New: Think Tank Rankings 2026

Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)
Rank Journal H4-Index
1 Nature Climate Change81
2 Communications Earth & Environment67
3 Earth System Science Data66
4 Urban Climate57
5 Earths Future55
6 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction52
7 Environmental Research Letters50
8 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics49
9 npj Climate and Atmospheric Science46
- Agricultural and Forest Meteorology46
11 Atmosphere44
- Natural Hazards44
13 Atmospheric Research43
14 Water Air and Soil Pollution42
15 Atmospheric Environment40
16 Advances in Space Research39
17 Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres35
18 Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences34
- Physics and Chemistry of the Earth34
20 Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk33
21 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society32
- Journal of Climate32
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change32
24 Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems31
- Climate Dynamics31
- Global Biogeochemical Cycles31
27 Atmospheric Measurement Techniques30
- Climatic Change30
29 Theoretical and Applied Climatology29
30 International Journal of Climatology28
- Weather and Climate Extremes28
- Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications28
33 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences27
34 Climate Risk Management25
- International Journal of Biometeorology25
- Advances in Climate Change Research25
37 International Journal of Disaster Risk Science24
38 Climate Services22
- Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society22
40 Journal of Aerosol Science21
41 Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene20
- Ocean Science20
- Ocean Modelling20
44 Climate of the Past19
- Natural Hazards Review19
46 Journal of Hydrometeorology18
- Meteorological Applications18
48 Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology17
49 Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics16
- Geoscience Letters16
51 Aerosol Science and Technology15
- Monthly Weather Review15
- Boundary-Layer Meteorology15
54 Atmospheric Science Letters14
- Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association14
- Weather and Forecasting14
57 Journal of Meteorological Research13
- Weather Climate and Society13
- Advances in Meteorology13
- Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans13
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics13
- Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology13
- Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences13
64 Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences12
- Current Climate Change Reports12
- Radio Science12
- Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics12
- Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics12
- Weather12
70 Geoscience Data Journal11
- Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science11
- Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate11
73 Meteorologische Zeitschrift10
- Atmosphere-Ocean10
75 Climate Research9
- Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics9
- Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences9
78 Geoscientific Instrumentation Methods and Data Systems8
- Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan8
- Russian Meteorology and Hydrology8
81 SOLA7
- Physical Geography7
83 Tellus Series A-Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography6
- Atmosfera6
85 Journal of Operational Oceanography5
86 Idojaras4
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