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Best Global and Planetary Change journals

134 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Global and Planetary Change. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 34 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Sustainable Operations and Computers 50.7 99th Q1 Yes
2 Nature Sustainability 44.1 98th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
3 Global Change Biology 21.1 98th Q1 SCIE No
4 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 20.4 97th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
5 Global Environmental Change 19.2 96th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
6 Current Climate Change Reports 17.8 95th Q1 SCIE No
7 International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 14.6 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
8 Environmental Advances 14.3 94th Q1 Yes
9 Ecosystem Services 13.7 93th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
10 Climate Policy 12.6 92th Q1 SSCI C No
11 Sustainability Science 12.4 92th Q1 SCIE No
12 Global Ecology and Biogeography 11.8 91th Q1 SCIE No
13 npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 11.4 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
14 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 11.1 89th Q1 SCIE No
15 Environmental Challenges 10.8 89th Q1 Yes
16 Climate Risk Management 10.4 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI Yes
17 Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10 87th Q1 SCIE No
18 Clean Technologies 9.4 86th Q1 ESCI Yes
19 Science in One Health 9.4 86th Q1 ESCI Yes
20 Climate and Development 9.1 85th Q1 SSCI B No
21 Anthropocene Review 9 84th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
22 Advances in Climate Change Research 9 83th Q1 SCIE Yes
23 Research in Globalization 8.7 83th Q1 ESCI Yes
24 Global Sustainability 8.7 82th Q1 ESCI Yes
25 Global Environmental Politics 8.6 81th Q1 SSCI B No
26 International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 8.4 80th Q1 SSCI Yes
27 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 8.4 80th Q1 SCIE Yes
28 Climate Services 8.2 79th Q1 SCIE, SSCI Yes
29 Climatic Change 8 78th Q1 SCIE No
30 Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 8 77th Q1 SCIE Yes
31 Frontiers in Climate 7.7 77th Q1 ESCI Yes
32 Climate Change Ecology 7.6 76th Q1 Yes
33 Anthropocene 7.4 75th Q1 SCIE No
34 Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research 7.4 75th Q1 ESCI Yes
35 Earth System Governance 7.4 74th Q2 ESCI Yes
36 GeoHealth 7.3 73th Q2 SCIE Yes
37 Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 7.2 72th Q2 SCIE Yes
38 Oxford Open Climate Change 7.2 72th Q2 ESCI Yes
39 Environmental Research: Climate 7.2 71th Q2 ESCI Yes
40 Earth Systems and Environment 7 70th Q2 ESCI No
41 Global and Planetary Change 7 69th Q2 SCIE No
42 Regional Environmental Change 6.9 69th Q2 SCIE, SSCI No
43 Cambridge Prisms: Extinction 6.8 68th Q2 ESCI Yes
44 Journal of Water and Climate Change 6.8 67th Q2 SCIE Yes
45 Journal of Agrarian Change 6.7 66th Q2 SSCI No
46 Carbon Balance and Management 6.6 66th Q2 SCIE Yes
47 Frontiers in Marine Science 6.5 65th Q2 SCIE Yes
48 Journal of Climate Change and Health 6.5 64th Q2 ESCI Yes
49 Land 6.4 63th Q2 SSCI Yes
50 Climate of the Past 6.3 63th Q2 SCIE Yes
51 Environmental Management 6.1 62th Q2 SCIE C No
52 Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 6.1 61th Q2 SCIE No
53 Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 6 60th Q2 SCIE Yes
54 Quaternary Science Reviews 6 60th Q2 SCIE No
55 Climate Change Economics 5.8 59th Q2 SSCI B No
56 Frontiers of Biogeography 5.7 58th Q2 ESCI Yes
57 Conservation Science and Practice 5.6 57th Q2 SCIE Yes
58 Consumption and Society 5.6 57th Q2 ESCI No
59 Tropical Cyclone Research and Review 5.5 56th Q2 ESCI Yes
60 Environment and Society: Advances in Research 5.5 55th Q2 ESCI Yes
61 Environmental Earth Sciences 5.4 54th Q2 SCIE No
62 Environmental Hazards 5.4 54th Q2 SSCI No
63 Environmental Epidemiology 5.4 53th Q2 ESCI Yes
64 Growth and Change 5.1 52th Q2 SSCI B No
65 Environment 5 51th Q2 SCIE, SSCI No
66 Global Society 4.9 51th Q2 ESCI No
67 Journal of Mountain Science 4.5 50th Q2 SCIE No
68 Comptes Rendus - Geoscience 4.4 49th Q3 SCIE Yes
69 Climate Change Research 4.4 48th Q3 No
70 Weather, Climate, and Society 4.3 48th Q3 SCIE, SSCI No
71 Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies 4.3 47th Q3 No
72 Ecological Solutions and Evidence 4.1 46th Q3 ESCI Yes
73 Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science 4.1 45th Q3 SCIE Yes
74 PLOS Water 4.1 45th Q3 ESCI Yes
75 UCL Open Environment 4 44th Q3 Yes
76 Environmental Data Science 4 43th Q3 ESCI Yes
77 Global Policy 4 42th Q3 SSCI No
78 All Earth 3.8 42th Q3 SCIE Yes
79 Challenges in Sustainability 3.7 41th Q3 ESCI Yes
80 Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 3.7 40th Q3 SCIE, SSCI A No
81 Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 3.6 39th Q3 SCIE No
82 Holocene 3.5 39th Q3 SCIE No
83 Canadian Journal of Forest Research 3.3 38th Q3 SCIE No
84 Springer Climate 3.3 37th Q3 No
85 Environmental Research: Ecology 3.2 36th Q3 ESCI Yes
86 Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 3.1 36th Q3 SCIE Yes
87 Biogeographia 3.1 35th Q3 Yes
88 APN Science Bulletin 2.7 34th Q3 Yes
89 Ecology, Economy and Society 2.7 33th Q3 Yes
90 Geo: Geography and Environment 2.7 33th Q3 ESCI Yes
91 Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies 2.6 32th Q3 ESCI Yes
92 Advances in Global Change Research 2.6 31th Q3 No
93 Neotropical Biodiversity 2.5 30th Q3 ESCI No
94 Regions and Cohesion 2.4 30th Q3 Yes
95 Nordic Journal of Media Studies 2.4 29th Q3 Yes
96 International Journal of Global Warming 2.4 28th Q3 SCIE No
97 Geographica Helvetica 2.3 27th Q3 Yes
98 Handbook of Environmental Chemistry 2.3 27th Q3 No
99 Community Science 2.1 26th Q3 Yes
100 Journal of Air Pollution and Health 2.1 25th Q3 Yes

Rank and percentile are within the Global and Planetary Change Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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