Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Field ranking · 2017
Environmental Science journal rankings 2017
894 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 894 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.86, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 1.52. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Nature Climate Change, and Landslides.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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 in Environmental Science (11)
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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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 10.27Q1 | 16.30 0.02 down from 2016 | 74 | 56% | $3,880 | ||
2Nature Climate ChangeNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.62Q1 | 12.59 1.74 up from 2016 | 969 | 35% | $12,690 | ||
3LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 6.70Q1 | 4.50 1.59 up from 2016 | 317 | 24% | $4,590 | ||
4Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 5.82Q1 | 7.75 0.39 down from 2016 | 88 | 51% | $3,970 | ||
5Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.81Q1 | 5.06 0.21 down from 2016 | 258 | 39% | $4,380 | ||
6Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 5.46Q1 | 6.60 0.52 down from 2016 | 162 | 43% | $5,450 | ||
7The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.43Q1 | 3.02 0.63 up from 2016 | 72 | 30% | — | ||
8Global Food SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.34Q1 | 4.68 0.67 down from 2016 | 96 | 62% | $5,240 | ||
| 5.30Q1 | 7.33 1.05 down from 2016 | 522 | 35% | $3,310 | |||
10Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 5.09Q1 | 8.43 0.63 down from 2016 | 1,094 | 44% | $4,550 | ||
11The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 5.08Q1 | 10.17 0.21 up from 2016 | 705 | 100% | $4,153 | ||
12Current Climate Change ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.94Q1 | 9.55 0.17 up from 2016 | 51 | 65% | $4,490 | ||
13Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.52Q1 | 7.80 0.80 down from 2016 | 123 | 15% | — | ||
14The Anthropocene ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.44Q1 | 11.16 3.12 up from 2016 | 62 | 45% | $3,900 | ||
15Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 4.23Q1 | 7.68 0.71 down from 2016 | 869 | 44% | $4,750 | ||
16Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 2.43 0.61 up from 2016 | 263 | 24% | — | ||
17Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 4.19Q1 | 5.66 0.97 down from 2016 | 320 | 57% | $3,970 | ||
18Global Ecology and BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.11Q1 | 6.48 0.36 down from 2016 | 401 | 41% | $5,000 | ||
19Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 4.11Q1 | 7.40 0.28 down from 2016 | 1,190 | 41% | $4,450 | ||
20Methods in Ecology and EvolutionOAWiley · United States | 4.03Q1 | 6.56 0.22 up from 2016 | 509 | 63% | $3,500 | ||
21Landscape and Urban PlanningElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.98Q1 | 5.42 0.47 down from 2016 | 577 | 40% | $3,120 | ||
22Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.92Q1 | 3.89 0.85 up from 2016 | 540 | 14% | $3,560 | ||
23Environmental Health PerspectivesOANational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · United States | 3.91Q1 | 7.07 0.68 down from 2016 | 928 | 100% | $4,500 | ||
24Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.88Q1 | 5.16 0.98 down from 2016 | 515 | 51% | $3,610 | ||
25Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.79Q1 | 8.41 2.58 up from 2016 | 85 | 20% | $5,190 | ||
26Environmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.72Q1 | 6.53 1.71 up from 2016 | 129 | 42% | $3,610 | ||
27Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.69Q1 | 4.76 2.23 down from 2016 | 133 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
28Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 5.88 0.35 down from 2016 | 635 | 57% | $3,610 | ||
29Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 3.65Q1 | 5.59 0.25 up from 2016 | 242 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
30Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.65Q1 | 5.19 0.17 up from 2016 | 628 | 100% | $975 | ||
31Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.58Q1 | 7.64 0.12 down from 2016 | 175 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
32Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 7.54 0.15 up from 2016 | 2,223 | 28% | $4,660 | ||
33Water Resources and IndustryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.48Q1 | 5.34 0.35 down from 2016 | 57 | 100% | $3,613 | ||
34Weather and Climate ExtremesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.47Q1 | 5.43 1.27 up from 2016 | 108 | 100% | $3,969 | ||
35Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 6.19 0.38 up from 2016 | 1,107 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
36Engineering GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.42Q1 | 3.61 0.31 up from 2016 | 717 | 18% | $4,210 | ||
37Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.39Q1 | 2.54 0.80 down from 2016 | 132 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
38International Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 6.11 0.57 down from 2016 | 763 | 87% | $4,514 | ||
39Resources Conservation and RecyclingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 5.49 0.71 up from 2016 | 636 | 20% | $5,270 | ||
40Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.36Q1 | 5.34 0.85 up from 2016 | 584 | 48% | $4,250 | ||
41Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.31Q1 | 7.24 0.30 up from 2016 | 4,887 | 33% | $4,500 | ||
42Environmental Science & Technology LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.25Q1 | 6.71 1.16 up from 2016 | 222 | 35% | $4,500 | ||
43Journal of Cleaner ProductionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.23Q1 | 6.00 0.14 up from 2016 | 4,866 | 18% | $4,660 | ||
44Environmental HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 5.79 0.26 up from 2016 | 333 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
45Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.22Q1 | 3.52 3.07 down from 2016 | 166 | 32% | $5,000 | ||
46Conservation BiologyWiley · United States | 3.21Q1 | 4.76 0.53 down from 2016 | 631 | 49% | $3,400 | ||
47MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.19Q1 | 2.22 0.30 up from 2016 | 55 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
48AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 3.17Q1 | 4.37 0.26 down from 2016 | 363 | 99% | $4,490 | ||
49Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews WaterWiley · United States | 3.14Q1 | 5.04 1.11 up from 2016 | 156 | 44% | $4,200 | ||
50EcographyOAWiley · Denmark | 3.14Q1 | 4.66 0.28 down from 2016 | 469 | 44% | $3,190 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- Ecology274
- Global and Planetary Change195
- Water Science and Technology101
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis81
- Nature and Landscape Conservation59
- Pollution58
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law47
- Environmental Engineering44
- Waste Management and Disposal20
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling5
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
267 additional Environmental Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 894
- Window papers (baseline)
- 609,229 +9.6% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.86 -4.6% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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 | 429 | 465 | 498 | 528 | 542 | 555 | 565 | 584 | 621 | 658 | 691 | 730 | 752 | 781 | 816 | 854 | 879 | 894 | 910 | 907 | 926 | 945 | 982 | 992 | 992 | 998 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 177,914 | 208,192 | 224,441 | 245,259 | 251,131 | 272,523 | 295,719 | 323,264 | 355,145 | 387,726 | 421,450 | 454,259 | 488,219 | 520,283 | 555,752 | 588,865 | 606,383 | 609,229 | 603,145 | 613,842 | 636,773 | 681,372 | 729,009 | 768,184 | 799,466 | 839,315 | |
| Median OJR | 0.68 | 0.73 | 0.763 | 0.755 | 0.753 | 0.7599 | 0.820 | 0.814 | 0.84 | 0.832 | 0.85 | 0.885 | 0.916 | 0.917 | 0.90 | 0.879 | 0.89 | 0.86 | 0.829 | 0.815 | 0.824 | 0.80 | 0.757 | 0.7602 | 0.77 | 0.79 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.0% | 780 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.062 per 1,000 | 688 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -2.4% | 896 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 79.2% | 998 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,120 | 607 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 30.3% | 956 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 998 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.80 | 989 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 26.5% | 998 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 41.9% | 995 journals |
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.