.40Q4 | 0.54 0.03 down from 2012 | 313 | 2% | — | ||
44Journal of Energy in Southern AfricaOAUniversity of Cape Town · South Africa | 0.36Q4 | 0.61 0.13 down from 2012 | 61 | 100% | $271 | ||
45Chemical Speciation and BioavailabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.34Q4 | 0.54 0.12 up from 2012 | 97 | 53% | $1,270 | ||
46International Journal of Environment and HealthOAInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.32Q4 | 0.41 0.11 up from 2012 | 59 | 36% | — | ||
47Environment and PollutionOACanadian Center of Science and Education · Canada | 0.28Q4 | 0.39 0.27 up from 2012 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.06Q4 | 0.18 0.09 up from 2012 | 60 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Pollution highlighted.
- Ecology258
- Global and Planetary Change164
- Water Science and Technology72
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis68
- Nature and Landscape Conservation61
- Pollution48
- Environmental Engineering41
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law38
- Waste Management and Disposal16
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling5
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% 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 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 30,140 +24.9% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.917 +1.3% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.