Global and Planetary Change · 99 journals indexed
Best open-access journals for Global and Planetary Change
The top Global and Planetary Change journals open-access only, ranked by Scimago quartile then cites/paper, drawn from a 17,786-venue index. Predatory venues are excluded. 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).
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- 2Earth s Future7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · American Geophysical UnionOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 3Hydrology and earth system sciences6.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Copernicus PublicationsOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 4International Journal of Digital Earth5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 5Natural hazards and earth system sciences5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Copernicus PublicationsOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 6GIScience & Remote Sensing4.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 9Remote Sensing4.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 10Environmental Research Letters4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · IOP PublishingOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 11Journal of Water and Climate Change4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · IWA PublishingOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 14Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 15Frontiers in Forests and Global Change3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 16Ecology and Society3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Resilience AllianceOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 17Land3.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 18Geocarto International3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & FrancisOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 19Fire3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 20Environmental and Sustainability Indicators3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 21Forests3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 24Frontiers in Sustainable Cities2.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers MediaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 25Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies2.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BVOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 26Hydrology2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 27ICES Journal of Marine Science2.7 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University PressOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 28Journal of Flood Risk Management2.5 cites/paper · Q1 · WileyOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 29Nonlinear processes in geophysics2.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Copernicus PublicationsOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 30Environmental Research Communications2.2 cites/paper · Q1 · IOP PublishingOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- 31Journal of Political Ecology1.7 cites/paper · Q1 · University of ArizonaOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 33Climate3.8 cites/paper · Q2 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 35Mediterranean Marine Science1.8 cites/paper · Q2 · Hellenic Centre for Marine ResearchOpen AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
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- 37Advances in Meteorology1.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Hindawi Publishing CorporationOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
- 38The Forestry Chronicle1.3 cites/paper · Q2 · Canadian Institute of ForestryOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
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- 40Scientia Marina1.1 cites/paper · Q3 · Spanish National Research CouncilOpen AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
“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.
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