Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2023
236 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Global and Planetary Change has 236 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.98, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.77. 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 of Environmental Science (11)
236 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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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 | ||
5Current Climate Change ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.54Q1 | 13.17 2.40 down from 2022 | 31 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
6Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.12Q1 | 7.47 0.19 down from 2022 | 364 | 38% | $3,560 | ||
7Geography and sustainabilityOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.70Q1 | 9.82 2.03 down from 2022 | 114 | 100% | $1,700 | ||
8One EarthElsevier BV · United States | 3.67Q1 | 9.72 0.28 up from 2022 | 631 | 100% | $9,170 | ||
9Communications Earth & EnvironmentOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 10.54 0.40 up from 2022 | 628 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
10Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews WaterWiley · United States | 3.41Q1 | 9.21 1.00 down from 2022 | 196 | 70% | $4,200 | ||
11Current Forestry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.38Q1 | 10.30 0.90 down from 2022 | 69 | 78% | $4,990 | ||
12npj Urban SustainabilityOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 10.48 0.87 down from 2022 | 73 | 100% | $2,490 | ||
13Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.12Q1 | 9.41 1.79 down from 2022 | 560 | 100% | $3,180 | ||
14Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsOAWiley · United States | 3.03Q1 | 7.78 4.64 down from 2022 | 680 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
15npj Climate and Atmospheric ScienceOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.01Q1 | 10.62 2.66 down from 2022 | 207 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
16Journal of Urban ManagementOAElsevier BV · Taiwan | 2.95Q1 | 6.56 1.62 down from 2022 | 109 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
17Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.95Q1 | 7.25 0.53 down from 2022 | 1,810 | 48% | $3,830 | ||
18Earth System DynamicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.89Q1 | 10.53 0.54 down from 2022 | 208 | 100% | $1,585 | ||
19Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 2.79Q1 | 6.77 0.42 down from 2022 | 479 | 68% | $3,890 | ||
20Earth System GovernanceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.67Q1 | 5.59 1.87 down from 2022 | 89 | 100% | $2,180 | ||
21AGU AdvancesOAWiley · United States | 2.65Q1 | 8.12 1.02 down from 2022 | 140 | 100% | $3,460 | ||
22PLOS ClimateOAPublic Library of Science · United States | 2.63Q1 | 5.52no 2022 value | 79 | 100% | $2,496 | — | |
23People and NatureOAWiley · United States | 2.59Q1 | 5.94 1.86 down from 2022 | 320 | 100% | $2,540 | ||
24Weather and Climate ExtremesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 7.83 2.11 down from 2022 | 259 | 100% | $3,969 | ||
25BioScienceOxford University Press · United States | 2.55Q1 | 6.53 0.50 down from 2022 | 370 | 88% | $5,088 | ||
26Global SustainabilityOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 6.02 1.58 down from 2022 | 89 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
27Environmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 7.47 0.34 down from 2022 | 283 | 84% | $3,610 | ||
28Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 7.05 0.31 down from 2022 | 844 | 62% | $4,250 | ||
29AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden | 2.49Q1 | 7.40 0.39 up from 2022 | 487 | 100% | $4,490 | ||
30Climate Risk ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.40Q1 | 6.57 0.43 up from 2022 | 248 | 100% | $3,130 | ||
31Current Research in Environmental SustainabilityOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.37Q1 | 5.53 0.02 down from 2022 | 190 | 100% | $2,180 | ||
32Nature-Based SolutionsOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.37Q1 | 7.63 3.77 up from 2022 | 46 | 100% | $1,910 | ||
33Environmental DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.32Q1 | 6.07 0.18 up from 2022 | 212 | 32% | $3,540 | ||
34Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 7.75 0.06 up from 2022 | 3,684 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
35Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom | 2.24Q1 | 6.19 1.00 down from 2022 | 253 | 74% | $5,000 | ||
36Natural Hazards ResearchOAElsevier BV · China | 2.20Q1 | 5.49 1.65 up from 2022 | 67 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
37Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 4.96 0.86 down from 2022 | 440 | 39% | $3,220 | ||
38Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 7.48 0.95 down from 2022 | 2,807 | 100% | $3,045 | ||
39Ecosystem ServicesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.13Q1 | 7.54 1.01 down from 2022 | 430 | 66% | $4,100 | ||
40Ecosystems and PeopleOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 4.52 1.89 down from 2022 | 119 | 100% | $1,165 | ||
41Earth Systems and EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.10Q1 | 7.14 1.77 down from 2022 | 192 | 32% | $4,090 | ||
42Annals of GISOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.50 2.53 down from 2022 | 95 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
43Environmental ChallengesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 6.74 1.28 up from 2022 | 660 | 100% | $2,140 | ||
44Annual Review of Environment and ResourcesOAAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.05Q1 | 21.81 0.67 down from 2022 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
45Ecology and SocietyOAResilience Alliance · Canada | 2.03Q1 | 4.76 0.08 down from 2022 | 467 | 100% | $975 | ||
46Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.03Q1 | 5.92 0.37 up from 2022 | 760 | 66% | $4,390 | ||
47Geophysical Research LettersOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.02Q1 | 6.20 1.07 down from 2022 | 5,250 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
48Frontiers in Remote SensingOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.01Q1 | 6.15 0.38 up from 2022 | 167 | 100% | $3,077 | ||
49Environmental and Sustainability IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.01Q1 | 6.71 1.06 up from 2022 | 194 | 100% | $2,350 | ||
50Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.95Q1 | 5.88 1.08 up from 2022 | 82 | 37% | $3,390 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Global and Planetary Change 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.
53 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 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
- 236
- Window papers (baseline)
- 120,307 +21.7% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.975 -3.7% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 13
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 | 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.