Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Water Science and Technology journal rankings 2016
95 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Water Science and Technology has 95 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2015 to 0.61, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.32. The top three are Water Resources and Industry, Hydrology and earth system sciences, and Journal of Membrane Science.
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)
95 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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1Water Resources and IndustryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.31Q1 | 5.70 0.93 up from 2015 | 52 | 100% | $3,613 | ||
2Hydrology and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.15Q1 | 5.26 0.12 down from 2015 | 967 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
3Journal of Membrane ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 6.19 0.07 up from 2015 | 2,401 | 22% | $4,890 | ||
4Separation and Purification ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.04Q1 | 4.19 1.27 down from 2015 | 41 | 5% | — | ||
5Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.71Q1 | 5.19 0.44 up from 2015 | 1,745 | 70% | $3,000 | ||
6DesalinationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 5.83 0.96 up from 2015 | 1,205 | 15% | $4,580 | ||
7Journal of Water Process EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 4.00 0.44 up from 2015 | 211 | 4% | $3,350 | ||
8Environmental Nanotechnology Monitoring & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 3.85 1.79 up from 2015 | 34 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
9Journal of Hydrology Regional StudiesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.14Q1 | 3.16 0.09 up from 2015 | 125 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
10ResourcesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.06Q1 | 3.29 0.34 up from 2015 | 114 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
11Separation and Purification TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.94Q1 | 3.69 0.06 down from 2015 | 1,845 | 14% | $4,060 | ||
12Hydrological ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 3.18 0.15 up from 2015 | 974 | 28% | $5,230 | ||
13Journal of environmental chemical engineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 3.75 0.04 up from 2015 | 908 | 10% | $3,350 | ||
14Water Intelligence OnlineUWA Publishing | 1.68Q1 | 1.92 0.60 down from 2015 | 396 | 8% | — | ||
15International Journal of Hydrology Science and TechnologyInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 3.43 2.92 up from 2015 | 73 | 0% | — | ||
16JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources AssociationWiley · United States | 1.63Q1 | 2.61 0.54 up from 2015 | 335 | 18% | $3,200 | ||
17WaterOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.57Q1 | 2.52 0.06 up from 2015 | 693 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
18Minerals EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 2.61 0.46 up from 2015 | 800 | 12% | $4,220 | ||
19Environmental Science Water Research & TechnologyRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 2.51 0.28 up from 2015 | 111 | 30% | — | ||
20Hydrological Sciences JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.38Q1 | 1.90 0.32 down from 2015 | 585 | 98% | — | ||
21MembranesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.35Q1 | 2.70 0.12 up from 2015 | 125 | 100% | $2,654 | ||
22Environmental ProcessesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.33Q1 | 2.69 1.43 up from 2015 | 107 | 8% | $2,390 | ||
23International Journal of Mineral ProcessingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.32Q1 | 1.95 0.02 down from 2015 | 369 | 14% | $2,500 | ||
24Applied Water ScienceOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.32Q1 | 2.02 0.36 up from 2015 | 296 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
25Water Quality Exposure and HealthSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 1.18Q2 | 1.60 0.20 up from 2015 | 91 | — | — | ||
26Journal of Hydrologic EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.18Q2 | 1.80 0.30 up from 2015 | 526 | 7% | — | ||
27International Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 1.17Q2 | 2.19 0.38 up from 2015 | 763 | 26% | $3,490 | ||
28Journal of Chemical Technology & BiotechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 2.43 0.19 up from 2015 | 891 | 21% | $4,100 | ||
29Aquacultural EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 2.02 0.73 up from 2015 | 162 | 33% | $3,500 | ||
30Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriquesTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.11Q2 | 1.79 0.56 up from 2015 | 137 | 96% | — | ||
31Sustainability of water quality and ecologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.06Q2 | 1.88 1.20 up from 2015 | 43 | 15% | — | ||
32Hydrological Research LettersOAJapan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources · Japan | 1.06Q2 | 1.66 0.19 up from 2015 | 56 | 100% | $414 | ||
33Water and Environment JournalWiley · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 1.52 0.30 up from 2015 | 113 | 10% | $4,000 | ||
34Water SAOAWater Research Commission · South Africa | 0.84Q2 | 1.08 0.09 down from 2015 | 278 | 100% | — | ||
35Environmental TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 1.50 0.19 down from 2015 | 1,145 | 10% | — | ||
36International Journal of River Basin ManagementTaylor & Francis | 0.79Q2 | 1.10 0.06 down from 2015 | 116 | 15% | — | ||
37World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2015Publisher not listed | 0.75Q2 | 0.21no 2015 value | 266 | — | — | — | |
38International Journal of Environmental & Analytical ChemistryTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.74Q2 | 1.35 0.01 down from 2015 | 278 | 21% | — | ||
39Journal of Environmental EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.72Q2 | 1.15 0.03 down from 2015 | 398 | 6% | — | ||
40Journal of Applied Water Engineering and ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 0.88 0.72 down from 2015 | 59 | 18% | — | ||
41Water Science & TechnologyOAPergamon Press | 0.69Q2 | 1.10 0.31 down from 2015 | 1,957 | 10% | — | ||
42International Journal of Environmental ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.68Q2 | 0.97 0.21 down from 2015 | 283 | 0% | $3,790 | ||
43Journal of Encapsulation and Adsorption SciencesOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.67Q2 | 1.28 0.02 up from 2015 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
44Open Journal of Modern HydrologyOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.67Q2 | 1.20 0.39 up from 2015 | 60 | 100% | — | ||
45Sustainable Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.66Q2 | 0.85no 2015 value | 39 | 97% | $3,190 | ||
46Separation Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.66Q2 | 1.10 0.14 down from 2015 | 1,063 | 6% | — | ||
47Journal of Contemporary Water Research & EducationWiley · United States | 0.65Q2 | 0.94 0.31 up from 2015 | 70 | 63% | $3,000 | ||
48Environmental Engineering ResearchOAKorean Society of Environmental Engineering · South Korea | 0.61Q2 | 1.23 0.16 up from 2015 | 146 | 99% | — | ||
49APCBEE ProcediaElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.61Q3 | 0.78 0.01 down from 2015 | 321 | — | — | ||
50Journal of Water Resource and ProtectionOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.58Q3 | 0.76 0.08 up from 2015 | 448 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Water Science and Technology 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.
31 additional Water Science and Technology 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
- 95
- Window papers (baseline)
- 71,057 +11.1% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.61 +3.7% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 34 | 36 | 38 | 39 | 41 | 43 | 46 | 47 | 49 | 52 | 58 | 66 | 67 | 72 | 82 | 87 | 95 | 101 | 103 | 97 | 101 | 101 | 103 | 104 | 103 | 103 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 14,781 | 17,791 | 20,498 | 23,486 | 25,734 | 28,549 | 32,247 | 36,403 | 40,771 | 44,936 | 50,005 | 54,989 | 59,878 | 63,966 | 68,372 | 71,167 | 71,057 | 68,448 | 68,167 | 70,866 | 75,349 | 79,702 | 82,811 | 85,893 | 88,063 | 92,086 | |
| Median OJR | 0.596 | 0.603 | 0.650 | 0.663 | 0.62 | 0.651 | 0.684 | 0.514 | 0.50 | 0.45 | 0.47 | 0.512 | 0.645 | 0.590 | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.61 | 0.589 | 0.57 | 0.597 | 0.656 | 0.677 | 0.654 | 0.664 | 0.70 | 0.75 |
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.