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Journal rankings · indicator year 2013

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Subfield ranking · 2013

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment journal rankings 2013

30 ranked journals · Subfield in Energy

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment has 30 ranked journals in 2013. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.08 against 1.00, up 0.02 on 2012. A journal needs OJR 1.67 to reach Q1. The top three are ChemSusChem, Renewable Energy, and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

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.

30
94% of Energy
Median OJR

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.

1.08+0.02 vs 2012
This subfieldAll 0.92World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

17%
All fields: 26%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,530
Median positive listed APC: $3,530 among 24 journals. 6 have no known price. All fields: $3,400.

Subfields of Energy (5)

30 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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APC (list price)
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ranking, 2013

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.

OJR

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.

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1ChemSusChemWiley · Germany
3.10Q16.78 0.69 up from 201284820%$4,550
2Renewable EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
3.01Q13.81 0.12 up from 20121,58012%$4,460
3Applied Catalysis B: EnvironmentalElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.58Q16.61 0.75 up from 20121,43716%$5,950
4Algal ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.30Q15.47no 2012 value3033%$4,190—
5Catalysis Science & TechnologyRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom
2.20Q15.21 1.12 up from 201263815%—
6Solar EnergyElsevier BV · United States
2.17Q14.45 0.69 up from 20129479%$3,900
7ChemCatChemWiley · Germany
1.78Q13.95 0.10 down from 201294016%$4,500
8GeothermicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.67Q14.17 1.25 up from 2012988%$3,220
9Journal of Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · United States
1.63Q23.55 0.24 up from 20123,03811%$4,470
10Catalysis CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.52Q23.58 0.58 up from 20121,0647%$2,000
11International Journal of Hydrogen EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.38Q23.38 0.16 down from 20125,4767%$3,730
1.22Q23.00 0.70 up from 20124041%$2,650
1.13Q22.56 0.15 down from 20128469%$3,470
14Journal of Applied PhycologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.13Q22.57 0.12 up from 201245714%$3,890
15Energy EfficiencySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.13Q22.06 0.07 up from 201211715%$2,390
16GreenDe Gruyter · Germany
1.03Q31.59 0.27 up from 20126328%—
17CatalystsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland
1.03Q32.19 0.17 down from 201243100%$2,654
18Journal of Solar Energy EngineeringASM International · United States
1.01Q32.12 0.42 up from 201224810%—
19ElectrocatalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
0.92Q32.76 1.03 up from 201211610%$4,090
20Zeitschrift für EnergiewirtschaftSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
0.88Q31.62 0.85 up from 2012919%—
0.73Q32.20 1.97 up from 20126024%$3,590
22International Journal of PhotoenergyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
0.70Q31.82 1.09 down from 2012439100%$2,160
23Journal of Advanced Oxidation TechnologiesDe Gruyter · United States
0.58Q31.02 0.28 down from 20121170%—
24Geochemical PerspectivesOAPublisher not listed
0.43Q40.60no 2012 value77100%——
0.40Q41.47 0.80 up from 20128682%$3,000
26Frontiers of Chemical Science and EngineeringHigher Education Press · China
0.39Q40.85 0.32 up from 20121887%$2,490
27BULLETIN OF CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING AND CATALYSISOADiponegoro University · Indonesia
0.37Q40.66 0.19 down from 201280100%$150
28Transactions of Tianjin UniversitySpringer Science+Business Media · China
0.26Q40.42 0.16 up from 20122210%$3,190
29Acta Physico-Chimica SinicaPeking University Press · China
0.14Q40.36 0.11 up from 20122,14411%$4,500
0.02Q40.05 0.02 up from 20124900%$2,500

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.

15 additional Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
30
Window papers (baseline)
52,965 +49.1% from indicator year 2010
Median OJR
1.0815 +1.9% from indicator year 2010
Rising journals (2025)
6

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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals1516171718171718192224242730343439394344423943475255
Window papers (baseline)13,21414,88515,94517,30918,76020,84622,85325,18328,03731,50435,51239,86046,12352,96560,70668,24474,30979,34083,48589,62097,447106,182114,294121,630128,694137,314
Median OJR0.820.7470.851.040.930.980.7540.8290.650.881.0621.251.0651.08151.08100.960.790.8650.7530.8610.890.970.9370.8340.900.942

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.