Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis journal rankings 2024
100 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis has 100 ranked journals in 2024. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.06 against 1.00, up 0.01 on 2023. A journal needs OJR 1.57 to reach Q1. The top three are The Lancet Planetary Health, Eco-Environment & Health, and Journal of Environmental Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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)
100 ranked journals
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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 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. | Compare |
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1The Lancet Planetary HealthOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.31Q1 | 15.80 0.87 down from 2023 | 476 | 100% | $6,680 | ||
2Eco-Environment & HealthOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.91Q1 | 16.20 6.26 down from 2023 | 71 | 100% | $2,500 | ||
3Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.24Q1 | 7.90 0.22 down from 2023 | 511 | 69% | $4,380 | ||
4Landscape and Urban PlanningElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.23Q1 | 10.12 1.12 up from 2023 | 653 | 60% | $3,120 | ||
5Current Environmental Health ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.93Q1 | 11.49 1.75 up from 2023 | 112 | 67% | $3,990 | ||
6Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.87Q1 | 11.33 0.03 down from 2023 | 1,936 | 100% | $4,750 | ||
7Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.78Q1 | 12.33 0.34 up from 2023 | 5,307 | 35% | $4,500 | ||
8Environment & HealthOAAmerican Chemical Society | 2.53Q1 | 8.06no 2023 value | 48 | 100% | $3,500 | — | |
9Environmental Science & Technology LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.48Q1 | 9.69 0.84 down from 2023 | 499 | 43% | $4,500 | ||
10Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 9.20 1.14 up from 2023 | 166 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
11Urban forestry & urban greeningElsevier BV · Germany | 2.19Q1 | 7.67 0.65 up from 2023 | 941 | 53% | $3,870 | ||
12International Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 5.59 0.59 down from 2023 | 631 | 82% | $4,514 | ||
13Global TransitionsOAElsevier BV · China | 2.15Q1 | 3.97 2.26 down from 2023 | 46 | 100% | $900 | ||
14Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.14Q1 | 4.74 1.13 down from 2023 | 59 | 58% | $3,900 | ||
15Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.12Q1 | 10.47 2.74 up from 2023 | 44 | 41% | — | ||
16Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 2.06Q1 | 8.79 0.14 down from 2023 | 6,680 | 28% | $3,880 | ||
17Environmental Health PerspectivesOANational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · United States | 2.03Q1 | 6.83 0.56 down from 2023 | 713 | 100% | $4,500 | ||
18Health & PlaceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 5.09 0.53 up from 2023 | 520 | 75% | $3,380 | ||
19Journal of XenobioticsOAPAGEPress (Italy) · Italy | 1.87Q1 | 5.22 3.92 down from 2023 | 93 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
20The Yale Journal of Biology and MedicineOAYale University Press · United States | 1.74Q1 | 4.96 4.96 up from 2023 | 51 | 100% | — | ||
21Ecotoxicology and Environmental SafetyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.73Q1 | 6.92 0.02 down from 2023 | 3,983 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
22The Journal of Climate Change and HealthOAElsevier BV · France | 1.67Q1 | 3.59 1.65 down from 2023 | 238 | 100% | $2,200 | ||
23Environmental HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 6.69 0.73 up from 2023 | 337 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
24Frontiers in ToxicologyOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.59Q1 | 5.54 1.14 up from 2023 | 286 | 100% | $3,077 | ||
25GeoHealthOAWiley · United States | 1.57Q1 | 4.43 1.01 down from 2023 | 252 | 100% | $3,000 | ||
26Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental EpidemiologySpringer Nature · United States | 1.54Q2 | 5.65 0.71 up from 2023 | 333 | 79% | $5,490 | ||
27ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q2 | 4.96 0.15 down from 2023 | 647 | 36% | $4,250 | ||
28Environmental Health and Preventive MedicineOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.48Q2 | 3.13 1.61 down from 2023 | 239 | 100% | $2,145 | ||
29International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental HealthElsevier BV · Germany | 1.47Q2 | 5.05 0.26 down from 2023 | 424 | 71% | $3,800 | ||
30Toxicology ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.43Q2 | 4.78 0.25 up from 2023 | 567 | 100% | $2,530 | ||
31Critical Reviews in ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.43Q2 | 5.00 0.41 down from 2023 | 111 | 73% | — | ||
32Journal of Environmental SciencesElsevier BV · China | 1.43Q2 | 6.38 0.11 up from 2023 | 1,478 | 10% | $3,000 | ||
33Indoor AirWiley · Denmark | 1.37Q2 | 4.75 0.31 down from 2023 | 388 | 99% | $2,490 | ||
34ToxicsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.36Q2 | 5.05 0.16 up from 2023 | 2,192 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
35Frontiers in Sustainable CitiesOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.33Q2 | 2.86 0.56 down from 2023 | 445 | 100% | $1,418 | ||
36NeuroToxicologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.32Q2 | 4.39 0.48 up from 2023 | 379 | 44% | $4,030 | ||
37Regulatory Toxicology and PharmacologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.31Q2 | 4.06 0.32 up from 2023 | 467 | 52% | $4,210 | ||
38Current Research in ToxicologyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q2 | 3.75 0.28 up from 2023 | 116 | 100% | $2,440 | ||
39Journal of Educational Technology and InnovationOAPublisher not listed | 1.26Q2 | 2.98 2.52 up from 2023 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
40Atmospheric Environment XOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 4.41 1.05 down from 2023 | 129 | 100% | $1,860 | ||
41Toxicological SciencesOxford University Press · United States | 1.25Q2 | 4.51 0.69 up from 2023 | 407 | 81% | $4,671 | ||
42Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & PharmacologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.23Q2 | 4.85 0.53 up from 2023 | 602 | 25% | $3,220 | ||
43Environmental EpidemiologyOAWolters Kluwer · United States | 1.21Q2 | 4.05 0.44 up from 2023 | 153 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
44Environmental Toxicology and PharmacologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q2 | 4.83 0.36 up from 2023 | 574 | 42% | $3,540 | ||
45Hygiene and Environmental Health AdvancesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.18Q2 | 4.28 2.18 up from 2023 | 81 | 100% | $2,340 | ||
46Exposure and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.15Q2 | 5.41 0.18 up from 2023 | 223 | 31% | $2,490 | ||
47ChallengesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.14Q2 | 3.03 0.03 down from 2023 | 156 | 100% | $1,689 | ||
48Environmental Science Processes & ImpactsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 4.22 0.58 down from 2023 | 487 | 58% | — | ||
49Atmospheric Pollution ResearchElsevier BV · Türkiye | 1.14Q2 | 4.32 0.34 down from 2023 | 801 | 25% | $2,570 | ||
50International Journal of BiometeorologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.09Q2 | 3.20 0.29 down from 2023 | 524 | 32% | $3,890 |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis highlighted.
- Ecology288
- Global and Planetary Change236
- Water Science and Technology103
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis100
- Pollution69
- Nature and Landscape Conservation55
- Environmental Engineering53
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law45
- Waste Management and Disposal25
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling8
Journals
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.
18 additional Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 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.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 100
- Window papers (baseline)
- 84,111 +26.7% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 1.063 +6.5% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
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.
| 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 | 47 | 50 | 53 | 56 | 59 | 56 | 56 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 64 | 67 | 66 | 68 | 70 | 77 | 76 | 81 | 85 | 87 | 86 | 93 | 97 | 97 | 100 | 100 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,373 | 23,298 | 25,727 | 28,666 | 30,953 | 34,676 | 38,303 | 42,209 | 46,770 | 51,378 | 56,797 | 61,162 | 65,841 | 69,179 | 73,239 | 76,971 | 78,996 | 76,273 | 68,010 | 61,690 | 60,549 | 66,381 | 72,951 | 79,491 | 84,111 | 95,214 | |
| Median OJR | 0.71 | 0.87 | 0.95 | 0.88 | 0.94 | 1.17 | 1.189 | 1.30 | 1.38 | 1.52 | 1.46 | 1.48 | 1.42 | 1.43 | 1.44 | 1.41 | 1.36 | 1.190 | 1.07 | 0.999 | 1.05 | 0.997 | 1.04 | 1.057 | 1.063 | 0.98 |
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.