Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2016
193 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 193 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2015 to 1.06, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.83. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Nature Climate Change, and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change.
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)
193 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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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 10.17Q1 | 16.32 0.01 down from 2015 | 69 | 78% | $3,880 | ||
2Nature Climate ChangeNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.01Q1 | 10.86 0.89 up from 2015 | 985 | 38% | $12,690 | ||
3Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 5.15Q1 | 7.12 1.94 up from 2015 | 152 | 44% | $5,450 | ||
4Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 4.25Q1 | 6.99 0.48 down from 2015 | 84 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
5Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 6.58 0.21 down from 2015 | 119 | 23% | $5,000 | ||
6The Anthropocene ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.95Q1 | 8.04 2.40 up from 2015 | 47 | 53% | $3,900 | ||
7Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.85Q1 | 5.03 0.20 down from 2015 | 639 | 100% | $975 | ||
8Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.81Q1 | 3.04 0.24 up from 2015 | 510 | 23% | $3,560 | ||
9Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.45Q1 | 5.81 0.40 down from 2015 | 1,067 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
10Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 4.49 0.24 up from 2015 | 544 | 50% | $4,250 | ||
11Ecosystem ServicesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.12Q1 | 5.41 0.76 up from 2015 | 291 | 41% | $4,100 | ||
12Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.12Q1 | 3.97 0.55 up from 2015 | 797 | 35% | $3,830 | ||
13Earth System DynamicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.11Q1 | 4.82 2.15 down from 2015 | 106 | 100% | $1,585 | ||
14Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 4.93 0.21 up from 2015 | 772 | 48% | $3,500 | ||
15Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews WaterWiley · United States | 3.05Q1 | 3.93 0.49 up from 2015 | 113 | 44% | $4,200 | ||
16Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsOAWiley · United States | 3.01Q1 | 4.73 3.57 down from 2015 | 231 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
17Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.01Q1 | 4.07 0.68 down from 2015 | 876 | 48% | $4,390 | ||
18Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 3.70no change | 605 | 38% | $3,220 | ||
19International Journal of Digital EarthOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 3.30 0.23 up from 2015 | 139 | 94% | $2,390 | ||
20AnthropoceneElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 3.32 1.68 down from 2015 | 93 | 48% | $3,770 | ||
21Environmental ReviewsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 2.82Q1 | 3.45 1.68 down from 2015 | 94 | 58% | — | ||
22AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 2.80Q1 | 4.63 1.77 up from 2015 | 364 | 98% | $4,490 | ||
23Carbon Balance and ManagementOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 4.50 0.91 down from 2015 | 52 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
24Remote SensingOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.69Q1 | 4.44 0.24 up from 2015 | 1,698 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
25Environmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.67Q1 | 4.82 1.57 up from 2015 | 126 | 64% | $3,610 | ||
26Ecosystem Health and SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 3.19no 2015 value | 32 | 100% | $1,459 | — | |
27Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.60Q1 | 5.08 0.27 down from 2015 | 3,746 | 78% | $3,190 | ||
28Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.58Q1 | 4.61 0.05 down from 2015 | 643 | 17% | $3,590 | ||
29Journal of Geophysical Research BiogeosciencesWiley · United States | 2.58Q1 | 4.33 0.65 down from 2015 | 469 | 67% | $4,070 | ||
30Weather and Climate ExtremesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 4.16 0.75 up from 2015 | 100 | 100% | $3,969 | ||
31Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 4.38 0.45 up from 2015 | 2,258 | 23% | $4,030 | ||
32Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.45Q1 | 4.85 1.20 down from 2015 | 1,609 | 28% | — | ||
33Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 2.43Q1 | 2.22 0.09 down from 2015 | 134 | 30% | — | ||
34Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 4.19 0.32 up from 2015 | 1,384 | 30% | $3,650 | ||
35Climate Risk ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.38Q1 | 2.98 0.98 down from 2015 | 64 | 100% | $3,130 | ||
36Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 2.36Q1 | 2.75 0.15 down from 2015 | 189 | 27% | $3,890 | ||
37Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 2.42 0.62 up from 2015 | 141 | 51% | — | ||
38Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 3.74 0.11 down from 2015 | 482 | 28% | $4,390 | ||
39Journal of Environmental InformaticsPublisher not listed | 2.30Q1 | 4.37 0.83 down from 2015 | 92 | 89% | — | ||
40BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.24Q1 | 3.43 0.93 up from 2015 | 610 | 52% | $5,088 | ||
41Natural hazards and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.19Q1 | 3.14 0.01 down from 2015 | 705 | 100% | $1,553 | ||
42Forest Ecology and ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 3.75 0.11 up from 2015 | 1,689 | 36% | $3,560 | ||
43Tree PhysiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 3.88 0.22 down from 2015 | 383 | 41% | $4,253 | ||
44Regional Environmental ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.01Q1 | 2.70 0.30 down from 2015 | 511 | 41% | $3,990 | ||
45Atmospheric measurement techniquesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.00Q1 | 4.22 0.86 down from 2015 | 877 | 100% | $1,585 | ||
46Human EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 1.62 0.04 down from 2015 | 275 | 22% | $2,290 | ||
47International Journal of ClimatologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 3.00 0.88 down from 2015 | 947 | 22% | $3,920 | ||
48Meteorologische ZeitschriftOAE. Schweizerbart · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 1.39 1.51 down from 2015 | 185 | 100% | $1,402 | ||
49Environmental Policy and GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 2.16 0.38 down from 2015 | 100 | 37% | $3,800 | ||
50Climate DynamicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.81Q2 | 3.70 0.95 down from 2015 | 1,289 | 37% | $3,790 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change 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.
59 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 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
- 193
- Window papers (baseline)
- 88,379 +24.6% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.064 -2.1% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.