What are the best journals for Global and Planetary Change?

From a 17,500-venue index, the highest-ranked Global and Planetary Change journals include Nature Sustainability, Nature Climate Change, Remote Sensing of Environment, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Global Change Biology. The top 40 of 289 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. Each shows its open-access status and indexing, and predatory venues are excluded. For a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

How were these Global and Planetary Change journals ranked?

By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Global and Planetary Change come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Global and Planetary Change — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Global and Planetary Change — is listed after all the others. Where cites/paper decides, a journal with fewer than 30 papers in OpenAlex over the four most recent publication years is listed after those with more: a two-year average over so few papers can rest on a single article (1 of the 289 journals ranked here is below that floor; it is not among the 40 shown). Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded.

Why don't all Global and Planetary Change journals show a quartile?

Scimago doesn't cover every journal — many strong regional and open-access venues are absent from it. We show "no Scimago quartile" for those rather than hide them; it's a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

How do I find the best journal for my specific Global and Planetary Change paper?

Paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. A free account starts with 25 welcome credits; each run costs 15.

Global and Planetary Change · 289 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best journals for Global and Planetary Change

The top 40 of 289 Global and Planetary Change journals, ranked by Scimago quartile, then by how central Global and Planetary Change is to each journal, then OpenAlex cites/paper (2-year window), drawn from a 17,500-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded; the FAQ below gives the exact ranking rule. These are field-wide rankings — for a shortlist matched to your specific paper, paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder (a free account starts with 25 welcome credits).

Data as of 18 October 2026 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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All Best open-access journals

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Nature Sustainability
22.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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Nature Climate Change
13.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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Remote Sensing of Environment
11.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Nature Ecology & Evolution
11.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
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Global Change Biology
11.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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Landscape and Urban Planning
10.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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One Earth
10.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Ecological Indicators
9.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Global Environmental Change
9.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Ecosystem Services
8.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Earth s Future
7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · American Geophysical Union
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Journal of Hydrology
7.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
7.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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14
Hydrology and earth system sciences
7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Copernicus Publications
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International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology
7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
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Land Use Policy
7.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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17
Applied Geography
7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Environmental Science & Policy
6.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
6.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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International Journal of Digital Earth
6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
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Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
6.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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22
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
6.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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23
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
5.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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24
Natural hazards and earth system sciences
5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Copernicus Publications
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Journal of Geographical Sciences
5.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Nature
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Sustainability Science
5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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27
GIScience & Remote Sensing
5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
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Environmental Modelling & Software
5.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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29
Conservation Letters
5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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30
Environmental Challenges
5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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31
Remote Sensing
5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Natural Hazards
5.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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33
Fish and Fisheries
4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
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34
Journal of Water and Climate Change
4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · IWA Publishing
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Environmental Development
4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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36
Forest Policy and Economics
4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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37
Environmental Research Letters
4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · IOP Publishing
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38
Futures
4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
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Climatic Change
4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Springer Science+Business Media
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Frontiers in Climate
4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
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“Cites/paper” is the OpenAlex 2-year citation rate — a transparent signal, not a licensed Impact Factor. Many regional and open-access journals are strong but aren’t covered by Scimago, so they show “no Scimago quartile”; that’s a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.