Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Atmospheric Science journal rankings 2002
63 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Atmospheric Science has 63 ranked journals in 2002. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2001 to 0.88, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.63. The top three are Paleoceanography, Tellus B, and Quaternary Science Reviews.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)
63 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2002. | Compare |
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1PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.21Q1 | 4.33 0.86 up from 2001 | 193 | 60% | — | ||
2Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.72Q1 | 3.33 1.10 up from 2001 | 366 | 75% | $1,410 | ||
3Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 3.32 0.11 up from 2001 | 393 | 5% | $3,920 | ||
4Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.47Q1 | 2.72 0.09 down from 2001 | 157 | 2% | $4,090 | ||
5Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.30Q1 | 2.43 0.21 up from 2001 | 74 | 38% | — | ||
6Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 3.02 0.65 up from 2001 | 1,572 | 5% | $2,910 | ||
7GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 2.42 0.55 up from 2001 | 327 | 5% | $3,400 | ||
8Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 2.06Q1 | 2.42 0.05 down from 2001 | 257 | 14% | $3,550 | ||
9ATMOSPHERE-OCEANTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.91Q1 | 2.28 0.35 up from 2001 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
10Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.88Q1 | 1.65 0.31 up from 2001 | 319 | 88% | — | ||
11The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 2.32 0.01 up from 2001 | 216 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
12Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.76Q1 | 2.93 0.01 up from 2001 | 6,747 | 47% | $4,070 | ||
13Marine MicropaleontologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.72Q1 | 2.32 0.95 up from 2001 | 122 | 0% | $2,480 | ||
14Monthly Weather ReviewAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.71Q1 | 2.73 0.76 up from 2001 | 625 | 37% | — | ||
15Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.66Q1 | 2.00 0.57 up from 2001 | 239 | 8% | $3,120 | ||
16Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.63Q1 | 2.23 0.10 up from 2001 | 755 | 48% | — | ||
17Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology PalaeoecologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.63Q2 | 1.82 0.17 up from 2001 | 604 | 5% | $3,210 | ||
18Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and OceanographyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.46Q2 | 1.25no change | 272 | 70% | $1,410 | ||
19Chemosphere - Global Change ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 1.34 0.43 up from 2001 | 130 | — | — | ||
20Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 1.68 0.27 up from 2001 | 885 | 7% | $4,320 | ||
21Journal of PaleolimnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.27Q2 | 1.88 0.42 up from 2001 | 223 | 8% | $3,990 | ||
22Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 1.96 0.57 up from 2001 | 252 | 10% | $4,310 | ||
23Quaternary InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.24Q2 | 1.34 0.22 up from 2001 | 279 | 5% | $3,400 | ||
24Journal of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 2.03 0.72 up from 2001 | 308 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
25Meteorology and Atmospheric PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.08Q2 | 1.47 0.78 up from 2001 | 157 | 0% | $2,890 | ||
26Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical GeographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 1.49 0.46 up from 2001 | 185 | 3% | — | ||
27Arctic Antarctic and Alpine ResearchOAInstitute of Arctic and Alpine Research · United States | 1.04Q2 | 1.03 0.03 up from 2001 | 357 | 51% | $1,993 | ||
28Annals of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 1.19 0.22 up from 2001 | 363 | 98% | $2,600 | ||
29The Journal of Foraminiferal ResearchCushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research · United States | 0.96Q2 | 1.23 0.13 up from 2001 | 87 | 0% | — | ||
30GeoarchaeologyWiley · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.18 0.13 up from 2001 | 192 | 12% | $3,760 | ||
31Permafrost and Periglacial ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 1.44 0.60 up from 2001 | 112 | 9% | $4,480 | ||
32Weather and ForecastingAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 0.88Q2 | 1.61 0.30 up from 2001 | 180 | 29% | — | ||
33BoreasOAWiley · United States | 0.87Q3 | 0.90 0.94 down from 2001 | 206 | 7% | $3,020 | ||
34Nonlinear processes in geophysicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.87Q3 | 1.08 0.37 down from 2001 | 79 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
35Cold Regions Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.79Q3 | 0.97 0.17 up from 2001 | 97 | 8% | $2,960 | ||
36Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser IIOAThe Meteorological Society of Japan · Japan | 0.76Q3 | 0.92 0.20 down from 2001 | 226 | 100% | $1,657 | ||
37Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 0.50 0.21 down from 2001 | 214 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
38Zeitschrift für GeomorphologieElsevier BV · Germany | 0.71Q3 | 0.48 0.11 up from 2001 | 99 | 0% | — | ||
39Physical GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.63Q3 | 0.66 0.08 up from 2001 | 94 | 3% | — | ||
40Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Part B Hydrology Oceans and AtmosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 0.52 0.17 up from 2001 | 533 | — | — | ||
41MicropaleontologyMicropaleontology Press · United States | 0.52Q3 | 0.53 0.15 up from 2001 | 70 | 0% | — | ||
42Journal of MicropalaeontologyOACopernicus Publications · United Kingdom | 0.49Q3 | 0.50 0.08 up from 2001 | 52 | 100% | $841 | ||
43GeochronometriaOASpringer Nature · Poland | 0.29Q3 | 0.23no change | 35 | 0% | — | ||
44PAGES newsPublisher not listed | 0.29Q3 | 0.23 0.08 up from 2001 | 121 | 100% | — | ||
45Journal of Cold Regions EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.28Q3 | 0.43 0.19 up from 2001 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
| 0.23Q3 | 0.06 0.05 down from 2001 | 70 | 8% | — | |||
47WeatherWiley · United Kingdom | 0.22Q3 | 0.30 0.03 down from 2001 | 251 | 11% | $1,880 | ||
48QuaternaireAssociation française pour l’étude du quaternaire · France | 0.22Q3 | 0.20 0.07 down from 2001 | 85 | 10% | — | ||
49International Symposium on Remote SensingPublisher not listed | 0.21Q4 | 0.03 0.02 up from 2001 | 324 | — | — | ||
50International Journal of Environmental Technology and ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.16Q4 | 0.05no 2001 value | 40 | 12% | — | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Atmospheric Science highlighted.
- Geophysics104
- Atmospheric Science63
- Paleontology54
- Oceanography47
- Earth-Surface Processes10
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Geology5
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
20 additional Atmospheric Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 63
- Window papers (baseline)
- 33,397 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.88 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 54 | 60 | 63 | 68 | 67 | 63 | 66 | 66 | 71 | 77 | 79 | 80 | 83 | 82 | 85 | 87 | 90 | 89 | 91 | 87 | 87 | 88 | 90 | 90 | 85 | 84 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 25,673 | 30,710 | 33,397 | 36,427 | 37,296 | 39,563 | 42,065 | 44,545 | 49,170 | 54,170 | 57,757 | 60,903 | 63,349 | 65,512 | 67,686 | 68,363 | 67,660 | 65,187 | 63,370 | 62,984 | 62,161 | 62,163 | 61,223 | 61,037 | 59,515 | 60,382 | |
| Median OJR | 0.842 | 0.80 | 0.88 | 0.96 | 0.86 | 0.93 | 0.984 | 1.089 | 1.07 | 1.04 | 1.094 | 1.05 | 1.11 | 1.13 | 1.12 | 1.087 | 1.091 | 0.99 | 1.01 | 0.981 | 0.980 | 0.91 | 0.844 | 0.82 | 0.78 | 0.77 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.