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Global and Planetary Change journal rankings 2025

241 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science

Global and Planetary Change has 241 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.98, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.72. The two highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are Reviews of Geophysics and Nature Sustainability: each is likely ranked within the top 3.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 score is computed on.

241
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
This subfieldAll 0.78World 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 149 journals. Another 4 list $0; 88 have no known price. All fields: $3,200.

Subfields of Environmental Science (11)

241 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Global and Planetary Change ranking, 2025

Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.

The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different.

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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025.

A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change.

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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #1 of 241Reviews of GeophysicsWiley · United States
15.74Q136.15 9.40 down from 20245684%$3,880
Rank 2; likely between #2 and #2 of 241Nature SustainabilityNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
6.32Q123.12 3.29 up from 202461631%$12,690
Rank 3; likely between #3 and #5 of 241Nature Climate ChangeNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
5.26Q113.26 0.86 down from 202489440%$12,690
Rank 4; likely between #3 and #6 of 241Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeWiley · United States
4.72Q110.69 1.93 down from 202415480%$5,450
Rank 5; likely between #4 and #6 of 241Habitat InternationalElsevier BV · United Kingdom
4.38Q18.86 0.89 up from 202449031%$3,560Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 6; likely between #4 and #9 of 241npj Urban SustainabilityOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom
4.05Q111.93 1.92 up from 2024136100%$2,490
Rank 7; likely between #6 and #10 of 241Communications Earth & EnvironmentOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom
3.35Q19.67 0.64 down from 20241,575100%$3,490
Rank 8; likely between #6 and #11 of 241One EarthElsevier BV · United States
3.31Q19.57 0.27 up from 202463557%$9,170
Rank 9; likely between #3 and #56 of 241Global SustainabilityOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom
3.12Q17.75 0.47 up from 202494100%$3,550
Rank 10; likely between #9 and #16 of 241Applied GeographyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.91Q17.73 1.57 up from 202460532%$3,220Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 11; likely between #9 and #18 of 241npj Climate and Atmospheric ScienceOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom
2.87Q19.71 0.23 down from 2024631100%$3,590
Rank 12; likely between #7 and #26 of 241Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews WaterWiley · United States
2.87Q19.69 2.42 up from 202417373%$4,200
Rank 13; likely between #10 and #19 of 241Earth s FutureOAAmerican Geophysical Union · United States
2.78Q18.48 1.19 down from 2024836100%$3,180
Rank 14; likely between #11 and #21 of 241Land Use PolicyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.69Q17.00 0.41 up from 20241,22042%$3,830
Rank 15; likely between #8 and #34 of 241Current Forestry ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
2.65Q112.27 4.29 up from 20248370%$4,990
Rank 16; likely between #7 and #41 of 241BioScienceOxford University Press · United States
2.63Q16.19 0.53 up from 202430967%$5,088
Rank 17; likely between #9 and #32 of 241Climate Risk ManagementOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.61Q16.09 0.63 down from 2024266100%$3,130
Rank 18; likely between #10 and #32 of 241Geography and sustainabilityOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.61Q17.72 0.69 down from 2024182100%$1,700
Rank 19; likely between #15 and #23 of 241Ecological IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.57Q18.89 0.80 up from 20244,464100%$3,650Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 20; likely between #10 and #40 of 241Journal of Urban ManagementOAElsevier BV · Taiwan
2.45Q15.07 1.02 down from 2024159100%$1,200
Rank 21; likely between #15 and #32 of 241Sustainability ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Japan
2.44Q15.61 0.63 down from 202448882%$3,890
Rank 22; likely between #15 and #37 of 241Environmental Innovation and Societal TransitionsElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.42Q16.80 0.46 down from 202429585%$3,610
Rank 23; likely between #15 and #35 of 241People and NatureOAWiley · United States
2.38Q16.20 0.45 up from 2024442100%$2,540
Rank 24; likely between #13 and #41 of 241Natural Hazards ResearchOAElsevier BV · China
2.36Q16.83 1.74 up from 2024191100%$0 listed
Rank 25; likely between #17 and #35 of 241Environmental Science & PolicyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.35Q16.50 0.29 down from 202483072%$4,250
Rank 26; likely between #17 and #38 of 241Ecosystem ServicesElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.34Q18.50 0.73 up from 202427475%$4,100
Rank 27; likely between #12 and #51 of 241Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland
2.32Q17.33 0.02 down from 202410747%$3,390
Rank 28; likely between #9 and #65 of 241Global Environmental PoliticsThe MIT Press · United States
2.30Q13.27 0.24 up from 202411427%—
Rank 29; likely between #11 and #57 of 241Earth System GovernanceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.30Q14.90 0.41 down from 202488100%$2,180
Rank 30; likely between #18 and #45 of 241Environmental ChallengesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.22Q17.32 0.36 up from 2024630100%$2,140Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 31; likely between #18 and #48 of 241AMBIOSpringer Science+Business Media · Sweden
2.20Q16.03 0.32 down from 202441196%$4,490
Rank 32; likely between #19 and #49 of 241AGU AdvancesOAWiley · United States
2.19Q16.34 0.58 down from 2024155100%$3,460
Rank 33; likely between #22 and #44 of 241Climatic ChangeSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
2.18Q15.53 0.07 up from 202451957%$4,390
Rank 34; likely between #23 and #47 of 241Fish and FisheriesWiley · United Kingdom
2.14Q16.56 0.13 up from 202420484%$5,000
Rank 35; likely between #18 and #57 of 241Earth System DynamicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany
2.13Q16.41 2.06 down from 2024217100%$1,585
Rank 36; likely between #32 and #46 of 241Agricultural and Forest MeteorologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.03Q16.92 0.43 up from 20241,18146%$3,590
Rank 37; likely between #28 and #54 of 241Environmental DevelopmentElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.02Q15.64 0.58 down from 202433141%$3,540
Rank 38; likely between #21 and #64 of 241Carbon Balance and ManagementOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom
2.01Q16.95 0.66 up from 202484100%$1,890
Rank 39; likely between #15 and #72 of 241The Innovation GeoscienceOAPublisher not listed
2.00Q15.67 2.22 down from 2024104100%—
Rank 40; likely between #12 and #105 of 241Current Landscape Ecology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland
2.00Q16.83 2.62 up from 20243750%$3,890
Rank 41; likely between #30 and #56 of 241Weather and Climate ExtremesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.99Q16.80 1.04 down from 2024308100%$3,969Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 42; likely between #23 and #66 of 241Current Research in Environmental SustainabilityOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.98Q15.53 0.27 up from 2024149100%$2,180
Rank 43; likely between #31 and #59 of 241Environmental and Sustainability IndicatorsOAElsevier BV · United States
1.93Q15.62 0.91 down from 2024402100%$2,350
Rank 44; likely between #18 and #83 of 241Annals of GISOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.93Q15.52 1.75 up from 202495100%$1,500
Rank 45; likely between #37 and #59 of 241International Journal of Digital EarthOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.87Q15.93 0.10 up from 2024687100%$2,390
Rank 46; likely between #20 and #79 of 241Environmental Policy and GovernanceWiley · United Kingdom
1.86Q14.27 0.59 down from 202415478%$3,800
Rank 47; likely between #36 and #61 of 241Journal of Geographical SciencesSpringer Nature · China
1.86Q15.88 0.19 up from 20243686%$3,190
Rank 48; likely between #34 and #64 of 241PLOS ClimateOAPublic Library of Science · United States
1.85Q14.74 0.59 down from 2024396100%$2,496
Rank 49; likely between #41 and #60 of 241Natural hazards and earth system sciencesOACopernicus Publications · Germany
1.83Q15.46 0.12 down from 2024664100%$1,553
Rank 50; likely between #44 and #56 of 241Journal of HydrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.83Q17.66 0.42 up from 20244,66424%$4,030

The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated

Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

41 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 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
241
Window papers (baseline)
123,867 +8.7% from indicator year 2022
Median OJR
0.978 -3.8% from indicator year 2022
Rising journals (2025)
13

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.