Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Atmospheric Science journal rankings 2016
90 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Atmospheric Science has 90 ranked journals in 2016. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.09 against 1.00, unchanged on 2015. A journal needs OJR 1.67 to reach Q1. The top three are Nature Geoscience, Earth system science data, and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
90 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.61Q1 | 9.96 1.25 up from 2015 | 858 | 39% | $12,690 | ||
2Earth system science dataOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 5.26Q1 | 8.91 2.86 down from 2015 | 88 | 100% | $1,509 | ||
3Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 3.65Q1 | 4.01 0.84 down from 2015 | 774 | 29% | — | ||
4The cryosphereOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.53Q1 | 6.47 0.93 down from 2015 | 456 | 100% | $1,574 | ||
5Journal of Applied VolcanologyOABioMed Central · Germany | 3.25Q1 | 2.63 1.63 down from 2015 | 44 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
6Geoscientific model developmentOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.91Q1 | 5.08 1.55 down from 2015 | 517 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
7Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.84Q1 | 6.65 1.39 down from 2015 | 2,279 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
8Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.83Q1 | 5.07 0.68 down from 2015 | 1,001 | 47% | $3,920 | ||
9Journal of Geophysical Research Earth SurfaceWiley · United States | 2.77Q1 | 4.46 0.05 down from 2015 | 439 | 73% | $4,070 | ||
10Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 3.80 0.31 up from 2015 | 133 | 30% | $3,650 | ||
11Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.48Q1 | 4.23 0.17 down from 2015 | 442 | 38% | $3,120 | ||
12GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.39Q1 | 3.63 0.61 up from 2015 | 1,237 | 34% | $3,400 | ||
13Climate of the pastOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.32Q1 | 4.42 1.06 down from 2015 | 427 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
14Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 2.29Q1 | 4.31 1.07 down from 2015 | 2,533 | 70% | $4,070 | ||
15Journal of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 4.27 0.01 down from 2015 | 313 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
16Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.20Q1 | 4.23 0.03 down from 2015 | 443 | 26% | — | ||
17Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 4.08 0.15 down from 2015 | 2,496 | 41% | $2,910 | ||
18Elementa Science of the AnthropoceneOABioOne · United States | 2.07Q1 | 3.73 0.58 down from 2015 | 73 | 100% | $1,450 | ||
19Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 3.42 0.04 up from 2015 | 155 | 100% | $1,410 | ||
20Quaternary GeochronologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 3.39 0.42 down from 2015 | 246 | 52% | $3,350 | ||
21PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.81Q1 | 3.60 0.85 down from 2015 | 249 | 73% | — | ||
22Permafrost and Periglacial ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 3.15 0.36 up from 2015 | 113 | 11% | $4,480 | ||
23Annals of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 3.00 0.67 up from 2015 | 306 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
24Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.64Q2 | 3.40 0.16 down from 2015 | 650 | 40% | $4,320 | ||
25Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 2.81 0.47 down from 2015 | 221 | 33% | $4,310 | ||
26GeoarchaeologyWiley · United States | 1.58Q2 | 2.18 0.49 up from 2015 | 92 | 25% | $3,760 | ||
27Monthly Weather ReviewAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.57Q2 | 3.31 0.47 down from 2015 | 749 | 22% | — | ||
28Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.53Q2 | 3.26 0.62 down from 2015 | 772 | 25% | — | ||
29Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 1.49Q2 | 2.43 0.09 down from 2015 | 291 | 26% | $3,550 | ||
30Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser IIOAThe Meteorological Society of Japan · Japan | 1.47Q2 | 3.67 2.36 up from 2015 | 153 | 100% | $1,657 | ||
31Journal of Applied Meteorology and ClimatologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.46Q2 | 2.59 0.49 down from 2015 | 485 | 22% | — | ||
32The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 2.63 0.19 up from 2015 | 496 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
33Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology PalaeoecologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.40Q2 | 2.65 0.23 down from 2015 | 1,231 | 31% | $3,210 | ||
34BoreasOAWiley · United States | 1.38Q2 | 2.70 0.36 down from 2015 | 157 | 22% | $3,020 | ||
35Quaternary InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.37Q2 | 2.20 0.18 up from 2015 | 2,218 | 20% | $3,400 | ||
36Arctic Antarctic and Alpine ResearchOAInstitute of Arctic and Alpine Research · United States | 1.29Q2 | 2.13 0.32 up from 2015 | 224 | 77% | $1,993 | ||
37Cold Regions Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q2 | 2.14 0.04 up from 2015 | 370 | 22% | $2,960 | ||
38Journal of PaleolimnologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.28Q2 | 2.30 0.46 down from 2015 | 201 | 21% | $3,990 | ||
39DendrochronologiaElsevier BV · Germany | 1.26Q2 | 2.15 0.10 down from 2015 | 128 | 28% | $3,390 | ||
40Geografiska Annaler Series A Physical GeographyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 2.01 0.27 up from 2015 | 112 | 37% | — | ||
41Marine MicropaleontologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.20Q2 | 2.24 0.15 down from 2015 | 146 | 28% | $2,480 | ||
42Tree-Ring ResearchUnited States | 1.14Q2 | 1.51 0.49 down from 2015 | 50 | 17% | — | ||
43AtmosphereOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.11Q2 | 1.98 0.15 down from 2015 | 184 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
44GeoResJElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.11Q2 | 1.54 0.82 down from 2015 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
45Weather and ForecastingAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.10Q2 | 2.31 0.20 down from 2015 | 284 | 19% | — | ||
46Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.09Q3 | 1.98 0.19 up from 2015 | 77 | 9% | $4,090 | ||
47Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and OceanographyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.07Q3 | 1.38 0.08 up from 2015 | 280 | 100% | $1,410 | ||
| 1.06Q3 | 1.97 0.11 down from 2015 | 121 | 53% | — | |||
49International Snow Science Workshop 2014 Proceedings, Banff, CanadaPublisher not listed | 1.06Q3 | 0.29 0.22 up from 2015 | 135 | — | — | ||
50Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.05Q3 | 2.14 0.10 up from 2015 | 384 | 96% | — |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Atmospheric Science highlighted.
- Geophysics143
- Atmospheric Science90
- Paleontology70
- Oceanography55
- Geology16
- Earth-Surface Processes14
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science3
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
24 additional Atmospheric Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 90
- Window papers (baseline)
- 67,660 +3.3% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.091 -3.6% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.