Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Atmospheric Science journal rankings 2023
90 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Atmospheric Science has 90 ranked journals in 2023. The median journal has an OJR of 0.82, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2022; Q1 starts at OJR 1.17. The top three are Nature Geoscience, Earth system science data, and Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.36Q1 | 14.84 2.92 down from 2022 | 553 | 56% | $12,690 | ||
2Earth system science dataOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 4.18Q1 | 14.89 1.98 down from 2022 | 751 | 100% | $1,509 | ||
3Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 4.11 10.86 down from 2022 | 613 | 69% | $4,320 | ||
4Nature Reviews Earth & EnvironmentNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 27.47 5.19 up from 2022 | 346 | 34% | — | ||
5Geoscientific model developmentOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.99Q1 | 6.10 3.12 down from 2022 | 1,038 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
6Journal of Geophysical Research Earth SurfaceWiley · United States | 1.87Q1 | 5.40 0.57 down from 2022 | 478 | 89% | $4,070 | ||
7Elementa Science of the AnthropoceneOABioOne · United States | 1.86Q1 | 6.88 1.37 up from 2022 | 321 | 100% | $1,450 | ||
8Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.84Q1 | 7.80 4.31 down from 2022 | 2,535 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
9The cryosphereOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.67Q1 | 6.70 2.24 down from 2022 | 824 | 100% | $1,574 | ||
10Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.65Q1 | 4.00 0.93 down from 2022 | 1,044 | 43% | — | ||
11GeochronologyOAGermany | 1.63Q1 | 4.26 2.91 down from 2022 | 97 | 100% | — | ||
12Advances in Climate Change ResearchOAKeAi · China | 1.62Q1 | 5.58 0.34 down from 2022 | 283 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
13Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 4.95 0.36 up from 2022 | 626 | 37% | $3,120 | ||
14Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.60Q1 | 5.63 1.20 down from 2022 | 2,254 | 85% | $4,070 | ||
15GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.47Q1 | 4.01 0.26 down from 2022 | 982 | 48% | $3,400 | ||
16Climate of the pastOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.47Q1 | 5.78 1.49 down from 2022 | 395 | 100% | $1,725 | ||
17Artificial Intelligence for the Earth SystemsAmerican Meteorological Society | 1.45Q1 | 4.65no 2022 value | 31 | 89% | — | — | |
18Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.44Q1 | 4.57 0.44 down from 2022 | 1,212 | 59% | $3,920 | ||
19Permafrost and Periglacial ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.39Q1 | 4.79 2.11 down from 2022 | 126 | 67% | $4,480 | ||
20Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 5.34 0.86 down from 2022 | 1,724 | 43% | $2,910 | ||
21Journal of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.23Q1 | 4.57 0.88 down from 2022 | 368 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
22Environmental Science AtmospheresOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.17Q1 | 3.96 1.55 down from 2022 | 174 | 100% | — | ||
23Cold Regions Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.17Q1 | 4.40 0.27 down from 2022 | 518 | 29% | $2,960 | ||
24Paleoceanography and PaleoclimatologyWiley · United States | 1.16Q2 | 4.03 0.84 down from 2022 | 368 | 87% | $4,070 | ||
25Journal of MicropalaeontologyOACopernicus Publications · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 5.35 2.92 up from 2022 | 30 | 100% | $841 | ||
26Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 3.45 0.67 down from 2022 | 153 | 30% | $3,650 | ||
27Annals of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.12Q2 | 3.02 1.85 down from 2022 | 141 | 100% | $2,600 | ||
28Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.12Q2 | 4.23 0.74 down from 2022 | 472 | 52% | — | ||
29QuaternaryOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.11Q2 | 3.30 0.46 up from 2022 | 128 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
30Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.07Q2 | 3.66 2.02 down from 2022 | 290 | 62% | — | ||
31Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.05Q2 | 3.84 1.11 up from 2022 | 41 | 10% | $4,090 | ||
32Tellus BOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.04Q2 | 3.75 0.54 down from 2022 | 42 | 100% | $1,410 | ||
33GeoarchaeologyWiley · United States | 1.04Q2 | 1.63 0.47 down from 2022 | 154 | 66% | $3,760 | ||
34Journal of Applied VolcanologyOABioMed Central · Germany | 1.01Q2 | 2.76 0.24 down from 2022 | 34 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
35ACS Earth and Space ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 1.00Q2 | 3.88 0.56 down from 2022 | 795 | 41% | $4,500 | ||
36Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology PalaeoecologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.97Q2 | 3.05 0.25 down from 2022 | 1,261 | 34% | $3,210 | ||
37Quaternary Science AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 3.66 1.54 down from 2022 | 51 | 100% | $1,760 | ||
38Journal of the Atmospheric SciencesAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 0.94Q2 | 3.80 0.05 down from 2022 | 629 | 51% | — | ||
39Monthly Weather ReviewAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 0.91Q2 | 3.50 0.50 down from 2022 | 605 | 44% | — | ||
| 0.89Q2 | 3.44 0.44 down from 2022 | 57 | 100% | $0 listed | |||
41Journal of Applied Meteorology and ClimatologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 0.89Q2 | 3.24 0.69 down from 2022 | 322 | 56% | — | ||
42Arctic ScienceOACanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.89Q2 | 2.90 0.18 down from 2022 | 150 | 100% | $1,575 | ||
43AtmosphereOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.87Q2 | 3.20 0.38 down from 2022 | 5,227 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
44Quaternary InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.86Q2 | 1.92 0.52 down from 2022 | 1,146 | 41% | $3,400 | ||
45Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.82Q2 | 2.76 0.04 up from 2022 | 282 | 70% | $4,310 | ||
46DendrochronologiaElsevier BV · Germany | 0.82Q3 | 2.75 1.04 down from 2022 | 246 | 44% | $3,390 | ||
47Open QuaternaryOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 0.81Q3 | 1.46 0.25 down from 2022 | 38 | 100% | $490 | ||
48Weather and ForecastingAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 0.81Q3 | 3.38 0.55 down from 2022 | 388 | 52% | — | ||
49BoreasOAWiley · United States | 0.80Q3 | 3.32 0.52 up from 2022 | 173 | 100% | $3,020 | ||
50The HoloceneSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 2.11 0.60 down from 2022 | 394 | 53% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Atmospheric Science highlighted.
- Geophysics145
- Atmospheric Science90
- Paleontology77
- Oceanography50
- Earth-Surface Processes16
- Geology9
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science3
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
17 additional Atmospheric Science journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 90
- Window papers (baseline)
- 61,037 -1.8% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.82 -16.4% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.