Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Environmental Engineering journal rankings 2023
49 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Environmental Engineering has 49 ranked journals in 2023. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2022 to 1.12, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.70. The top three are Remote Sensing of Environment, Sustainable Cities and Society, and Environmental Science and Ecotechnology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
49 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 4.08Q1 | 13.03 1.99 down from 2022 | 1,402 | 66% | $4,450 | ||
2Sustainable Cities and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.30Q1 | 12.38 0.43 down from 2022 | 2,273 | 33% | $4,870 | ||
3Environmental Science and EcotechnologyOAElsevier BV · China | 3.22Q1 | 14.80 0.86 up from 2022 | 133 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
4Journal of Cleaner ProductionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.12Q1 | 11.17 1.22 down from 2022 | 14,183 | 28% | $4,660 | ||
5Science of Remote SensingOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.04Q1 | 7.30 5.08 down from 2022 | 69 | 100% | $2,180 | ||
6Sustainable HorizonsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 9.10 1.50 down from 2022 | 39 | 97% | $2,300 | ||
7International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and GeoinformationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.68Q1 | 8.71 0.53 up from 2022 | 1,043 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
8Cleaner Environmental SystemsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 7.94 1.21 up from 2022 | 99 | 100% | $1,910 | ||
9Geo-spatial Information ScienceOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 4.95 1.31 down from 2022 | 180 | 100% | $1,993 | ||
10Maritime Transport ResearchOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 5.35 1.20 up from 2022 | 67 | 100% | $2,230 | ||
11Journal of Industrial EcologyWiley · United States | 1.85Q1 | 6.28 0.80 down from 2022 | 367 | 83% | $3,750 | ||
12Urban ClimateElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.71Q1 | 7.22 0.43 up from 2022 | 793 | 29% | $3,690 | ||
13City and Environment InteractionsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 5.13 1.13 up from 2022 | 59 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
14The Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space ScienceOAElsevier BV · Egypt | 1.64Q2 | 4.67 0.36 down from 2022 | 195 | 100% | $900 | ||
15Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial AerodynamicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.57Q2 | 4.58 0.29 down from 2022 | 899 | 36% | $3,880 | ||
16Advances in Water ResourcesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.55Q2 | 4.84 0.51 down from 2022 | 570 | 50% | $3,840 | ||
17Groundwater for Sustainable DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.52Q2 | 5.66 1.20 down from 2022 | 547 | 24% | $3,640 | ||
18The International Journal of Life Cycle AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.43Q2 | 5.67 0.05 down from 2022 | 378 | 72% | $3,990 | ||
19International journal of greenhouse gas controlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 5.42 1.16 up from 2022 | 616 | 53% | $4,100 | ||
20Applied GeomaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.29Q2 | 3.16 0.22 down from 2022 | 176 | 25% | $3,290 | ||
21Energy Ecology and EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.27Q2 | 4.11 1.39 down from 2022 | 119 | 18% | $2,790 | ||
22European Journal of Remote SensingOATaylor & Francis · Italy | 1.23Q2 | 4.29 0.12 up from 2022 | 193 | 100% | $1,060 | ||
23PFG – Journal of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Geoinformation ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.22Q2 | 1.85 1.97 down from 2022 | 122 | 57% | $3,490 | ||
24Geology Ecology and LandscapesOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 2.91 1.07 down from 2022 | 115 | 100% | — | ||
25Blue-Green SystemsOAUWA Publishing | 1.12Q2 | 2.85 2.07 down from 2022 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
26Earth Science InformaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.08Q3 | 3.48 0.08 down from 2022 | 466 | 12% | $3,890 | ||
27Journal of Contaminant HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.97Q3 | 3.80 0.24 down from 2022 | 351 | 30% | $3,640 | ||
28Environmental Earth SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.96Q3 | 3.10 0.13 down from 2022 | 1,907 | 21% | $2,290 | ||
29Hydrogeology JournalSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.91Q3 | 2.87 0.51 down from 2022 | 478 | 54% | $2,390 | ||
30Economic Systems ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.90Q3 | 2.14 0.43 down from 2022 | 90 | 65% | — | ||
31Boundary-Layer MeteorologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.81Q3 | 2.66 2.49 down from 2022 | 264 | 57% | $3,790 | ||
32Canadian Journal of Remote SensingOATaylor & Francis · Canada | 0.81Q3 | 2.32 0.66 down from 2022 | 152 | 100% | — | ||
33Urban Water JournalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.73Q3 | 1.96 1.17 down from 2022 | 322 | 33% | — | ||
34Remote Sensing in Earth Systems SciencesSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.69Q3 | 2.03 0.08 up from 2022 | 49 | 10% | $3,190 | ||
35Greenhouse Gases Science and TechnologyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 2.83 0.65 up from 2022 | 218 | 55% | $3,570 | ||
36Geomicrobiology JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.64Q3 | 2.74 0.36 up from 2022 | 249 | 11% | — | ||
37Advances in geosciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.62Q3 | 1.28 1.04 down from 2022 | 107 | 100% | $301 | ||
38Ground WaterWiley · United States | 0.51Q4 | 2.00 0.15 down from 2022 | 296 | 64% | $4,100 | ||
39Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental StatisticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.49Q4 | 1.33 0.19 down from 2022 | 118 | 45% | $3,090 | ||
40Journal of Spatial ScienceTaylor & Francis · Australia | 0.49Q4 | 1.19 0.05 up from 2022 | 88 | 34% | — | ||
41Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built EnvironmentAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.43Q4 | 2.15 0.44 up from 2022 | 108 | 21% | — | ||
42ISPRS annals of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.39Q4 | 1.15 0.20 down from 2022 | 949 | 100% | — | ||
43Wind and StructuresSouth Korea | 0.37Q4 | 1.08 0.03 down from 2022 | 152 | — | — | ||
44International Journal of VentilationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.32Q4 | 1.11 0.26 up from 2022 | 54 | 48% | — | ||
45Groundwater Monitoring & RemediationWiley · United States | 0.32Q4 | 0.97 0.11 down from 2022 | 162 | 47% | $3,920 | ||
46Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote SensingAmerican Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing · United States | 0.30Q4 | 0.78 0.04 down from 2022 | 279 | 55% | — | ||
47Journal of Groundwater Science and EngineeringOATsinghua University Press | 0.25Q4 | —no 2022 value | 37 | 100% | — | ||
48GrundwasserSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.19Q4 | 0.85 0.33 up from 2022 | 99 | 58% | $2,290 | ||
49International Journal of Environment and Sustainable DevelopmentInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.15Q4 | 0.41 0.06 down from 2022 | 174 | 13% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Environmental Engineering highlighted.
- Ecology296
- Global and Planetary Change236
- Water Science and Technology104
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis97
- Pollution67
- Nature and Landscape Conservation56
- Environmental Engineering49
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law49
- Waste Management and Disposal21
- Ecological Modeling9
- Environmental Chemistry8
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
13 additional Environmental Engineering journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 49
- Window papers (baseline)
- 64,951 +22.2% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 1.119 +4.0% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 6
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.