Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law journal rankings 2024
45 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law has 45 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR rose 0.12 on 2023 to 0.74, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.23. The top three are Landslides, npj Ocean Sustainability, and Engineering Geology.
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)
45 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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1LandslidesSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.38Q1 | 7.22 0.95 up from 2023 | 599 | 30% | $4,590 | ||
2npj Ocean SustainabilityOASpringer Science+Business Media | 4.25Q1 | 9.18 4.39 down from 2023 | 33 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
3Engineering GeologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.21Q1 | 8.89 1.55 up from 2023 | 1,017 | 25% | $4,210 | ||
4Environmental Education ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 4.53 0.46 up from 2023 | 322 | 60% | — | ||
5The Journal of Environmental EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.53Q1 | 3.55 0.57 up from 2023 | 87 | 32% | — | ||
6Geoenvironmental DisastersOASpringer Nature · Germany | 2.31Q1 | 4.84 0.26 down from 2023 | 87 | 100% | $1,390 | ||
7Ocean & Coastal ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 6.40 0.26 up from 2023 | 1,114 | 40% | $4,350 | ||
8Geomatics Natural Hazards and RiskOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 5.62 0.01 up from 2023 | 428 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
9Australian Journal of Environmental EducationOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 2.31 0.45 down from 2023 | 109 | 100% | $3,550 | ||
10Marine PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 4.71 0.09 down from 2023 | 1,298 | 51% | $4,260 | ||
11MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studiesSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.64Q1 | 2.93 0.06 up from 2023 | 122 | 72% | $3,390 | ||
12Interdisciplinary Journal of Environmental and Science EducationUnited Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 1.59 0.02 up from 2023 | 83 | 100% | — | ||
13Impact Assessment and Project AppraisalTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.21Q2 | 2.15 0.07 down from 2023 | 121 | 52% | — | ||
14Journal of Mountain ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.03Q2 | 2.80 0.25 up from 2023 | 707 | 7% | $3,190 | ||
15Coastal ManagementTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.92Q2 | 2.14 0.16 down from 2023 | 78 | 27% | — | ||
16AestimumOAFirenze University Press · Italy | 0.88Q2 | 1.75 0.15 down from 2023 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
17Journal of Sustainability ResearchOAUnited Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 1.72 0.07 up from 2023 | 44 | 100% | — | ||
18Australasian Journal of Environmental ManagementTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.84Q2 | 1.98 0.61 up from 2023 | 63 | 92% | — | ||
19Ocean Development & International LawTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 1.17 0.29 down from 2023 | 56 | 42% | — | ||
20Sustainability and Climate ChangeMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 0.81Q2 | 2.11 0.44 up from 2023 | 162 | 6% | — | ||
21International Journal for Quality ResearchOACenter for Quality, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac, Serbia · Montenegro | 0.76Q2 | 1.35 1.21 down from 2023 | 245 | 100% | — | ||
22Problemy EkorozwojuOAPoland | 0.75Q2 | 1.72 0.16 down from 2023 | 155 | 100% | — | ||
23Revista de Economia e Sociologia RuralOABrazilian Society of Economy, Administration and Rural Sociology · Brazil | 0.74Q2 | 1.47 0.32 up from 2023 | 229 | 100% | $114 | ||
24Cuadernos de Desarrollo RuralOAColombia | 0.65Q3 | 0.80 0.07 down from 2023 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
25Applied Environmental Education & CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 0.76 0.58 down from 2023 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
26PsyEcology Bilingual Journal of Environmental PsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.51Q3 | 1.07 0.02 down from 2023 | 45 | 71% | $3,650 | ||
27Environmental HistoryOxford University Press · United States | 0.49Q3 | 0.73 0.29 down from 2023 | 131 | 6% | — | ||
28Environmental and Engineering GeoscienceGeological Society of America · United States | 0.46Q3 | 0.59 0.68 down from 2023 | 82 | 40% | — | ||
29Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and HydrogeologyGeological Society of London · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 1.28 0.24 down from 2023 | 168 | 14% | — | ||
30International Journal of Environmental ImpactsOAWIT Press · United Kingdom | 0.41Q3 | 1.71 0.85 up from 2023 | 86 | 100% | $950 | ||
31Marine Technology Society JournalMarine Technology Society · United States | 0.37Q3 | 0.88 0.19 up from 2023 | 228 | 94% | — | ||
| 0.36Q3 | 0.44 0.13 down from 2023 | 142 | 100% | — | |||
33Journal of Environmental Accounting and ManagementUnited States | 0.34Q3 | 0.96 0.01 up from 2023 | 72 | 0% | — | ||
34Parks Stewardship ForumOAeScholarship Publishing, University of California · United States | 0.34Q3 | 0.54 0.35 down from 2023 | 174 | 100% | $100 | ||
35Nomadic PeoplesOABerghahn Books · United Kingdom | 0.33Q4 | 0.41 0.09 down from 2023 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
36Journal on Innovation and Sustainability RISUSOAPontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo · Brazil | 0.32Q4 | 0.76 0.02 up from 2023 | 151 | 100% | — | ||
37Desenvolvimento e Meio AmbienteOAUniversidade Federal do Paraná · Brazil | 0.28Q4 | 0.40 0.15 down from 2023 | 249 | 100% | — | ||
38GeosaberesOAUniversidade Federal do Ceará · Brazil | 0.14Q4 | 0.23 0.03 up from 2023 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
39Fronteiras Revista Catarinense de HistóriaOAFederal University of Southern Frontier · Brazil | 0.14Q4 | 0.15 0.02 up from 2023 | 91 | 100% | — | ||
40International Journal of Global Environmental IssuesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.14Q4 | 0.36 0.08 up from 2023 | 122 | 29% | — | ||
41Limnology and Oceanography BulletinWiley · United States | 0.13Q4 | 0.38 0.20 down from 2023 | 154 | 81% | $3,200 | ||
42Revista de Gestão Costeira IntegradaOAPortugal | 0.12Q4 | 0.28 0.19 down from 2023 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
43Great Plains researchUnited States | 0.12Q4 | 0.09 0.18 down from 2023 | 78 | 60% | — | ||
44Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Arborização UrbanaOAUniversidade Federal do Paraná · Brazil | 0.11Q4 | 0.21 0.04 down from 2023 | 53 | 100% | — | ||
45Interdisciplinary Environmental ReviewInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.06Q4 | 0.24 0.06 up from 2023 | 80 | 25% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 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.
21 additional Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 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
- 45
- Window papers (baseline)
- 100,899 +4.7% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.74 +41.8% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 21 | 23 | 22 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 29 | 30 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 37 | 39 | 38 | 40 | 43 | 45 | 47 | 48 | 46 | 48 | 52 | 50 | 49 | 45 | 51 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,898 | 23,584 | 24,910 | 26,482 | 27,162 | 29,381 | 31,175 | 33,271 | 36,179 | 39,779 | 44,244 | 48,227 | 53,183 | 58,012 | 62,749 | 70,521 | 76,396 | 80,810 | 81,185 | 84,297 | 88,938 | 96,369 | 100,675 | 101,264 | 100,899 | 103,822 | |
| Median OJR | 0.77 | 0.716 | 0.874 | 0.67 | 0.66 | 0.76 | 0.82 | 0.729 | 0.85 | 0.875 | 0.84 | 0.727 | 0.808 | 0.685 | 0.75 | 0.809 | 0.78 | 0.720 | 0.693 | 0.687 | 0.526 | 0.525 | 0.613 | 0.62 | 0.74 | 0.612 |
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.