Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Pollution journal rankings 2019
59 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Pollution has 59 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2018 to 0.83, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.64. The top three are Water Research, Environmental Sciences Europe, and Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology.
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)
59 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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1Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.31Q1 | 10.57 1.86 up from 2018 | 2,595 | 32% | $4,660 | ||
2Environmental Sciences EuropeOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.14Q1 | 7.14 0.03 up from 2018 | 107 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
3Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.10Q1 | 10.91 5.60 up from 2018 | 121 | 25% | — | ||
4Emerging contaminantsOAKeAi · Netherlands | 3.02Q1 | 14.25 8.69 up from 2018 | 48 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
5Journal of Hazardous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.89Q1 | 9.11 0.87 up from 2018 | 2,839 | 13% | $4,340 | ||
6Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 7.72 1.12 up from 2018 | 3,691 | 21% | $4,090 | ||
7Journal of Environmental ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 6.49 0.93 up from 2018 | 3,183 | 24% | $3,750 | ||
8The Science of The Total EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 7.17 1.08 up from 2018 | 11,284 | 29% | $4,250 | ||
9Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 6.31 0.58 up from 2018 | 97 | 21% | $5,190 | ||
10Bioresource TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 9.06 2.05 up from 2018 | 5,004 | 16% | $4,880 | ||
11Current Pollution ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.14Q1 | 4.07 0.65 down from 2018 | 73 | 33% | $4,990 | ||
12ChemosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 6.44 0.83 up from 2018 | 5,946 | 20% | $4,010 | ||
13Environmental Chemistry LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.77Q1 | 5.92 0.61 up from 2018 | 298 | 14% | $3,190 | ||
14Aquatic ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 4.82 0.72 up from 2018 | 854 | 25% | $3,320 | ||
15Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable developmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 4.57 0.87 up from 2018 | 271 | 31% | $2,750 | ||
16Journal of Environmental Health Science and EngineeringSpringer International Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.51Q2 | 3.46 0.50 down from 2018 | 77 | 100% | $3,890 | ||
17Environmental Technology & InnovationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q2 | 4.41 1.09 up from 2018 | 245 | 8% | $2,930 | ||
18Marine Pollution BulletinElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.49Q2 | 4.79 0.60 up from 2018 | 2,560 | 23% | $3,740 | ||
19International Biodeterioration & BiodegradationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.44Q2 | 4.39 0.09 up from 2018 | 808 | 17% | $3,870 | ||
20Frontiers of Environmental Science & EngineeringHigher Education Press · China | 1.36Q2 | 4.75 0.60 up from 2018 | 264 | 7% | $2,490 | ||
21Energy Sustainability and SocietyOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.27Q2 | 2.87 0.04 down from 2018 | 112 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
22Development EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 2.50 0.17 up from 2018 | 36 | 100% | $2,220 | ||
23Environmental Geochemistry and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.16Q2 | 3.51 0.69 up from 2018 | 428 | 22% | $2,590 | ||
24EnvironmentsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.16Q2 | 2.79 0.69 up from 2018 | 270 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
25Chemical Speciation and BioavailabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 2.69 0.61 up from 2018 | 65 | — | $1,270 | ||
26Environmental Monitoring and AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.01Q2 | 2.52 0.19 up from 2018 | 2,034 | 16% | $2,790 | ||
27Integrated Environmental Assessment and ManagementWiley · United States | 1.00Q2 | 2.65 0.65 up from 2018 | 319 | 32% | $3,500 | ||
28BiodegradationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.98Q2 | 3.17 0.80 up from 2018 | 115 | 8% | $3,590 | ||
29Journal of Renewable EnergyHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 2.26 0.31 up from 2018 | 35 | 100% | $820 | ||
30Water Air & Soil PollutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.83Q2 | 2.40 0.21 up from 2018 | 1,292 | 19% | $3,890 | ||
31Current Opinion in Environmental Science & HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.74Q3 | 7.58 0.29 up from 2018 | 83 | 21% | $3,700 | ||
32Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part APublisher not listed | 0.68Q3 | 2.17 0.54 up from 2018 | 429 | 9% | — | ||
33Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.67Q3 | 1.87 0.19 up from 2018 | 824 | 11% | $3,990 | ||
34Chemistry and EcologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.59Q3 | 1.73 0.38 up from 2018 | 209 | 6% | — | ||
35Environmental Engineering ScienceMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.56Q3 | 1.39 0.08 down from 2018 | 465 | 13% | — | ||
36CLEAN - Soil Air WaterWiley · Germany | 0.55Q3 | 1.69 0.22 up from 2018 | 403 | 25% | $4,220 | ||
37International Oil Spill Conference ProceedingsAtlantis Press · United States | 0.52Q3 | 0.27no change | 188 | — | — | ||
38Journal of Applied & Environmental MicrobiologyOAPublisher not listed | 0.49Q3 | 1.69 0.21 up from 2018 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
39Bioremediation JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.49Q3 | 2.03 0.59 up from 2018 | 57 | 4% | — | ||
40Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry ReviewsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.47Q3 | 1.06 0.04 up from 2018 | 215 | 15% | — | ||
41Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologyOAPakistan | 0.46Q3 | 0.55 0.17 down from 2018 | 181 | 100% | — | ||
42Journal of Energy in Southern AfricaOAUniversity of Cape Town · South Africa | 0.45Q3 | 1.18 0.07 down from 2018 | 134 | 100% | $271 | ||
43Environmental Quality ManagementWiley · United States | 0.44Q3 | 0.94 0.38 up from 2018 | 135 | 9% | $3,300 | ||
44PollutionOAPublisher not listed | 0.44Q3 | 1.26 0.26 up from 2018 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
45Environmental Health Engineering and ManagementOAKerman Medical University · Iran | 0.42Q3 | 0.90 0.25 down from 2018 | 94 | 100% | — | ||
46Journal of Environmental ProtectionOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.41Q4 | 0.87 0.06 up from 2018 | 351 | 100% | — | ||
47Water Environment ResearchWiley · United States | 0.40Q4 | 1.21 0.22 up from 2018 | 487 | 21% | $3,240 | ||
48Soil and Sediment Contamination An International JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q4 | 1.38 0.24 up from 2018 | 182 | 7% | — | ||
49Environment and PollutionOACanadian Center of Science and Education · Canada | 0.27Q4 | 0.37 0.26 down from 2018 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
50Applied Environmental BiotechnologySingapore | 0.25Q4 | 1.05 0.03 up from 2018 | 50 | 80% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Pollution 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.
12 additional Pollution 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
- 59
- Window papers (baseline)
- 39,899 +10.6% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.831 -4.4% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 28 | 28 | 29 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 35 | 35 | 39 | 41 | 42 | 44 | 47 | 48 | 51 | 53 | 56 | 58 | 58 | 59 | 61 | 58 | 61 | 67 | 69 | 67 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 11,570 | 12,501 | 12,964 | 14,045 | 14,764 | 16,051 | 17,166 | 18,647 | 20,488 | 22,398 | 24,122 | 25,933 | 27,933 | 30,140 | 32,685 | 34,957 | 36,086 | 36,732 | 37,609 | 39,899 | 43,429 | 49,249 | 56,189 | 62,921 | 68,045 | 73,512 | |
| Median OJR | 0.785 | 0.843 | 0.89 | 0.96 | 0.855 | 0.864 | 0.945 | 0.933 | 0.921 | 0.789 | 0.90 | 1.01 | 0.878 | 0.917 | 0.919 | 0.875 | 0.87 | 0.909 | 0.78 | 0.831 | 0.834 | 0.839 | 0.935 | 0.911 | 0.927 | 1.04 |
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.