Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Subfield ranking · 2025
Pollution journal rankings 2025
67 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Pollution has 67 ranked journals in 2025. The median OJR rose 0.11 on 2024 to 1.04, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.86. The highest-scoring journal with a stable rank is Environmental Chemistry Letters: its likely rank is within the top 3.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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)
67 ranked journals
Filters
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. | 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. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #1 of 67Environmental Chemistry LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 5.56Q1 | 29.01 4.43 up from 2024 | 434 | 41% | $3,190 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 2; likely between #2 and #6 of 67Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/TechnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 17.50 4.22 up from 2024 | 113 | 27% | $5,190 | ||
Rank 3; likely between #2 and #8 of 67Trends in Environmental Analytical ChemistryElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.21Q1 | 13.75 2.41 down from 2024 | 98 | 28% | $4,430 | ||
Rank 4; likely between #2 and #7 of 67Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.07Q1 | 14.05 1.04 down from 2024 | 211 | 13% | — | ||
Rank 5; likely between #4 and #8 of 67Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 13.54 0.03 down from 2024 | 4,414 | 25% | $4,660 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 6; likely between #2 and #17 of 67Environmental Chemistry and EcotoxicologyOAElsevier BV · China | 2.77Q1 | 14.19 3.80 up from 2024 | 104 | 100% | $700 | ||
Rank 7; likely between #6 and #11 of 67Journal of Environmental ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.45Q1 | 9.97 0.29 up from 2024 | 8,939 | 31% | $3,750 | ||
Rank 8; likely between #5 and #14 of 67Current Pollution ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.44Q1 | 11.20 0.79 up from 2024 | 128 | 31% | $4,990 | ||
Rank 9; likely between #4 and #18 of 67ACS Environmental AuOAAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 2.36Q1 | 11.37 1.93 up from 2024 | 103 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
Rank 10; likely between #4 and #24 of 67Soil & Environmental HealthOAElsevier BV | 2.23Q1 | 10.19 0.74 down from 2024 | 64 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
Rank 11; likely between #8 and #13 of 67Journal of Hazardous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 11.12 1.08 down from 2024 | 8,507 | 17% | $4,340 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 12; likely between #3 and #25 of 67Journal of Hazardous Materials LettersOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 9.25 0.32 down from 2024 | 89 | 100% | $1,610 | ||
Rank 13; likely between #10 and #14 of 67The Science of The Total EnvironmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.16Q1 | 8.77 0.44 down from 2024 | 24,519 | 52% | $4,250 | ||
Rank 14; likely between #7 and #25 of 67Emerging contaminantsOAKeAi · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 9.39 1.81 up from 2024 | 233 | 100% | $1,100 | ||
Rank 15; likely between #10 and #22 of 67Environmental Sciences EuropeOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.94Q1 | 7.60 0.55 up from 2024 | 462 | 100% | $3,290 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 16; likely between #7 and #25 of 67Total Environment Research ThemesElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.90Q1 | 9.33 1.93 up from 2024 | 80 | — | $1,700 | ||
Rank 17; likely between #13 and #21 of 67Environmental Technology & InnovationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 7.93 0.63 down from 2024 | 1,414 | 100% | $2,930 | ||
Rank 18; likely between #12 and #23 of 67Journal of Hazardous Materials AdvancesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.86Q2 | 8.32 1.23 down from 2024 | 531 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
Rank 19; likely between #12 and #25 of 67Environmental AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.78Q2 | 7.64 0.06 up from 2024 | 430 | 100% | $1,920 | ||
Rank 20; likely between #12 and #25 of 67Energy Sustainability and SocietyOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.77Q2 | 6.30 0.16 up from 2024 | 174 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
Rank 21; likely between #16 and #22 of 67Bioresource TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q2 | 8.82 1.30 down from 2024 | 4,633 | 23% | $4,880 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 22; likely between #16 and #22 of 67Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.74Q2 | 7.93 0.58 down from 2024 | 6,102 | 30% | $4,090 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 23; likely between #20 and #24 of 67ChemosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.60Q2 | 7.24 1.73 down from 2024 | 10,029 | 43% | $4,010 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 24; likely between #17 and #27 of 67Microplastics and NanoplasticsOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.54Q2 | 9.15 1.62 down from 2024 | 86 | 100% | $1,490 | ||
Rank 25; likely between #20 and #30 of 67Water Research XOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 6.95 1.99 down from 2024 | 152 | 100% | $3,943 | ||
Rank 26; likely between #23 and #31 of 67Environmental Science AdvancesOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 6.43 1.61 up from 2024 | 347 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 27; likely between #25 and #35 of 67EnvironmentsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.21Q2 | 4.86 0.06 up from 2024 | 676 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
Rank 28; likely between #26 and #35 of 67Frontiers of Environmental Science & EngineeringHigher Education Press · China | 1.17Q2 | 6.32 0.65 up from 2024 | 413 | 11% | $2,490 | ||
Rank 29; likely between #22 and #47 of 67Spanish Journal of Soil ScienceOAUniversia · Switzerland | 1.12Q2 | 3.16 0.26 up from 2024 | 44 | 100% | $1,413 | ||
Rank 30; likely between #27 and #36 of 67Energy Sustainable Development/Energy for sustainable developmentElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.12Q2 | 6.11 0.05 down from 2024 | 567 | 31% | $2,750 | ||
Rank 31; likely between #26 and #41 of 67International Biodeterioration & BiodegradationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 4.88 0.10 up from 2024 | 385 | 18% | $3,870 | ||
Rank 32; likely between #29 and #37 of 67Aquatic ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.07Q2 | 4.98 0.05 up from 2024 | 855 | 33% | $3,320 | ||
Rank 33; likely between #30 and #37 of 67Marine Pollution BulletinElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 5.53 0.22 down from 2024 | 3,808 | 38% | $3,740 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 34; likely between #25 and #46 of 67Water Emerging Contaminants & NanoplasticsPublisher not listed | 1.04Q2 | 6.35 3.10 up from 2024 | 63 | 93% | — | ||
Rank 35; likely between #26 and #47 of 67Discover EnergyOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.02Q3 | 5.45 1.84 up from 2024 | 52 | 100% | $1,590 | ||
Rank 36; likely between #33 and #40 of 67Environmental Monitoring and AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.00Q3 | 4.07 0.28 up from 2024 | 3,731 | 19% | $2,790 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 37; likely between #27 and #45 of 67Journal of Trace Elements and MineralsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.00Q3 | 4.64 0.90 up from 2024 | 169 | 100% | $1,910 | ||
Rank 38; likely between #33 and #41 of 67Environmental Geochemistry and HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.98Q3 | 4.72 0.43 up from 2024 | 1,149 | 14% | $2,590 | ||
Rank 39; likely between #26 and #47 of 67Frontiers in Sustainable Energy PolicyOAFrontiers Media | 0.96Q3 | 4.57 3.93 down from 2024 | 31 | 100% | $2,353 | ||
Rank 40; likely between #27 and #49 of 67PollutantsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.95Q3 | 4.72 1.56 up from 2024 | 106 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
Rank 41; likely between #29 and #48 of 67Cambridge Prisms PlasticsOACambridge University Press | 0.91Q3 | 5.08 1.13 up from 2024 | 59 | 100% | $3,893 | ||
Rank 42; likely between #32 and #48 of 67MicroplasticsOASwitzerland | 0.88Q3 | 5.38 1.03 down from 2024 | 120 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
Rank 43; likely between #34 and #48 of 67Environmental Pollutants and BioavailabilityOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.87Q3 | 4.59 0.97 up from 2024 | 150 | 100% | $1,200 | ||
Rank 44; likely between #36 and #48 of 67Integrated Environmental Assessment and ManagementWiley · United States | 0.84Q3 | 3.09 0.52 up from 2024 | 406 | 44% | $3,500 | ||
Rank 45; likely between #39 and #50 of 67BiodegradationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.78Q3 | 4.87 1.16 up from 2024 | 136 | 25% | $3,590 | ||
Rank 46; likely between #41 and #49 of 67Journal of Environmental Health Science and EngineeringSpringer International Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 4.09 0.84 up from 2024 | 167 | 97% | $3,890 | ||
Rank 47; likely between #43 and #49 of 67Water Air & Soil PollutionSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.75Q3 | 3.94 0.39 up from 2024 | 2,136 | 16% | $3,890 | ||
Rank 48; likely between #31 and #55 of 67Chemistry and EcologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.71Q3 | 3.73 1.33 up from 2024 | 194 | 11% | — | ||
Rank 49; likely between #39 and #56 of 67Tropical Aquatic and Soil PollutionIndonesia | 0.64Q3 | 3.22 0.46 down from 2024 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 50; likely between #47 and #52 of 67Environmental Quality ManagementWiley · United States | 0.62Q3 | 3.06 1.32 up from 2024 | 529 | 34% | $3,300 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 |
5 Pollution journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1Environmental Chemistry LettersSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany+63% vs groupOJR 3.70 → 5.56range +33% to +100%
- 2Environmental Quality ManagementWiley · United States+55% vs groupOJR 0.43 → 0.62range +20% to +101%
- 3Water ResearchElsevier BV · United Kingdom+10% vs groupOJR 2.73 → 2.78range +4.5% to +17%
- 4Environmental Monitoring and AssessmentSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands+13% vs groupOJR 0.96 → 1.00range +4.3% to +23%
- 5Environmental Sciences EuropeOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany+28% vs groupOJR 1.64 → 1.94range +2.3% to +60%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -52% to +108% (ratio scale)
6 Pollution journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1Journal of Hazardous MaterialsElsevier BV · Netherlands-17% vs groupOJR 2.89 → 2.22range -20% to -14%
- 2Marine Pollution BulletinElsevier BV · United Kingdom-18% vs groupOJR 1.39 → 1.06range -23% to -12%
- 3Bioresource TechnologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom-12% vs groupOJR 2.15 → 1.74range -16% to -8.2%
- 4Environmental PollutionElsevier BV · United Kingdom-11% vs groupOJR 2.11 → 1.74range -14% to -6.7%
- 5ChemosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom-9.4% vs groupOJR 1.91 → 1.60range -13% to -6.0%
- 6Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States-17% vs groupOJR 0.68 → 0.52range -30% to -1.2%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -35% to +53% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Pollution highlighted.
- Ecology285
- Global and Planetary Change241
- Water Science and Technology103
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis100
- Pollution67
- Nature and Landscape Conservation55
- Environmental Engineering54
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law51
- Waste Management and Disposal24
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling8
Journals
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.
17 additional Pollution 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.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 67
- Window papers (baseline)
- 73,512 +30.8% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 1.04 +10.8% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 5
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.
| 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.