Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Climate Change	81
2	Earth System Science Data	61
3	Environmental Research Letters	55
-	Communications Earth & Environment	55
5	Urban Climate	54
6	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	51
7	Earths Future	50
8	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	49
-	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	49
10	Atmosphere	45
11	Atmospheric Research	44
12	Natural Hazards	40
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	40
14	Atmospheric Environment	36
-	Water Air and Soil Pollution	36
-	Advances in Space Research	36
17	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	35
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	35
19	Climatic Change	32
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	32
21	Journal of Climate	31
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	31
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	31
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	31
25	International Journal of Climatology	30
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	30
-	Climate Dynamics	30
-	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	30
29	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	29
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	29
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	29
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	29
33	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	27
34	Advances in Climate Change Research	25
35	Climate Risk Management	24
36	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	23
-	International Journal of Biometeorology	23
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	23
39	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	22
40	Climate of the Past	20
-	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	20
-	Climate Services	20
43	Ocean Science	19
44	Meteorological Applications	17
-	Ocean Modelling	17
-	Geoscience Letters	17
-	Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association	17
48	Journal of Hydrometeorology	16
-	Natural Hazards Review	16
-	Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics	16

51	Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences	15
-	Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics	15
-	Monthly Weather Review	15
54	Advances in Meteorology	14
-	Aerosol Science and Technology	14
-	Boundary-Layer Meteorology	14
-	Journal of Meteorological Research	14
-	Weather Climate and Society	14
59	Atmospheric Science Letters	13
-	Weather and Forecasting	13
-	Environmental Fluid Mechanics	13
-	Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology	13
-	Radio Science	13
64	Current Climate Change Reports	12
-	Geoscience Data Journal	12
-	Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology	12
-	Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate	12
-	Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans	12
69	Weather	11
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences	11
71	Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics	10
-	Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics	10
-	Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan	10
-	Atmosphere-Ocean	10
75	Geoscientific Instrumentation Methods and Data Systems	9
-	Climate Research	9
-	Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science	9
-	Meteorologische Zeitschrift	9
79	Russian Meteorology and Hydrology	8
-	Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences	8
81	Physical Geography	7
-	SOLA	7
-	Tellus Series A-Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography	7
84	Atmosfera	6
85	Idojaras	5
-	Journal of Agricultural Meteorology	5
87	Journal of Operational Oceanography	4