Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Environmental Engineering journal rankings 2015
42 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Environmental Engineering has 42 ranked journals in 2015. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.16 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2014. A journal needs OJR 1.84 to reach Q1. The top three are Remote Sensing of Environment, Economic Systems Research, and Journal of Cleaner Production.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
42 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 4.37Q1 | 7.14 0.03 up from 2014 | 1,109 | 36% | $4,450 | ||
2Economic Systems ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 5.79 0.13 down from 2014 | 83 | 33% | — | ||
3Journal of Cleaner ProductionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.72Q1 | 5.67 0.01 up from 2014 | 2,313 | 22% | $4,660 | ||
4Advances in Water ResourcesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 3.75 0.76 down from 2014 | 499 | 39% | $3,840 | ||
5International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and GeoinformationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 4.30 0.11 up from 2014 | 480 | 38% | $3,550 | ||
6Journal of Industrial EcologyWiley · United States | 2.78Q1 | 3.37 1.00 down from 2014 | 343 | 33% | $3,750 | ||
7The International Journal of Life Cycle AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.62Q1 | 3.88 0.62 down from 2014 | 449 | 33% | $3,990 | ||
8International journal of greenhouse gas controlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 4.57 0.42 down from 2014 | 827 | 34% | $4,100 | ||
9Sustainable Cities and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 2.99 0.04 up from 2014 | 199 | 28% | $4,870 | ||
10Urban ClimateElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 3.16 0.27 up from 2014 | 137 | 25% | $3,690 | ||
11Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial AerodynamicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 2.44 0.13 up from 2014 | 470 | 23% | $3,880 | ||
12Canadian Journal of Remote SensingOATaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.66Q2 | 2.29 0.23 down from 2014 | 136 | 8% | — | ||
13Applied GeomaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.65Q2 | 1.92 0.43 up from 2014 | 76 | 13% | $3,290 | ||
14The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space ScienceOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 1.42Q2 | 2.68 1.80 up from 2014 | 64 | 100% | $900 | ||
15Boundary-Layer MeteorologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.41Q2 | 2.83 0.23 down from 2014 | 291 | 30% | $3,790 | ||
16Hydrogeology JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.36Q2 | 1.78 0.75 down from 2014 | 404 | 27% | $2,390 | ||
17Urban Water JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 1.96 0.23 up from 2014 | 194 | 22% | — | ||
18Journal of Contaminant HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.34Q2 | 2.29 0.09 down from 2014 | 336 | 26% | $3,640 | ||
19Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote SensingAmerican Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · United States | 1.30Q2 | 1.60 0.51 down from 2014 | 238 | 73% | — | ||
20Earth Science InformaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.23Q2 | 1.63 0.42 up from 2014 | 102 | 15% | $3,890 | ||
21Ground WaterWiley · United States | 1.16Q2 | 1.59 0.26 down from 2014 | 454 | 8% | $4,100 | ||
22Greenhouse Gases Science and TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.15Q3 | 1.55 0.52 down from 2014 | 179 | 9% | $3,570 | ||
23Journal of Spatial ScienceTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.14Q3 | 1.10 0.21 up from 2014 | 78 | 9% | — | ||
24ISPRS annals of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.14Q3 | 1.35 0.17 up from 2014 | 580 | 100% | — | ||
25European Journal of Remote SensingOATaylor & Francis · Italy | 1.14Q3 | 1.92 0.18 down from 2014 | 134 | 100% | $1,060 | ||
26Environmental Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.03Q3 | 1.77 0.05 down from 2014 | 2,401 | 13% | $2,290 | ||
27Geo-spatial Information ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.01Q3 | 1.31 0.68 up from 2014 | 80 | 100% | $1,993 | ||
28Photogrammetrie - Fernerkundung - GeoinformationE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 0.86Q3 | 0.84 0.25 down from 2014 | 153 | 3% | — | ||
29International Journal of VentilationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q3 | 1.03 0.23 up from 2014 | 96 | 9% | — | ||
30Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental StatisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.83Q3 | 1.26 0.20 up from 2014 | 105 | 29% | $3,090 | ||
31Geomicrobiology JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.81Q3 | 1.46 0.15 up from 2014 | 310 | 15% | — | ||
32Advances in geosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.74Q3 | 1.20 0.24 down from 2014 | 107 | 100% | $301 | ||
33Wind and StructuresSouth Korea | 0.50Q4 | 1.06 0.11 up from 2014 | 175 | 1% | — | ||
34Groundwater Monitoring & RemediationWiley · United States | 0.45Q4 | 0.78 0.02 down from 2014 | 127 | 15% | $3,920 | ||
| 0.36Q4 | 0.64 0.29 up from 2014 | 31 | 100% | — | |||
36GrundwasserSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.29Q4 | 0.37 0.05 down from 2014 | 89 | 33% | $2,290 | ||
37Research Journal of Applied Sciences Engineering and TechnologyOAMaxwell Scientific Publications · United Kingdom | 0.27Q4 | 0.28no change | 2,832 | 100% | — | ||
38Journal of Water Management ModelingOACanada | 0.24Q4 | 0.52 0.24 up from 2014 | 69 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.13Q4 | 0.20 0.05 down from 2014 | 71 | 2% | — | |||
40International Journal of Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.12Q4 | 0.09 0.05 down from 2014 | 322 | 4% | — | ||
41LCM 2013Publisher not listed | 0.11Q4 | 0.15 0.03 down from 2014 | 126 | — | — | ||
42Journal of Groundwater Science and EngineeringOATsinghua University Press | 0.00Q4 | 0.02 0.03 down from 2014 | 87 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Environmental Engineering highlighted.
- Ecology273
- Global and Planetary Change186
- Water Science and Technology87
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis77
- Nature and Landscape Conservation61
- Pollution53
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law43
- Environmental Engineering42
- Waste Management and Disposal17
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling5
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
13 additional Environmental Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 42
- Window papers (baseline)
- 41,499 +40.0% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 1.157 -8.5% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 34 | 37 | 36 | 40 | 41 | 44 | 42 | 42 | 44 | 47 | 46 | 43 | 47 | 50 | 49 | 53 | 54 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 10,642 | 11,651 | 11,967 | 12,703 | 13,576 | 14,751 | 16,065 | 17,177 | 18,812 | 20,718 | 23,247 | 26,011 | 29,639 | 33,366 | 37,771 | 41,499 | 43,684 | 45,599 | 47,212 | 50,087 | 53,144 | 56,964 | 61,183 | 64,951 | 69,044 | 73,778 | |
| Median OJR | 1.04 | 0.93 | 0.99 | 1.17 | 1.058 | 1.41 | 1.156 | 1.19 | 1.227 | 1.057 | 1.056 | 1.147 | 1.264 | 1.234 | 1.117 | 1.157 | 1.263 | 1.20 | 1.154 | 1.10 | 1.08 | 1.118 | 1.18 | 1.119 | 1.07 | 1.11 |
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.