Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2022
232 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 232 ranked journals in 2022. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.02 against 1.00, down 0.01 on 2021. A journal needs OJR 1.80 to reach Q1. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Nature Sustainability, and Nature Climate Change.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
232 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 10.39Q1 | 31.95 3.05 down from 2021 | 78 | 77% | $3,880 | ||
2Nature SustainabilityNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.91Q1 | 24.03 3.23 up from 2021 | 603 | 43% | $12,690 | ||
3Nature Climate ChangeNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.53Q1 | 20.98 0.53 up from 2021 | 791 | 45% | $12,690 | ||
4Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 4.39Q1 | 12.62 0.50 up from 2021 | 167 | 69% | $5,450 | ||
5Current Climate Change ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.08Q1 | 15.57 0.70 up from 2021 | 53 | 70% | $4,490 | ||
6npj Urban SustainabilityOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.06Q1 | 11.35no 2021 value | 40 | 100% | $2,490 | — | |
7Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.87Q1 | 7.67 1.78 up from 2021 | 321 | 24% | $3,560 | ||
8Current Forestry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.83Q1 | 11.20 0.19 down from 2021 | 63 | 62% | $4,990 | ||
9Geography and sustainabilityOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.80Q1 | 11.85 1.32 down from 2021 | 72 | 100% | $1,700 | ||
10Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews WaterWiley · United States | 3.61Q1 | 10.21 0.33 up from 2021 | 212 | 57% | $4,200 | ||
11Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsOAWiley · United States | 3.53Q1 | 12.42 1.59 down from 2021 | 651 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
12One EarthElsevier BV · United States | 3.39Q1 | 9.44 0.61 up from 2021 | 519 | 99% | $9,170 | ||
13npj Climate and Atmospheric ScienceOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.36Q1 | 13.28 0.86 down from 2021 | 147 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
14Earth System GovernanceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.33Q1 | 7.46 1.77 down from 2021 | 70 | 100% | $2,180 | ||
15Journal of Urban ManagementOAElsevier BV · Taiwan | 3.23Q1 | 8.18 2.19 up from 2021 | 104 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
16Communications Earth & EnvironmentOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.20Q1 | 10.14 4.01 down from 2021 | 313 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
17Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.19Q1 | 11.20 0.21 down from 2021 | 394 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
18Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.01Q1 | 7.79 0.91 up from 2021 | 1,924 | 39% | $3,830 | ||
19AGU AdvancesOAWiley · United States | 3.00Q1 | 9.14 0.27 down from 2021 | 102 | 100% | $3,460 | ||
20Environmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.93Q1 | 7.81 2.72 down from 2021 | 256 | 74% | $3,610 | ||
21Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 2.86Q1 | 7.19 0.13 down from 2021 | 432 | 84% | $3,890 | ||
22Weather and Climate ExtremesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.73Q1 | 9.93 0.09 down from 2021 | 183 | 100% | $3,969 | ||
23People and NatureOAWiley · United States | 2.64Q1 | 7.80 0.29 up from 2021 | 274 | 100% | $2,540 | ||
24Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 7.37 0.37 down from 2021 | 758 | 58% | $4,250 | ||
25Global SustainabilityOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 7.60 0.26 down from 2021 | 95 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
26AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 2.47Q1 | 7.01 1.44 down from 2021 | 516 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
27Earth System DynamicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.44Q1 | 11.07 1.16 up from 2021 | 187 | 100% | $1,585 | ||
28Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 7.19 0.74 down from 2021 | 260 | 53% | $5,000 | ||
29BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.40Q1 | 7.03 0.85 up from 2021 | 422 | 72% | $5,088 | ||
30Climate Risk ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.39Q1 | 6.14 0.40 down from 2021 | 197 | 100% | $3,130 | ||
31Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 8.44 0.17 down from 2021 | 2,528 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
32Geoscience Data JournalOAWiley · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 6.61 1.64 up from 2021 | 68 | 100% | $2,290 | ||
33Ecosystem ServicesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.24Q1 | 8.55 0.93 up from 2021 | 484 | 62% | $4,100 | ||
34Perspectives in Ecology and ConservationOAElsevier BV · Spain | 2.20Q1 | 5.93 1.40 down from 2021 | 127 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
35Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 5.82 0.04 up from 2021 | 422 | 36% | $3,220 | ||
36Environmental DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.14Q1 | 5.89 0.98 up from 2021 | 190 | 25% | $3,540 | ||
37Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.14Q1 | 5.54 0.86 down from 2021 | 842 | 61% | $4,390 | ||
38Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 7.69 1.49 up from 2021 | 3,295 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
39Annals of GISOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 6.03 0.33 up from 2021 | 86 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
40International Journal of Digital EarthOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 6.01 0.06 down from 2021 | 170 | 100% | $2,390 | ||
41Current Research in Environmental SustainabilityOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 5.54 2.46 down from 2021 | 111 | 100% | $2,180 | ||
42Earth Systems and EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.10Q1 | 8.91 0.76 down from 2021 | 196 | 30% | $4,090 | ||
43Environmental and Sustainability IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.05Q1 | 5.65 0.56 up from 2021 | 158 | 100% | $2,350 | ||
44Ecological ProcessesOASpringer Nature · China | 2.05Q1 | 6.07 0.75 up from 2021 | 184 | 100% | $1,670 | ||
45Annual Review of Environment and ResourcesOAAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.05Q1 | 22.48 0.45 up from 2021 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
46Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 6.87 0.15 up from 2021 | 1,119 | 48% | $3,590 | ||
47Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.02Q1 | 7.28 0.30 down from 2021 | 5,032 | 76% | $3,190 | ||
48Frontiers in ClimateOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.99Q1 | 4.53 4.29 down from 2021 | 212 | 100% | $3,077 | ||
49Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.98Q1 | 7.64 0.61 up from 2021 | 3,749 | 29% | $4,030 | ||
50Ecosystems and PeopleOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 6.41 0.16 down from 2021 | 95 | 100% | $1,165 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change highlighted.
- Ecology295
- Global and Planetary Change232
- Water Science and Technology103
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis97
- Pollution61
- Nature and Landscape Conservation57
- Environmental Engineering50
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law50
- Waste Management and Disposal21
- Ecological Modeling8
- Environmental Chemistry8
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
57 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 232
- Window papers (baseline)
- 113,902 +19.7% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 1.02 +2.6% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.