Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis journal rankings 2018
85 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis has 85 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR fell 0.12 on 2017 to 1.07, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.81. The top three are Journal of Environmental Psychology, Environment International, and Environmental Health Perspectives.
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)
85 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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1Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.21Q1 | 4.72 0.34 down from 2017 | 265 | 33% | $4,380 | ||
2Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.59Q1 | 8.72 1.04 up from 2017 | 881 | 70% | $4,750 | ||
3Environmental Health PerspectivesOANational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · United States | 3.53Q1 | 7.21 0.14 up from 2017 | 838 | 100% | $4,500 | ||
4Landscape and Urban PlanningElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.51Q1 | 5.87 0.44 up from 2017 | 583 | 40% | $3,120 | ||
5Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.31Q1 | 4.08 1.53 up from 2017 | 138 | 26% | $3,900 | ||
6International Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 6.35 0.24 up from 2017 | 787 | 91% | $4,514 | ||
7Environmental Science & Technology LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.17Q1 | 8.04 1.34 up from 2017 | 255 | 27% | $4,500 | ||
8Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.13Q1 | 7.99 0.76 up from 2017 | 4,792 | 31% | $4,500 | ||
9Health & PlaceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.94Q1 | 4.09 0.12 up from 2017 | 368 | 49% | $3,380 | ||
10Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.84Q1 | 7.41 0.10 down from 2017 | 53 | 47% | — | ||
11Current Environmental Health ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.76Q1 | 5.27 1.52 down from 2017 | 138 | 67% | $3,990 | ||
12Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 7.03 0.61 down from 2017 | 152 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
13Environmental HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 5.86 0.07 up from 2017 | 340 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
14Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 2.51Q1 | 5.60 0.22 up from 2017 | 1,376 | 41% | $3,880 | ||
15International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental HealthElsevier BV · Germany | 2.17Q1 | 4.92 0.11 up from 2017 | 343 | 48% | $3,800 | ||
16Critical Reviews in ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.12Q1 | 5.84 0.07 down from 2017 | 111 | 58% | — | ||
17The Lancet Planetary HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 4.52no 2017 value | 96 | 100% | $6,680 | — | |
18Indoor AirWiley · Denmark | 1.90Q1 | 3.30 0.15 down from 2017 | 286 | 77% | $2,490 | ||
19ToxicsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.89Q1 | 4.00 1.91 up from 2017 | 97 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
20Ecotoxicology and Environmental SafetyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 4.64 0.22 up from 2017 | 1,693 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
21Exposure and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 4.08 0.48 down from 2017 | 93 | 32% | $2,490 | ||
22Regulatory Toxicology and PharmacologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.81Q1 | 3.65 0.17 down from 2017 | 793 | 33% | $4,210 | ||
23Urban forestry & urban greeningElsevier BV · Germany | 1.80Q2 | 3.74 0.07 up from 2017 | 545 | 27% | $3,870 | ||
24ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.68Q2 | 4.11 0.69 up from 2017 | 498 | 22% | $4,250 | ||
25Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part CTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.64Q2 | 3.85 1.63 down from 2017 | 43 | 20% | — | ||
26Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental EpidemiologySpringer Nature · United States | 1.58Q2 | 3.57 0.81 up from 2017 | 214 | 65% | $5,490 | ||
27Toxicological SciencesOxford University Press · United States | 1.53Q2 | 3.46 0.61 down from 2017 | 837 | 62% | $4,671 | ||
28Atmospheric Pollution ResearchElsevier BV · Türkiye | 1.48Q2 | 3.67 1.29 up from 2017 | 390 | 19% | $2,570 | ||
29Environmental Science Processes & ImpactsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.44Q2 | 2.56 0.29 down from 2017 | 518 | 28% | — | ||
30Environmental Toxicology and PharmacologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.44Q2 | 3.52 0.30 up from 2017 | 778 | 14% | $3,540 | ||
31Toxicological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.39Q2 | 3.30 0.16 up from 2017 | 127 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
32Journal of Environmental SciencesElsevier BV · China | 1.38Q2 | 3.41 0.49 up from 2017 | 1,201 | 12% | $3,000 | ||
33NeuroToxicologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.35Q2 | 3.35 0.19 down from 2017 | 486 | 35% | $4,030 | ||
34Toxicology ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 3.10 1.00 up from 2017 | 355 | 100% | $2,530 | ||
35Environmental Toxicology and ChemistryWiley · United States | 1.30Q2 | 3.22 0.38 up from 2017 | 1,120 | 39% | $3,500 | ||
36Journal of Applied ToxicologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 3.12 0.01 up from 2017 | 448 | 21% | $3,940 | ||
37GeoHealthOAWiley · United States | 1.28Q2 | 2.90no 2017 value | 31 | 100% | $3,000 | — | |
38Archives of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.22Q2 | 2.11 0.44 down from 2017 | 367 | 22% | $3,990 | ||
39International Journal of BiometeorologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.20Q2 | 2.64 0.18 up from 2017 | 539 | 25% | $3,890 | ||
40Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & PharmacologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.18Q2 | 2.79 0.15 up from 2017 | 308 | 27% | $3,220 | ||
41Environmental ChemistryCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.15Q2 | 2.02 0.41 down from 2017 | 246 | 23% | — | ||
42EcotoxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.14Q2 | 2.49 0.26 up from 2017 | 497 | 20% | $3,990 | ||
43Air Quality Atmosphere & HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.07Q2 | 2.69 0.17 up from 2017 | 217 | 34% | $3,590 | ||
44Interdisciplinary ToxicologyOADe Gruyter Open · Slovakia | 1.07Q3 | 1.46 0.63 up from 2017 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
45Sustainable EnvironmentCogent OA · United Kingdom | 1.07Q3 | 2.24 0.94 up from 2017 | 81 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
46The Annals of Occupational HygieneOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.06Q3 | 2.26 0.28 up from 2017 | 162 | — | — | ||
47ChallengesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.02Q3 | 1.33 0.31 down from 2017 | 68 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
48Journal of the Air & Waste Management AssociationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.00Q3 | 2.08 0.25 up from 2017 | 379 | 95% | — | ||
49Reproductive ToxicologyElsevier BV · United States | 0.98Q3 | 2.28 0.03 up from 2017 | 713 | 17% | $3,800 | ||
50Journal of Toxicology and Environmental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.96Q3 | 2.89 0.23 down from 2017 | 349 | 22% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 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.
23 additional Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 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
- 85
- Window papers (baseline)
- 68,010 -11.6% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.07 -24.1% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
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 | 47 | 50 | 53 | 56 | 59 | 56 | 56 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 64 | 67 | 66 | 68 | 70 | 77 | 76 | 81 | 85 | 87 | 86 | 93 | 97 | 97 | 100 | 100 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,373 | 23,298 | 25,727 | 28,666 | 30,953 | 34,676 | 38,303 | 42,209 | 46,770 | 51,378 | 56,797 | 61,162 | 65,841 | 69,179 | 73,239 | 76,971 | 78,996 | 76,273 | 68,010 | 61,690 | 60,549 | 66,381 | 72,951 | 79,491 | 84,111 | 95,214 | |
| Median OJR | 0.71 | 0.87 | 0.95 | 0.88 | 0.94 | 1.17 | 1.189 | 1.30 | 1.38 | 1.52 | 1.46 | 1.48 | 1.42 | 1.43 | 1.44 | 1.41 | 1.36 | 1.190 | 1.07 | 0.999 | 1.05 | 0.997 | 1.04 | 1.057 | 1.063 | 0.98 |
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.