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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Climate Change	82
2	Communications Earth & Environment	62
-	Earth System Science Data	62
4	Urban Climate	54
5	Earths Future	53
6	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	51
7	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	50
-	Environmental Research Letters	50
9	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	46
10	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	45
-	Atmosphere	45
12	Atmospheric Research	43
13	Water Air and Soil Pollution	42
14	Natural Hazards	41
15	Atmospheric Environment	40
16	Advances in Space Research	38
17	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	35
18	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	34
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	34
20	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	33
21	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	32
-	Journal of Climate	32
23	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	31
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	31
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	31
26	Weather and Climate Extremes	30
-	Climate Dynamics	30
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	30
-	Climatic Change	30
30	International Journal of Climatology	29
31	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	28
32	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	27
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	27
34	Advances in Climate Change Research	24
-	International Journal of Biometeorology	24
36	Climate Risk Management	23
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	23
38	Journal of Aerosol Science	22
-	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	22
40	Climate Services	21
41	Climate of the Past	20
42	Ocean Science	19
-	Meteorological Applications	19
-	Ocean Modelling	19
-	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	19
46	Natural Hazards Review	18
47	Journal of Hydrometeorology	17
48	Geoscience Letters	16
-	Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology	16
-	Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics	16

-	Weather and Forecasting	16
52	Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association	15
-	Monthly Weather Review	15
-	Boundary-Layer Meteorology	15
-	Aerosol Science and Technology	15
56	Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences	14
-	Advances in Meteorology	14
-	Atmospheric Science Letters	14
59	Journal of Meteorological Research	13
-	Radio Science	13
-	Weather Climate and Society	13
-	Environmental Fluid Mechanics	13
-	Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology	13
64	Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans	12
-	Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics	12
-	Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics	12
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences	12
-	Current Climate Change Reports	12
-	Geoscience Data Journal	12
70	Atmosphere-Ocean	11
-	Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate	11
-	Weather	11
73	Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science	10
-	Meteorologische Zeitschrift	10
75	Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics	9
-	Russian Meteorology and Hydrology	9
-	Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences	9
-	Geoscientific Instrumentation Methods and Data Systems	9
79	Climate Research	8
80	Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan	7
-	SOLA	7
-	Physical Geography	7
83	Tellus Series A-Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography	6
84	Atmosfera	5
-	Journal of Operational Oceanography	5
86	Idojaras	4
-	Journal of Agricultural Meteorology	4