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Best Global and Planetary Change journals

134 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Global and Planetary Change. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 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 93rd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
10 Climate Policy 12.6 92nd Q1 SSCI C No
11 Sustainability Science 12.4 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
12 Global Ecology and Biogeography 11.8 91st 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 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
23 Research in Globalization 8.7 83rd Q1 ESCI – Yes
24 Global Sustainability 8.7 82nd Q1 ESCI – Yes
25 Global Environmental Politics 8.6 81st 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 73rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
37 Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 7.2 72nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
38 Oxford Open Climate Change 7.2 72nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
39 Environmental Research: Climate 7.2 71st 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 63rd Q2 SSCI – Yes
50 Climate of the Past 6.3 63rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
51 Environmental Management 6.1 62nd Q2 SCIE C No
52 Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 6.1 61st 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 53rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
64 Growth and Change 5.1 52nd Q2 SSCI B No
65 Environment 5 51st Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
66 Global Society 4.9 51st 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 43rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
77 Global Policy 4 42nd Q3 SSCI – No
78 All Earth 3.8 42nd Q3 SCIE – Yes
79 Challenges in Sustainability 3.7 41st Q3 ESCI – No
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 33rd Q3 – – Yes
90 Geo: Geography and Environment 2.7 33rd Q3 ESCI – Yes
91 Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies 2.6 32nd Q3 ESCI – Yes
92 Advances in Global Change Research 2.6 31st 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
101 Global Environmental Change Advances 1.9 25th Q3 – – Yes
102 Geological Field Trips and Maps 1.9 24th Q4 ESCI – No
103 Geographies of Tourism and Global Change 1.9 23rd Q4 – – No
104 Biodiversity 1.8 22nd Q4 – – No
105 NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences 1.8 22nd Q4 SCIE – No
106 Geoplanning 1.8 21st Q4 – – Yes
107 Climate Change Management 1.7 20th Q4 – – No
108 Open Quaternary 1.7 19th Q4 – – Yes
109 Sustainability and Climate Change 1.6 19th Q4 ESCI – No
110 Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi) 1.6 18th Q4 ESCI – No
111 Acta Biologica Sibirica 1.6 17th Q4 – – Yes
112 Journal of Integrated Disaster Risk Management 1.5 16th Q4 – – No
113 Rural Sustainability Research 1.5 16th Q4 – – No
114 Arid Ecosystems 1.3 15th Q4 ESCI – No
115 Led i Sneg 1.3 14th Q4 ESCI – Yes
116 Journal of Aridland Agriculture 1.3 13th Q4 – – No
117 Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy 1.3 13th Q4 – – No
118 Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research 1.2 12th Q4 – – No
119 Journal of Globalization Studies 1.1 11th Q4 – – No
120 Carbon and Climate Law Review 1.1 10th Q4 – – No
121 International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses 1 10th Q4 – – No
122 Forum Geografic 0.9 9th Q4 – – Yes
123 Natural Resource Management and Policy 0.9 8th Q4 – – No
124 Journal of Watershed Management Research 0.9 7th Q4 – – Yes
125 Journal of Climate Change Research 0.8 7th Q4 – – No
126 Journal of Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Technology 0.8 6th Q4 – – No
127 Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research 0.8 5th Q4 – – No
128 Glasnik - Srpskog Geografskog Drustva 0.8 4th Q4 – – Yes
129 Global Environment 0.8 4th Q4 ESCI – Yes
130 Geocarrefour 0.7 3rd Q4 – – No
131 Quaternary and Environmental Geosciences 0.4 2nd Q4 – – Yes
132 Geographies of the Anthropocene 0.1 1st Q4 – – No
133 Developments in Earth Surface Processes 0 0th Q4 – – No
134 Sustainable Humanosphere 0 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Global and Planetary Change Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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