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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Nature Climate Change	81
2	Communications Earth & Environment	67
3	Earth System Science Data	66
4	Urban Climate	57
5	Earths Future	55
6	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	52
7	Environmental Research Letters	50
8	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics	49
9	Agricultural and Forest Meteorology	46
-	npj Climate and Atmospheric Science	46
11	Natural Hazards	44
-	Atmosphere	44
13	Atmospheric Research	43
14	Water Air and Soil Pollution	42
15	Atmospheric Environment	40
16	Advances in Space Research	39
17	Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres	35
18	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	34
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	34
20	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	33
21	Journal of Climate	32
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change	32
-	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society	32
24	Climate Dynamics	31
-	Global Biogeochemical Cycles	31
-	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems	31
27	Climatic Change	30
-	Atmospheric Measurement Techniques	30
29	Theoretical and Applied Climatology	29
30	Space Weather-The International Journal of Research and Applications	28
-	International Journal of Climatology	28
-	Weather and Climate Extremes	28
33	Advances in Atmospheric Sciences	27
34	International Journal of Biometeorology	25
-	Advances in Climate Change Research	25
-	Climate Risk Management	25
37	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	24
38	Climate Services	22
-	Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	22
40	Journal of Aerosol Science	21
41	Ocean Modelling	20
-	Elementa-Science of the Anthropocene	20
-	Ocean Science	20
44	Natural Hazards Review	19
-	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	Boundary-Layer Meteorology	15
-	Monthly Weather Review	15
-	Aerosol Science and Technology	15
54	Weather and Forecasting	14
-	Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association	14
-	Atmospheric Science Letters	14
57	Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans	13
-	Environmental Fluid Mechanics	13
-	Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology	13
-	Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences	13
-	Journal of Meteorological Research	13
-	Weather Climate and Society	13
-	Advances in Meteorology	13
64	Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics	12
-	Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics	12
-	Weather	12
-	Current Climate Change Reports	12
-	Radio Science	12
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences	12
70	Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate	11
-	Geoscience Data Journal	11
-	Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science	11
73	Atmosphere-Ocean	10
-	Meteorologische Zeitschrift	10
75	Climate Research	9
-	Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics	9
-	Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences	9
78	Russian Meteorology and Hydrology	8
-	Geoscientific Instrumentation Methods and Data Systems	8
-	Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan	8
81	Physical Geography	7
-	SOLA	7
83	Atmosfera	6
-	Tellus Series A-Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography	6
85	Journal of Operational Oceanography	5
86	Idojaras	4