Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Water Science and Technology journal rankings 2022
103 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Water Science and Technology has 103 ranked journals in 2022. The median journal has an OJR of 0.65, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2021; Q1 starts at OJR 1.18. The top three are npj Clean Water, HydroResearch, and Hydrology and earth system sciences.
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)
103 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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1npj Clean WaterOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.94Q1 | 13.22 2.63 down from 2021 | 110 | 100% | $3,890 | ||
2HydroResearchOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.83Q1 | 9.04 1.72 up from 2021 | 44 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
3Hydrology and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.13Q1 | 8.46 1.41 down from 2021 | 918 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
4Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental EngineeringOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 9.88 0.13 down from 2021 | 170 | 100% | $760 | ||
5Water Resources ResearchOAWiley · United States | 2.02Q1 | 7.07 0.57 down from 2021 | 1,962 | 60% | $3,000 | ||
6Journal of Membrane ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 9.16 0.13 down from 2021 | 2,948 | 23% | $4,890 | ||
7Applied Water ScienceOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.83Q1 | 7.01 0.02 up from 2021 | 632 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
8DesalinationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 9.91 0.14 up from 2021 | 1,161 | 21% | $4,580 | ||
9Separation and Purification ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.78Q1 | 5.79 0.78 down from 2021 | 57 | 11% | — | ||
10Separation and Purification TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.74Q1 | 8.40 0.39 up from 2021 | 4,621 | 11% | $4,060 | ||
11Journal of environmental chemical engineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 8.34 0.58 up from 2021 | 4,220 | 15% | $3,350 | ||
12Journal of Hydrology Regional StudiesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.63Q1 | 5.70 1.03 down from 2021 | 398 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
13ResourcesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.62Q1 | 4.51 0.80 down from 2021 | 455 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
14ACS ES&T EngineeringAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.62Q1 | 7.28 0.07 up from 2021 | 182 | 15% | $4,500 | ||
15Sustainable Environment ResearchOABioMed Central · China | 1.59Q1 | 6.38 0.76 up from 2021 | 108 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
16Environmental Technology ReviewsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 5.72 2.20 down from 2021 | 34 | 8% | — | ||
17Environmental Nanotechnology Monitoring & ManagementElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q1 | 6.99 0.59 up from 2021 | 427 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
18Journal of Water Process EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 7.48 0.21 up from 2021 | 1,772 | 15% | $3,350 | ||
19Water Resources and IndustryOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.47Q1 | 5.96 0.44 up from 2021 | 62 | 100% | $3,613 | ||
20Energy NexusOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 6.45no 2021 value | 33 | 100% | $2,200 | — | |
21Water-Energy NexusOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q1 | 5.98 0.95 down from 2021 | 47 | 100% | $900 | ||
22Journal of Hydrology XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.36Q1 | 4.56 1.20 down from 2021 | 66 | 100% | $2,300 | ||
23Frontiers in WaterOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.31Q1 | 4.38 0.81 down from 2021 | 253 | 100% | $1,418 | ||
24Air Soil and Water ResearchOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.30Q1 | 5.29 0.17 up from 2021 | 89 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
25ACS ES&T WaterAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.24Q1 | 5.52 1.73 up from 2021 | 271 | 24% | $4,500 | ||
26Hydrological Sciences JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 4.31 1.29 down from 2021 | 548 | 36% | — | ||
27World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2019Publisher not listed | 1.17Q2 | —no 2021 value | 197 | — | — | ||
28Environmental ProcessesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.16Q2 | 5.33 2.00 up from 2021 | 195 | 22% | $2,390 | ||
29Minerals EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 4.91 0.20 down from 2021 | 1,294 | 17% | $4,220 | ||
30Aquacultural EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 4.87 0.98 up from 2021 | 170 | 37% | $3,500 | ||
31Hydrological ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 4.03 0.74 down from 2021 | 1,023 | 41% | $5,230 | ||
32WaterOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.08Q2 | 4.09 0.28 down from 2021 | 9,851 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
33Environmental Science Water Research & TechnologyRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 4.57 0.71 down from 2021 | 641 | 20% | — | ||
34MembranesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.96Q2 | 4.67 0.44 down from 2021 | 1,668 | 100% | $2,654 | ||
35HydrologyOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.92Q2 | 3.95 0.04 down from 2021 | 382 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
36Water ScienceOATaylor & Francis · Egypt | 0.92Q2 | 2.89 0.12 up from 2021 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
37International Journal of Environmental Science and TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.90Q2 | 3.70 0.10 down from 2021 | 1,602 | 15% | $3,490 | ||
38SeparationsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.89Q2 | 2.91 0.74 down from 2021 | 386 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
39Adsorption Science & TechnologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 3.12 1.25 down from 2021 | 152 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
40International Journal of Environmental ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Iran | 0.87Q2 | 3.51 0.04 up from 2021 | 219 | 22% | $3,790 | ||
41International Journal of River Basin ManagementTaylor & Francis | 0.81Q2 | 2.39 0.28 down from 2021 | 166 | 16% | — | ||
42Journal of Water Reuse and DesalinationOAIWA Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 3.35 0.14 up from 2021 | 121 | 100% | $2,150 | ||
43Australasian Journal of Water ResourcesTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.74Q2 | 3.24 1.18 up from 2021 | 54 | 26% | — | ||
44Water Conservation Science and EngineeringSpringer Science+Business Media · Singapore | 0.74Q2 | 2.23 0.30 down from 2021 | 59 | 10% | $3,290 | ||
45H2Open JournalOAIWA Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.74Q2 | 2.90 1.08 up from 2021 | 74 | 100% | — | ||
46Environmental Engineering ResearchOAKorean Society of Environmental Engineering · South Korea | 0.73Q2 | 2.78 0.42 down from 2021 | 362 | 100% | — | ||
47Sustainable Water Resources ManagementSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.71Q2 | 2.51no change | 296 | 11% | $3,190 | ||
48Journal of Chemical Technology & BiotechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 3.41 0.13 down from 2021 | 1,051 | 15% | $4,100 | ||
49JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources AssociationWiley · United States | 0.70Q2 | 2.79 0.57 up from 2021 | 247 | 40% | $3,200 | ||
50Separation Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.68Q2 | 2.47 0.39 down from 2021 | 766 | 5% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Water Science and Technology 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.
29 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 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
- 103
- Window papers (baseline)
- 82,811 +16.9% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.654 +9.6% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
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 | 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.