Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Atmospheric Science journal rankings 2020
87 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Atmospheric Science has 87 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 0.98, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.32. The top three are Nature Geoscience, Earth system science data, and Meteorological Monographs.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
87 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.73Q1 | 15.33 4.07 up from 2019 | 640 | 52% | $12,690 | ||
2Earth system science dataOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 5.25Q1 | 14.99 2.56 up from 2019 | 293 | 100% | $1,509 | ||
3Meteorological MonographsOAAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 3.45Q1 | 6.63 3.87 down from 2019 | 38 | — | — | ||
4Geoscientific model developmentOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.07Q1 | 8.59 0.88 up from 2019 | 699 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
5Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 2.61Q1 | 4.67 0.08 up from 2019 | 858 | 89% | — | ||
6Elementa Science of the AnthropoceneOABioOne · United States | 2.48Q1 | 7.34 1.70 up from 2019 | 221 | 100% | $1,450 | ||
7Journal of Geophysical Research Earth SurfaceWiley · United States | 2.39Q1 | 5.48 1.11 up from 2019 | 434 | 59% | $4,070 | ||
8Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.32Q1 | 8.42 1.19 up from 2019 | 2,620 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
9Journal of Applied VolcanologyOABioMed Central · Germany | 2.26Q1 | 4.16 0.05 down from 2019 | 38 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
10GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.10Q1 | 4.40 0.38 up from 2019 | 1,076 | 40% | $3,400 | ||
11The cryosphereOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 2.10Q1 | 7.45 1.19 up from 2019 | 603 | 100% | $1,574 | ||
12Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.97Q1 | 5.43 0.65 up from 2019 | 530 | 48% | $3,120 | ||
13Advances in Climate Change ResearchOAKeAi · China | 1.83Q1 | 3.01 1.11 down from 2019 | 137 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
14Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 3.93 0.48 up from 2019 | 161 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
15Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.73Q1 | 5.24 0.65 up from 2019 | 2,400 | 43% | $4,070 | ||
16Climate of the pastOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.73Q1 | 5.71 0.67 up from 2019 | 330 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
17Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.71Q1 | 5.63 0.77 up from 2019 | 2,055 | 33% | $2,910 | ||
18Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 4.63no change | 1,165 | 52% | $3,920 | ||
19PaleoceanographyAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.66Q1 | —no 2019 value | 76 | — | — | ||
20Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.55Q1 | 4.89 0.13 up from 2019 | 398 | 69% | — | ||
21QuaternaryOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.46Q1 | 3.56 1.29 up from 2019 | 69 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
22Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.32Q1 | 4.05 0.30 up from 2019 | 709 | 62% | $4,320 | ||
23ACS Earth and Space ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.29Q2 | 4.39 0.15 down from 2019 | 484 | 26% | $4,500 | ||
24Cold Regions Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.25Q2 | 3.71 0.79 up from 2019 | 609 | 23% | $2,960 | ||
25Paleoceanography and PaleoclimatologyWiley · United States | 1.23Q2 | 3.96 0.24 up from 2019 | 227 | 64% | $4,070 | ||
26Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology PalaeoecologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.21Q2 | 3.14 0.04 up from 2019 | 1,326 | 28% | $3,210 | ||
27GeoarchaeologyWiley · United States | 1.19Q2 | 1.86 0.12 up from 2019 | 139 | 42% | $3,760 | ||
28The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.17Q2 | 3.33 0.94 up from 2019 | 419 | 27% | $3,650 | ||
29Journal of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.15Q2 | 3.33 0.22 up from 2019 | 293 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
30Quaternary GeochronologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.14Q2 | 3.01 0.11 up from 2019 | 210 | 25% | $3,350 | ||
31Monthly Weather ReviewAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.14Q2 | 3.99 0.15 up from 2019 | 710 | 71% | — | ||
32Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.13Q2 | 3.76 0.93 up from 2019 | 356 | 77% | — | ||
33Permafrost and Periglacial ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 4.02 1.00 up from 2019 | 80 | 35% | $4,480 | ||
34Annals of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 2.82 0.15 up from 2019 | 126 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
35Journal of Applied Meteorology and ClimatologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.12Q2 | 3.21 0.40 up from 2019 | 476 | 74% | — | ||
36Polar ScienceElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.09Q2 | 3.30 1.70 up from 2019 | 159 | 98% | $2,570 | ||
37Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.06Q2 | 3.03no change | 61 | 100% | $1,410 | ||
38AtmosphereOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.05Q2 | 3.32 0.16 up from 2019 | 1,614 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
39Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 2.89 0.21 down from 2019 | 228 | 49% | $4,310 | ||
40Quaternary InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.01Q2 | 2.23 0.02 up from 2019 | 1,677 | 32% | $3,400 | ||
41Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and OceanographyOAWiley · United Kingdom | 1.01Q2 | 2.75 0.20 up from 2019 | 122 | 100% | $1,410 | ||
42Weather and ForecastingAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.00Q2 | 3.38 0.13 down from 2019 | 332 | 73% | — | ||
43Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 0.98Q2 | 3.28 0.23 down from 2019 | 677 | 68% | — | ||
44Arctic ScienceOACanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.98Q2 | 3.02 1.34 up from 2019 | 100 | 100% | $1,575 | ||
45Quaternary ResearchCambridge University Press · United States | 0.96Q3 | 2.41 0.21 up from 2019 | 347 | 41% | $3,550 | ||
46Arctic Antarctic and Alpine ResearchOAInstitute of Arctic and Alpine Research · United States | 0.96Q3 | 3.01 1.08 up from 2019 | 150 | 100% | $1,993 | ||
47BoreasOAWiley · United States | 0.92Q3 | 2.72no change | 194 | 42% | $3,020 | ||
48Polish Polar ResearchOADe Gruyter Open · Poland | 0.92Q3 | 1.53 0.27 down from 2019 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.91Q3 | 2.80 1.28 up from 2019 | 39 | 40% | $4,090 | ||
50Nonlinear processes in geophysicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.88Q3 | 2.10 0.03 down from 2019 | 133 | 100% | $1,412 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Atmospheric Science highlighted.
- Geophysics144
- Atmospheric Science87
- Paleontology76
- Oceanography54
- Earth-Surface Processes18
- Geology10
- Geochemistry and Petrology8
- Space and Planetary Science4
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 87
- Window papers (baseline)
- 62,161 -4.6% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.980 -0.9% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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 |
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| 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.