Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Atmospheric Science journal rankings 2003
68 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Atmospheric Science has 68 ranked journals in 2003. The median OJR rose 0.08 on 2002 to 0.96, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.69. The top three are Paleoceanography, Quaternary Science Reviews, and The Holocene.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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)
68 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 3.70Q1 | 4.75 0.42 up from 2002 | 195 | 62% | — | ||
2Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.44Q1 | 4.06 0.74 up from 2002 | 430 | 8% | $3,920 | ||
3The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 3.46 1.15 up from 2002 | 216 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
4Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 2.75 0.03 up from 2002 | 143 | 4% | $4,090 | ||
5Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.42Q1 | 3.17 0.74 up from 2002 | 123 | 30% | — | ||
6Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 2.29Q1 | 2.71 0.29 up from 2002 | 285 | 9% | $3,550 | ||
7Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 1.91 1.42 down from 2002 | 353 | 62% | $1,410 | ||
8Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.16Q1 | 2.90 1.90 up from 2002 | 40 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
9Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.11Q1 | 2.16 0.16 up from 2002 | 249 | 5% | $3,120 | ||
10Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 2.48 0.54 down from 2002 | 1,726 | 3% | $2,910 | ||
11Marine MicropaleontologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.93Q1 | 2.40 0.08 up from 2002 | 123 | 5% | $2,480 | ||
12Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology PalaeoecologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 2.19 0.36 up from 2002 | 654 | 6% | $3,210 | ||
13Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.90Q1 | 2.83 0.61 up from 2002 | 720 | 41% | — | ||
14GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.83Q1 | 1.73 0.69 down from 2002 | 413 | 5% | $3,400 | ||
152002 International Snow Science Workshop, Penticton, British ColumbiaPublisher not listed | 1.80Q1 | 0.33no 2002 value | 88 | — | — | — | |
16Monthly Weather ReviewAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.76Q1 | 2.63 0.09 down from 2002 | 638 | 41% | — | ||
17Journal of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.33 0.30 up from 2002 | 218 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
18Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.66Q2 | 1.58 0.07 down from 2002 | 347 | 92% | — | ||
19Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.64Q2 | 3.16 0.24 up from 2002 | 6,757 | 49% | $4,070 | ||
20Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 2.41 0.45 up from 2002 | 226 | 18% | $4,310 | ||
21ATMOSPHERE-OCEANTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.54Q2 | 1.72 0.55 down from 2002 | 83 | 100% | — | ||
22WeatherWiley · United Kingdom | 1.47Q2 | 1.81 1.51 up from 2002 | 312 | 7% | $1,880 | ||
23Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.71 0.02 up from 2002 | 738 | 8% | $4,320 | ||
24Journal of PaleolimnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.36Q2 | 2.50 0.62 up from 2002 | 221 | 10% | $3,990 | ||
25Quaternary InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q2 | 1.59 0.25 up from 2002 | 322 | 2% | $3,400 | ||
26Chemosphere - Global Change ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 1.18 0.17 down from 2002 | 88 | — | — | ||
27Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and OceanographyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 1.24 0.01 down from 2002 | 243 | 81% | $1,410 | ||
28GeoarchaeologyWiley · United States | 1.12Q2 | 0.55 0.62 down from 2002 | 169 | 7% | $3,760 | ||
29Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 1.22 0.71 up from 2002 | 180 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
30The Journal of Foraminiferal ResearchCushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research · United States | 1.04Q2 | 1.11 0.11 down from 2002 | 99 | 0% | — | ||
31Arctic Antarctic and Alpine ResearchOAInstitute of Arctic and Alpine Research · United States | 1.03Q2 | 1.03no change | 360 | 86% | $1,993 | ||
32Meteorology and Atmospheric PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 1.01Q2 | 1.08 0.39 down from 2002 | 175 | 8% | $2,890 | ||
33Weather and ForecastingAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 0.98Q2 | 1.54 0.07 down from 2002 | 195 | 41% | — | ||
34Annals of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 1.38 0.19 up from 2002 | 429 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
35Permafrost and Periglacial ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.95Q3 | 1.45 0.01 up from 2002 | 102 | 14% | $4,480 | ||
36Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser IIOAThe Meteorological Society of Japan · Japan | 0.93Q3 | 1.50 0.58 up from 2002 | 229 | 99% | $1,657 | ||
37Géographie physique et QuaternairePresses de l'Université de Montréal · Canada | 0.91Q3 | 0.96 0.96 up from 2002 | 95 | 10% | — | ||
38Cold Regions Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.86Q3 | 1.22 0.26 up from 2002 | 106 | 1% | $2,960 | ||
39Zeitschrift für GeomorphologieElsevier BV · Germany | 0.78Q3 | 0.49 0.01 up from 2002 | 104 | 3% | — | ||
40Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Part B Hydrology Oceans and AtmosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 0.92 0.40 up from 2002 | 373 | — | — | ||
41BoreasOAWiley · United States | 0.70Q3 | 1.08 0.18 up from 2002 | 184 | 7% | $3,020 | ||
42Physical GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.69Q3 | 0.67 0.02 up from 2002 | 93 | 0% | — | ||
43Nonlinear processes in geophysicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.62Q3 | 0.87 0.22 down from 2002 | 112 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
44Journal of MicropalaeontologyOACopernicus Publications · United Kingdom | 0.53Q3 | 0.50no change | 58 | 100% | $841 | ||
45MicropaleontologyMicropaleontology Press · United States | 0.53Q3 | 0.44 0.08 down from 2002 | 82 | 8% | — | ||
46Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical GeographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.48Q3 | 0.55 0.94 down from 2002 | 106 | 0% | — | ||
47International Journal of Environmental Technology and ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.43Q3 | 0.23 0.18 up from 2002 | 66 | 4% | — | ||
48Journal of Cold Regions EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.42Q3 | 0.44 0.02 up from 2002 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
49PAGES newsPublisher not listed | 0.42Q3 | 0.36 0.12 up from 2002 | 121 | 97% | — | ||
50OfiolitiOAItaly | 0.32Q3 | 0.40 0.17 up from 2002 | 36 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Atmospheric Science highlighted.
- Geophysics106
- Atmospheric Science68
- Paleontology53
- Oceanography47
- Earth-Surface Processes10
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Geology6
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
14 additional Atmospheric Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 68
- Window papers (baseline)
- 36,427 +41.9% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.96 +13.8% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.