Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2018
201 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 201 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2017 to 0.96, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.74. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Nature Climate Change, and The Anthropocene Review.
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 of Environmental Science (11)
201 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 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 | ||
3The Anthropocene ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.87Q1 | 6.92 4.24 down from 2017 | 59 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
4Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 5.68Q1 | 8.12 1.51 up from 2017 | 156 | 49% | $5,450 | ||
5Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 5.30Q1 | 7.09 4.43 up from 2017 | 131 | 24% | — | ||
6Environmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.12Q1 | 8.16 1.63 up from 2017 | 132 | 53% | $3,610 | ||
7Current Climate Change ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.80Q1 | 8.72 0.83 down from 2017 | 82 | 46% | $4,490 | ||
8Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 5.13 1.62 up from 2017 | 216 | 47% | $5,000 | ||
9Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 4.69 1.14 up from 2017 | 132 | 55% | — | ||
10Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.77Q1 | 6.20 0.86 up from 2017 | 636 | 50% | $4,250 | ||
11Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.74Q1 | 4.41 0.51 up from 2017 | 513 | 12% | $3,560 | ||
12Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.62Q1 | 6.16 0.97 up from 2017 | 566 | 100% | $975 | ||
13Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.55Q1 | 7.81 3.05 up from 2017 | 171 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
14Weather and Climate ExtremesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.48Q1 | 5.07 0.36 down from 2017 | 87 | 100% | $3,969 | ||
15Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 7.28 1.09 up from 2017 | 1,256 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
16Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews WaterWiley · United States | 3.15Q1 | 5.44 0.40 up from 2017 | 183 | 42% | $4,200 | ||
17Ecosystem ServicesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.11Q1 | 6.44 0.88 up from 2017 | 481 | 48% | $4,100 | ||
18AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 2.97Q1 | 4.87 0.50 up from 2017 | 382 | 99% | $4,490 | ||
19Climate Risk ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 5.24 2.25 up from 2017 | 110 | 100% | $3,130 | ||
20Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.90Q1 | 4.19 0.31 up from 2017 | 1,322 | 33% | $3,830 | ||
21Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.88Q1 | 5.16 0.78 up from 2017 | 765 | 42% | $4,390 | ||
22Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.80Q1 | 3.91 0.23 down from 2017 | 534 | 30% | $3,220 | ||
23Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 2.72Q1 | 3.69 0.77 up from 2017 | 309 | 47% | $3,890 | ||
24BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.71Q1 | 4.82 0.89 up from 2017 | 499 | 48% | $5,088 | ||
25Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 5.26 0.41 up from 2017 | 764 | 55% | $3,500 | ||
26AnthropoceneElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 5.08 0.63 up from 2017 | 85 | 33% | $3,770 | ||
27Environmental DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 2.68 0.58 down from 2017 | 165 | 29% | $3,540 | ||
28Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.48Q1 | 5.61 0.39 up from 2017 | 4,291 | 75% | $3,190 | ||
29Current Forestry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.44Q1 | 5.17 0.91 up from 2017 | 64 | 29% | $4,990 | ||
30Earth System DynamicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.42Q1 | 5.46 0.72 up from 2017 | 178 | 100% | $1,585 | ||
31Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 4.73 0.36 up from 2017 | 1,921 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
32Remote SensingOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.37Q1 | 5.22 0.46 up from 2017 | 3,143 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
33Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.32Q1 | 5.10 0.68 up from 2017 | 2,320 | 32% | $4,030 | ||
34Climate ServicesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.32Q1 | 4.30 1.38 up from 2017 | 66 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
35International Journal of Digital EarthOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 3.48 0.17 up from 2017 | 212 | 92% | $2,390 | ||
36Perspectives in Ecology and ConservationOAElsevier BV · Spain | 2.22Q1 | 3.43no 2017 value | 54 | 100% | $0 listed | — | |
37Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.20Q1 | 4.14 0.10 down from 2017 | 448 | 37% | $4,390 | ||
38Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 4.54 0.22 up from 2017 | 797 | 38% | $3,590 | ||
39Ecosystem Health and SustainabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.64 0.51 up from 2017 | 105 | 100% | $1,459 | ||
40Natural hazards and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.08Q1 | 3.51 0.26 up from 2017 | 545 | 100% | $1,553 | ||
41Journal of Geophysical Research BiogeosciencesWiley · United States | 2.07Q1 | 4.01 0.19 down from 2017 | 582 | 66% | $4,070 | ||
42Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.04Q1 | 5.56 0.57 up from 2017 | 1,645 | 51% | — | ||
43Environment and Planning B Planning and DesignSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 1.70 0.78 down from 2017 | 112 | — | — | ||
44Regional Environmental ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.91Q1 | 3.34 0.15 up from 2017 | 513 | 48% | $3,990 | ||
45Environmental ReviewsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.85Q1 | 4.25 1.26 up from 2017 | 123 | 80% | — | ||
46Annual Review of Environment and ResourcesOAAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.82Q1 | 15.60 7.21 up from 2017 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
47Forest Ecology and ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.81Q1 | 3.55 0.13 down from 2017 | 1,735 | 39% | $3,560 | ||
48Atmospheric measurement techniquesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.80Q1 | 4.77 0.29 up from 2017 | 1,007 | 100% | $1,585 | ||
49Society & Natural ResourcesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 2.56 0.63 up from 2017 | 301 | 24% | — | ||
50Carbon Balance and ManagementOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 1.76Q1 | 5.09 1.82 up from 2017 | 74 | 100% | $1,890 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change highlighted.
- 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.
61 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 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
- 201
- Window papers (baseline)
- 91,924 +9.4% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.96 -5.4% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 |
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| 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.