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Global and Planetary Change · 103 journals ranked · top 40 listed

Best open-access journals for Global and Planetary Change

The top 40 of 103 Global and Planetary Change journals, open-access only, 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 — the date our venue index was last rebuilt from OpenAlex and Scimago.

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  1. 1
    Ecological Indicators
    9.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  2. 2
    Earth s Future
    7.7 cites/paper · Q1 · American Geophysical Union
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  3. 3
    Hydrology and earth system sciences
    7.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Copernicus Publications
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  4. 4
    International Journal of Digital Earth
    6.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  5. 5
    Natural hazards and earth system sciences
    5.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Copernicus Publications
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  6. 6
    GIScience & Remote Sensing
    5.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  7. 7
    Conservation Letters
    5.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  8. 8
    Environmental Challenges
    5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusPubMed
  9. 9
    Remote Sensing
    5.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  10. 10
    Journal of Water and Climate Change
    4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · IWA Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  11. 11
    Environmental Research Letters
    4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · IOP Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  12. 12
    Frontiers in Climate
    4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  13. 13
    People and Nature
    4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  14. 14
    Ecology and Society
    4.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Resilience Alliance
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  15. 15
    Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk
    4.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  16. 16
    Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
    4.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  17. 17
    Land
    4.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  18. 18
    Geocarto International
    4.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Taylor & Francis
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  19. 19
    Fire
    3.9 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  20. 20
    Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
    3.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  21. 21
    Forests
    3.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  22. 22
    Hydrology research
    3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · IWA Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  23. 23
    Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
    3.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Frontiers Media
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  24. 24
    Trees Forests and People
    3.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  25. 25
    Journal of Flood Risk Management
    3.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  26. 26
    Hydrology
    3.1 cites/paper · Q1 · Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  27. 27
    ICES Journal of Marine Science
    3.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Oxford University Press
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  28. 28
    Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies
    2.8 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  29. 29
    Nonlinear processes in geophysics
    2.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Copernicus Publications
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  30. 30
    Environmental Research Communications
    2.5 cites/paper · Q1 · IOP Publishing
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  31. 31
    Journal of Political Ecology
    2.0 cites/paper · Q1 · University of Arizona
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  32. 32
    Journal of Natural Resources
    1.3 cites/paper · Q1 · Journal of Natural Resources
    Open AccessDOAJScopus
  33. 33
    Earth system science data
    11.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Copernicus Publications
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  34. 34
    npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
    8.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  35. 35
    Communications Earth & Environment
    8.4 cites/paper · Q1 · Nature Portfolio
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  36. 36
    Water Resources Research
    7.0 cites/paper · Q1 · Wiley
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  37. 37
    Atmospheric chemistry and physics
    5.2 cites/paper · Q1 · Copernicus Publications
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  38. 38
    Advances in Climate Change Research
    4.7 cites/paper · Q1 · KeAi
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of Science
  39. 39
    Journal of Sea Research
    4.6 cites/paper · Q1 · Elsevier BV
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
  40. 40
    Geoscientific model development
    4.5 cites/paper · Q1 · Copernicus Publications
    Open AccessDOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

“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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Frequently asked

Ecological Indicators, Earth s Future, Hydrology and earth system sciences, International Journal of Digital Earth, Natural hazards and earth system sciences lead this list, drawn from a 17,500-venue index. The top 40 of 103 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. 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 103 journals ranked here is below that floor; it is not among the 40 shown). Only open-access venues are included. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded. For a match to your specific paper use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

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