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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Climate Change	81
2	Earth System Science Data	62
3	Environmental Research Letters	58
4	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	49
5	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	48
6	Atmospheric Research	42
7	Natural Hazards	40
8	Atmospheric Environment	37
9	Water Air and Soil Pollution	36
-	Advances in Space Research	36
-	International Journal of Climatology	36
12	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	35
13	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	34
14	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	33
-	Climatic Change	33
16	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	32
17	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	31
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	31
-	Climate Dynamics	31
20	Journal of Climate	30
21	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	29
-	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	29
23	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	28
24	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	27
25	Advances in Climate Change Research	26
26	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	25
27	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	24
28	Journal of Aerosol Science	23
29	International Journal of Biometeorology	21
30	Climate of the Past	19
31	Ocean Science	18
32	Aerosol Science and Technology	17
-	Meteorological Applications	17
34	Ocean Modelling	16
-	Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics	16
-	Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association	16
-	Boundary-Layer Meteorology	16
38	Weather and Forecasting	15
-	Journal of Hydrometeorology	15
-	Natural Hazards Review	15
-	Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences	15
-	Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics	15
43	Monthly Weather Review	14
-	Advances in Meteorology	14
45	Atmospheric Science Letters	13
-	Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology	13
47	Radio Science	12
-	Weather Climate and Society	12
-	Environmental Fluid Mechanics	12
50	Weather	11

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