Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
Choose a field to open its ranking, or a journal to find its row in its subfield’s list.
Field ranking · 2023
Environmental Science journal rankings 2023
992 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Environmental Science has 992 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.76, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.35. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Nature Sustainability, and Nature Climate Change.
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 in Environmental Science (11)
Up to Physical Sciences992 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States | 10.70Q1 | 32.48 0.52 up from 2022 | 66 | 74% | $3,880 | ||
2Nature SustainabilityNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 7.21Q1 | 20.67 3.36 down from 2022 | 534 | 48% | $12,690 | ||
3Nature Climate ChangeNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.51Q1 | 18.99 1.98 down from 2022 | 815 | 47% | $12,690 | ||
4Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States | 5.54Q1 | 13.92 1.29 up from 2022 | 164 | 86% | $5,450 | ||
5Global Food SecurityElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.14Q1 | 13.93 2.53 up from 2022 | 299 | 84% | $5,240 | ||
6The Lancet Planetary HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.09Q1 | 16.66 2.69 up from 2022 | 462 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
7Nature FoodNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.99Q1 | 12.99 0.42 up from 2022 | 624 | 42% | $12,690 | ||
8Current Climate Change ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.54Q1 | 13.17 2.40 down from 2022 | 31 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
9LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.50Q1 | 6.27 0.73 down from 2022 | 660 | 32% | $4,590 | ||
10ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote SensingElsevier BV | 4.33Q1 | 12.87 0.97 down from 2022 | 762 | 45% | $3,310 | ||
11Environmental Chemistry LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.17Q1 | 17.31 1.45 down from 2022 | 584 | 45% | $3,190 | ||
12Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.12Q1 | 7.47 0.19 down from 2022 | 364 | 38% | $3,560 | ||
13Resources Environment and SustainabilityOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.10Q1 | 12.64 3.97 down from 2022 | 85 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
14Remote Sensing of EnvironmentElsevier BV · United States | 4.08Q1 | 13.03 1.99 down from 2022 | 1,402 | 66% | $4,450 | ||
15Global Change BiologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.94Q1 | 11.97 0.18 down from 2022 | 1,523 | 76% | $4,550 | ||
16Resources Conservation and RecyclingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.89Q1 | 12.57 0.96 down from 2022 | 1,830 | 50% | $5,270 | ||
17Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.87Q1 | 8.12 0.36 down from 2022 | 423 | 60% | $4,380 | ||
18The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.74Q1 | 2.98 2.36 down from 2022 | 78 | 31% | — | ||
19Geography and sustainabilityOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.70Q1 | 9.82 2.03 down from 2022 | 114 | 100% | $1,700 | ||
20One EarthElsevier BV · United States | 3.67Q1 | 9.72 0.28 up from 2022 | 631 | 100% | $9,170 | ||
21The ISME JournalOASpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.59Q1 | 11.98 0.27 up from 2022 | 746 | 100% | $4,153 | ||
22Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.57Q1 | 10.35 6.58 down from 2022 | 117 | 53% | $5,190 | ||
23Communications Earth & EnvironmentOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 10.54 0.40 up from 2022 | 628 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
24Ecological MonographsWiley · United States | 3.43Q1 | 8.22 2.15 up from 2022 | 137 | 68% | $3,970 | ||
25Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews WaterWiley · United States | 3.41Q1 | 9.21 1.00 down from 2022 | 196 | 70% | $4,200 | ||
26Current Forestry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.38Q1 | 10.30 0.90 down from 2022 | 69 | 78% | $4,990 | ||
27Global TransitionsOAElsevier BV · China | 3.38Q1 | 6.24 7.69 down from 2022 | 47 | 100% | $900 | ||
28npj Urban SustainabilityOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 10.48 0.87 down from 2022 | 73 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
29Sustainable Cities and SocietyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.30Q1 | 12.38 0.43 down from 2022 | 2,273 | 33% | $4,870 | ||
30Reviews in Fisheries Science & AquacultureTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.23Q1 | 6.45 4.37 down from 2022 | 82 | 35% | — | ||
31Environmental Science and EcotechnologyOAElsevier BV · China | 3.22Q1 | 14.80 0.86 up from 2022 | 133 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
32Engineering GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.12Q1 | 7.35 0.13 up from 2022 | 1,126 | 29% | $4,210 | ||
33Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.12Q1 | 9.41 1.79 down from 2022 | 560 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
34Journal of Cleaner ProductionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.12Q1 | 11.17 1.22 down from 2022 | 14,183 | 28% | $4,660 | ||
35Conservation LettersOAWiley · United States | 3.11Q1 | 7.69 1.31 down from 2022 | 212 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
36Geoenvironmental DisastersOASpringer Nature · Germany | 3.06Q1 | 5.11 1.48 down from 2022 | 92 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
37Current Environmental Health ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 3.05Q1 | 9.74 0.35 down from 2022 | 118 | 59% | $3,990 | ||
38Science of Remote SensingOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.04Q1 | 7.30 5.08 down from 2022 | 69 | 100% | $2,180 | ||
39Trends in Environmental Analytical ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.03Q1 | 13.23 0.49 up from 2022 | 111 | 23% | $4,430 | ||
40Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsOAWiley · United States | 3.03Q1 | 7.78 4.64 down from 2022 | 680 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
41npj Climate and Atmospheric ScienceOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.01Q1 | 10.62 2.66 down from 2022 | 207 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
42Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.01Q1 | 12.75 0.03 down from 2022 | 264 | 30% | — | ||
43Global Ecology and BiogeographyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.98Q1 | 7.62 0.21 up from 2022 | 522 | 79% | $5,000 | ||
44Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.98Q1 | 11.36 1.52 down from 2022 | 2,217 | 100% | $4,750 | ||
45npj Clean WaterOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.97Q1 | 12.57 0.64 down from 2022 | 154 | 100% | $3,890 | ||
46Landscape and Urban PlanningElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.97Q1 | 9.00 1.22 down from 2022 | 637 | 56% | $3,120 | ||
47Journal of Urban ManagementOAElsevier BV · Taiwan | 2.95Q1 | 6.56 1.62 down from 2022 | 109 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
48Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.95Q1 | 7.25 0.53 down from 2022 | 1,810 | 48% | $3,830 | ||
49Methods in Ecology and EvolutionOAWiley · United States | 2.92Q1 | 7.56 0.45 up from 2022 | 649 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
50Earth System DynamicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.89Q1 | 10.53 0.54 down from 2022 | 208 | 100% | $1,585 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, compared.
- 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.
246 additional Environmental Science 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
- 992
- Window papers (baseline)
- 768,184 +20.6% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.7602 -7.8% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 67Comparison-group list (67)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 429 | 465 | 498 | 528 | 542 | 555 | 565 | 584 | 621 | 658 | 691 | 730 | 752 | 781 | 816 | 854 | 879 | 894 | 910 | 907 | 926 | 945 | 982 | 992 | 992 | 998 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 177,914 | 208,192 | 224,441 | 245,259 | 251,131 | 272,523 | 295,719 | 323,264 | 355,145 | 387,726 | 421,450 | 454,259 | 488,219 | 520,283 | 555,752 | 588,865 | 606,383 | 609,229 | 603,145 | 613,842 | 636,773 | 681,372 | 729,009 | 768,184 | 799,466 | 839,315 | |
| Median OJR | 0.68 | 0.73 | 0.763 | 0.755 | 0.753 | 0.7599 | 0.820 | 0.814 | 0.84 | 0.832 | 0.85 | 0.885 | 0.916 | 0.917 | 0.90 | 0.879 | 0.89 | 0.86 | 0.829 | 0.815 | 0.824 | 0.80 | 0.757 | 0.7602 | 0.77 | 0.79 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 4.0% | 780 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.062 per 1,000 | 688 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -2.4% | 896 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 79.2% | 998 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,120 | 607 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 30.3% | 956 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 998 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.80 | 989 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 26.5% | 998 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 41.9% | 995 journals |
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.