Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Atmospheric Science journal rankings 2004
67 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Atmospheric Science has 67 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR fell 0.10 on 2003 to 0.86, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.74. The top three are Paleoceanography, Quaternary Science Reviews, and Quaternary Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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)
67 ranked journals
Filters
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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.61Q1 | 3.87 0.88 down from 2003 | 227 | 64% | — | ||
2Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 3.75 0.31 down from 2003 | 549 | 9% | $3,920 | ||
3Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 2.59Q1 | 2.97 0.27 up from 2003 | 303 | 10% | $3,550 | ||
42002 International Snow Science Workshop, Penticton, British ColumbiaPublisher not listed | 2.53Q1 | 0.58 0.25 up from 2003 | 88 | — | — | ||
5Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.40Q1 | 3.20 0.30 up from 2003 | 197 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
6The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.35Q1 | 3.05 0.41 down from 2003 | 229 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
7Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.30Q1 | 2.85 0.32 down from 2003 | 173 | 40% | — | ||
8Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 1.95 0.20 down from 2003 | 291 | 7% | $3,120 | ||
9Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.96Q1 | 3.37 0.54 up from 2003 | 661 | 46% | — | ||
10Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.25 0.16 down from 2003 | 204 | 13% | $4,310 | ||
11Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 2.66 0.18 up from 2003 | 1,900 | 6% | $2,910 | ||
12Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology PalaeoecologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 2.23 0.04 up from 2003 | 740 | 5% | $3,210 | ||
13GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 1.85 0.12 up from 2003 | 556 | 5% | $3,400 | ||
14Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.78Q1 | 3.25 0.09 up from 2003 | 7,531 | 51% | $4,070 | ||
15Marine MicropaleontologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 2.53 0.13 up from 2003 | 145 | 4% | $2,480 | ||
16Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 1.70 0.21 down from 2003 | 382 | 80% | $1,410 | ||
17Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.74Q1 | 2.22 0.53 down from 2003 | 147 | 6% | $4,090 | ||
18Monthly Weather ReviewAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.64Q2 | 2.36 0.27 down from 2003 | 565 | 44% | — | ||
19Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.57Q2 | 1.53 0.04 down from 2003 | 366 | 86% | — | ||
20Cold Regions Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 1.37 0.15 up from 2003 | 153 | 12% | $2,960 | ||
21WeatherWiley · United Kingdom | 1.33Q2 | 1.60 0.21 down from 2003 | 398 | 4% | $1,880 | ||
22ATMOSPHERE-OCEANTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.31Q2 | 1.43 0.30 down from 2003 | 78 | 95% | — | ||
23Journal of PaleolimnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.29Q2 | 1.87 0.63 down from 2003 | 221 | 16% | $3,990 | ||
24Quaternary InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q2 | 1.13 0.46 down from 2003 | 421 | 5% | $3,400 | ||
25Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.16Q2 | 1.64 0.42 up from 2003 | 134 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
26Weather and ForecastingAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.15Q2 | 1.78 0.24 up from 2003 | 229 | 41% | — | ||
27Journal of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 1.46 0.87 down from 2003 | 203 | 99% | $2,600 | ||
28BoreasOAWiley · United States | 1.08Q2 | 1.41 0.33 up from 2003 | 231 | 9% | $3,020 | ||
29Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and OceanographyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 1.26 0.02 up from 2003 | 246 | 75% | $1,410 | ||
30Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.03Q2 | 1.96 0.25 up from 2003 | 630 | 10% | $4,320 | ||
31Annals of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 1.67 0.30 up from 2003 | 415 | 98% | $2,600 | ||
32Meteorology and Atmospheric PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.99Q2 | 1.18 0.10 up from 2003 | 168 | 5% | $2,890 | ||
33Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser IIOAThe Meteorological Society of Japan · Japan | 0.95Q2 | 1.37 0.12 down from 2003 | 254 | 98% | $1,657 | ||
34Arctic Antarctic and Alpine ResearchOAInstitute of Arctic and Alpine Research · United States | 0.86Q2 | 1.23 0.20 up from 2003 | 295 | 82% | $1,993 | ||
35Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical GeographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.86Q3 | 0.89 0.34 up from 2003 | 85 | 9% | — | ||
36Nonlinear processes in geophysicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.82Q3 | 1.41 0.54 up from 2003 | 148 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
37Permafrost and Periglacial ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 0.82Q3 | 1.03 0.42 down from 2003 | 103 | 5% | $4,480 | ||
38GeoarchaeologyWiley · United States | 0.80Q3 | 0.74 0.19 up from 2003 | 143 | 3% | $3,760 | ||
39Meteorological MonographsOAAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 0.79Q3 | 0.39 1.68 down from 2003 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
40DendrochronologiaElsevier BV · Germany | 0.75Q3 | 1.06 0.81 up from 2003 | 37 | 0% | $3,390 | ||
41The Journal of Foraminiferal ResearchCushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research · United States | 0.69Q3 | 0.98 0.13 down from 2003 | 99 | 0% | — | ||
42Physics and Chemistry of the Earth Part B Hydrology Oceans and AtmosphereElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.68Q3 | —no 2003 value | 140 | 0% | — | ||
43Chemosphere - Global Change ScienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | —no 2003 value | 40 | — | — | ||
44Géographie physique et QuaternairePresses de l'Université de Montréal · Canada | 0.61Q3 | 0.90 0.06 down from 2003 | 99 | 41% | — | ||
45Zeitschrift für GeomorphologieElsevier BV · Germany | 0.60Q3 | 0.43 0.06 down from 2003 | 103 | 0% | — | ||
46QuaternaireAssociation française pour l’étude du quaternaire · France | 0.44Q3 | 0.48 0.34 up from 2003 | 79 | 18% | — | ||
47International Journal of Environmental Technology and ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.42Q3 | 0.20 0.03 down from 2003 | 91 | 4% | — | ||
48Journal of MicropalaeontologyOACopernicus Publications · United Kingdom | 0.42Q3 | 0.59 0.09 up from 2003 | 53 | 100% | $841 | ||
49Physical GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.41Q3 | 0.31 0.37 down from 2003 | 91 | 3% | — | ||
50International Symposium on Remote SensingPublisher not listed | 0.39Q3 | 0.00 0.05 down from 2003 | 131 | — | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Atmospheric Science highlighted.
- Geophysics110
- Atmospheric Science67
- Paleontology53
- Oceanography50
- Earth-Surface Processes10
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Geology7
- Space and Planetary Science1
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% 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 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 67
- Window papers (baseline)
- 37,296 +21.4% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.86 +7.3% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.