Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Environmental Engineering journal rankings 2021
47 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Environmental Engineering has 47 ranked journals in 2021. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.12 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2020. A journal needs OJR 1.76 to reach Q1. The top three are Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Sustainable Cities and Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
47 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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1Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 4.37Q1 | 15.44 3.61 up from 2020 | 1,506 | 73% | $4,450 | ||
2Journal of Cleaner ProductionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.36Q1 | 11.31 1.03 up from 2020 | 13,505 | 24% | $4,660 | ||
3Sustainable Cities and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.25Q1 | 12.43 3.14 up from 2020 | 1,793 | 37% | $4,870 | ||
4Environmental Science and EcotechnologyOAElsevier BV · China | 2.65Q1 | 10.17no 2020 value | 41 | 100% | $2,000 | — | |
5International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and GeoinformationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 8.51 1.59 up from 2020 | 638 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
6Journal of Industrial EcologyWiley · United States | 2.43Q1 | 6.24 1.59 down from 2020 | 291 | 61% | $3,750 | ||
7Geo-spatial Information ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 5.20 0.02 down from 2020 | 101 | 100% | $1,993 | ||
8The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space ScienceOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 2.01Q1 | 5.25 1.05 up from 2020 | 117 | 100% | $900 | ||
9Blue-Green SystemsOAUWA Publishing | 1.88Q1 | 7.27 3.52 up from 2020 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
10Urban ClimateElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 7.11 0.62 up from 2020 | 365 | 32% | $3,690 | ||
11Groundwater for Sustainable DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.77Q1 | 7.23 1.28 up from 2020 | 446 | 17% | $3,640 | ||
12Advances in Water ResourcesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 5.95 1.16 up from 2020 | 648 | 52% | $3,840 | ||
13Geology Ecology and LandscapesOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.75Q2 | 4.67 0.71 up from 2020 | 137 | 100% | — | ||
14PFG – Journal of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Geoinformation ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.57Q2 | 3.98 1.84 up from 2020 | 82 | 42% | $3,490 | ||
15European Journal of Remote SensingOATaylor & Francis · Italy | 1.54Q2 | 3.58 0.84 down from 2020 | 258 | 100% | $1,060 | ||
16Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial AerodynamicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.48Q2 | 4.31 0.25 down from 2020 | 872 | 29% | $3,880 | ||
17City and Environment InteractionsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.41Q2 | 4.64 2.54 up from 2020 | 39 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
18The International Journal of Life Cycle AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.38Q2 | 5.63 2.06 up from 2020 | 394 | 63% | $3,990 | ||
19Applied GeomaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.38Q2 | 3.13 0.25 up from 2020 | 144 | 26% | $3,290 | ||
20Boundary-Layer MeteorologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.27Q2 | 5.56 2.31 up from 2020 | 253 | 57% | $3,790 | ||
21Earth Science InformaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.27Q2 | 3.60 0.54 up from 2020 | 215 | 14% | $3,890 | ||
22Economic Systems ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 2.99 0.53 up from 2020 | 102 | 52% | — | ||
23International journal of greenhouse gas controlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 4.61 0.65 up from 2020 | 751 | 52% | $4,100 | ||
24Energy Ecology and EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.12Q2 | 4.82 2.40 up from 2020 | 124 | 26% | $2,790 | ||
25Environmental Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.07Q3 | 3.52 0.56 up from 2020 | 2,057 | 13% | $2,290 | ||
26Hydrogeology JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.07Q3 | 3.26 0.09 up from 2020 | 553 | 44% | $2,390 | ||
27Advances in geosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.05Q3 | 3.28 1.16 up from 2020 | 142 | 100% | $301 | ||
28Journal of Contaminant HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.03Q3 | 4.09 0.63 up from 2020 | 286 | 34% | $3,640 | ||
29Remote Sensing in Earth Systems SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.02Q3 | 3.58 0.25 down from 2020 | 39 | 19% | $3,190 | ||
30Urban Water JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.99Q3 | 3.19 0.28 up from 2020 | 260 | 43% | — | ||
31Canadian Journal of Remote SensingOATaylor & Francis · Canada | 0.88Q3 | 2.96 0.54 up from 2020 | 144 | 23% | — | ||
32Journal of Spatial ScienceTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.83Q3 | 1.74 0.18 down from 2020 | 128 | 42% | — | ||
33Geomicrobiology JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.75Q3 | 2.75 0.33 up from 2020 | 267 | 7% | — | ||
34Ground WaterWiley · United States | 0.72Q3 | 2.47 0.19 up from 2020 | 327 | 30% | $4,100 | ||
35Greenhouse Gases Science and TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 2.38 0.50 up from 2020 | 247 | 18% | $3,570 | ||
36Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental StatisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.59Q3 | 1.62 0.01 down from 2020 | 95 | 54% | $3,090 | ||
37Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built EnvironmentAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.55Q4 | 2.60 0.32 up from 2020 | 86 | 23% | — | ||
38ISPRS annals of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.53Q4 | 1.37 0.24 down from 2020 | 874 | 100% | — | ||
39Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote SensingAmerican Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · United States | 0.53Q4 | 1.07 0.08 up from 2020 | 244 | 53% | — | ||
40International Journal of VentilationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.49Q4 | 1.53 0.15 up from 2020 | 66 | 16% | — | ||
41Wind and StructuresSouth Korea | 0.43Q4 | 1.16 0.41 down from 2020 | 202 | 0% | — | ||
42International Journal of Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.30Q4 | 1.20 0.69 up from 2020 | 139 | 3% | — | ||
43Research Journal of Applied Sciences Engineering and TechnologyOAMaxwell Scientific Publications · United Kingdom | 0.21Q4 | 0.17 0.32 down from 2020 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
44Journal of Water Management ModelingOACanada | 0.20Q4 | 0.64 0.19 down from 2020 | 38 | 100% | — | ||
45Journal of Groundwater Science and EngineeringOATsinghua University Press | 0.16Q4 | 0.50 0.05 up from 2020 | 88 | — | — | ||
46GrundwasserSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.15Q4 | 0.65 0.24 up from 2020 | 96 | 77% | $2,290 | ||
| 0.11Q4 | 0.42 0.13 up from 2020 | 76 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Environmental Engineering highlighted.
- Ecology279
- Global and Planetary Change221
- Water Science and Technology101
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis93
- Pollution58
- Nature and Landscape Conservation57
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law52
- Environmental Engineering47
- Waste Management and Disposal22
- Environmental Chemistry8
- Ecological Modeling7
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
14 additional Environmental Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 47
- Window papers (baseline)
- 56,964 +20.7% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 1.118 -3.1% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 26 | 28 | 30 | 30 | 32 | 34 | 37 | 36 | 40 | 41 | 44 | 42 | 42 | 44 | 47 | 46 | 43 | 47 | 50 | 49 | 53 | 54 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 10,642 | 11,651 | 11,967 | 12,703 | 13,576 | 14,751 | 16,065 | 17,177 | 18,812 | 20,718 | 23,247 | 26,011 | 29,639 | 33,366 | 37,771 | 41,499 | 43,684 | 45,599 | 47,212 | 50,087 | 53,144 | 56,964 | 61,183 | 64,951 | 69,044 | 73,778 | |
| Median OJR | 1.04 | 0.93 | 0.99 | 1.17 | 1.058 | 1.41 | 1.156 | 1.19 | 1.227 | 1.057 | 1.056 | 1.147 | 1.264 | 1.234 | 1.117 | 1.157 | 1.263 | 1.20 | 1.154 | 1.10 | 1.08 | 1.118 | 1.18 | 1.119 | 1.07 | 1.11 |
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.