Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Pollution journal rankings 2023
67 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Pollution has 67 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.91, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.02 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.84. The top three are Environmental Chemistry Letters, Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, and Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry.
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)
67 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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1Environmental Chemistry LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.17Q1 | 17.31 1.45 down from 2022 | 584 | 45% | $3,190 | ||
2Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.57Q1 | 10.35 6.58 down from 2022 | 117 | 53% | $5,190 | ||
3Trends in Environmental Analytical ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.03Q1 | 13.23 0.49 up from 2022 | 111 | 23% | $4,430 | ||
4Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.01Q1 | 12.75 0.03 down from 2022 | 264 | 30% | — | ||
5Journal of Hazardous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.71Q1 | 12.71 1.29 down from 2022 | 8,032 | 19% | $4,340 | ||
6Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 12.14 1.04 down from 2022 | 3,501 | 31% | $4,660 | ||
7Journal of Environmental ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 9.35 0.42 down from 2022 | 6,473 | 30% | $3,750 | ||
8The Science of The Total EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.21Q1 | 9.10 1.80 down from 2022 | 22,901 | 36% | $4,250 | ||
9Environmental Chemistry and EcotoxicologyOAElsevier BV · China | 2.14Q1 | 12.22 2.92 up from 2022 | 78 | 100% | $700 | ||
10Current Pollution ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.13Q1 | 8.21 1.47 down from 2022 | 110 | 29% | $4,990 | ||
11ACS Environmental AuOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.02Q1 | 7.74 1.12 up from 2022 | 62 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
12Bioresource TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 10.63 1.21 down from 2022 | 5,158 | 19% | $4,880 | ||
13Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 8.60 1.03 down from 2022 | 6,448 | 30% | $4,090 | ||
14Energy Sustainability and SocietyOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.93Q1 | 6.19 0.17 down from 2022 | 140 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
15ChemosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 9.23 0.19 down from 2022 | 11,023 | 24% | $4,010 | ||
16Environmental Sciences EuropeOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.86Q1 | 7.37 0.18 up from 2022 | 406 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
17Microplastics and NanoplasticsOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.84Q1 | 11.74 0.06 down from 2022 | 47 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
18Environmental Technology & InnovationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q2 | 8.10 0.20 up from 2022 | 1,789 | 100% | $2,930 | ||
19Journal of Hazardous Materials AdvancesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.72Q2 | 7.01 2.66 up from 2022 | 217 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
20Journal of Hazardous Materials LettersOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.71Q2 | 8.40 1.70 up from 2022 | 70 | 100% | $1,610 | ||
21Environmental AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.61Q2 | 6.20 0.09 up from 2022 | 326 | 100% | $1,920 | ||
22Water Research XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.47Q2 | 6.94 0.49 down from 2022 | 101 | 100% | $3,943 | ||
23Emerging contaminantsOAKeAi · Netherlands | 1.45Q2 | 6.43 0.57 down from 2022 | 101 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
24Marine Pollution BulletinElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 6.26 0.56 down from 2022 | 3,338 | 37% | $3,740 | ||
25Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable developmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.20Q2 | 5.81 0.72 down from 2022 | 384 | 33% | $2,750 | ||
26Frontiers of Environmental Science & EngineeringHigher Education Press · China | 1.14Q2 | 5.72 0.67 down from 2022 | 456 | 27% | $2,490 | ||
27EnvironmentsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.14Q2 | 4.34 0.33 down from 2022 | 410 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
28Aquatic ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.13Q2 | 4.61 0.15 down from 2022 | 703 | 29% | $3,320 | ||
29MicroplasticsOASwitzerland | 1.12Q2 | 6.00 1.50 up from 2022 | 47 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
30International Biodeterioration & BiodegradationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 4.46 0.57 down from 2022 | 369 | 19% | $3,870 | ||
31Environmental Science AdvancesOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 3.71 2.29 down from 2022 | 87 | 100% | — | ||
32Environmental Geochemistry and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.92Q2 | 3.76 0.60 down from 2022 | 938 | 20% | $2,590 | ||
33Development EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.92Q2 | 2.12 1.33 down from 2022 | 44 | 100% | $2,220 | ||
34Environmental Monitoring and AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.91Q2 | 3.43 0.10 down from 2022 | 2,679 | 20% | $2,790 | ||
35Journal of Environmental Health Science and EngineeringSpringer International Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.86Q3 | 3.56 0.72 down from 2022 | 403 | 100% | $3,890 | ||
36Journal of EnergyHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.85Q3 | 5.29 2.19 up from 2022 | 47 | 100% | $820 | ||
37Environmental Pollutants and BioavailabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.84Q3 | 4.03 0.32 up from 2022 | 117 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
38Integrated Environmental Assessment and ManagementWiley · United States | 0.83Q3 | 2.96 0.02 down from 2022 | 470 | 72% | $3,500 | ||
39Water Air & Soil PollutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.72Q3 | 3.22 0.05 up from 2022 | 1,613 | 15% | $3,890 | ||
40PollutantsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.69Q3 | 2.69 0.74 down from 2022 | 56 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
41Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.68Q3 | 3.05 0.19 down from 2022 | 880 | 18% | $3,990 | ||
42Current Opinion in Environmental Science & HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.65Q3 | 7.73 1.59 down from 2022 | 233 | 29% | $3,700 | ||
43BiodegradationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.65Q3 | 3.56 0.21 down from 2022 | 115 | 29% | $3,590 | ||
44Journal of Trace Elements and MineralsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.65Q3 | 2.10no 2022 value | 40 | 100% | $1,910 | — | |
45Water Environment ResearchWiley · United States | 0.64Q3 | 2.71 0.52 down from 2022 | 497 | 52% | $3,240 | ||
46Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part APublisher not listed | 0.52Q3 | 2.15 0.25 down from 2022 | 361 | 5% | — | ||
47Bioremediation JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.44Q3 | 2.03 0.19 down from 2022 | 115 | 4% | — | ||
48Spanish Journal of Soil ScienceOAUniversia · Switzerland | 0.44Q3 | 2.29 1.32 up from 2022 | 39 | 100% | $1,413 | ||
49Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry ReviewsTaylor & Francis · Netherlands | 0.44Q3 | 1.43 0.30 down from 2022 | 85 | 11% | — | ||
50Chemistry and EcologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.43Q3 | 1.63 1.13 down from 2022 | 172 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Pollution 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.
21 additional Pollution 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
- 67
- Window papers (baseline)
- 62,921 +44.9% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.911 +9.3% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 35 | 35 | 39 | 41 | 42 | 44 | 47 | 48 | 51 | 53 | 56 | 58 | 58 | 59 | 61 | 58 | 61 | 67 | 69 | 67 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 11,570 | 12,501 | 12,964 | 14,045 | 14,764 | 16,051 | 17,166 | 18,647 | 20,488 | 22,398 | 24,122 | 25,933 | 27,933 | 30,140 | 32,685 | 34,957 | 36,086 | 36,732 | 37,609 | 39,899 | 43,429 | 49,249 | 56,189 | 62,921 | 68,045 | 73,512 | |
| Median OJR | 0.785 | 0.843 | 0.89 | 0.96 | 0.855 | 0.864 | 0.945 | 0.933 | 0.921 | 0.789 | 0.90 | 1.01 | 0.878 | 0.917 | 0.919 | 0.875 | 0.87 | 0.909 | 0.78 | 0.831 | 0.834 | 0.839 | 0.935 | 0.911 | 0.927 | 1.04 |
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.