Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
Choose a field to open its ranking, or a journal to find its row in its subfield’s list.
Subfield ranking · 2018
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law journal rankings 2018
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law has 48 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.69, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 1.63. The top three are Landslides, The Journal of Environmental Education, and Environmental Education Research.
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)
48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.87Q1 | 4.34 0.16 down from 2017 | 375 | 28% | $4,590 | ||
2The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.04Q1 | 2.36 0.66 down from 2017 | 92 | 29% | — | ||
3Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.64Q1 | 2.41 0.03 down from 2017 | 269 | 42% | — | ||
4Engineering GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.23Q1 | 4.32 0.72 up from 2017 | 775 | 22% | $4,210 | ||
5Geoenvironmental DisastersOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.65Q1 | 2.89 0.43 up from 2017 | 81 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
6Marine PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 3.73 0.86 up from 2017 | 1,010 | 50% | $4,260 | ||
7Geomatics Natural Hazards and RiskOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 3.66 1.04 up from 2017 | 210 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
8MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.15Q1 | 2.35 0.13 up from 2017 | 58 | 60% | $3,390 | ||
9Ocean & Coastal ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 3.04 0.04 down from 2017 | 735 | 25% | $4,350 | ||
10Impact Assessment and Project AppraisalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.13Q1 | 1.96 0.36 up from 2017 | 95 | 90% | — | ||
11Nomadic PeoplesOABerghahn Books · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 0.64 0.14 down from 2017 | 58 | 0% | — | ||
12Journal of Education for Sustainable DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.63Q1 | 0.78 0.48 down from 2017 | 73 | 0% | $3,400 | ||
13Australian Journal of Environmental EducationOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 1.31no change | 80 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
14Coastal ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.21Q2 | 1.05 0.19 up from 2017 | 183 | 10% | — | ||
15Ocean Development & International LawTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 0.87 0.15 down from 2017 | 70 | 19% | — | ||
16Applied Environmental Education & CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 0.80 0.09 up from 2017 | 106 | 8% | — | ||
17Journal of Mountain ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.00Q2 | 1.67 0.40 up from 2017 | 517 | 6% | $3,190 | ||
18Journal of Ocean and Coastal EconomicsOAUnited States | 0.96Q2 | 0.87 0.01 down from 2017 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
19Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and HydrogeologyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.76 0.49 up from 2017 | 112 | 15% | — | ||
20Environmental HistoryOxford University Press · United States | 0.81Q2 | 0.40 0.13 up from 2017 | 189 | 3% | — | ||
| 0.79Q2 | 0.72 0.13 up from 2017 | 42 | 100% | — | |||
22Revista de Economia e Sociologia RuralOABrazilian Society of Economy, Administration and Rural Sociology · Brazil | 0.73Q2 | 0.49 0.09 up from 2017 | 124 | 100% | $114 | ||
23PsyEcology Bilingual Journal of Environmental PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 0.79 0.06 up from 2017 | 47 | 31% | $3,650 | ||
24Australasian Journal of Environmental ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.69Q2 | 1.19 0.03 up from 2017 | 96 | 15% | — | ||
| 0.69Q3 | 0.81 0.43 up from 2017 | 32 | 18% | — | |||
26Marine Technology Society JournalMarine Technology Society · United States | 0.68Q3 | 1.30 0.52 up from 2017 | 208 | 99% | — | ||
27Material cultureUnited States | 0.64Q3 | 0.07 0.85 down from 2017 | 33 | — | — | ||
| 0.47Q3 | 0.59 0.05 down from 2017 | 185 | 0% | — | |||
29Desenvolvimento e Meio AmbienteOAUniversidade Federal do Paraná · Brazil | 0.45Q3 | 0.35 0.07 up from 2017 | 238 | 100% | — | ||
30Revista de Gestão Costeira IntegradaOAPortugal | 0.44Q3 | 0.30 0.47 down from 2017 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
31AestimumOAFirenze University Press · Italy | 0.44Q3 | 0.36 0.04 up from 2017 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
32Cuadernos de Desarrollo RuralOAColombia | 0.41Q3 | 0.32 0.05 up from 2017 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
33Environmental PracticeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.40Q3 | 0.31 0.09 down from 2017 | 111 | 0% | — | ||
34Focus on GeographyWiley · United States | 0.40Q3 | 0.25 0.03 down from 2017 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
35Environmental and Engineering GeoscienceGeological Society of America · United States | 0.39Q3 | 0.52 0.12 up from 2017 | 135 | 4% | — | ||
36Revue internationale de géomatiquePublisher not listed | 0.36Q3 | 0.49 0.06 up from 2017 | 63 | 50% | — | ||
37International Journal of Global Environmental IssuesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.32Q4 | 0.44 0.15 up from 2017 | 85 | 3% | — | ||
38Interdisciplinary Environmental ReviewInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.31Q4 | 0.32 0.02 down from 2017 | 90 | 0% | — | ||
39Journal of Environmental Accounting and ManagementUnited States | 0.28Q4 | 0.63 0.07 up from 2017 | 88 | 13% | — | ||
40Journal on Innovation and Sustainability RISUSOAPontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo · Brazil | 0.22Q4 | 0.16 0.01 down from 2017 | 105 | 100% | — | ||
41Limnology and Oceanography BulletinWiley · United States | 0.21Q4 | 0.23 0.15 down from 2017 | 157 | 84% | $3,200 | ||
42International Journal of Marine ScienceOACanada | 0.19Q4 | 0.30 0.05 up from 2017 | 165 | 100% | — | ||
43Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Arborização UrbanaOAUniversidade Federal do Paraná · Brazil | 0.18Q4 | 0.13 0.08 up from 2017 | 109 | 100% | — | ||
44Great Plains researchUnited States | 0.16Q4 | 0.13 0.08 down from 2017 | 134 | 0% | — | ||
45GeosaberesOAUniversidade Federal do Ceará · Brazil | 0.11Q4 | 0.08 0.08 up from 2017 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.10Q4 | 0.00 0.05 down from 2017 | 30 | 100% | — | |||
47Oceanography Open AccessOAOMICS Publishing Group · United States | 0.10Q4 | 0.08 0.06 up from 2017 | 69 | — | — | ||
48Journal of Laboratory Chemical EducationOAPublisher not listed | 0.07Q4 | 0.09 0.06 down from 2017 | 31 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 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.
17 additional Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 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
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 81,185 +15.1% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.693 -14.4% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 29 | 30 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 37 | 39 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 45 | 47 | 48 | 46 | 48 | 52 | 50 | 49 | 45 | 51 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,898 | 23,584 | 24,910 | 26,482 | 27,162 | 29,381 | 31,175 | 33,271 | 36,179 | 39,779 | 44,244 | 48,227 | 53,183 | 58,012 | 62,749 | 70,521 | 76,396 | 80,810 | 81,185 | 84,297 | 88,938 | 96,369 | 100,675 | 101,264 | 100,899 | 103,822 | |
| Median OJR | 0.77 | 0.716 | 0.874 | 0.67 | 0.66 | 0.76 | 0.82 | 0.729 | 0.85 | 0.875 | 0.84 | 0.727 | 0.808 | 0.685 | 0.75 | 0.809 | 0.78 | 0.720 | 0.693 | 0.687 | 0.526 | 0.525 | 0.613 | 0.62 | 0.74 | 0.612 |
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.