Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment journal rankings 2023
47 ranked journals · Subfield in Energy
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment has 47 ranked journals in 2023. The median OJR fell 0.10 on 2022 to 0.83, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.41. The top three are Nature Catalysis, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, and Renewable Energy.
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 Energy (5)
47 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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1Nature CatalysisNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.44Q1 | 29.89 2.51 up from 2022 | 461 | 32% | $12,690 | ||
2Applied Catalysis B: EnvironmentalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.22Q1 | 20.09 1.45 down from 2022 | 3,158 | 20% | $5,950 | ||
3Renewable EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 10.52 1.04 up from 2022 | 5,305 | 29% | $4,460 | ||
4CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION)Elsevier BV · China | 2.23Q1 | 14.77 0.86 up from 2022 | 636 | 11% | $3,000 | ||
5Materials Reports EnergyOAElsevier BV · China | 1.85Q1 | 9.25 0.02 up from 2022 | 58 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
6Journal of Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.76Q1 | 9.42 0.37 down from 2022 | 5,849 | 17% | $4,470 | ||
7Materials Today SustainabilityOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 7.51 0.37 up from 2022 | 270 | 19% | $2,530 | ||
8Transactions of Tianjin UniversitySpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.52Q1 | 7.22 1.00 down from 2022 | 120 | 54% | $3,190 | ||
9Green Energy & EnvironmentOAKeAi · China | 1.48Q1 | 8.12 0.63 up from 2022 | 445 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
10PhycologyOASwitzerland | 1.46Q1 | 5.46 0.38 up from 2022 | 35 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
11Solar EnergyElsevier BV · United States | 1.41Q1 | 7.02 0.37 down from 2022 | 2,817 | 26% | $3,900 | ||
12Chem CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.41Q1 | 6.89 0.23 up from 2022 | 485 | 100% | $9,170 | ||
13ChemSusChemWiley · Germany | 1.38Q2 | 6.41 0.92 down from 2022 | 1,827 | 67% | $4,550 | ||
14International Journal of Hydrogen EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 8.22 0.50 up from 2022 | 9,575 | 19% | $3,730 | ||
15Global ChallengesOAWiley · Germany | 1.20Q2 | 4.11 0.50 down from 2022 | 200 | 100% | $3,810 | ||
16Advanced Sustainable SystemsWiley · Germany | 1.18Q2 | 5.72 0.56 down from 2022 | 516 | 60% | $4,430 | ||
17Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical EngineersElsevier BV · Taiwan | 1.05Q2 | 6.06 0.26 up from 2022 | 1,158 | 9% | $2,650 | ||
18Algal ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.02Q2 | 5.68 0.13 down from 2022 | 1,177 | 39% | $4,190 | ||
19Sustainable Energy & FuelsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 5.00 0.56 down from 2022 | 1,502 | 39% | — | ||
20Solar Energy AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 4.52 1.85 up from 2022 | 31 | 100% | $2,750 | ||
21Frontiers of Chemical Science and EngineeringHigher Education Press · China | 0.90Q2 | 4.25 0.13 down from 2022 | 344 | 7% | $2,490 | ||
22Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A ChemistryElsevier BV · Switzerland | 0.87Q2 | 4.45 0.14 up from 2022 | 1,775 | 16% | $3,470 | ||
23GeothermicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 3.78 0.52 down from 2022 | 642 | 37% | $3,220 | ||
24Geothermal EnergyOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.83Q2 | 3.18 1.82 down from 2022 | 89 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
25Catalysis Science & TechnologyRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.83Q3 | 4.23 0.60 down from 2022 | 2,173 | 40% | — | ||
26Energy EfficiencySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.81Q3 | 4.03 0.80 up from 2022 | 231 | 47% | $2,390 | ||
27CatalystsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.79Q3 | 4.06 0.18 down from 2022 | 4,726 | 100% | $2,654 | ||
28Journal of Applied PhycologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.77Q3 | 3.33 0.53 down from 2022 | 862 | 38% | $3,890 | ||
29ChemCatChemWiley · Germany | 0.75Q3 | 3.58 0.57 down from 2022 | 1,757 | 64% | $4,500 | ||
30Applied PhycologyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 2.06 1.38 down from 2022 | 48 | 100% | $564 | ||
31Biophysical Economics and SustainabilitySpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 0.73Q3 | 2.44no change | 39 | 25% | $3,990 | ||
32International Journal of PhotoenergyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.72Q3 | 3.66 0.06 down from 2022 | 355 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
33Acta Physico-Chimica SinicaPeking University Press · China | 0.71Q3 | 7.43 3.63 up from 2022 | 475 | 61% | $4,500 | ||
34Catalysis CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.68Q3 | 3.51 0.18 down from 2022 | 571 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
35PhotochemOASwitzerland | 0.63Q3 | 2.80 0.84 down from 2022 | 94 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
36International journal of energy and environmental engineeringSpringer Nature · Iran | 0.63Q3 | 2.74 0.45 up from 2022 | 228 | 33% | $3,590 | ||
37Electrochemical Science AdvancesOAWiley · Germany | 0.60Q4 | 2.92 1.25 up from 2022 | 238 | 100% | $2,420 | ||
38Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy Water and Environment SystemsOASDEWES Centre · Croatia | 0.49Q4 | 3.15 0.86 up from 2022 | 137 | 100% | $521 | ||
39ElectrocatalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.48Q4 | 2.74 0.35 down from 2022 | 225 | 22% | $4,090 | ||
40Current Opinion in ElectrochemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.41Q4 | 8.06 0.69 down from 2022 | 586 | 51% | $3,630 | ||
41Journal of Solar Energy EngineeringASM International · United States | 0.38Q4 | 2.30 0.16 down from 2022 | 246 | 14% | — | ||
42BULLETIN OF CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING AND CATALYSISOADiponegoro University · Indonesia | 0.34Q4 | 1.92 0.07 down from 2022 | 218 | 100% | $150 | ||
43International Journal of Energy Optimization and EngineeringOAIGI Global · United States | 0.26Q4 | 0.96 0.72 down from 2022 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
44Catalysis ResearchPublisher not listed | 0.22Q4 | 0.98 0.98 up from 2022 | 48 | 92% | — | ||
45Zeitschrift für EnergiewirtschaftSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.16Q4 | 0.30 0.31 down from 2022 | 69 | 24% | — | ||
46Geochemical PerspectivesOAPublisher not listed | 0.10Q4 | 0.23 0.10 up from 2022 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of PhotocatalysisNetherlands | 0.05Q4 | 0.36 0.17 down from 2022 | 44 | — | — |
Subfields of Energy, with Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment highlighted.
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment47
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology1
- General Energy1
- Fuel Technology0
- Nuclear Energy and Engineering0
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.
23 additional Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 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
- 47
- Window papers (baseline)
- 121,630 +24.8% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.834 -6.2% 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 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 27 | 30 | 34 | 34 | 39 | 39 | 43 | 44 | 42 | 39 | 43 | 47 | 52 | 55 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 13,214 | 14,885 | 15,945 | 17,309 | 18,760 | 20,846 | 22,853 | 25,183 | 28,037 | 31,504 | 35,512 | 39,860 | 46,123 | 52,965 | 60,706 | 68,244 | 74,309 | 79,340 | 83,485 | 89,620 | 97,447 | 106,182 | 114,294 | 121,630 | 128,694 | 137,314 | |
| Median OJR | 0.82 | 0.747 | 0.85 | 1.04 | 0.93 | 0.98 | 0.754 | 0.829 | 0.65 | 0.88 | 1.062 | 1.25 | 1.065 | 1.0815 | 1.0810 | 0.96 | 0.79 | 0.865 | 0.753 | 0.861 | 0.89 | 0.97 | 0.937 | 0.834 | 0.90 | 0.942 |
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.