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Advances in Climate Change Research

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 250 70 105 21

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 144
Documents by Best Scientists*: 206
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 51
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.5
Impact Factor: 5.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Advances in Climate Change Research?

Climate change, Climatology, Global warming, Precipitation and Greenhouse gas are the subjects of interest in the journal. Topics in Climate change were tackled in line with various other fields like Environmental planning, Environmental resource management, Sustainable development, Physical geography and Water resources. Research on Environmental resource management addressed in Advances in Climate Change Research frequently intersections with the field of Political economy of climate change.

Issues in Climatology were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Climate model, Coupled model intercomparison project, Atmospheric sciences, Mean radiant temperature and Plateau. The Precipitation study tackled is a key component of adjacent topics in the area of Drainage basin. In it, researchers investigate the Drainage basin study as part of research in the field of Hydrology.

  • Climate change (34.91%)
  • Climatology (26.31%)
  • Global warming (15.35%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • National Assessment Report of Climate Change (I): Climate change in China and its future trend (204 citations)
  • Climate change: New dimensions in disaster risk, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience (175 citations)
  • Introduction of CMIP5 Experiments Carried out with the Climate System Models of Beijing Climate Center (75 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Advances in Climate Change Research:

The most cited publications primarily focus on research topics in Climate change, Climatology, Precipitation, Global warming and Plateau. The most cited publications address concerns in Climate change which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Corporate governance, Environmental resource management and Water resources. The published articles explore Climatology concepts, specifically Monsoon but expand to research in Hindu kush.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Climate change
  • Global warming
  • Agriculture

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The topics of Climate change, Climatology, Physical geography, Precipitation and Global warming are the focal point of discussions in the journal. The journal focused on works that combine different research areas such as Climate change and Context (language use). Topics in Climatology explored in Advances in Climate Change Research were investigated in conjunction with research in Downscaling, Climate model, Coupled model intercomparison project and Arctic.

It addresses concerns in Physical geography which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Elevation, Permafrost, Drainage basin, Vegetation and Population growth. The work on Precipitation tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Arid, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and Growing season. Most of the works presented in the journal deals with Global warming but it intersects with the subject of Greenhouse gas.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Impacts of climate-induced permafrost degradation on vegetation: A review (21 citations)
  • Permafrost change in Northeast China in the 1950s–2010s (11 citations)
  • Achieving Paris Agreement temperature goals requires carbon neutrality by middle century with far-reaching transitions in the whole society (8 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Advances in Climate Change Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Guoyu Ren (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Luo Yong (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Deliang Chen (8 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Cunde Xiao (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Zhenyu Han (7 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Advances in Climate Change Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (115 papers) published 32 papers at the last edition, 19 more than at the previous edition,
  • China Meteorological Administration (96 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 8 more than at the previous edition,
  • Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (43 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Tsinghua University (42 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • Beijing Normal University (22 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 31.82% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 77.33% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 2.67% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 8.00% of all publications and 12.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Achieving Paris Agreement temperature goals requires carbon neutrality by middle century with far-reaching transitions in the whole society

    Meng-Tian Huang;Pan-Mao Zhai

    (2021)
    442 Citations
  • Will China achieve its 2060 carbon neutral commitment from the provincial perspective?

    Unknown

    (2022)
    400 Citations
  • New perspectives on ‘warming-wetting’ trend in Xinjiang, China

    Qian Wang;Pan-Mao Zhai;Da-He Qin

    (2020)
    158 Citations
  • Evaluation of CMIP6 HighResMIP models in simulating precipitation over Central Asia

    (2021)
    80 Citations
  • Saltwater intrusion into groundwater systems in the Mekong Delta and links to global change

    Han Xiao;Yin Tang;Haiming Li;Lu Zhang

    (2021)
    51 Citations
  • Inferring future warming in the Arctic from the observed global warming trend and CMIP6 simulations

    (2021)
    49 Citations
  • Change in drought conditions and its impacts on vegetation growth over the Tibetan Plateau

    Chen-Peng Wang;Meng-Tian Huang;Pan-Mao Zhai

    (2021)
    49 Citations
  • Climate change projection over the Tibetan Plateau based on a set of RCM simulations

    Yuan-Hai Fu;Xue-Jie Gao;Xue-Jie Gao;Ying-Mo Zhu;Dong Guo

    (2021)
    47 Citations
  • Data-driven spatiotemporal projections of shallow permafrost based on CMIP6 across the Qinghai‒Tibet Plateau at 1 km2 scale

    Guo-An Yin;Fu-Jun Niu;Zhan-Ju Lin;Jing Luo

    (2021)
    37 Citations
  • Permafrost dynamics and their hydrologic impacts over the Russian Arctic drainage basin

    Kang Wang;Tingjun Zhang;Daqing Yang

    (2021)
    37 Citations

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