Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law journal rankings 2015
43 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law has 43 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2014 to 0.81, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.82. The top three are The Journal of Environmental Education, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, and Landslides.
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)
43 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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1The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 6.16Q1 | 3.00 1.21 up from 2014 | 57 | 15% | — | ||
2Impact Assessment and Project AppraisalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.71Q1 | 1.78 1.64 down from 2014 | 130 | 97% | — | ||
3LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.33Q1 | 3.03 0.39 down from 2014 | 226 | 14% | $4,590 | ||
4Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 1.74 0.39 down from 2014 | 192 | 15% | — | ||
5Engineering GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.25Q1 | 2.89 0.32 up from 2014 | 623 | 20% | $4,210 | ||
6MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.72Q1 | 2.42 0.07 up from 2014 | 45 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
7Review of European Community & International Environmental LawWiley · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | —no 2014 value | 33 | — | — | ||
8Ocean Development & International LawTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 0.82 0.32 up from 2014 | 58 | 19% | — | ||
9Marine PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 2.95 0.39 down from 2014 | 679 | 38% | $4,260 | ||
10Coastal ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.12Q1 | 1.94 0.61 up from 2014 | 102 | 18% | — | ||
11Ocean & Coastal ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 2.06 0.51 down from 2014 | 664 | 32% | $4,350 | ||
12Journal of Education for Sustainable DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.73Q2 | 0.77 0.33 down from 2014 | 108 | 9% | $3,400 | ||
13Applied Environmental Education & CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 1.07 0.65 up from 2014 | 77 | 13% | — | ||
14Nomadic PeoplesOABerghahn Books · United Kingdom | 1.38Q2 | 0.63 0.31 up from 2014 | 52 | 8% | — | ||
15Australian Journal of Environmental EducationOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 0.66 0.19 up from 2014 | 80 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
16Geomatics Natural Hazards and RiskOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 1.15 0.10 down from 2014 | 136 | 94% | $1,790 | ||
17Australasian Journal of Environmental ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 1.13 0.03 down from 2014 | 74 | 19% | — | ||
18Environmental and Engineering GeoscienceGeological Society of America · United States | 0.92Q2 | 0.95 0.22 down from 2014 | 94 | 2% | — | ||
19Journal of Mountain ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.91Q2 | 1.21 0.04 up from 2014 | 332 | 10% | $3,190 | ||
20Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and HydrogeologyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 0.91Q2 | 1.27no change | 117 | 12% | — | ||
21Environmental PracticeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 0.43 0.64 down from 2014 | 154 | 0% | — | ||
22Revista de Economia e Sociologia RuralOABrazilian Society of Economy, Administration and Rural Sociology · Brazil | 0.81Q2 | 0.42 0.26 down from 2014 | 141 | 100% | $114 | ||
23Marine Technology Society JournalMarine Technology Society · United States | 0.76Q3 | 0.89 0.17 up from 2014 | 204 | 100% | — | ||
24Environmental HistoryOxford University Press · United States | 0.70Q3 | 0.31 0.15 down from 2014 | 170 | 3% | — | ||
25Oceanography Open AccessOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.61Q3 | 1.12 0.91 up from 2014 | 42 | 0% | — | ||
26Journal of Environmental Accounting and ManagementUnited States | 0.47Q3 | 0.66 0.67 down from 2014 | 56 | 3% | — | ||
27Revue internationale de géomatiquePublisher not listed | 0.42Q3 | 0.20 0.33 down from 2014 | 66 | 29% | — | ||
28Revista de Gestão Costeira IntegradaOAPortugal | 0.42Q3 | 0.57 0.11 down from 2014 | 154 | 100% | — | ||
29Cuadernos de Desarrollo RuralOAColombia | 0.41Q3 | 0.32 0.23 up from 2014 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
30Interdisciplinary Environmental ReviewInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 0.40 0.22 up from 2014 | 46 | 6% | — | ||
31International Journal of Global Environmental IssuesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.39Q3 | 0.43 0.07 up from 2014 | 44 | 14% | — | ||
32PsyEcology Bilingual Journal of Environmental PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.37Q3 | 0.44 0.03 up from 2014 | 63 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
33Focus on GeographyWiley · United States | 0.29Q3 | 0.11 0.17 down from 2014 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
| 0.27Q4 | 0.13 0.06 down from 2014 | 41 | 100% | — | |||
| 0.24Q4 | 0.34 0.09 down from 2014 | 146 | 0% | — | |||
36International Journal of Marine ScienceOACanada | 0.24Q4 | 0.31 0.27 down from 2014 | 123 | 0% | — | ||
37Great Plains researchUnited States | 0.23Q4 | 0.14 0.14 up from 2014 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
38AestimumOAFirenze University Press · Italy | 0.20Q4 | 0.13 0.01 down from 2014 | 102 | 100% | — | ||
39Desenvolvimento e Meio AmbienteOAUniversidade Federal do Paraná · Brazil | 0.17Q4 | 0.10 0.06 down from 2014 | 103 | 100% | — | ||
40Journal on Innovation and Sustainability RISUSOAPontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo · Brazil | 0.15Q4 | 0.12 0.05 down from 2014 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.14Q4 | 0.09no change | 77 | 0% | — | |||
42Material cultureUnited States | 0.10Q4 | 0.02 0.02 down from 2014 | 74 | 0% | — | ||
43Limnology and Oceanography BulletinWiley · United States | 0.06Q4 | 0.13 0.07 up from 2014 | 161 | 47% | $3,200 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 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.
20 additional Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 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
- 43
- Window papers (baseline)
- 70,521 +32.6% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 0.809 +0.1% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 29 | 30 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 37 | 39 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 45 | 47 | 48 | 46 | 48 | 52 | 50 | 49 | 45 | 51 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,898 | 23,584 | 24,910 | 26,482 | 27,162 | 29,381 | 31,175 | 33,271 | 36,179 | 39,779 | 44,244 | 48,227 | 53,183 | 58,012 | 62,749 | 70,521 | 76,396 | 80,810 | 81,185 | 84,297 | 88,938 | 96,369 | 100,675 | 101,264 | 100,899 | 103,822 | |
| Median OJR | 0.77 | 0.716 | 0.874 | 0.67 | 0.66 | 0.76 | 0.82 | 0.729 | 0.85 | 0.875 | 0.84 | 0.727 | 0.808 | 0.685 | 0.75 | 0.809 | 0.78 | 0.720 | 0.693 | 0.687 | 0.526 | 0.525 | 0.613 | 0.62 | 0.74 | 0.612 |
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.