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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Climate Change	84
2	Communications Earth & Environment	70
3	Earth System Science Data	67
4	Urban Climate	58
5	Earths Future	56
6	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	53
7	Environmental Research Letters	50
8	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	48
9	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	47
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	47
11	Natural Hazards	45
-	Atmosphere	45
13	Water Air and Soil Pollution	43
-	Atmospheric Research	43
15	Atmospheric Environment	41
16	Advances in Space Research	39
17	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	36
18	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	35
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	35
20	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	32
-	Journal of Climate	32
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	32
-	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	32
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	32
25	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	31
-	Climate Dynamics	31
27	Climatic Change	30
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	30
-	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	30
30	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	29
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	29
32	International Journal of Climatology	28
33	Climate Risk Management	26
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	26
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	26
36	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	24
-	International Journal of Biometeorology	24
38	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	22
-	Climate Services	22
-	Journal of Aerosol Science	22
41	Ocean Modelling	21
42	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	20
-	Natural Hazards Review	20
-	Ocean Science	20
45	Climate of the Past	19
46	Journal of Hydrometeorology	18
-	Meteorological Applications	18
48	Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology	17
49	Geoscience Letters	16
-	Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics	16

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