Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Water Science and Technology journal rankings 2014
82 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Water Science and Technology has 82 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2013 to 0.53, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.12. The top three are Hydrology and earth system sciences, Journal of Membrane Science, and Desalination.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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)
82 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1Hydrology and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.35Q1 | 4.83 0.60 down from 2013 | 926 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
2Journal of Membrane ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.10Q1 | 5.39 0.35 up from 2013 | 2,229 | 12% | $4,890 | ||
3DesalinationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.98Q1 | 4.78 0.32 up from 2013 | 1,544 | 8% | $4,580 | ||
4Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.86Q1 | 4.56 0.50 down from 2013 | 1,674 | 67% | $3,000 | ||
5Separation and Purification ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.79Q1 | 5.04 2.19 up from 2013 | 41 | 6% | — | ||
6Separation and Purification TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 3.55 0.05 up from 2013 | 1,500 | 8% | $4,060 | ||
7Journal of environmental chemical engineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 3.11no 2013 value | 237 | 7% | $3,350 | ||
8Hydrological ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.51 0.14 down from 2013 | 1,362 | 17% | $5,230 | ||
9Water Intelligence OnlineUWA Publishing | 1.81Q1 | 3.04 1.86 up from 2013 | 159 | 4% | — | ||
10JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources AssociationWiley · United States | 1.79Q1 | 1.90 1.04 down from 2013 | 315 | 11% | $3,200 | ||
11WaterOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.68Q1 | 1.98 0.11 up from 2013 | 264 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
12MembranesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.61Q1 | 3.36 0.80 up from 2013 | 92 | 100% | $2,654 | ||
13Hydrological Sciences JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 2.11 0.07 up from 2013 | 421 | 98% | — | ||
14International Journal of Mineral ProcessingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.38Q1 | 1.61 0.28 down from 2013 | 290 | 7% | $2,500 | ||
15Applied Water ScienceOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.35Q1 | 2.02 0.59 up from 2013 | 144 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
16Minerals EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 1.82 0.21 down from 2013 | 681 | 8% | $4,220 | ||
17International Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 1.21Q1 | 1.83 0.72 down from 2013 | 509 | 40% | $3,490 | ||
18ResourcesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.19Q1 | 1.71 1.38 up from 2013 | 35 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
19International Journal of River Basin ManagementTaylor & Francis | 1.14Q1 | 1.59 0.81 up from 2013 | 96 | 12% | — | ||
20Journal of Chemical Technology & BiotechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.14Q1 | 2.15 0.28 down from 2013 | 858 | 13% | $4,100 | ||
21Journal of Hydrologic EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.12Q1 | 1.53 0.37 up from 2013 | 551 | 13% | — | ||
22Hydrological Research LettersOAJapan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources · Japan | 1.06Q2 | 2.46 0.96 up from 2013 | 56 | 100% | $414 | ||
23Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriquesTaylor & Francis · Canada | 0.98Q2 | 1.06 0.29 down from 2013 | 79 | 96% | — | ||
24Water and Environment JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 1.06 0.18 up from 2013 | 198 | 11% | $4,000 | ||
25Journal of Encapsulation and Adsorption SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.95Q2 | 1.74 0.50 up from 2013 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
26Aquacultural EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.65 0.18 up from 2013 | 160 | 12% | $3,500 | ||
27Water SAOAWater Research Commission · South Africa | 0.89Q2 | 1.05 0.30 down from 2013 | 319 | 100% | — | ||
28International Journal of Environmental ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.88Q2 | 1.28 0.95 down from 2013 | 256 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
29Water Science & TechnologyOAPergamon Press | 0.87Q2 | 1.19 0.13 down from 2013 | 2,254 | 18% | — | ||
30Archives of Environmental ProtectionOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.85Q2 | 1.33 0.33 up from 2013 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
31Environmental TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 1.70 0.44 up from 2013 | 1,083 | 7% | — | ||
32Separation Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.31 0.21 down from 2013 | 966 | 3% | — | ||
33Journal of Contemporary Water Research & EducationWiley · United States | 0.83Q2 | 0.68 0.33 up from 2013 | 71 | 64% | $3,000 | ||
34Journal of Environmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.07 0.13 down from 2013 | 478 | 8% | — | ||
35Global NEST JournalUniversity of the Aegean · Greece | 0.81Q2 | 0.96 0.04 down from 2013 | 601 | 94% | — | ||
36Water Quality Exposure and HealthSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 0.79Q2 | 1.26 0.11 down from 2013 | 67 | 4% | — | ||
37International Journal of Environmental & Analytical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.74Q2 | 1.35 0.16 up from 2013 | 419 | 9% | — | ||
38Membrane Water TreatmentSouth Korea | 0.69Q2 | 1.00 0.63 up from 2013 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
39Journal of Water Resource and ProtectionOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.67Q2 | 0.72 0.01 down from 2013 | 388 | 100% | — | ||
40Journal of Environmental Engineering and ScienceThomas Telford Ltd. · Canada | 0.66Q2 | 0.77no 2013 value | 62 | 7% | — | ||
41Physicochemical Problems of Mineral ProcessingOAOficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawsjiej · Poland | 0.54Q2 | 0.89 0.05 up from 2013 | 108 | 0% | — | ||
42Desalination and Water TreatmentOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.52Q3 | 1.10 0.35 down from 2013 | 3,328 | 75% | $1,000 | ||
43APCBEE ProcediaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.51Q3 | 0.76 0.21 up from 2013 | 312 | 99% | — | ||
44Water Quality Research JournalUWA Publishing | 0.51Q3 | 0.87 0.32 up from 2013 | 112 | 43% | — | ||
45Water Science & Technology Water SupplyIWA Publishing | 0.50Q3 | 0.59no change | 428 | 20% | — | ||
| 0.50Q3 | 0.54 0.01 up from 2013 | 372 | 97% | — | |||
47Environmental Engineering ResearchOAKorean Society of Environmental Engineering · South Korea | 0.50Q3 | 0.86 0.04 up from 2013 | 143 | 100% | — | ||
48Journal of Water Reuse and DesalinationOAIWA Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.45Q3 | 0.39 0.05 up from 2013 | 100 | 22% | $2,150 | ||
49Open Journal of Modern HydrologyOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.57 0.14 down from 2013 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
50Environmental Research Engineering and ManagementOAKaunas University of Technology · Lithuania | 0.42Q3 | 0.56 0.12 up from 2013 | 105 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Water Science and Technology highlighted.
- Ecology261
- Global and Planetary Change177
- Water Science and Technology82
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis70
- Nature and Landscape Conservation59
- Pollution51
- Environmental Engineering44
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law40
- Waste Management and Disposal17
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling5
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% 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 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 82
- Window papers (baseline)
- 68,372 +24.3% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 0.53 +3.2% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.