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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Climate Change	83
2	Earth System Science Data	62
3	Environmental Research Letters	55
4	Communications Earth & Environment	54
5	Urban Climate	52
6	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	50
7	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	49
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	49
-	Earths Future	49
10	Atmosphere	44
11	Atmospheric Research	43
12	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	39
-	Natural Hazards	39
14	Water Air and Soil Pollution	38
15	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	37
-	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	37
17	Advances in Space Research	36
-	Atmospheric Environment	36
19	Climatic Change	33
20	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	32
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	32
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	32
-	International Journal of Climatology	32
24	Climate Dynamics	31
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	31
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	31
27	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	30
-	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	30
-	Journal of Climate	30
30	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	29
31	Weather and Climate Extremes	28
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	28
33	Advances in Climate Change Research	26
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	26
35	Journal of Aerosol Science	24
-	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	24
37	International Journal of Biometeorology	22
-	Climate Risk Management	22
39	Climate Services	21
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	21
41	Ocean Science	19
-	Climate of the Past	19
-	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	19
44	Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association	17
-	Geoscience Letters	17
-	Natural Hazards Review	17
-	Ocean Modelling	17
48	Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics	16
-	Journal of Meteorological Research	16
-	Journal of Hydrometeorology	16

-	Meteorological Applications	16
52	Monthly Weather Review	15
-	Boundary-Layer Meteorology	15
-	Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences	15
-	Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics	15
56	Weather and Forecasting	14
-	Advances in Meteorology	14
-	Aerosol Science and Technology	14
59	Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology	13
-	Radio Science	13
-	Weather Climate and Society	13
-	Atmospheric Science Letters	13
63	Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans	12
-	Environmental Fluid Mechanics	12
-	Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology	12
-	Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate	12
-	Weather	12
-	Current Climate Change Reports	12
-	Geoscience Data Journal	12
70	Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics	10
-	Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan	10
-	Atmosphere-Ocean	10
-	Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics	10
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences	10
75	Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science	9
-	Meteorologische Zeitschrift	9
-	Climate Research	9
-	Geoscientific Instrumentation Methods and Data Systems	9
79	Russian Meteorology and Hydrology	8
-	Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences	8
81	Tellus Series A-Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography	7
-	Physical Geography	7
83	SOLA	6
-	Atmosfera	6
85	Journal of Agricultural Meteorology	5
-	Idojaras	5
87	Journal of Operational Oceanography	4