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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Climate Change	81
2	Earth System Science Data	62
3	Environmental Research Letters	59
4	Communications Earth & Environment	50
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	50
-	Urban Climate	50
-	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	50
8	Earths Future	48
9	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	47
10	Atmospheric Research	42
-	Atmosphere	42
12	Natural Hazards	40
13	Atmospheric Environment	38
14	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	36
-	International Journal of Climatology	36
16	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	35
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	35
-	Water Air and Soil Pollution	35
-	Advances in Space Research	35
-	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	35
21	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	34
22	Climatic Change	33
23	Climate Dynamics	32
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	32
-	Journal of Climate	32
26	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	31
27	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	30
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	30
29	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	29
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	29
31	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	28
32	Advances in Climate Change Research	26
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	26
34	Journal of Aerosol Science	25
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	25
36	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	24
37	International Journal of Biometeorology	21
38	Climate Risk Management	20
39	Climate Services	19
-	Climate of the Past	19
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	19
42	Ocean Science	18
43	Meteorological Applications	17
-	Aerosol Science and Technology	17
-	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	17
46	Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association	16
-	Geoscience Letters	16
-	Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics	16
-	Ocean Modelling	16
-	Journal of Hydrometeorology	16

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