Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Field ranking · 2015
Environmental Science journal rankings 2015
854 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 854 ranked journals in 2015. The median journal has an OJR of 0.88, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2014; Q1 starts at OJR 1.57. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Nature Climate Change, and Ecological Monographs.
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 in Environmental Science (11)
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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 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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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 11.41Q1 | 16.33 1.28 down from 2014 | 59 | 74% | $3,880 | ||
2Nature Climate ChangeNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.04Q1 | 9.97 0.48 up from 2014 | 1,023 | 33% | $12,690 | ||
3Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 6.31Q1 | 9.70 1.16 up from 2014 | 75 | 28% | $3,970 | ||
4The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.16Q1 | 3.00 1.21 up from 2014 | 57 | 15% | — | ||
5Impact Assessment and Project AppraisalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.71Q1 | 1.78 1.64 down from 2014 | 130 | 97% | — | ||
6Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.53Q1 | 4.84 0.10 up from 2014 | 218 | 34% | $4,380 | ||
7Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.36Q1 | 8.53 0.38 up from 2014 | 1,000 | 38% | $4,550 | ||
8The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 5.36Q1 | 9.39 0.01 up from 2014 | 665 | 100% | $4,153 | ||
9LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.33Q1 | 3.03 0.39 down from 2014 | 226 | 14% | $4,590 | ||
10Methods in Ecology and EvolutionOAWiley · United States | 5.26Q1 | 6.55 1.14 down from 2014 | 403 | 60% | $3,500 | ||
11Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 4.96Q1 | 11.55 1.62 up from 2014 | 187 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
12Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 4.87Q1 | 7.47 3.29 up from 2014 | 60 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
13Global Food SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.85Q1 | 5.11 0.32 up from 2014 | 98 | 44% | $5,240 | ||
14Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 4.78Q1 | 7.16 1.24 up from 2014 | 321 | 39% | $3,970 | ||
15ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote SensingElsevier BV | 4.73Q1 | 6.05 1.38 up from 2014 | 461 | 25% | $3,310 | ||
16Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.56Q1 | 6.62 0.27 up from 2014 | 446 | 66% | $3,610 | ||
17Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 4.43Q1 | 7.10 0.87 up from 2014 | 628 | 36% | $4,750 | ||
18Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 4.37Q1 | 7.14 0.03 up from 2014 | 1,109 | 36% | $4,450 | ||
19Environmental Health PerspectivesOANational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · United States | 4.29Q1 | 7.45 0.93 up from 2014 | 976 | 100% | $4,500 | ||
20Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 4.25Q1 | 5.19 0.21 up from 2014 | 152 | 46% | $5,450 | ||
21Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.20Q1 | 2.36 0.61 down from 2014 | 132 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
22Global Ecology and BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.18Q1 | 6.33 0.08 down from 2014 | 327 | 38% | $5,000 | ||
23Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 4.14Q1 | 5.61 0.10 up from 2014 | 229 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
24Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.12Q1 | 6.26 0.62 up from 2014 | 505 | 67% | $3,610 | ||
25EcographyOAWiley · Denmark | 4.00Q1 | 5.35 0.33 down from 2014 | 389 | 41% | $3,190 | ||
26Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.96Q1 | 5.23 0.12 down from 2014 | 601 | 100% | $975 | ||
27Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.94Q1 | 6.79 0.58 up from 2014 | 2,014 | 26% | $4,660 | ||
28Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.88Q1 | 2.79 0.05 down from 2014 | 344 | 23% | $3,560 | ||
29Resources Conservation and RecyclingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.86Q1 | 4.66 0.77 up from 2014 | 463 | 23% | $5,270 | ||
30Environmental Science & Technology LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.82Q1 | 6.63 0.69 up from 2014 | 96 | 44% | $4,500 | ||
31Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 1.74 0.39 down from 2014 | 192 | 15% | — | ||
32International Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.80Q1 | 6.03 1.20 down from 2014 | 595 | 33% | $4,514 | ||
33Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.76Q1 | 7.55 1.15 up from 2014 | 45 | 67% | — | ||
34Economic Systems ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 5.79 0.13 down from 2014 | 83 | 33% | — | ||
35Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 6.80 0.49 up from 2014 | 134 | 39% | $5,000 | ||
36Journal of Cleaner ProductionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.72Q1 | 5.67 0.01 up from 2014 | 2,313 | 22% | $4,660 | ||
37Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 6.22no change | 927 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
38Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsOAWiley · United States | 3.69Q1 | 8.30 1.68 up from 2014 | 161 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
39Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.61Q1 | 6.67 0.35 up from 2014 | 4,925 | 23% | $4,500 | ||
40Waste ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 4.45 0.51 up from 2014 | 957 | 18% | $4,450 | ||
41EcologyWiley · United States | 3.53Q1 | 4.58 0.22 down from 2014 | 1,051 | 32% | $3,970 | ||
42Journal of Animal EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 5.28 0.46 up from 2014 | 431 | 63% | $3,610 | ||
43Landscape and Urban PlanningElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.48Q1 | 4.96 0.28 up from 2014 | 534 | 34% | $3,120 | ||
44Environmental HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.40Q1 | 5.03 0.25 down from 2014 | 334 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
45Diversity and DistributionsOAWiley · United Kingdom | 3.39Q1 | 5.19 0.57 up from 2014 | 361 | 75% | $3,430 | ||
46Water Resources and IndustryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 4.76 1.39 up from 2014 | 38 | 100% | $3,613 | ||
47Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 4.25 0.35 down from 2014 | 466 | 45% | $4,250 | ||
48AnthropoceneElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.36Q1 | 5.00 1.85 up from 2014 | 67 | 55% | $3,770 | ||
49Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 4.72 0.18 down from 2014 | 702 | 39% | $3,500 | ||
50Ecosystem ServicesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.28Q1 | 4.66 5.23 down from 2014 | 200 | 37% | $4,100 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- 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.
260 additional Environmental Science 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
- 854
- Window papers (baseline)
- 588,865 +20.6% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.879 -4.0% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 429 | 465 | 498 | 528 | 542 | 555 | 565 | 584 | 621 | 658 | 691 | 730 | 752 | 781 | 816 | 854 | 879 | 894 | 910 | 907 | 926 | 945 | 982 | 992 | 992 | 998 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 177,914 | 208,192 | 224,441 | 245,259 | 251,131 | 272,523 | 295,719 | 323,264 | 355,145 | 387,726 | 421,450 | 454,259 | 488,219 | 520,283 | 555,752 | 588,865 | 606,383 | 609,229 | 603,145 | 613,842 | 636,773 | 681,372 | 729,009 | 768,184 | 799,466 | 839,315 | |
| Median OJR | 0.68 | 0.73 | 0.763 | 0.755 | 0.753 | 0.7599 | 0.820 | 0.814 | 0.84 | 0.832 | 0.85 | 0.885 | 0.916 | 0.917 | 0.90 | 0.879 | 0.89 | 0.86 | 0.829 | 0.815 | 0.824 | 0.80 | 0.757 | 0.7602 | 0.77 | 0.79 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.0% | 780 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.062 per 1,000 | 688 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -2.4% | 896 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 79.2% | 998 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,120 | 607 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 30.3% | 956 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 998 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.80 | 989 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 26.5% | 998 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 41.9% | 995 journals |
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.