Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Atmospheric Science journal rankings 2009
77 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Atmospheric Science has 77 ranked journals in 2009. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.04 against 1.00, down 0.03 on 2008. A journal needs OJR 1.66 to reach Q1. The top three are Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Nature Geoscience, and Climate of the past.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
77 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.96Q1 | 7.77 0.24 up from 2008 | 1,195 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
2Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 4.59 3.23 up from 2008 | 358 | 17% | $12,690 | ||
3Climate of the pastOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.37Q1 | 6.36 2.44 up from 2008 | 103 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
4Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 3.13 1.16 down from 2008 | 127 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
5Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 3.25Q1 | 3.30 0.07 down from 2008 | 613 | 49% | — | ||
6Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.14Q1 | 4.80 0.80 up from 2008 | 628 | 17% | $3,920 | ||
7PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.71Q1 | 4.56 0.02 up from 2008 | 268 | 70% | — | ||
8Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.59Q1 | 3.80 0.57 up from 2008 | 371 | 18% | $3,120 | ||
9The Open Atmospheric Science JournalOABentham Science Publishers · Netherlands | 2.44Q1 | 3.26 3.26 up from 2008 | 31 | 95% | — | ||
10Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.39Q1 | 3.44 0.34 up from 2008 | 310 | 96% | — | ||
11Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 2.34Q1 | 3.04 0.17 up from 2008 | 271 | 16% | $3,550 | ||
12Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 3.61 0.13 up from 2008 | 2,439 | 11% | $2,910 | ||
13Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.22Q1 | 3.54 0.81 down from 2008 | 318 | 40% | — | ||
14Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.15Q1 | 4.02 0.12 down from 2008 | 7,834 | 53% | $4,070 | ||
15Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 3.29 0.27 up from 2008 | 214 | 19% | $4,310 | ||
16The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 3.36 0.52 up from 2008 | 320 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
17GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.03Q1 | 2.27 0.17 down from 2008 | 985 | 13% | $3,400 | ||
18Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology PalaeoecologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.89Q1 | 2.86 0.24 up from 2008 | 1,042 | 13% | $3,210 | ||
19Quaternary GeochronologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 3.68 0.56 up from 2008 | 152 | 11% | $3,350 | ||
20Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.66Q1 | 3.07 1.01 down from 2008 | 832 | 53% | — | ||
21Marine MicropaleontologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.62Q2 | 2.50 0.20 up from 2008 | 192 | 10% | $2,480 | ||
22Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.57Q2 | 2.76 0.75 up from 2008 | 428 | 40% | $1,410 | ||
23Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.56Q2 | 2.97 0.21 up from 2008 | 500 | 20% | $4,320 | ||
24Journal of Applied Meteorology and ClimatologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.55Q2 | 2.31 0.37 down from 2008 | 556 | 40% | — | ||
25BoreasOAWiley · United States | 1.45Q2 | 2.82 0.98 up from 2008 | 232 | 7% | $3,020 | ||
26Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 1.79 0.21 down from 2008 | 135 | 17% | $4,090 | ||
27Monthly Weather ReviewAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.34Q2 | 2.51 1.09 down from 2008 | 883 | 47% | — | ||
28Journal of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.33Q2 | 2.41 0.58 up from 2008 | 237 | 99% | $2,600 | ||
29Arctic Antarctic and Alpine ResearchOAInstitute of Arctic and Alpine Research · United States | 1.31Q2 | 2.00 0.38 up from 2008 | 232 | 77% | $1,993 | ||
30Permafrost and Periglacial ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 2.34 0.47 down from 2008 | 85 | 18% | $4,480 | ||
31Journal of PaleolimnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.29Q2 | 2.38 0.83 up from 2008 | 345 | 20% | $3,990 | ||
32GeoarchaeologyWiley · United States | 1.23Q2 | 1.36 0.06 down from 2008 | 138 | 24% | $3,760 | ||
33Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical GeographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 1.58 0.44 up from 2008 | 77 | 4% | — | ||
34Weather and ForecastingAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.20Q2 | 2.20 0.47 down from 2008 | 299 | 50% | — | ||
35Quaternary InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.19Q2 | 1.60 0.35 up from 2008 | 726 | 8% | $3,400 | ||
36Proceedings of the 2006 International Snow Science Workshop, Telluride, ColoradoPublisher not listed | 1.16Q2 | —no 2008 value | 94 | — | — | ||
37Proceedings Whistler 2008 International Snow Science Workshop September 21-27, 2008Publisher not listed | 1.15Q2 | 0.20no 2008 value | 117 | — | — | — | |
38Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser IIOAThe Meteorological Society of Japan · Japan | 1.06Q2 | 1.72 0.21 down from 2008 | 300 | 90% | $1,657 | ||
39Nonlinear processes in geophysicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.04Q2 | 1.41 0.28 down from 2008 | 224 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
40ATMOSPHERE-OCEANTaylor & Francis · Canada | 1.01Q3 | 0.98 0.86 down from 2008 | 83 | 90% | — | ||
41DendrochronologiaElsevier BV · Germany | 1.00Q3 | 1.66 0.31 down from 2008 | 67 | 8% | $3,390 | ||
42Annals of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.97Q3 | 1.70 0.14 up from 2008 | 311 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
43Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and OceanographyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 0.87Q3 | 1.39 0.11 down from 2008 | 419 | 43% | $1,410 | ||
44GeochronometriaOASpringer Nature · Poland | 0.80Q3 | 1.26 0.76 up from 2008 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
45Cold Regions Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.80Q3 | 1.46 0.06 up from 2008 | 280 | 3% | $2,960 | ||
46The Journal of Foraminiferal ResearchCushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research · United States | 0.71Q3 | 1.06 0.01 up from 2008 | 113 | 5% | — | ||
47Polish Polar ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.69Q3 | 0.96 0.27 down from 2008 | 35 | 100% | — | ||
48Zeitschrift für GeomorphologieElsevier BV · Germany | 0.66Q3 | 0.66 0.26 up from 2008 | 142 | 8% | — | ||
49Meteorology and Atmospheric PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria | 0.66Q3 | 1.14 0.09 down from 2008 | 192 | 7% | $2,890 | ||
50Physical GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.61Q3 | 1.12 0.47 up from 2008 | 101 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Atmospheric Science highlighted.
- Geophysics125
- Atmospheric Science77
- Paleontology63
- Oceanography48
- Earth-Surface Processes13
- Geology8
- Geochemistry and Petrology7
- Space and Planetary Science2
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% 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 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 77
- Window papers (baseline)
- 54,170 +28.8% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 1.04 +5.5% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.