Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2019
209 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 209 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.99, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.74. 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 of Environmental Science (11)
209 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 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 | — | |
4Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 5.29Q1 | 8.46 0.35 up from 2018 | 174 | 47% | $5,450 | ||
5Environmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.69Q1 | 9.15 0.98 up from 2018 | 126 | 57% | $3,610 | ||
6Current Climate Change ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.23Q1 | 8.23 0.49 down from 2018 | 87 | 61% | $4,490 | ||
7Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.04Q1 | 5.20 0.80 up from 2018 | 373 | 23% | $3,560 | ||
8Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.82Q1 | 8.45 0.64 up from 2018 | 263 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
9Climate Risk ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.79Q1 | 5.73 0.49 up from 2018 | 114 | 100% | $3,130 | ||
10Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 3.60Q1 | 5.98 0.18 down from 2018 | 549 | 100% | $975 | ||
11Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 6.63 1.49 up from 2018 | 256 | 54% | $5,000 | ||
12Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 6.03 0.18 down from 2018 | 633 | 53% | $4,250 | ||
13Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 3.23Q1 | 5.52 1.83 up from 2018 | 347 | 60% | $3,890 | ||
14Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 7.85 0.56 up from 2018 | 1,428 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
15Big Earth DataOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 5.59 1.50 up from 2018 | 32 | 100% | $1,024 | ||
16Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews WaterWiley · United States | 3.11Q1 | 5.87 0.43 up from 2018 | 177 | 50% | $4,200 | ||
17BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.90Q1 | 5.69 0.87 up from 2018 | 454 | 46% | $5,088 | ||
18Journal of Environmental Policy & PlanningTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.89Q1 | 4.08 0.61 down from 2018 | 115 | 53% | — | ||
19AnthropoceneElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.88Q1 | 5.88 0.80 up from 2018 | 86 | 52% | $3,770 | ||
20npj Climate and Atmospheric ScienceOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 6.91 3.28 up from 2018 | 55 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
21Ecosystem ServicesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.86Q1 | 7.42 0.98 up from 2018 | 519 | 41% | $4,100 | ||
22Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States | 2.74Q1 | 3.24 3.85 down from 2018 | 136 | 67% | — | ||
23Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.69Q1 | 5.09 0.07 down from 2018 | 706 | 42% | $4,390 | ||
24Current Forestry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.67Q1 | 6.78 1.61 up from 2018 | 55 | 44% | $4,990 | ||
25Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 4.57 0.65 up from 2018 | 510 | 36% | $3,220 | ||
26Climate ServicesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 5.55 1.25 up from 2018 | 86 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
27Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.56Q1 | 4.71 0.52 up from 2018 | 1,666 | 31% | $3,830 | ||
28The Anthropocene ReviewSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 5.05 1.86 down from 2018 | 52 | 55% | $3,900 | ||
29AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 2.55Q1 | 4.26 0.61 down from 2018 | 373 | 99% | $4,490 | ||
30Current Landscape Ecology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.52Q1 | 5.50 1.35 up from 2018 | 32 | 23% | $3,890 | ||
31Weather and Climate ExtremesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 5.55 0.48 up from 2018 | 78 | 100% | $3,969 | ||
32Environmental Modelling & SoftwareElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 5.74 0.48 up from 2018 | 773 | 54% | $3,500 | ||
33Perspectives in Ecology and ConservationOAElsevier BV · Spain | 2.37Q1 | 4.92 1.49 up from 2018 | 88 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
34Remote SensingOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.31Q1 | 5.98 0.76 up from 2018 | 4,418 | 100% | $3,258 | ||
35Natural hazards and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.30Q1 | 4.46 0.94 up from 2018 | 549 | 100% | $1,553 | ||
36Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.28Q1 | 5.46 0.14 down from 2018 | 4,418 | 62% | $3,190 | ||
37Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 4.62 0.11 down from 2018 | 2,236 | 27% | $3,650 | ||
38Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 5.50 0.96 up from 2018 | 924 | 34% | $3,590 | ||
39Journal of ClimateAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.17Q1 | 6.12 0.56 up from 2018 | 1,594 | 69% | — | ||
40Earth System DynamicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.16Q1 | 5.22 0.24 down from 2018 | 208 | 100% | $1,585 | ||
41Carbon Balance and ManagementOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 5.57 0.48 up from 2018 | 72 | 100% | $1,890 | ||
42Regional Environmental ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.09Q1 | 4.01 0.68 up from 2018 | 515 | 49% | $3,990 | ||
43Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 5.57 0.47 up from 2018 | 2,395 | 24% | $4,030 | ||
44International Journal of Digital EarthOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 3.20 0.28 down from 2018 | 264 | 96% | $2,390 | ||
45Environmental DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 3.34 0.65 up from 2018 | 132 | 26% | $3,540 | ||
46Environmental ReviewsCanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 1.84Q1 | 3.83 0.43 down from 2018 | 132 | 89% | — | ||
47Environmental Policy and GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 3.93 0.84 up from 2018 | 119 | 46% | $3,800 | ||
48Atmospheric ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 5.08 0.47 up from 2018 | 875 | 28% | $3,310 | ||
49Landscape EcologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 3.89 0.24 down from 2018 | 423 | 32% | $4,390 | ||
50Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsOAWiley · United States | 1.83Q1 | 5.14 1.12 up from 2018 | 434 | 100% | $2,650 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change highlighted.
- 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.
72 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 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
- 209
- Window papers (baseline)
- 95,134 +7.6% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.99 -6.8% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 | 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.