Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2015
186 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 186 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2014 to 1.01, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.91. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Nature Climate Change, and Earth s Future.
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)
186 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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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 | ||
3Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 4.87Q1 | 7.47 3.29 up from 2014 | 60 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
4Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 4.25Q1 | 5.19 0.21 up from 2014 | 152 | 46% | $5,450 | ||
5Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.96Q1 | 5.23 0.12 down from 2014 | 601 | 100% | $975 | ||
6Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.88Q1 | 2.79 0.05 down from 2014 | 344 | 23% | $3,560 | ||
7Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.73Q1 | 6.80 0.49 up from 2014 | 134 | 39% | $5,000 | ||
8Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.71Q1 | 6.22no change | 927 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
9Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsOAWiley · United States | 3.69Q1 | 8.30 1.68 up from 2014 | 161 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
10Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 4.25 0.35 down from 2014 | 466 | 45% | $4,250 | ||
11AnthropoceneElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.36Q1 | 5.00 1.85 up from 2014 | 67 | 55% | $3,770 | ||
12Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 4.72 0.18 down from 2014 | 702 | 39% | $3,500 | ||
13Ecosystem ServicesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.28Q1 | 4.66 5.23 down from 2014 | 200 | 37% | $4,100 | ||
14Environmental ReviewsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 3.21Q1 | 5.13 1.75 up from 2014 | 75 | 27% | — | ||
15Earth System DynamicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.20Q1 | 6.97 1.88 up from 2014 | 79 | 100% | $1,585 | ||
16Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.19Q1 | 4.75 0.19 up from 2014 | 877 | 38% | $4,390 | ||
17Journal of Geophysical Research BiogeosciencesWiley · United States | 3.06Q1 | 4.98 0.04 down from 2014 | 299 | 70% | $4,070 | ||
18Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 3.03Q1 | 2.31no change | 141 | 33% | — | ||
19Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.96Q1 | 3.42 0.06 up from 2014 | 683 | 32% | $3,830 | ||
20Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews WaterWiley · United States | 2.93Q1 | 3.44 1.24 up from 2014 | 48 | 29% | $4,200 | ||
21Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.92Q1 | 5.35 0.13 down from 2014 | 3,417 | 81% | $3,190 | ||
22Journal of Environmental InformaticsPublisher not listed | 2.92Q1 | 5.20 1.23 up from 2014 | 67 | 79% | — | ||
23Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 3.70 0.39 up from 2014 | 528 | 27% | $3,220 | ||
24Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 4.66 0.28 down from 2014 | 606 | 11% | $3,590 | ||
25International Journal of Digital EarthOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 3.07 0.26 down from 2014 | 149 | 97% | $2,390 | ||
26Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 2.72Q1 | 2.90 0.47 down from 2014 | 172 | 17% | $3,890 | ||
27Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.66Q1 | 6.05 0.25 up from 2014 | 1,638 | 39% | — | ||
28Remote SensingOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.57Q1 | 4.20 0.13 down from 2014 | 1,110 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
29Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 3.92 0.12 up from 2014 | 2,121 | 27% | $4,030 | ||
30BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.53Q1 | 2.50 0.44 down from 2014 | 635 | 46% | $5,088 | ||
31Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 3.87 0.27 down from 2014 | 1,156 | 28% | $3,650 | ||
32Carbon Balance and ManagementOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.48Q1 | 5.41 1.53 up from 2014 | 34 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
33Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.45Q1 | 3.85 0.50 down from 2014 | 438 | 25% | $4,390 | ||
34Ecological ProcessesOASpringer Nature · China | 2.45Q1 | 3.28 0.47 up from 2014 | 69 | 100% | $1,670 | ||
35Environmental Policy and GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 2.54 0.24 up from 2014 | 93 | 16% | $3,800 | ||
36Atmospheric measurement techniquesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.42Q1 | 5.08 0.12 up from 2014 | 740 | 100% | $1,585 | ||
37Environmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.36Q1 | 3.24 0.46 up from 2014 | 99 | 43% | $3,610 | ||
38Weather and Climate ExtremesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 3.41 2.28 up from 2014 | 56 | 100% | $3,969 | ||
39AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 2.23Q1 | 2.86 0.33 down from 2014 | 354 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
40Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.20Q1 | 4.65 0.42 down from 2014 | 1,148 | 34% | $3,790 | ||
41Natural hazards and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.11Q1 | 3.14 0.01 up from 2014 | 806 | 100% | $1,553 | ||
42Tree PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 4.10 0.02 up from 2014 | 376 | 50% | $4,253 | ||
43Society & Natural ResourcesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 2.07 0.04 up from 2014 | 263 | 26% | — | ||
44Forest Ecology and ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.01Q1 | 3.64 0.15 up from 2014 | 1,672 | 25% | $3,560 | ||
45Regional Environmental ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.98Q1 | 2.99 0.01 up from 2014 | 462 | 34% | $3,990 | ||
46Atmospheric ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 3.86 0.03 down from 2014 | 742 | 16% | $3,310 | ||
47Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 1.80 0.07 down from 2014 | 125 | 34% | — | ||
48Environmental DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q2 | 2.04 0.19 down from 2014 | 182 | 22% | $3,540 | ||
49International Journal of ClimatologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.83Q2 | 3.88 0.39 up from 2014 | 822 | 23% | $3,920 | ||
50Conservation and SocietyOAMedknow · India | 1.83Q2 | 2.94 0.78 down from 2014 | 99 | 100% | $600 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change 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.
65 additional Global and Planetary Change 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
- 186
- Window papers (baseline)
- 84,036 +29.0% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 1.011 -4.7% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 | 74 | 78 | 90 | 94 | 96 | 102 | 105 | 106 | 114 | 124 | 138 | 145 | 155 | 164 | 177 | 186 | 193 | 195 | 201 | 209 | 218 | 221 | 232 | 236 | 236 | 241 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 24,031 | 30,384 | 32,743 | 35,500 | 34,111 | 36,298 | 39,005 | 41,671 | 45,634 | 50,223 | 55,090 | 60,147 | 65,138 | 70,955 | 77,964 | 84,036 | 88,379 | 90,518 | 91,924 | 95,134 | 98,815 | 106,095 | 113,902 | 120,307 | 123,368 | 123,867 | |
| Median OJR | 0.70 | 0.789 | 0.794 | 0.78 | 0.90 | 0.88 | 0.97 | 0.928 | 0.92 | 0.931 | 0.977 | 0.999 | 1.061 | 1.09 | 1.07 | 1.011 | 1.064 | 1.04 | 0.96 | 0.99 | 1.013 | 1.03 | 1.02 | 0.975 | 0.982 | 0.978 |
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.