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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Climate Change	80
2	Earth System Science Data	62
3	Environmental Research Letters	57
4	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	50
5	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	46
6	Atmospheric Research	42
7	Natural Hazards	39
8	Water Air and Soil Pollution	37
9	Atmospheric Environment	36
-	Advances in Space Research	36
11	International Journal of Climatology	35
-	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	35
13	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	34
-	Climatic Change	34
15	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	33
16	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	31
-	Climate Dynamics	31
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	31
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	31
20	Journal of Climate	29
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	29
-	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	29
23	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	28
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	28
25	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	26
26	Advances in Climate Change Research	25
27	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	24
28	Journal of Aerosol Science	23
29	International Journal of Biometeorology	21
30	Ocean Science	19
-	Climate of the Past	19
32	Meteorological Applications	17
-	Ocean Modelling	17
34	Aerosol Science and Technology	16
-	Boundary-Layer Meteorology	16
-	Natural Hazards Review	16
-	Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics	16
-	Journal of Hydrometeorology	16
-	Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association	16
40	Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences	15
-	Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics	15
42	Advances in Meteorology	14
-	Monthly Weather Review	14
-	Weather and Forecasting	14
45	Atmospheric Science Letters	13
-	Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology	13
47	Environmental Fluid Mechanics	12
-	Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology	12
-	Radio Science	12
-	Weather	12

-	Weather Climate and Society	12
52	Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans	11
53	Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences	10
-	Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics	10
-	Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics	10
56	Atmosphere-Ocean	9
-	Climate Research	9
-	Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan	9
59	Meteorologische Zeitschrift	8
-	Russian Meteorology and Hydrology	8
-	Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences	8
62	Tellus Series A-Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography	7
-	Physical Geography	7
64	SOLA	6
65	Idojaras	5
-	Journal of Agricultural Meteorology	5
-	Atmosfera	5
68	Journal of Operational Oceanography	4