Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Field ranking · 2019
Environmental Science journal rankings 2019
907 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 907 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.40. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Nature Climate Change, and Nature Sustainability.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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 Sciences907 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 10.83Q1 | 23.46 5.74 up from 2018 | 81 | 71% | $3,880 | ||
2Nature Climate ChangeNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.95Q1 | 13.71 0.65 up from 2018 | 822 | 37% | $12,690 | ||
3Nature SustainabilityNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.06Q1 | 9.36no 2018 value | 198 | 41% | $12,690 | — | |
4LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.97Q1 | 5.38 1.03 up from 2018 | 422 | 23% | $4,590 | ||
5Global Food SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.78Q1 | 9.13 2.17 up from 2018 | 149 | 57% | $5,240 | ||
6Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 5.29Q1 | 8.46 0.35 up from 2018 | 174 | 47% | $5,450 | ||
7Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 4.98Q1 | 9.69 1.31 up from 2018 | 116 | 52% | $3,970 | ||
8Environmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.69Q1 | 9.15 0.98 up from 2018 | 126 | 57% | $3,610 | ||
9Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 4.47Q1 | 11.41 2.30 up from 2018 | 1,381 | 57% | $4,450 | ||
10The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 4.45Q1 | 10.66 0.08 down from 2018 | 717 | 100% | $4,153 | ||
11ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote SensingElsevier BV | 4.44Q1 | 9.24 0.99 up from 2018 | 641 | 37% | $3,310 | ||
12Resources Conservation and RecyclingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.33Q1 | 9.91 2.64 up from 2018 | 959 | 32% | $5,270 | ||
13Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 4.29Q1 | 9.59 1.17 up from 2018 | 1,225 | 62% | $4,550 | ||
14Current Climate Change ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.23Q1 | 8.23 0.49 down from 2018 | 87 | 61% | $4,490 | ||
15Methods in Ecology and EvolutionOAWiley · United States | 4.10Q1 | 7.50 0.19 up from 2018 | 556 | 64% | $3,500 | ||
16Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.05Q1 | 3.41 1.00 up from 2018 | 236 | 40% | — | ||
17Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.04Q1 | 5.20 0.80 up from 2018 | 373 | 23% | $3,560 | ||
18Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.82Q1 | 8.45 0.64 up from 2018 | 263 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
19Frontiers in Ecology and the EnvironmentWiley · United States | 3.79Q1 | 5.75 1.49 down from 2018 | 355 | 66% | $3,970 | ||
20Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 5.35 0.62 up from 2018 | 270 | 44% | $4,380 | ||
21Climate Risk ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.79Q1 | 5.73 0.49 up from 2018 | 114 | 100% | $3,130 | ||
22Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.60Q1 | 5.98 0.18 down from 2018 | 549 | 100% | $975 | ||
23Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.58Q1 | 5.49 1.41 up from 2018 | 152 | 25% | $3,900 | ||
24Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 6.63 1.49 up from 2018 | 256 | 54% | $5,000 | ||
25Global Ecology and BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 7.24 0.63 up from 2018 | 376 | 47% | $5,000 | ||
26Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 3.38Q1 | 6.73 0.81 up from 2018 | 270 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
27Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 6.03 0.18 down from 2018 | 633 | 53% | $4,250 | ||
28Journal of EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 5.78 0.02 down from 2018 | 583 | 53% | $3,610 | ||
29Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 10.57 1.86 up from 2018 | 2,595 | 32% | $4,660 | ||
30Journal of Cleaner ProductionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.28Q1 | 8.71 1.48 up from 2018 | 8,807 | 23% | $4,660 | ||
31EcographyOAWiley · Denmark | 3.27Q1 | 6.41 0.45 up from 2018 | 422 | 76% | $3,190 | ||
32Geo-spatial Information ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 5.83 2.87 up from 2018 | 111 | 100% | $1,993 | ||
33Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 3.23Q1 | 5.52 1.83 up from 2018 | 347 | 60% | $3,890 | ||
34Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 7.85 0.56 up from 2018 | 1,428 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
35Engineering GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.20Q1 | 5.30 0.98 up from 2018 | 812 | 21% | $4,210 | ||
36Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.19Q1 | 8.79 0.07 up from 2018 | 1,261 | 100% | $4,750 | ||
37Big Earth DataOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 5.59 1.50 up from 2018 | 32 | 100% | $1,024 | ||
38Environmental Sciences EuropeOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.14Q1 | 7.14 0.03 up from 2018 | 107 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
39International Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.11Q1 | 5.42 0.93 down from 2018 | 840 | 94% | $4,514 | ||
40Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews WaterWiley · United States | 3.11Q1 | 5.87 0.43 up from 2018 | 177 | 50% | $4,200 | ||
41Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.10Q1 | 10.91 5.60 up from 2018 | 121 | 25% | — | ||
42The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.08Q1 | 2.67 0.31 up from 2018 | 102 | 19% | — | ||
43Environmental Science & Technology LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.05Q1 | 8.41 0.36 up from 2018 | 306 | 35% | $4,500 | ||
44Journal of Applied EcologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.05Q1 | 5.54 0.23 up from 2018 | 716 | 67% | $3,610 | ||
45Environmental Health PerspectivesOANational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · United States | 3.03Q1 | 8.12 0.91 up from 2018 | 648 | 100% | $4,500 | ||
46Landscape and Urban PlanningElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.02Q1 | 6.14 0.27 up from 2018 | 654 | 44% | $3,120 | ||
47Emerging contaminantsOAKeAi · Netherlands | 3.02Q1 | 14.25 8.69 up from 2018 | 48 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
48Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 9.22 2.19 up from 2018 | 112 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
49Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.91Q1 | 8.92 0.92 up from 2018 | 4,669 | 32% | $4,500 | ||
50BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.90Q1 | 5.69 0.87 up from 2018 | 454 | 46% | $5,088 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- Ecology269
- Global and Planetary Change209
- Water Science and Technology97
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis87
- Pollution59
- Nature and Landscape Conservation57
- Environmental Engineering46
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law46
- Waste Management and Disposal21
- Environmental Chemistry9
- Ecological Modeling7
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
284 additional Environmental Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 907
- Window papers (baseline)
- 613,842 +1.2% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.815 -8.1% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.