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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Climate Change	81
2	Earth System Science Data	64
3	Environmental Research Letters	56
-	Communications Earth & Environment	56
5	Urban Climate	55
6	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	51
-	Earths Future	51
8	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	48
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	48
10	Atmosphere	44
11	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	43
12	Natural Hazards	42
-	Atmospheric Research	42
14	Water Air and Soil Pollution	37
-	Advances in Space Research	37
-	Atmospheric Environment	37
17	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	36
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	36
19	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	32
-	Climatic Change	32
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	32
-	Journal of Climate	32
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	32
24	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	31
-	Climate Dynamics	31
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	31
27	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	30
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	30
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	30
30	International Journal of Climatology	29
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	29
32	Weather and Climate Extremes	27
33	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	26
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	26
35	Climate Risk Management	25
36	Climate Services	22
-	International Journal of Biometeorology	22
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	22
39	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	21
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	21
41	Climate of the Past	20
-	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	20
43	Ocean Science	19
44	Ocean Modelling	18
-	Natural Hazards Review	18
46	Meteorological Applications	17
-	Geoscience Letters	17
48	Journal of Hydrometeorology	16
49	Advances in Meteorology	15
-	Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics	15

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