Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Atmospheric Science journal rankings 2025
84 ranked journals · Subfield in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Atmospheric Science has 84 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.77, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.18. The three highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are Nature Geoscience, Earth system science data, and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment: each is likely ranked within the top 3.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. 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 2022–2024, the window the 2025 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)
84 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | 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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #2 of 84Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.60Q1 | 13.71 0.98 up from 2024 | 691 | 46% | $12,690 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #3 of 84Earth system science dataOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 3.94Q1 | 13.18 0.18 up from 2024 | 794 | 100% | $1,509 | ||
Rank 3; likely between #2 and #3 of 84Nature Reviews Earth & EnvironmentNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.53Q1 | 33.41 0.52 down from 2024 | 352 | 29% | — | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 4; likely between #4 and #13 of 84Geoscientific model developmentOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.67Q1 | 4.98 1.25 down from 2024 | 1,139 | 100% | $1,725 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 5; likely between #4 and #10 of 84Elementa Science of the AnthropoceneOABioOne · United States | 1.67Q1 | 4.15 2.35 down from 2024 | 304 | 100% | $1,450 | ||
Rank 6; likely between #4 and #15 of 84Quaternary Science AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 3.54 0.25 up from 2024 | 190 | 100% | $1,760 | ||
Rank 7; likely between #4 and #14 of 84Advances in Climate Change ResearchOAKeAi · China | 1.55Q1 | 5.49 0.34 up from 2024 | 270 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
Rank 8; likely between #5 and #11 of 84Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.53Q1 | 5.88 0.82 down from 2024 | 2,270 | 100% | $1,725 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 9; likely between #5 and #13 of 84Global and Planetary ChangeElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.51Q1 | 4.86 0.48 up from 2024 | 676 | 27% | $3,120 | ||
Rank 10; likely between #7 and #16 of 84Journal of Geophysical Research Earth SurfaceWiley · United States | 1.43Q1 | 3.92 0.90 down from 2024 | 504 | 72% | $4,070 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 11; likely between #4 and #23 of 84Tropical Cyclone Research and ReviewOAKeAi | 1.43Q1 | 5.24 0.49 up from 2024 | 67 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 12; likely between #4 and #27 of 84Progress in Physical Geography Earth and EnvironmentSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.36Q1 | 3.95 0.53 down from 2024 | 118 | 37% | $3,650 | ||
Rank 13; likely between #10 and #19 of 84Cold Regions Science and TechnologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.33Q1 | 4.89 0.73 up from 2024 | 671 | 22% | $2,960 | ||
Rank 14; likely between #11 and #20 of 84GeomorphologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.31Q1 | 3.34 0.51 down from 2024 | 913 | 41% | $3,400 | ||
Rank 15; likely between #11 and #20 of 84The cryosphereOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.31Q1 | 4.79 0.92 down from 2024 | 845 | 100% | $1,574 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 16; likely between #12 and #20 of 84Quaternary Science ReviewsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.29Q1 | 3.41 0.47 down from 2024 | 1,210 | 52% | $3,920 | ||
Rank 17; likely between #7 and #25 of 84Permafrost and Periglacial ProcessesWiley · United Kingdom | 1.28Q1 | 4.66 0.36 up from 2024 | 111 | 53% | $4,480 | ||
Rank 18; likely between #10 and #22 of 84Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 1.28Q1 | 3.09 0.23 down from 2024 | 929 | 57% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 19; likely between #7 and #24 of 84ACS ES&T AirAmerican Chemical Society | 1.27Q1 | 4.51 1.49 down from 2024 | 157 | 50% | $4,500 | ||
Rank 20; likely between #10 and #29 of 84Artificial Intelligence for the Earth SystemsAmerican Meteorological Society | 1.19Q1 | 3.83 0.35 down from 2024 | 157 | 34% | — | ||
Rank 21; likely between #17 and #22 of 84Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.18Q1 | 4.26 0.55 down from 2024 | 1,539 | 30% | $2,910 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 22; likely between #21 and #27 of 84Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States | 1.05Q2 | 3.81 0.84 down from 2024 | 2,322 | 60% | $4,070 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 23; likely between #20 and #32 of 84Climate of the pastOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 1.03Q2 | 3.71 0.56 down from 2024 | 388 | 100% | $1,725 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 24; likely between #18 and #43 of 84GeoarchaeologyWiley · United States | 0.99Q2 | 1.89 0.25 up from 2024 | 113 | 61% | $3,760 | ||
Rank 25; likely between #23 and #31 of 84Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology PalaeoecologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.99Q2 | 2.94 0.13 up from 2024 | 1,288 | 29% | $3,210 | ||
Rank 26; likely between #19 and #41 of 84Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological SocietyWiley · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 3.45 0.08 up from 2024 | 645 | 65% | $4,320 | ||
Rank 27; likely between #17 and #49 of 84QuaternaryOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.96Q2 | 1.92 0.44 down from 2024 | 171 | 100% | $1,930 | ||
Rank 28; likely between #23 and #37 of 84Environmental Science AtmospheresOARoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 3.25 1.00 down from 2024 | 343 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 29; likely between #24 and #39 of 84Paleoceanography and PaleoclimatologyWiley · United States | 0.92Q2 | 3.00 0.92 down from 2024 | 311 | 63% | $4,070 | ||
Rank 30; likely between #10 and #64 of 84Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser IIOAThe Meteorological Society of Japan · Japan | 0.88Q2 | 3.36 1.07 up from 2024 | 100 | 100% | $1,657 | ||
Rank 31; likely between #26 and #44 of 84Journal of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 2.64 1.28 down from 2024 | 331 | 100% | $2,600 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 32; likely between #26 and #44 of 84Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 0.87Q2 | 2.92 0.30 down from 2024 | 341 | 22% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 33; likely between #15 and #62 of 84Journal of Applied VolcanologyOABioMed Central · Germany | 0.87Q2 | 2.73 0.75 down from 2024 | 37 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
Rank 34; likely between #22 and #56 of 84Arctic ScienceOACanadian Science Publishing · Canada | 0.86Q2 | 2.14 1.51 down from 2024 | 173 | 100% | $1,575 | ||
Rank 35; likely between #29 and #50 of 84Quaternary InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.82Q2 | 2.01 0.04 up from 2024 | 532 | 31% | $3,400 | ||
Rank 36; likely between #30 and #48 of 84ACS Earth and Space ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 0.82Q2 | 2.92 0.63 down from 2024 | 700 | 42% | $4,500 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 37; likely between #24 and #57 of 84GeochronologyOAGermany | 0.82Q2 | 3.10 0.18 up from 2024 | 109 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 38; likely between #31 and #49 of 84Monthly Weather ReviewAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 0.81Q2 | 2.64 0.52 down from 2024 | 455 | 21% | — | ||
Rank 39; likely between #24 and #61 of 84Nonlinear processes in geophysicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.79Q2 | 2.65 0.49 down from 2024 | 94 | 100% | $1,412 | ||
Rank 40; likely between #36 and #47 of 84AtmosphereOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.79Q2 | 2.92 0.04 up from 2024 | 5,447 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
Rank 41; likely between #23 and #65 of 84Journal of Atmospheric ChemistrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.78Q2 | 3.17 1.08 up from 2024 | 33 | 19% | $4,090 | ||
Rank 42; likely between #29 and #56 of 84Journal of Quaternary ScienceWiley · United Kingdom | 0.78Q2 | 1.90 0.76 down from 2024 | 255 | 68% | $4,310 | ||
Rank 43; likely between #27 and #59 of 84Research in Cold and Arid RegionsOAPublisher not listed | 0.77Q3 | 2.60 0.19 up from 2024 | 97 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 44; likely between #32 and #53 of 84Quaternary GeochronologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.77Q3 | 2.34 0.58 down from 2024 | 256 | 60% | $3,350 | ||
Rank 45; likely between #19 and #68 of 84Journal of MicropalaeontologyOACopernicus Publications · United Kingdom | 0.77Q3 | 1.68 0.19 down from 2024 | 47 | 100% | $841 | ||
Rank 46; likely between #23 and #63 of 84BoreasOAWiley · United States | 0.77Q3 | 2.14 1.04 down from 2024 | 99 | 100% | $3,020 | ||
Rank 47; likely between #24 and #62 of 84Asian Journal of Atmospheric EnvironmentOASpringer Nature · South Korea | 0.77Q3 | 3.30 1.00 up from 2024 | 79 | 100% | $2,190 | ||
Rank 48; likely between #27 and #62 of 84ATMOSPHERE-OCEANTaylor & Francis · Canada | 0.76Q3 | 1.42 1.08 down from 2024 | 71 | 61% | — | ||
Rank 49; likely between #27 and #59 of 84Weather and ForecastingAmerican Meteorological Society · United States | 0.76Q3 | 2.24 1.29 down from 2024 | 391 | 30% | — | ||
Rank 50; likely between #24 and #67 of 84Scientific DrillingOACopernicus Publications · Germany | 0.75Q3 | 1.80 1.43 down from 2024 | 37 | 100% | — |
2 Atmospheric Science journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1National Remote Sensing BulletinScience Press · China+68% vs groupOJR 0.25 → 0.38range +36% to +108%
- 2Nature Reviews Earth & EnvironmentNature Portfolio · United Kingdom+44% vs groupOJR 2.74 → 3.53range +9.2% to +90%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -54% to +116% (ratio scale)
15 Atmospheric Science journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1Aerosol Science and TechnologyTaylor & Francis · United States-50% vs groupOJR 1.41 → 0.63range -62% to -35%
- 2Journal of Geophysical Research AtmospheresAmerican Geophysical Union · United States-37% vs groupOJR 1.86 → 1.05range -42% to -32%
- 3Atmospheric chemistry and physicsOACopernicus Publications · Germany-36% vs groupOJR 2.68 → 1.53range -41% to -31%
- 4The cryosphereOACopernicus Publications · Germany-28% vs groupOJR 2.04 → 1.31range -37% to -19%
- 5SOLAOAThe Meteorological Society of Japan · Japan-39% vs groupOJR 0.52 → 0.28range -57% to -14%
- 6Bulletin of the American Meteorological SocietyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States-29% vs groupOJR 2.01 → 1.28range -43% to -13%
- 7Climate of the pastOACopernicus Publications · Germany-27% vs groupOJR 1.58 → 1.03range -39% to -13%
- 8Journal of Geophysical Research Earth SurfaceWiley · United States-22% vs groupOJR 2.05 → 1.43range -33% to -9.9%
- 9Journal of HydrometeorologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States-23% vs groupOJR 1.26 → 0.87range -34% to -9.6%
- 10Journal of Applied Meteorology and ClimatologyAmerican Meteorological Society · United States-26% vs groupOJR 1.05 → 0.70range -40% to -9.5%
- 11Journal of GlaciologyOACambridge University Press · United Kingdom-25% vs groupOJR 1.30 → 0.88range -38% to -8.5%
- 12Geoscientific model developmentOACopernicus Publications · Germany-30% vs groupOJR 2.66 → 1.67range -47% to -7.9%
- 13Atmospheric EnvironmentElsevier BV · United Kingdom-15% vs groupOJR 1.55 → 1.18range -22% to -7.5%
- 14ACS Earth and Space ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society · United States-18% vs groupOJR 1.11 → 0.82range -29% to -5.8%
- 15Nature GeoscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom-17% vs groupOJR 6.18 → 4.60range -30% to -1.6%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -63% to +173% (ratio scale)
Subfields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with Atmospheric Science highlighted.
- Geophysics144
- Atmospheric Science84
- Paleontology77
- Oceanography50
- Earth-Surface Processes16
- Geology9
- Geochemistry and Petrology6
- Space and Planetary Science3
Journals
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% 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 2022–2024, 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: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 84
- Window papers (baseline)
- 60,382 -1.4% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.77 -8.2% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 2
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.