Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law journal rankings 2020
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law has 48 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR fell 0.16 on 2019 to 0.53, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.63. The top three are Landslides, Engineering Geology, and Environmental Education Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.49Q1 | 6.18 0.81 up from 2019 | 514 | 26% | $4,590 | ||
2Engineering GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.41Q1 | 6.27 0.96 up from 2019 | 950 | 19% | $4,210 | ||
3Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.27Q1 | 3.31 0.10 down from 2019 | 228 | 33% | — | ||
4The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.69Q1 | 2.53 0.14 down from 2019 | 103 | 31% | — | ||
5Geomatics Natural Hazards and RiskOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.43Q1 | 3.74 0.29 down from 2019 | 270 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
6Geoenvironmental DisastersOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.28Q1 | 3.84 1.80 up from 2019 | 70 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
7Marine PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 4.23 0.40 up from 2019 | 1,102 | 47% | $4,260 | ||
8Ocean & Coastal ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 3.68 0.72 up from 2019 | 923 | 28% | $4,350 | ||
9Impact Assessment and Project AppraisalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 2.27 0.18 down from 2019 | 143 | 57% | — | ||
10Ocean Development & International LawTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 1.55 0.28 down from 2019 | 67 | 18% | — | ||
11Journal of Education for Sustainable DevelopmentSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.66Q1 | 1.42 0.88 up from 2019 | 43 | 40% | $3,400 | ||
12MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.63Q1 | 2.53 0.69 up from 2019 | 90 | 69% | $3,390 | ||
13Applied Environmental Education & CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 1.88 1.03 up from 2019 | 115 | 6% | — | ||
14International Journal for Quality ResearchOACenter for Quality, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia · Montenegro | 1.13Q2 | 1.46 1.46 up from 2019 | 66 | 100% | — | ||
15Coastal ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.11Q2 | 1.63 0.37 down from 2019 | 97 | 44% | — | ||
16Journal of Mountain ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.10Q2 | 2.33 0.47 up from 2019 | 602 | 14% | $3,190 | ||
17Australasian Journal of Environmental ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 2.33 1.04 up from 2019 | 89 | 36% | — | ||
18Revista de Economia e Sociologia RuralOABrazilian Society of Economy, Administration and Rural Sociology · Brazil | 0.89Q2 | 1.18 0.58 up from 2019 | 144 | 100% | $114 | ||
19PsyEcology Bilingual Journal of Environmental PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 1.44 0.04 down from 2019 | 54 | 25% | $3,650 | ||
20AestimumOAFirenze University Press · Italy | 0.80Q2 | 0.69 0.11 down from 2019 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
21Environmental HistoryOxford University Press · United States | 0.74Q2 | 0.76 0.11 up from 2019 | 166 | 4% | — | ||
22Nomadic PeoplesOABerghahn Books · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 0.50 0.18 down from 2019 | 60 | 13% | — | ||
23Australian Journal of Environmental EducationOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.65Q2 | 0.82 0.18 up from 2019 | 103 | 39% | $3,550 | ||
24Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and HydrogeologyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 0.56Q2 | 1.40 0.49 down from 2019 | 180 | 17% | — | ||
| 0.49Q3 | 0.82 0.13 up from 2019 | 135 | 0% | — | |||
26Journal of Environmental Accounting and ManagementUnited States | 0.49Q3 | 1.16 0.20 up from 2019 | 88 | 5% | — | ||
27Desenvolvimento e Meio AmbienteOAUniversidade Federal do Paraná · Brazil | 0.42Q3 | 0.53 0.28 up from 2019 | 281 | 100% | — | ||
28Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Arborização UrbanaOAUniversidade Federal do Paraná · Brazil | 0.41Q3 | 0.44 0.31 up from 2019 | 313 | 100% | — | ||
29Environmental and Engineering GeoscienceGeological Society of America · United States | 0.37Q3 | 0.96 0.26 up from 2019 | 120 | 8% | — | ||
30Journal on Innovation and Sustainability RISUSOAPontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo · Brazil | 0.37Q3 | 0.69 0.46 up from 2019 | 119 | 100% | — | ||
31Marine Technology Society JournalMarine Technology Society · United States | 0.34Q3 | 0.57 0.11 down from 2019 | 205 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.32Q3 | 0.37 0.37 up from 2019 | 68 | 100% | — | |||
33Cuadernos de Desarrollo RuralOAColombia | 0.30Q3 | 0.29 0.06 up from 2019 | 40 | 100% | — | ||
34Journal of Ocean and Coastal EconomicsOAUnited States | 0.29Q3 | 0.63 0.50 down from 2019 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
35Revista de Gestão Costeira IntegradaOAPortugal | 0.29Q3 | 0.58 0.21 up from 2019 | 32 | 100% | — | ||
| 0.24Q3 | 0.43 0.12 down from 2019 | 36 | 100% | — | |||
37Environmental PracticeCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.23Q4 | 0.49 0.03 down from 2019 | 63 | — | — | ||
38Revue internationale de géomatiquePublisher not listed | 0.21Q4 | 0.18 0.26 down from 2019 | 61 | 50% | — | ||
39International Journal of Global Environmental IssuesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.20Q4 | 0.45 0.09 down from 2019 | 106 | 5% | — | ||
40Interdisciplinary Environmental ReviewInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.19Q4 | 0.19 0.03 down from 2019 | 100 | 0% | — | ||
41International Journal of Environmental ImpactsOAWIT Press · United Kingdom | 0.19Q4 | 0.47 0.18 up from 2019 | 81 | 100% | $950 | ||
42Limnology and Oceanography BulletinWiley · United States | 0.18Q4 | 0.49 0.01 up from 2019 | 153 | 52% | $3,200 | ||
43International Journal of Marine ScienceOACanada | 0.16Q4 | 0.21 0.29 down from 2019 | 78 | 100% | — | ||
44GeosaberesOAUniversidade Federal do Ceará · Brazil | 0.15Q4 | 0.18 0.10 up from 2019 | 123 | 100% | — | ||
45Journal of Laboratory Chemical EducationOAPublisher not listed | 0.07Q4 | 0.17 0.02 down from 2019 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
46Great Plains researchUnited States | 0.07Q4 | 0.10 0.05 down from 2019 | 127 | 0% | — | ||
47Fronteiras Revista Catarinense de HistóriaOAFederal University of Southern Frontier · Brazil | 0.07Q4 | 0.05 0.05 up from 2019 | 188 | 100% | — | ||
48Current The Journal of Marine EducationOAUbiquity Press · United States | 0.04Q4 | 0.06 0.06 up from 2019 | 31 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law highlighted.
- Ecology276
- Global and Planetary Change218
- Water Science and Technology101
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis86
- Pollution61
- Nature and Landscape Conservation56
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law48
- Environmental Engineering43
- Waste Management and Disposal21
- Environmental Chemistry9
- Ecological Modeling7
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
19 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 88,938 +10.1% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.526 -26.9% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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 | 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.