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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Climate Change	82
2	Earth System Science Data	64
3	Communications Earth & Environment	55
-	Environmental Research Letters	55
5	Urban Climate	54
6	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	51
-	Earths Future	51
8	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	48
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	48
10	Atmosphere	46
11	Atmospheric Research	44
12	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	42
13	Natural Hazards	41
14	Water Air and Soil Pollution	38
15	Advances in Space Research	37
-	Atmospheric Environment	37
17	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	36
18	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	35
19	Climatic Change	33
20	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	32
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	32
-	Journal of Climate	32
23	Climate Dynamics	31
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	31
-	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	31
26	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	30
-	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	30
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	30
29	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	29
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	29
-	International Journal of Climatology	29
32	Weather and Climate Extremes	27
-	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	27
34	Advances in Climate Change Research	26
35	Climate Risk Management	24
-	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	24
37	International Journal of Biometeorology	23
38	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	22
39	Climate Services	21
40	Journal of Aerosol Science	20
-	Ocean Science	20
-	Climate of the Past	20
-	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	20
44	Ocean Modelling	18
45	Geoscience Letters	17
-	Natural Hazards Review	17
47	Journal of Hydrometeorology	16
-	Meteorological Applications	16
49	Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics	15
-	Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association	15

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