Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Water Science and Technology journal rankings 2019
97 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Water Science and Technology has 97 ranked journals in 2019. The median journal has an OJR of 0.60, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2018; Q1 starts at OJR 1.07. The top three are Water Resources and Industry, Hydrology and earth system sciences, and Sustainable Environment Research.
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)
97 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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1Water Resources and IndustryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 5.85 1.03 up from 2018 | 50 | 100% | $3,613 | ||
2Hydrology and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.37Q1 | 6.41 0.37 up from 2018 | 1,025 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
3Sustainable Environment ResearchOABioMed Central · China | 2.32Q1 | 6.71 2.41 up from 2018 | 143 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
4Journal of Membrane ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.31Q1 | 7.77 0.71 up from 2018 | 2,634 | 22% | $4,890 | ||
5DesalinationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 7.99 1.71 up from 2018 | 1,140 | 21% | $4,580 | ||
6Separation and Purification ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.10Q1 | 4.58 0.11 up from 2018 | 61 | 17% | — | ||
7Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.05Q1 | 5.35 0.44 up from 2018 | 1,751 | 54% | $3,000 | ||
8Separation and Purification TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 6.24 0.93 up from 2018 | 2,469 | 17% | $4,060 | ||
9ResourcesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.78Q1 | 3.86 0.57 up from 2018 | 207 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
10Water ScienceOATaylor & Francis · Egypt | 1.60Q1 | 3.00 0.79 down from 2018 | 55 | 100% | — | ||
11International Journal of Mineral ProcessingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.53Q1 | 3.91 0.55 up from 2018 | 292 | — | $2,500 | ||
12Journal of environmental chemical engineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 5.08 0.83 up from 2018 | 1,953 | 13% | $3,350 | ||
13Minerals EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 4.29 0.47 up from 2018 | 844 | 16% | $4,220 | ||
14Aquacultural EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.48Q1 | 3.33 0.44 up from 2018 | 149 | 33% | $3,500 | ||
15Hydrological ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 3.49 0.21 down from 2018 | 927 | 33% | $5,230 | ||
16Environmental Nanotechnology Monitoring & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q1 | 4.30 0.26 up from 2018 | 174 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
17Environmental Science Water Research & TechnologyRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.40Q1 | 3.70 0.20 down from 2018 | 386 | 20% | — | ||
18MembranesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.40Q1 | 4.40 0.31 up from 2018 | 255 | 100% | $2,654 | ||
19Journal of Water Process EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 4.14 0.55 up from 2018 | 520 | 15% | $3,350 | ||
20Environmental Technology ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.30Q1 | 3.15 0.28 down from 2018 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
21Applied Water ScienceOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.26Q1 | 2.83 0.30 up from 2018 | 505 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
22WaterOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.22Q1 | 3.27 0.01 up from 2018 | 3,518 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
23Water Intelligence OnlineUWA Publishing | 1.21Q1 | 1.90 0.20 down from 2018 | 89 | — | — | ||
24Journal of Hydrology Regional StudiesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.07Q1 | 4.54 2.68 up from 2018 | 369 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
25JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources AssociationWiley · United States | 1.07Q1 | 2.37 0.01 down from 2018 | 332 | 33% | $3,200 | ||
26Hydrological Sciences JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.05Q2 | 2.82 0.21 up from 2018 | 364 | 89% | — | ||
27HydrologyOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.02Q2 | 2.57 0.17 up from 2018 | 170 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
28Adsorption Science & TechnologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 2.92 1.42 up from 2018 | 235 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
29World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2018Publisher not listed | 0.88Q2 | 0.24no 2018 value | 199 | — | — | — | |
30Journal of Chemical Technology & BiotechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 2.94 0.51 up from 2018 | 969 | 19% | $4,100 | ||
31Journal of Water Reuse and DesalinationOAIWA Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 2.22 0.52 up from 2018 | 130 | 100% | $2,150 | ||
32International Journal of River Basin ManagementTaylor & Francis | 0.82Q2 | 1.90 0.45 up from 2018 | 162 | 9% | — | ||
33SeparationsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.82Q2 | 2.49 0.42 up from 2018 | 126 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
34Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental IntegrationSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.81Q2 | 2.35 1.23 up from 2018 | 79 | 18% | $2,290 | ||
35Environmental ProcessesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.81Q2 | 2.12 0.30 up from 2018 | 221 | 9% | $2,390 | ||
36International Journal of Environmental ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.79Q2 | 2.47 0.53 up from 2018 | 208 | 15% | $3,790 | ||
37Journal of Hydrologic EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.77Q2 | 2.05 0.41 up from 2018 | 379 | 13% | — | ||
38International Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.76Q2 | 2.06 0.11 up from 2018 | 1,226 | 13% | $3,490 | ||
39Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriquesTaylor & Francis · Canada | 0.76Q2 | 1.62 0.04 down from 2018 | 73 | 18% | — | ||
40Archives of Environmental ProtectionOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.74Q2 | 1.93 0.23 up from 2018 | 134 | 100% | — | ||
41Sustainable Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.71Q2 | 1.52 0.38 up from 2018 | 251 | 7% | $3,190 | ||
42World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2017Publisher not listed | 0.69Q2 | 0.35 0.04 down from 2018 | 296 | — | — | ||
43Environmental TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.67Q2 | 2.17 0.53 up from 2018 | 1,368 | 11% | — | ||
44Journal of Contemporary Water Research & EducationWiley · United States | 0.65Q2 | 1.36 0.14 up from 2018 | 79 | 52% | $3,000 | ||
45Environmental Engineering ResearchOAKorean Society of Environmental Engineering · South Korea | 0.63Q2 | 1.78 0.35 up from 2018 | 238 | 100% | — | ||
46Water SAOAWater Research Commission · South Africa | 0.63Q2 | 1.45 0.32 up from 2018 | 297 | 100% | — | ||
47Water Science & TechnologyOAPergamon Press | 0.62Q2 | 1.89 0.19 up from 2018 | 1,784 | 34% | — | ||
48Separation Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.60Q2 | 1.73 0.28 up from 2018 | 1,007 | 9% | — | ||
49Water Conservation Science and EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 0.60Q2 | 1.83 0.07 down from 2018 | 61 | 0% | $3,290 | ||
50Australasian Journal of Water ResourcesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.59Q3 | 1.63 0.33 up from 2018 | 41 | 22% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Water Science and Technology 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.
35 additional Water Science and Technology 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
- 97
- Window papers (baseline)
- 70,866 -0.3% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.597 -2.5% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 34 | 36 | 38 | 39 | 41 | 43 | 46 | 47 | 49 | 52 | 58 | 66 | 67 | 72 | 82 | 87 | 95 | 101 | 103 | 97 | 101 | 101 | 103 | 104 | 103 | 103 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 14,781 | 17,791 | 20,498 | 23,486 | 25,734 | 28,549 | 32,247 | 36,403 | 40,771 | 44,936 | 50,005 | 54,989 | 59,878 | 63,966 | 68,372 | 71,167 | 71,057 | 68,448 | 68,167 | 70,866 | 75,349 | 79,702 | 82,811 | 85,893 | 88,063 | 92,086 | |
| Median OJR | 0.596 | 0.603 | 0.650 | 0.663 | 0.62 | 0.651 | 0.684 | 0.514 | 0.50 | 0.45 | 0.47 | 0.512 | 0.645 | 0.590 | 0.53 | 0.54 | 0.61 | 0.589 | 0.57 | 0.597 | 0.656 | 0.677 | 0.654 | 0.664 | 0.70 | 0.75 |
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.