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Subfield ranking · 2024

Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2024

236 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science

Global and Planetary Change has 236 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.98, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.75. The top three are Reviews of Geophysics, Nature Sustainability, and Nature Climate Change.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 score is computed on.

236
24% of Environmental Science
Median OJR

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.

0.98+0.01 vs 2023
This subfieldAll 0.77World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

54%
All fields: 38%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,090
Median positive listed APC: $3,090 among 146 journals. Another 3 list $0; 87 have no known price. All fields: $3,220.

Subfields of Environmental Science (11)

236 ranked journals

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Global and Planetary Change ranking, 2024

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.

OJR

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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024.

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1Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States
12.00Q145.55 13.07 up from 20236076%$3,880
2Nature SustainabilityNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
6.37Q119.83 0.85 down from 202355342%$12,690
3Nature Climate ChangeNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
6.27Q114.12 4.88 down from 202386144%$12,690
4Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States
5.55Q112.62 1.30 down from 202315681%$5,450
5npj Urban SustainabilityOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom
3.98Q110.01 0.47 down from 2023127100%$2,490
6Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom
3.96Q17.97 0.50 up from 202340532%$3,560
7Geography and sustainabilityOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
3.50Q18.41 1.41 down from 2023126100%$1,700
8One EarthElsevier BV · United States
3.47Q19.30 0.42 down from 2023626100%$9,170
9Communications Earth & EnvironmentOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom
3.45Q110.31 0.24 down from 20231,044100%$3,490
10The Innovation GeoscienceOAPublisher not listed
3.24Q17.90no 2023 value39100%——
11Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews WaterWiley · United States
3.00Q17.27 1.94 down from 202318582%$4,200
12Current Forestry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
2.94Q17.98 2.32 down from 20237489%$4,990
13Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States
2.94Q19.67 0.26 up from 2023660100%$3,180
14npj Climate and Atmospheric ScienceOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom
2.88Q19.93 0.69 down from 2023375100%$3,590
15Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.76Q16.60 0.66 down from 20231,49348%$3,830
16Journal of Urban ManagementOAElsevier BV · Taiwan
2.73Q16.09 0.47 down from 2023118100%$1,200
17Climate Risk ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.71Q16.72 0.14 up from 2023301100%$3,130
18Earth System DynamicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany
2.69Q18.48 2.05 down from 2023207100%$1,585
19AGU AdvancesOAWiley · United States
2.49Q16.92 1.20 down from 2023156100%$3,460
20Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan
2.48Q16.24 0.53 down from 202351475%$3,890
21BioScienceOxford University Press · United States
2.47Q15.67 0.86 down from 202331685%$5,088
22Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.44Q16.17 1.20 up from 202352134%$3,220
23Environmental and Sustainability IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United States
2.42Q16.54 0.17 down from 2023225100%$2,350
24Global SustainabilityOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom
2.40Q17.28 1.26 up from 202370100%$3,550
25Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.38Q18.09 0.34 up from 20234,129100%$3,650
26Weather and Climate ExtremesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.33Q17.83 0.01 up from 2023303100%$3,969
27Earth System GovernanceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.30Q15.31 0.28 down from 202392100%$2,180
28AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden
2.29Q16.35 1.05 down from 2023500100%$4,490
29Environmental DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.29Q16.22 0.15 up from 202325443%$3,540
30Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.28Q16.80 0.25 down from 202382374%$4,250
31People and NatureOAWiley · United States
2.28Q15.76 0.18 down from 2023359100%$2,540
32Environmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.28Q17.26 0.20 down from 202328084%$3,610
33Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland
2.22Q17.35 1.47 up from 20239536%$3,390
34PLOS Sustainability and TransformationOAPublic Library of Science · United States
2.21Q15.93 1.68 up from 202371100%$3,400
35Earth Systems and EnvironmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland
2.17Q16.01 1.13 down from 202316229%$4,090
36Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
2.14Q15.46 0.46 down from 202365163%$4,390
37Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom
2.13Q16.43 0.24 up from 202324379%$5,000
38PLOS ClimateOAPublic Library of Science · United States
2.12Q15.34 0.18 down from 2023242100%$2,496
39Ecosystem ServicesElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.12Q17.76 0.22 up from 202334071%$4,100
40Nature-Based SolutionsOAElsevier BV · United States
2.10Q17.53 0.10 down from 2023105100%$1,910
41Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.08Q16.48no change1,20852%$3,590
42Natural Hazards ResearchOAElsevier BV · China
2.02Q15.09 0.40 down from 2023170100%$0 listed
43Environmental ChallengesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.01Q16.95 0.22 up from 2023793100%$2,140
44Annual Review of Environment and ResourcesOAAnnual Reviews · United States
1.99Q119.63 2.18 down from 202389100%—
45Current Research in Environmental SustainabilityOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.98Q15.26 0.27 down from 2023207100%$2,180
46Environmental Research LettersOAIOP Publishing · United Kingdom
1.96Q16.29 1.20 down from 20232,586100%$3,045
47Carbon Balance and ManagementOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom
1.92Q16.29 1.31 up from 202381100%$1,890
48Natural hazards and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany
1.92Q15.57 0.20 up from 2023635100%$1,553
49Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth SystemsOAWiley · United States
1.89Q16.66 1.12 down from 2023660100%$2,650
50Frontiers in ClimateOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland
1.84Q15.34 0.15 up from 2023531100%$3,077

Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

48 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 2021–2023, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
236
Window papers (baseline)
123,368 +16.3% from indicator year 2021
Median OJR
0.982 -4.6% from indicator year 2021
Rising journals (2025)
13

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals7478909496102105106114124138145155164177186193195201209218221232236236241
Window papers (baseline)24,03130,38432,74335,50034,11136,29839,00541,67145,63450,22355,09060,14765,13870,95577,96484,03688,37990,51891,92495,13498,815106,095113,902120,307123,368123,867
Median OJR0.700.7890.7940.780.900.880.970.9280.920.9310.9770.9991.0611.091.071.0111.0641.040.960.991.0131.031.020.9750.9820.978

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.