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Journal rankings · indicator year 2010

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Subfield ranking · 2010

Atmospheric Science journal rankings 2010

79 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences

Atmospheric Science has 79 ranked journals in 2010. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2009 to 1.09, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.78. The top three are Nature Geoscience, Atmospheric chemistry and physics, and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 score is computed on.

79
23% of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Median OJR

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.

1.09+0.06 vs 2009
This subfieldAll 0.93World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

25%
All fields: 20%
Median listed APC

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.

$2,990
Median positive listed APC: $2,990 among 40 journals. 39 have no known price. All fields: $3,490.

Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences (8)

79 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Atmospheric Science ranking, 2010

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.

OJR

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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010.

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1Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
4.18Q16.34 1.76 up from 200966118%$12,690
2Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany
3.81Q18.41 0.64 up from 20091,480100%$1,725
3Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States
3.27Q13.09 0.21 down from 200961549%—
4Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom
3.16Q15.57 0.77 up from 200969416%$3,920
5˜The œcryosphereOACopernicus Publications · Germany
2.87Q14.77 0.72 up from 200944100%$1,574
6Climate of the pastOACopernicus Publications · Germany
2.86Q14.07 2.29 down from 2009142100%$1,725
7Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.73Q13.62 0.18 down from 200933416%$3,120
8PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States
2.70Q14.82 0.25 up from 200925075%—
2.61Q13.34 0.21 up from 20091269%$3,650
10Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.45Q14.02 0.41 up from 20092,27511%$2,910
11GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.43Q12.81 0.54 up from 200996912%$3,400
12Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States
2.23Q13.04 0.39 down from 200932198%—
13Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States
2.14Q13.07 0.02 up from 200929313%$3,550
14Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States
2.11Q12.81 0.73 down from 200933046%—
15Quaternary GeochronologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.07Q13.11 0.57 down from 20091569%$3,350
16The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
2.06Q13.06 0.30 down from 200934613%$3,650
17Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States
2.04Q14.11 0.10 up from 20097,84156%$4,070
18Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom
1.97Q13.05 0.24 down from 200923819%$4,310
1.89Q13.66 0.68 up from 200950618%$4,320
1.78Q12.90 0.04 up from 200999413%$3,210
21Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.68Q22.67 0.08 down from 200942153%$1,410
22Marine MicropaleontologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.66Q22.73 0.23 up from 20091806%$2,480
23Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society · United States
1.57Q23.01 0.06 down from 200984654%—
24Journal of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom
1.55Q22.88 0.47 up from 2009285100%$2,600
1.53Q20.32 0.13 up from 2009117——
26Journal of Applied Meteorology and ClimatologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States
1.52Q22.62 0.31 up from 200961142%—
27BoreasOAWiley · United States
1.52Q22.91 0.09 up from 200922911%$3,020
28The Open Atmospheric Science JournalOABentham Science Publishers · Netherlands
1.51Q22.57 0.68 down from 200950100%—
29Monthly Weather ReviewAmerican Meteorological Society · United States
1.40Q22.85 0.34 up from 200995143%—
30Journal of PaleolimnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.38Q22.34 0.04 down from 200933024%$3,990
31Arctic Antarctic and Alpine ResearchOAInstitute of Arctic and Alpine Research · United States
1.36Q21.87 0.13 down from 200923486%$1,993
32Annals of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom
1.34Q22.09 0.39 up from 200926499%$2,600
33Permafrost and Periglacial ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom
1.33Q22.61 0.27 up from 20099837%$4,480
34Weather and ForecastingAmerican Meteorological Society · United States
1.31Q22.35 0.16 up from 200933540%—
35Quaternary InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.22Q21.76 0.16 up from 20098308%$3,400
36Nonlinear processes in geophysicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany
1.13Q21.73 0.32 up from 2009224100%$1,412
37Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.12Q21.38 0.41 down from 200911310%$4,090
38DendrochronologiaElsevier BV · Germany
1.12Q21.59 0.07 down from 2009797%$3,390
39Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser IIOAThe Meteorological Society of Japan · Japan
1.11Q21.44 0.28 down from 200930298%$1,657
40Cold Regions Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.09Q21.86 0.40 up from 20092968%$2,960
41GeoarchaeologyWiley · United States
1.05Q30.97 0.39 down from 200911713%$3,760
42Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical GeographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.05Q31.57 0.01 down from 20097610%—
1.04Q31.36 0.03 down from 200941844%$1,410
44Physical GeographyTaylor & Francis · United States
0.98Q31.22 0.10 up from 2009960%—
45Meteorology and Atmospheric PhysicsSpringer Science+Business Media · Austria
0.95Q31.41 0.27 up from 200916112%$2,890
46ATMOSPHERE-OCEANTaylor & Francis · Canada
0.95Q31.66 0.68 up from 20097691%—
0.89Q31.78 0.26 up from 200938100%—
48SOLAOAThe Meteorological Society of Japan · Japan
0.84Q31.56 0.41 up from 2009116100%$753
49Polish Polar ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland
0.75Q31.24 0.28 up from 200940100%—
50Tree-Ring ResearchUnited States
0.75Q30.82 0.07 up from 20094739%—

Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

15 additional Atmospheric Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
79
Window papers (baseline)
57,757 +29.7% from indicator year 2007
Median OJR
1.094 +0.5% from indicator year 2007
Rising journals (2025)
2

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals5460636867636666717779808382858790899187878890908584
Window papers (baseline)25,67330,71033,39736,42737,29639,56342,06544,54549,17054,17057,75760,90363,34965,51267,68668,36367,66065,18763,37062,98462,16162,16361,22361,03759,51560,382
Median OJR0.8420.800.880.960.860.930.9841.0891.071.041.0941.051.111.131.121.0871.0910.991.010.9810.9800.910.8440.820.780.77

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.