Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Pollution journal rankings 2024
69 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Pollution has 69 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.93, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.85. The top three are Environmental Chemistry Letters, Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry, and Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology.
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)
69 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 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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1Environmental Chemistry LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 4.60Q1 | 24.59 7.28 up from 2023 | 529 | 38% | $3,190 | ||
2Trends in Environmental Analytical ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.21Q1 | 16.16 2.93 up from 2023 | 108 | 34% | $4,430 | ||
3Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.07Q1 | 15.09 2.34 up from 2023 | 226 | 27% | — | ||
4Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.96Q1 | 13.28 2.92 up from 2023 | 114 | 37% | $5,190 | ||
5Environmental Chemistry and EcotoxicologyOAElsevier BV · China | 2.82Q1 | 10.39 1.83 down from 2023 | 68 | 100% | $700 | ||
6Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.73Q1 | 13.57 1.43 up from 2023 | 3,681 | 31% | $4,660 | ||
7Journal of Hazardous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 12.20 0.51 down from 2023 | 7,872 | 18% | $4,340 | ||
8Journal of Environmental ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.46Q1 | 9.68 0.34 up from 2023 | 7,425 | 30% | $3,750 | ||
9ACS Environmental AuOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.46Q1 | 9.44 1.70 up from 2023 | 90 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
10Current Pollution ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.29Q1 | 10.41 2.20 up from 2023 | 117 | 25% | $4,990 | ||
11The Science of The Total EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.14Q1 | 9.21 0.10 up from 2023 | 23,696 | 36% | $4,250 | ||
12Bioresource TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 10.12 0.51 down from 2023 | 4,966 | 27% | $4,880 | ||
13Journal of Hazardous Materials AdvancesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 9.55 2.54 up from 2023 | 387 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
14Environmental Sciences EuropeOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.93Q1 | 7.05 0.32 down from 2023 | 377 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
15Total Environment Research ThemesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 7.40 3.72 up from 2023 | 80 | — | $1,700 | ||
16ChemosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 8.97 0.26 down from 2023 | 10,935 | 29% | $4,010 | ||
17Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 8.52 0.09 down from 2023 | 6,151 | 31% | $4,090 | ||
18Journal of Hazardous Materials LettersOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.85Q1 | 9.57 1.17 up from 2023 | 87 | 100% | $1,610 | ||
19Water Research XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q2 | 8.94 2.00 up from 2023 | 106 | 100% | $3,943 | ||
20Environmental Technology & InnovationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q2 | 8.56 0.47 up from 2023 | 1,740 | 100% | $2,930 | ||
21Microplastics and NanoplasticsOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.81Q2 | 10.77 0.98 down from 2023 | 76 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
22Energy Sustainability and SocietyOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.65Q2 | 6.14 0.06 down from 2023 | 150 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
23Environmental AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.59Q2 | 7.57 1.37 up from 2023 | 435 | 100% | $1,920 | ||
24Emerging contaminantsOAKeAi · Netherlands | 1.53Q2 | 7.58 1.15 up from 2023 | 128 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
25Aquatic ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.23Q2 | 4.92 0.31 up from 2023 | 800 | 30% | $3,320 | ||
26EnvironmentsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.22Q2 | 4.80 0.47 up from 2023 | 518 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
27Frontiers of Environmental Science & EngineeringHigher Education Press · China | 1.13Q2 | 5.66 0.06 down from 2023 | 411 | 25% | $2,490 | ||
28International Biodeterioration & BiodegradationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 4.78 0.32 up from 2023 | 307 | 21% | $3,870 | ||
29Marine Pollution BulletinElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 5.74 0.52 down from 2023 | 3,613 | 36% | $3,740 | ||
30Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable developmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 6.16 0.35 up from 2023 | 458 | 33% | $2,750 | ||
31Tropical Aquatic and Soil PollutionIndonesia | 1.03Q2 | 3.68 0.70 down from 2023 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
32Environmental Science AdvancesOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 4.83 1.11 up from 2023 | 215 | 100% | — | ||
33MicroplasticsOASwitzerland | 1.01Q2 | 6.40 0.40 up from 2023 | 76 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
34Journal of Trace Elements and MineralsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 3.75 1.65 up from 2023 | 103 | 100% | $1,910 | ||
35Development EngineeringElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.93Q2 | 4.65 2.53 up from 2023 | 41 | — | $2,220 | ||
36Environmental Monitoring and AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.92Q3 | 3.79 0.36 up from 2023 | 3,317 | 17% | $2,790 | ||
37Environmental Geochemistry and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.89Q3 | 4.29 0.54 up from 2023 | 978 | 15% | $2,590 | ||
38Journal of Environmental Health Science and EngineeringSpringer International Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.86Q3 | 3.25 0.31 down from 2023 | 300 | 98% | $3,890 | ||
39Environmental Pollutants and BioavailabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.84Q3 | 3.62 0.41 down from 2023 | 151 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
40PollutantsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.77Q3 | 3.15 0.46 up from 2023 | 91 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
41Integrated Environmental Assessment and ManagementWiley · United States | 0.77Q3 | 2.57 0.39 down from 2023 | 490 | 62% | $3,500 | ||
42Spanish Journal of Soil ScienceOAUniversia · Switzerland | 0.76Q3 | 2.90 0.61 up from 2023 | 38 | 100% | $1,413 | ||
43Water Air & Soil PollutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.74Q3 | 3.55 0.33 up from 2023 | 1,832 | 14% | $3,890 | ||
44BiodegradationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.74Q3 | 3.71 0.14 up from 2023 | 139 | 18% | $3,590 | ||
45Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.64Q3 | 2.57 0.47 down from 2023 | 770 | 17% | $3,990 | ||
46Current Opinion in Environmental Science & HealthElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.62Q3 | 7.72 0.01 down from 2023 | 232 | 38% | $3,700 | ||
47Water Emerging Contaminants & NanoplasticsPublisher not listed | 0.60Q3 | 3.24 0.60 up from 2023 | 41 | 100% | — | ||
48Water Environment ResearchWiley · United States | 0.51Q3 | 2.20 0.52 down from 2023 | 406 | 50% | $3,240 | ||
49Chemistry and EcologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.50Q3 | 2.39 0.76 up from 2023 | 159 | 5% | — | ||
50Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part APublisher not listed | 0.45Q3 | 2.20 0.05 up from 2023 | 316 | 27% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Pollution 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.
16 additional Pollution 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
- 69
- Window papers (baseline)
- 68,045 +38.2% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.927 +10.6% 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 |
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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.