Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Environmental Engineering journal rankings 2016
42 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Environmental Engineering has 42 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR rose 0.11 on 2015 to 1.26, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.19. The top three are Remote Sensing of Environment, Economic Systems Research, and Journal of Cleaner Production.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 4.34Q1 | 7.69 0.54 up from 2015 | 1,123 | 45% | $4,450 | ||
2Economic Systems ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.16Q1 | 3.36 2.43 down from 2015 | 77 | 24% | — | ||
3Journal of Cleaner ProductionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.46Q1 | 5.87 0.19 up from 2015 | 3,300 | 24% | $4,660 | ||
4International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and GeoinformationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.99Q1 | 4.62 0.32 up from 2015 | 487 | 40% | $3,550 | ||
5Applied GeomaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.62Q1 | 1.41 0.51 down from 2015 | 67 | 43% | $3,290 | ||
6Journal of Industrial EcologyWiley · United States | 2.37Q1 | 3.77 0.40 up from 2015 | 353 | 40% | $3,750 | ||
7International journal of greenhouse gas controlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 4.39 0.18 down from 2015 | 934 | 39% | $4,100 | ||
8Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote SensingAmerican Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · United States | 2.24Q1 | 3.34 1.73 up from 2015 | 267 | 77% | — | ||
9Urban ClimateElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.23Q1 | 3.80 0.64 up from 2015 | 193 | 17% | $3,690 | ||
10Advances in Water ResourcesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 3.50 0.25 down from 2015 | 525 | 40% | $3,840 | ||
11The International Journal of Life Cycle AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.19Q1 | 4.14 0.26 up from 2015 | 454 | 36% | $3,990 | ||
12Sustainable Cities and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.16Q2 | 3.34 0.35 up from 2015 | 262 | 30% | $4,870 | ||
13Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial AerodynamicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.95Q2 | 2.61 0.17 up from 2015 | 510 | 12% | $3,880 | ||
14The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space ScienceOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 1.86Q2 | 3.33 0.65 up from 2015 | 74 | 100% | $900 | ||
15Earth Science InformaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.52Q2 | 2.24 0.61 up from 2015 | 133 | 28% | $3,890 | ||
16ISPRS annals of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.47Q2 | 1.65 0.30 up from 2015 | 609 | 100% | — | ||
17Canadian Journal of Remote SensingOATaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.47Q2 | 2.33 0.04 up from 2015 | 148 | 10% | — | ||
18Urban Water JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.45Q2 | 1.73 0.23 down from 2015 | 233 | 40% | — | ||
19Journal of Contaminant HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q2 | 2.20 0.09 down from 2015 | 327 | 27% | $3,640 | ||
20European Journal of Remote SensingOATaylor & Francis · Italy | 1.29Q2 | 2.24 0.32 up from 2015 | 145 | 100% | $1,060 | ||
21Hydrogeology JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.28Q2 | 2.20 0.42 up from 2015 | 388 | 27% | $2,390 | ||
22Boundary-Layer MeteorologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.24Q3 | 2.57 0.26 down from 2015 | 307 | 34% | $3,790 | ||
23Geo-spatial Information ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.24Q3 | 1.53 0.21 up from 2015 | 69 | 100% | $1,993 | ||
24Environmental Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.10Q3 | 1.83 0.05 up from 2015 | 2,580 | 13% | $2,290 | ||
25Greenhouse Gases Science and TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.10Q3 | 1.86 0.31 up from 2015 | 206 | 23% | $3,570 | ||
26Ground WaterWiley · United States | 1.08Q3 | 1.55 0.04 down from 2015 | 417 | 18% | $4,100 | ||
27Journal of Spatial ScienceTaylor & Francis · Australia | 1.05Q3 | 0.70 0.40 down from 2015 | 86 | 35% | — | ||
28Photogrammetrie - Fernerkundung - GeoinformationE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 1.00Q3 | 1.11 0.27 up from 2015 | 135 | 11% | — | ||
29Aquatic ProcediaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.89Q3 | 1.10 0.13 down from 2015 | 274 | 100% | — | ||
30Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental StatisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.77Q3 | 1.03 0.23 down from 2015 | 108 | 22% | $3,090 | ||
31Groundwater Monitoring & RemediationWiley · United States | 0.76Q3 | 1.13 0.35 up from 2015 | 127 | 11% | $3,920 | ||
32Geomicrobiology JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.72Q3 | 1.23 0.23 down from 2015 | 322 | 15% | — | ||
33Advances in geosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.65Q4 | 1.04 0.16 down from 2015 | 91 | 100% | $301 | ||
34Wind and StructuresSouth Korea | 0.47Q4 | 0.97 0.09 down from 2015 | 222 | 1% | — | ||
35International Journal of VentilationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.45Q4 | 0.62 0.41 down from 2015 | 94 | 20% | — | ||
36Research Journal of Applied Sciences Engineering and TechnologyOAMaxwell Scientific Publications · United Kingdom | 0.23Q4 | 0.27 0.01 down from 2015 | 3,143 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.21Q4 | 0.21 0.01 up from 2015 | 120 | 2% | — | |||
38GrundwasserSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.20Q4 | 0.38 0.01 up from 2015 | 94 | 30% | $2,290 | ||
39Journal of Water Management ModelingOACanada | 0.17Q4 | 0.43 0.09 down from 2015 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
40International Journal of Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.14Q4 | 0.15 0.06 up from 2015 | 331 | 9% | — | ||
41LCM 2013Publisher not listed | 0.11Q4 | —no 2015 value | 126 | — | — | ||
42Journal of Groundwater Science and EngineeringOATsinghua University Press | 0.06Q4 | 0.12 0.10 up from 2015 | 126 | 95% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Environmental Engineering highlighted.
- Ecology276
- Global and Planetary Change193
- Water Science and Technology95
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis76
- Nature and Landscape Conservation62
- Pollution56
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law45
- Environmental Engineering42
- Waste Management and Disposal19
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling5
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 42
- Window papers (baseline)
- 43,684 +30.9% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.263 +2.4% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.