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Journal rankings · indicator year 2025

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment journal rankings 2025

55 ranked journals · Subfield in Energy

Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment has 55 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.94, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.04 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.42. The two highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are Nature Catalysis and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental: 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.

55
95% of Energy
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.

0.94+0.04 vs 2024
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.

47%
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.

$3,040
Median positive listed APC: $3,040 among 42 journals. Another 4 list $0; 9 have no known price. All fields: $3,200.

Subfields of Energy (5)

55 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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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 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 55Nature CatalysisNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
6.15Q130.79 0.18 up from 202451924%$12,690
Rank 2; likely between #2 and #3 of 55Applied Catalysis B: EnvironmentalElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.87Q119.17 2.18 down from 20243,40615%$5,950Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 3; likely between #2 and #5 of 55EcoEnergyOAWiley
2.80Q117.49 15.36 down from 202479100%$0 listed
Rank 4; likely between #3 and #6 of 55Green Energy & EnvironmentOAKeAi · China
2.43Q112.01 2.18 down from 2024320100%$0 listedRising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 5; likely between #3 and #6 of 55CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION)Elsevier BV · China
2.29Q117.19 0.38 down from 20247039%$3,000Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 6; likely between #6 and #8 of 55Renewable EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.03Q19.68 0.55 down from 20245,58721%$4,460
Rank 7; likely between #4 and #9 of 55Green CarbonOAElsevier BV
2.00Q111.22 4.70 down from 202488100%$0 listed
Rank 8; likely between #7 and #15 of 55Acta Physico-Chimica SinicaPeking University Press · China
1.63Q111.84 4.77 up from 202428414%$4,500Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 9; likely between #8 and #12 of 55Journal of Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · United States
1.57Q19.73 0.06 down from 20247,31914%$4,470Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 10; likely between #4 and #28 of 55Advanced Sensor and Energy MaterialsOAElsevier BV · China
1.54Q111.19 2.02 up from 202473100%$1,600
Rank 10; likely between #6 and #19 of 55Global ChallengesOAWiley · Germany
1.54Q17.05 0.90 up from 2024249100%$3,810Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 12; likely between #8 and #18 of 55Materials Reports EnergyOAElsevier BV · China
1.52Q18.76 0.80 down from 2024105100%$0 listed
Rank 13; likely between #11 and #16 of 55International Journal of Hydrogen EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.42Q19.75 0.48 up from 202413,02822%$3,730Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 14; likely between #11 and #17 of 55Solar EnergyElsevier BV · United States
1.42Q18.62 0.98 up from 20242,28025%$3,900
Rank 15; likely between #9 and #19 of 55EES CatalysisOARoyal Society of Chemistry
1.40Q29.91 2.32 up from 2024177100%—
Rank 16; likely between #11 and #18 of 55Materials Today SustainabilityOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.39Q28.04 0.09 up from 2024960100%$2,530
Rank 17; likely between #9 and #24 of 55Materials Today CatalysisOAElsevier BV
1.32Q27.24 3.06 down from 202474100%$3,080
Rank 18; likely between #14 and #24 of 55Transactions of Tianjin UniversitySpringer Science+Business Media · China
1.18Q27.87 0.71 down from 202411268%$3,190
Rank 19; likely between #14 and #30 of 55Solar CompassOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.13Q27.12 0.32 up from 202485100%$500
Rank 20; likely between #14 and #30 of 55Environmental Functional MaterialsOAElsevier BV
1.13Q26.44 0.31 up from 202465100%$1,000
Rank 21; likely between #18 and #25 of 55Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical EngineersElsevier BV · Taiwan
1.08Q27.43 0.70 up from 20241,3348%$2,650
Rank 22; likely between #16 and #33 of 55Geothermal EnergyOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.06Q25.03 1.61 up from 2024114100%$2,090
Rank 23; likely between #18 and #27 of 55Chem CatalysisElsevier BV · United States
1.06Q24.83 1.82 down from 202486627%$9,170
Rank 24; likely between #14 and #39 of 55PhycologyOASwitzerland
1.02Q24.12 0.40 up from 202489100%$1,207
Rank 25; likely between #22 and #29 of 55ChemSusChemWiley · Germany
0.98Q25.51 0.34 down from 20242,10658%$4,550Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 26; likely between #22 and #30 of 55Algal ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.98Q25.55 0.23 up from 20241,26831%$4,190
Rank 27; likely between #22 and #30 of 55GeothermicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.98Q24.84 0.36 up from 202466336%$3,220
Rank 28; likely between #22 and #32 of 55Advanced Sustainable SystemsWiley · Germany
0.94Q24.97 0.32 down from 202477742%$4,430Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 29; likely between #18 and #39 of 55Energy EfficiencySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
0.92Q33.79 1.10 down from 202427346%$2,390
Rank 30; likely between #19 and #43 of 55Solar Energy AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
0.87Q34.43 0.48 down from 202472100%$2,750
Rank 31; likely between #29 and #35 of 55Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A ChemistryElsevier BV · Switzerland
0.85Q34.66 0.42 down from 20242,13013%$3,470
Rank 32; likely between #27 and #38 of 55Catalysis CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.84Q35.58 0.77 up from 2024506—$2,000
Rank 33; likely between #28 and #37 of 55Journal of Applied PhycologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
0.84Q33.92 0.47 up from 202473332%$3,890
Rank 34; likely between #32 and #38 of 55CatalystsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland
0.79Q34.70 0.33 up from 20244,101100%$2,654
Rank 35; likely between #29 and #41 of 55Chinese Journal of Structural ChemistryElsevier BV · China
0.79Q35.13 3.20 down from 20242982%$2,500
Rank 36; likely between #31 and #39 of 55Sustainable Energy & FuelsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom
0.78Q34.79 0.49 up from 20241,33742%—Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 37; likely between #29 and #41 of 55Frontiers of Chemical Science and EngineeringHigher Education Press · China
0.77Q34.47 0.06 up from 202439115%$2,490Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 38; likely between #26 and #44 of 55SolarPACES Conference ProceedingsOAPublisher not listed
0.75Q30.44 0.04 down from 2024244100%—
Rank 39; likely between #32 and #43 of 55International Journal of PhotoenergyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
0.71Q35.18 0.66 up from 2024198100%$2,160
Rank 40; likely between #24 and #47 of 55Applied PhycologyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
0.71Q32.48 0.99 down from 202450100%$564
Rank 41; likely between #38 and #43 of 55Catalysis Science & TechnologyRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom
0.69Q34.00 0.21 down from 20241,91840%—Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 42; likely between #38 and #43 of 55ChemCatChemWiley · Germany
0.68Q33.86 0.26 up from 20242,19856%$4,500Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 43; likely between #31 and #46 of 55Electrochemical Science AdvancesOAWiley · Germany
0.64Q41.94 1.52 down from 2024130100%$2,420Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 44; likely between #40 and #48 of 55PhotochemOASwitzerland
0.54Q43.03 0.22 up from 2024121100%$1,207
Rank 45; likely between #43 and #47 of 55ElectrocatalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
0.52Q43.31 0.22 up from 202421817%$4,090
Rank 46; likely between #43 and #49 of 55International journal of energy and environmental engineeringSpringer Nature · Iran
0.48Q41.33 1.69 down from 2024107—$3,590Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 47; likely between #44 and #50 of 55ColorantsOASwitzerland
0.44Q42.41 0.24 up from 202482100%$1,207
Rank 48; likely between #45 and #50 of 55Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy Water and Environment SystemsOASDEWES Centre · Croatia
0.42Q41.78 0.40 down from 2024117100%$521
Rank 49; likely between #46 and #51 of 55Journal of Solar Energy EngineeringASM International · United States
0.37Q42.27 0.17 up from 202423018%—
Rank 50; likely between #47 and #53 of 55Renewable Energy and Sustainable DevelopmentOAAcademy Publishing Center · Egypt
0.31Q41.14 0.01 up from 202442100%—

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.

12 additional Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment 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
55
Window papers (baseline)
137,314 +20.1% from indicator year 2022
Median OJR
0.942 +0.4% from indicator year 2022
Rising journals (2025)
6

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 journals1516171718171718192224242730343439394344423943475255
Window papers (baseline)13,21414,88515,94517,30918,76020,84622,85325,18328,03731,50435,51239,86046,12352,96560,70668,24474,30979,34083,48589,62097,447106,182114,294121,630128,694137,314
Median OJR0.820.7470.851.040.930.980.7540.8290.650.881.0621.251.0651.08151.08100.960.790.8650.7530.8610.890.970.9370.8340.900.942

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.