Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis journal rankings 2022
97 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis has 97 ranked journals in 2022. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.04 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2021. A journal needs OJR 1.49 to reach Q1. The top three are Journal of Environmental Psychology, Global Transitions, and The Lancet Planetary Health.
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)
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 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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1Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.85Q1 | 8.48 0.66 down from 2021 | 383 | 52% | $4,380 | ||
2Global TransitionsOAElsevier BV · China | 3.75Q1 | 13.92 1.67 up from 2021 | 60 | 100% | $900 | ||
3The Lancet Planetary HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.53Q1 | 13.98 3.63 up from 2021 | 436 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
4Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.11Q1 | 12.88 0.30 down from 2021 | 2,584 | 100% | $4,750 | ||
5Landscape and Urban PlanningElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 10.22 1.53 up from 2021 | 620 | 53% | $3,120 | ||
6Environmental Science & Technology LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.84Q1 | 12.50 0.03 down from 2021 | 447 | 32% | $4,500 | ||
7Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 11.93 1.68 up from 2021 | 152 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
8Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.70Q1 | 12.37 0.97 up from 2021 | 4,764 | 32% | $4,500 | ||
9International Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 7.21 1.09 down from 2021 | 737 | 92% | $4,514 | ||
10Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.47Q1 | 5.58 0.99 up from 2021 | 87 | 50% | $3,900 | ||
11Current Environmental Health ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.45Q1 | 10.09 2.61 up from 2021 | 100 | 67% | $3,990 | ||
12Environmental Health PerspectivesOANational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · United States | 2.32Q1 | 8.51 0.91 down from 2021 | 528 | 100% | $4,500 | ||
13Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 2.03Q1 | 9.30 1.06 up from 2021 | 4,025 | 28% | $3,880 | ||
14Health & PlaceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 5.31 0.12 down from 2021 | 546 | 70% | $3,380 | ||
15Urban forestry & urban greeningElsevier BV · Germany | 1.89Q1 | 7.39 1.29 up from 2021 | 943 | 44% | $3,870 | ||
16Environmental Health and Preventive MedicineOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.85Q1 | 6.08 0.30 up from 2021 | 277 | 100% | $2,145 | ||
17Environmental HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 6.54 0.97 down from 2021 | 349 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
18Ecotoxicology and Environmental SafetyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 7.22 0.52 up from 2021 | 4,123 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
19International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental HealthElsevier BV · Germany | 1.66Q1 | 6.18 1.30 down from 2021 | 483 | 61% | $3,800 | ||
20Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.63Q1 | 7.04 1.28 down from 2021 | 40 | 57% | — | ||
21Indoor AirWiley · Denmark | 1.60Q1 | 6.67 0.03 down from 2021 | 400 | 69% | $2,490 | ||
22Exposure and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 6.75 0.94 down from 2021 | 153 | 36% | $2,490 | ||
23GeoHealthOAWiley · United States | 1.54Q1 | 5.72 0.42 down from 2021 | 165 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
24Journal of Environmental SciencesElsevier BV · China | 1.53Q1 | 7.60 1.23 up from 2021 | 961 | 10% | $3,000 | ||
25Toxicology ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.49Q1 | 4.88 0.67 down from 2021 | 566 | 100% | $2,530 | ||
26Atmospheric Environment XOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.45Q2 | 6.44 0.39 up from 2021 | 136 | 100% | $1,860 | ||
27Critical Reviews in ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.43Q2 | 6.73 0.08 up from 2021 | 128 | 49% | — | ||
28Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental EpidemiologySpringer Nature · United States | 1.42Q2 | 4.69 0.32 up from 2021 | 271 | 82% | $5,490 | ||
29Air Quality Atmosphere & HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 5.92 0.63 down from 2021 | 456 | 34% | $3,590 | ||
30ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.39Q2 | 4.81 0.49 up from 2021 | 599 | 27% | $4,250 | ||
31ToxicsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.38Q2 | 5.41 0.19 up from 2021 | 554 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
32Environmental Toxicology and PharmacologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.38Q2 | 4.59 1.35 down from 2021 | 496 | 22% | $3,540 | ||
33Cities & HealthTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 4.73 0.21 up from 2021 | 231 | 49% | — | ||
34The Journal of Climate Change and HealthOAElsevier BV · France | 1.33Q2 | 4.09 5.91 down from 2021 | 90 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
35Environmental Science Processes & ImpactsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 5.99 0.37 up from 2021 | 488 | 35% | — | ||
36Frontiers in Sustainable CitiesOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.29Q2 | 3.96 0.96 up from 2021 | 214 | 100% | $1,418 | ||
37Human and Ecological Risk Assessment An International JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.27Q2 | 4.63 0.09 up from 2021 | 308 | 10% | — | ||
38Atmospheric Pollution ResearchElsevier BV · Türkiye | 1.27Q2 | 5.23 0.13 up from 2021 | 710 | 34% | $2,570 | ||
39Current Research in ToxicologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.20Q2 | 3.85 1.35 up from 2021 | 59 | 100% | $2,440 | ||
40International Journal of BiometeorologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.20Q2 | 3.69 0.54 down from 2021 | 537 | 41% | $3,890 | ||
41NeuroToxicologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.19Q2 | 3.51 0.70 down from 2021 | 415 | 39% | $4,030 | ||
42Toxicological SciencesOxford University Press · United States | 1.13Q2 | 4.16 0.31 up from 2021 | 573 | 76% | $4,671 | ||
43Regulatory Toxicology and PharmacologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.10Q2 | 3.77 0.30 up from 2021 | 623 | 54% | $4,210 | ||
44Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & PharmacologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.09Q2 | 4.23 0.23 up from 2021 | 541 | 20% | $3,220 | ||
45Toxicology LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.08Q2 | 3.47 0.56 down from 2021 | 754 | 11% | $4,270 | ||
46The International Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineOANational Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Health Organization · Iran | 1.07Q2 | 4.90 0.39 down from 2021 | 55 | — | — | ||
47Reviews on Environmental HealthDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.06Q2 | 4.23 0.12 up from 2021 | 193 | 23% | $2,712 | ||
48Frontiers in ToxicologyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.04Q2 | 3.56 1.06 up from 2021 | 67 | 100% | $3,077 | ||
49Aerosol and Air Quality ResearchOATaiwan Association for Aerosol Research · Taiwan | 1.04Q2 | 4.81 0.17 down from 2021 | 667 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
50Archives of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.03Q3 | 4.74 0.87 up from 2021 | 316 | 37% | $3,990 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 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.
23 additional Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 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
- 97
- Window papers (baseline)
- 72,951 +18.3% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 1.04 +3.9% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
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 |
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| Ranked journals | 47 | 50 | 53 | 56 | 59 | 56 | 56 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 64 | 67 | 66 | 68 | 70 | 77 | 76 | 81 | 85 | 87 | 86 | 93 | 97 | 97 | 100 | 100 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,373 | 23,298 | 25,727 | 28,666 | 30,953 | 34,676 | 38,303 | 42,209 | 46,770 | 51,378 | 56,797 | 61,162 | 65,841 | 69,179 | 73,239 | 76,971 | 78,996 | 76,273 | 68,010 | 61,690 | 60,549 | 66,381 | 72,951 | 79,491 | 84,111 | 95,214 | |
| Median OJR | 0.71 | 0.87 | 0.95 | 0.88 | 0.94 | 1.17 | 1.189 | 1.30 | 1.38 | 1.52 | 1.46 | 1.48 | 1.42 | 1.43 | 1.44 | 1.41 | 1.36 | 1.190 | 1.07 | 0.999 | 1.05 | 0.997 | 1.04 | 1.057 | 1.063 | 0.98 |
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.