Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Field ranking · 2018
Environmental Science journal rankings 2018
910 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 910 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.83, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.46. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Nature Climate Change, and Landslides.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
Up to Physical Sciences910 ranked journals
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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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 10.12Q1 | 17.72 1.42 up from 2017 | 90 | 77% | $3,880 | ||
2Nature Climate ChangeNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.61Q1 | 13.05 0.46 up from 2017 | 898 | 42% | $12,690 | ||
3LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.87Q1 | 4.34 0.16 down from 2017 | 375 | 28% | $4,590 | ||
4The Anthropocene ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.87Q1 | 6.92 4.24 down from 2017 | 59 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
5Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 5.68Q1 | 8.12 1.51 up from 2017 | 156 | 49% | $5,450 | ||
6Global Food SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.50Q1 | 6.96 2.28 up from 2017 | 115 | 63% | $5,240 | ||
7Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 5.30Q1 | 7.09 4.43 up from 2017 | 131 | 24% | — | ||
8Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.21Q1 | 4.72 0.34 down from 2017 | 265 | 33% | $4,380 | ||
9Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 5.14Q1 | 8.39 0.64 up from 2017 | 100 | 55% | $3,970 | ||
10Environmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.12Q1 | 8.16 1.63 up from 2017 | 132 | 53% | $3,610 | ||
11The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 4.92Q1 | 10.74 0.57 up from 2017 | 673 | 100% | $4,153 | ||
12Current Climate Change ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.80Q1 | 8.72 0.83 down from 2017 | 82 | 46% | $4,490 | ||
13ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote SensingElsevier BV | 4.65Q1 | 8.25 0.91 up from 2017 | 538 | 38% | $3,310 | ||
14Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.45Q1 | 8.43 0.01 down from 2017 | 1,189 | 51% | $4,550 | ||
15Methods in Ecology and EvolutionOAWiley · United States | 4.34Q1 | 7.31 0.75 up from 2017 | 564 | 63% | $3,500 | ||
16Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 4.13Q1 | 9.11 1.71 up from 2017 | 1,284 | 52% | $4,450 | ||
17Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 5.13 1.62 up from 2017 | 216 | 47% | $5,000 | ||
18Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 4.07Q1 | 7.24 1.58 up from 2017 | 327 | 60% | $3,970 | ||
19The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.04Q1 | 2.36 0.66 down from 2017 | 92 | 29% | — | ||
20Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 4.69 1.14 up from 2017 | 132 | 55% | — | ||
21Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 6.20 0.86 up from 2017 | 636 | 50% | $4,250 | ||
22Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 4.41 0.51 up from 2017 | 513 | 12% | $3,560 | ||
23Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 2.41 0.03 down from 2017 | 269 | 42% | — | ||
24Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 3.63Q1 | 5.92 0.33 up from 2017 | 261 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
25Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.62Q1 | 6.16 0.97 up from 2017 | 566 | 100% | $975 | ||
26Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.59Q1 | 8.72 1.04 up from 2017 | 881 | 70% | $4,750 | ||
27Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.55Q1 | 7.81 3.05 up from 2017 | 171 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
28Environmental Health PerspectivesOANational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · United States | 3.53Q1 | 7.21 0.14 up from 2017 | 838 | 100% | $4,500 | ||
29Landscape and Urban PlanningElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.51Q1 | 5.87 0.44 up from 2017 | 583 | 40% | $3,120 | ||
30Global Ecology and BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.50Q1 | 6.61 0.13 up from 2017 | 391 | 38% | $5,000 | ||
31Weather and Climate ExtremesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.48Q1 | 5.07 0.36 down from 2017 | 87 | 100% | $3,969 | ||
32Resources Conservation and RecyclingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.47Q1 | 7.27 1.78 up from 2017 | 775 | 25% | $5,270 | ||
33Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 8.71 1.17 up from 2017 | 2,393 | 33% | $4,660 | ||
34Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 5.80 0.65 up from 2017 | 551 | 61% | $3,610 | ||
35Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.36Q1 | 5.31 0.57 down from 2017 | 707 | 66% | $3,610 | ||
36Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.31Q1 | 4.08 1.53 up from 2017 | 138 | 26% | $3,900 | ||
37Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.30Q1 | 5.31 2.49 down from 2017 | 129 | 35% | — | ||
38Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 7.28 1.09 up from 2017 | 1,256 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
39Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.26Q1 | 5.73 2.68 down from 2017 | 94 | 7% | $5,190 | ||
40Engineering GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.23Q1 | 4.32 0.72 up from 2017 | 775 | 22% | $4,210 | ||
41Molecular Ecology ResourcesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 6.51 0.36 up from 2017 | 384 | 44% | $5,250 | ||
42International Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 6.35 0.24 up from 2017 | 787 | 91% | $4,514 | ||
43Environmental Science & Technology LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.17Q1 | 8.04 1.34 up from 2017 | 255 | 27% | $4,500 | ||
44Journal of Cleaner ProductionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.16Q1 | 7.23 1.22 up from 2017 | 6,622 | 23% | $4,660 | ||
45Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews WaterWiley · United States | 3.15Q1 | 5.44 0.40 up from 2017 | 183 | 42% | $4,200 | ||
46Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.13Q1 | 7.99 0.76 up from 2017 | 4,792 | 31% | $4,500 | ||
47Ecosystem ServicesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.11Q1 | 6.44 0.88 up from 2017 | 481 | 48% | $4,100 | ||
48Journal of Hazardous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.98Q1 | 8.24 1.80 up from 2017 | 2,642 | 16% | $4,340 | ||
49AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 2.97Q1 | 4.87 0.50 up from 2017 | 382 | 99% | $4,490 | ||
50EcographyOAWiley · Denmark | 2.96Q1 | 5.96 1.30 up from 2017 | 443 | 50% | $3,190 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- Ecology274
- Global and Planetary Change201
- Water Science and Technology103
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis85
- Nature and Landscape Conservation58
- Pollution58
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law48
- Environmental Engineering47
- Waste Management and Disposal20
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling6
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
256 additional Environmental Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 910
- Window papers (baseline)
- 603,145 +2.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.829 -5.8% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.