Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Water Science and Technology journal rankings 2013
72 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Water Science and Technology has 72 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR fell 0.05 on 2012 to 0.59, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.05. The top three are Hydrology and earth system sciences, Water Resources Research, and Desalination.
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)
72 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 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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1Hydrology and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.54Q1 | 5.44 0.12 up from 2012 | 774 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
2Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 3.10Q1 | 5.06 0.69 up from 2012 | 1,513 | 68% | $3,000 | ||
3DesalinationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 4.46 0.72 up from 2012 | 1,836 | 6% | $4,580 | ||
4Journal of Membrane ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.02Q1 | 5.04 0.26 up from 2012 | 2,183 | 11% | $4,890 | ||
5Separation and Purification TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 3.49 0.35 up from 2012 | 1,243 | 8% | $4,060 | ||
6Separation and Purification ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.14Q1 | 2.85 0.88 down from 2012 | 31 | 13% | — | ||
7JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources AssociationWiley · United States | 2.05Q1 | 2.94 0.39 up from 2012 | 307 | 14% | $3,200 | ||
8Hydrological ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 2.65 0.10 down from 2012 | 1,361 | 12% | $5,230 | ||
9International Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 1.83Q1 | 2.55 0.33 up from 2012 | 273 | 47% | $3,490 | ||
10WaterOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.70Q1 | 1.87 0.06 down from 2012 | 206 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
11International Journal of Mineral ProcessingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 1.90 0.34 up from 2012 | 247 | 10% | $2,500 | ||
12Hydrological Sciences JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 2.04 0.32 up from 2012 | 351 | 99% | — | ||
13Hydrological Research LettersOAJapan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources · Japan | 1.44Q1 | 1.50 0.95 down from 2012 | 57 | 100% | $414 | ||
14Journal of Chemical Technology & BiotechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.41Q1 | 2.44 0.29 down from 2012 | 783 | 10% | $4,100 | ||
15Minerals EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 2.02 0.43 up from 2012 | 613 | 11% | $4,220 | ||
16MembranesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.30Q1 | 2.56 1.32 up from 2012 | 68 | 100% | $2,654 | ||
17Applied Water ScienceOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.17Q1 | 1.42 1.01 up from 2012 | 72 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
18Water SAOAWater Research Commission · South Africa | 1.05Q1 | 1.35 0.25 down from 2012 | 308 | 100% | — | ||
19Water Intelligence OnlineUWA Publishing | 1.03Q2 | 1.18 0.39 up from 2012 | 171 | 2% | — | ||
20The Open Hydrology JournalOANetherlands | 0.99Q2 | 1.10 0.40 down from 2012 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
21Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriquesTaylor & Francis · Canada | 0.98Q2 | 1.35 0.21 up from 2012 | 84 | 94% | — | ||
22Water and Environment JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 0.88 0.26 down from 2012 | 181 | 14% | $4,000 | ||
23Water Science & TechnologyOAPergamon Press | 0.97Q2 | 1.32 0.03 up from 2012 | 2,201 | 18% | — | ||
24Aquacultural EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.46 0.16 up from 2012 | 143 | 5% | $3,500 | ||
25Australasian Journal of Water ResourcesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.93Q2 | 1.02 0.06 down from 2012 | 48 | 7% | — | ||
26Separation Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.93Q2 | 1.52 0.17 up from 2012 | 859 | 5% | — | ||
27International Journal of Environmental ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.91Q2 | 2.23 0.62 up from 2012 | 204 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
28Journal of Environmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.91Q2 | 1.21 0.06 up from 2012 | 496 | 6% | — | ||
29Journal of Hydrologic EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.87Q2 | 1.17 0.35 down from 2012 | 515 | 8% | — | ||
30Environmental TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.25 0.13 down from 2012 | 916 | 9% | — | ||
31Archives of Environmental ProtectionOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.80Q2 | 1.00 1.00 up from 2012 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
32International Journal of Environmental & Analytical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.74Q2 | 1.19 0.05 up from 2012 | 428 | 14% | — | ||
33International Journal of River Basin ManagementTaylor & Francis | 0.73Q2 | 0.78 0.08 down from 2012 | 86 | 21% | — | ||
34Journal of Water Resource and ProtectionOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.73Q2 | 0.73 0.16 down from 2012 | 355 | 100% | — | ||
35Water Quality Exposure and HealthSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 0.72Q2 | 1.37 0.23 up from 2012 | 58 | 8% | — | ||
36Journal of Contemporary Water Research & EducationWiley · United States | 0.61Q2 | 0.34 0.62 down from 2012 | 66 | 44% | $3,000 | ||
37Water Science & Technology Water SupplyIWA Publishing | 0.57Q3 | 0.60 0.02 up from 2012 | 325 | 14% | — | ||
| 0.55Q3 | 0.53 0.22 down from 2012 | 288 | 94% | — | |||
39Physicochemical Problems of Mineral ProcessingOAOficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawsjiej · Poland | 0.54Q3 | 0.84 0.10 up from 2012 | 139 | 50% | — | ||
40Desalination and Water TreatmentOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.47Q3 | 1.45 0.48 up from 2012 | 2,200 | 85% | $1,000 | ||
41Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S-chemia I Inzynieria Ekologiczna SPublisher not listed | 0.45Q3 | 0.76 0.07 up from 2012 | 72 | — | — | ||
42APCBEE ProcediaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.43Q3 | 0.55no 2012 value | 188 | 100% | — | — | |
43Adsorption Science & TechnologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 0.98 0.38 up from 2012 | 216 | 60% | $1,500 | ||
44Environmental Engineering ResearchOAKorean Society of Environmental Engineering · South Korea | 0.41Q3 | 0.82 0.38 up from 2012 | 164 | 100% | — | ||
45American Water Works AssociationWiley · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.41 0.08 up from 2012 | 726 | 4% | $3,050 | ||
46Environmental Research Engineering and ManagementOAKaunas University of Technology · Lithuania | 0.36Q3 | 0.44 0.11 up from 2012 | 101 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of Dispersion Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.35Q3 | 0.84 0.01 up from 2012 | 787 | 2% | — | ||
48Membrane Water TreatmentSouth Korea | 0.34Q3 | 0.38 0.09 down from 2012 | 62 | 10% | — | ||
49Water Quality Research JournalUWA Publishing | 0.33Q3 | 0.55 0.24 up from 2012 | 113 | 49% | — | ||
50Water Practice & TechnologyUWA Publishing | 0.33Q3 | 0.38 0.14 up from 2012 | 294 | 7% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Water Science and Technology 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.
37 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 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
- 72
- Window papers (baseline)
- 63,966 +27.9% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 0.590 +25.8% 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.
| 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.