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Atmosfera
H-index 6

Atmosfera

0187-6236

Published by: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

https://www.revistascca.unam.mx/atm/index.php/atm

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 633 21 24 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 28
Documents by Best Scientists*: 28
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 41
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.366
Impact Factor: 1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Atmosfera?

The foci of Atmosfera are Climatology, Humanities, Meteorology, Precipitation and Atmospheric sciences. The journal explores research in Climatology and the adjacent study of Climate change. It aims to investigate interdisciplinary topics such as Humanities and Mexico city.

Wind speed and Air quality index are all topics related to Meteorology research discussed. It focuses on Atmospheric sciences but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Atmosphere, Ozone and Aerosol.

  • Climatology (27.61%)
  • Humanities (25.95%)
  • Meteorology (18.19%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Mexican drought: an observational modeling and tree ring study of variability and climate change (138 citations)
  • Changes in the rainfall regime along the extratropical west coast of South America (Chile): 30-43º S (115 citations)
  • Trends and jumps in the annual precipitation in South America, south of the 15°S (100 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Atmosfera:

The journal papers mostly deal with topics like Climatology, Humanities, Meteorology, Precipitation and Hydrology. The most cited articles explore research in Climatology and the adjacent study of Subtropics. In addition to Meteorology research, the most cited articles aim to explore topics under Distribution (mathematics), Eddy covariance, Atmospheric sciences and Spatial variability.

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

  • Ecology
  • Statistics
  • Meteorology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Precipitation, Climatology, Metropolitan area, Atmospheric sciences and Climate change are among the topics commonly tackled in Atmosfera. The Precipitation works featured in it incorporate elements from Storm, Convection, Atmospheric dust, Calibration (statistics) and Evapotranspiration. The research topics discussed in Atmosfera include Climatology as well as Period (geology).

The studies on Metropolitan area discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Air pollution and Pollutant. Atmosfera holds forums on Atmospheric sciences that merges themes from other disciplines such as Nitrogen dioxide, Wind speed, Relative humidity, Atmospheric pollutants and Cloud optical depth. The concepts on Climate change presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Shore, Environmental protection and Air conditioning.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The Negative Impact of Biomass Burning and the Orinoco Low-Level Jet on the Air Quality of the Orinoco River Basin (3 citations)
  • Understanding convective storms in a tropical, high-altitude location with in-situ meteorological observations and GPS-derived water vapor (1 citations)
  • Characterization of particulate matter in iron ore mining region of Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil (1 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 Atmosfera (based on the number of publications) are:

  • A. Wiin Nielsen (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yuri N. Skiba (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Julian Adem (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Graciela B. Raga (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Adalberto Tejeda Martínez (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last 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 Atmosfera (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Autonomous University of Mexico (182 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Universidad Veracruzana (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Buenos Aires (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Salamanca (12 papers) absent at the last 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, 20.45% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 34.29% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 17.14% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 5.71% of all publications and 42.86% 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

  • CO2 variability in the Mexico City region from in situ measurements at an urban and a background site

    Eugenia González del Castillo;Noémie Taquet;Alejandro Bezanilla;Wolfgang Stremme

    (2020)
    9 Citations
  • Long-term measurements of aerosol optical properties and radiative forcing (2011-2017) over Central Amazonia

    Rafael da Silva Palácios;Paulo Eduardo Artaxo;Glauber Guimarães Cirino;Valeria Nakale

    (2020)
    8 Citations
  • Research on the usability of different machine learning methods in visibility forecasting

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • A rare winter thunderstorm event near Hong Kong

    Pak Wai Chan;Kai Kwong Hon;Qiusheng Li

    (2020)
    7 Citations
  • Wind profile analysis for selected tropical cyclones over the South China Sea based on dropsonde measurements

    Pak Wai Chan;K.K. Hon;Junyi He;Q.S. Li

    (2020)
    7 Citations
  • Evapotranspiration flux partitioning at a multi-species shrubland with stable isotopes of soil, plant, and atmosphere water pools

    Tonantzin Tarin;Enrico A. Yepez;Jaime Garatuza-Payan;Julio C. Rodriguez

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Changes to Tropical Eastern North Pacific Intraseasonal Variability under Global Warming – Implications for Tropical Cyclogenesis

    Hien X. Bui;Eric D. Maloney

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • Statistical analysis of building-induced turbulence at an airport

    Pak Wai Chan;K.K. Hon;Philipp Lux;Keith Ngan

    (2020)
    5 Citations
  • The UNAM-Droplet Freezing Assay: An Evaluation of the Ice Nucleating Capacity of the Sea-Surface Microlayer and Surface Mixed Layer in Tropical and Subpolar Waters

    Luis Antonio Ladino;Javier Juárez-Pérez;Zyanya Ramírez-Díaz;Lisa A. Miller

    (2020)
    5 Citations
  • The UNAM-Droplet Freezing Assay: An Evaluation of the Ice Nucleating Capacity of the Sea-Surface Microlayer and Surface Mixed Layer in Tropical and Subpolar Waters (edited by Dr. Michel Grutter)

    Luis Antonio Ladino;Javier Juarez-Perez;Zyanya Ramirez-Diaz;Lisa A. Miller

    (2020)
    3 Citations

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