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Atmosphere
H-index 56

Atmosphere

2073-4433

Published by: MDPI

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 66 1122 1578 49

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1990
Documents by Best Scientists*: 2480
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 66
SCIMAGO H-index: 76
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.633
Impact Factor: 2.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Atmosphere?

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Atmospheric sciences, Climatology, Meteorology, Precipitation and Air quality index. Issues in Atmospheric sciences were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Wind speed, Atmosphere, Ozone and Aerosol. While work presented in Atmosphere provided substantial information on Climatology, it also covered topics in Climate change, Climate model and Peninsula.

Global warming is a focus of the Climate change works in the journal. Meteorology studies presented include Weather Research and Forecasting Model and Data assimilation. Topics in Air quality index were tackled in line with various other fields like Air pollution, Particulates and Pollutant.

The study on Air pollution presented in it intersects with subjects under the field of Pollution. Particulates and Environmental chemistry are closely related fields of research discussed in Atmosphere.

  • Atmospheric sciences (23.18%)
  • Climatology (22.46%)
  • Meteorology (15.41%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The distinction between canopy and boundary‐layer urban heat islands (362 citations)
  • The Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Monthly Analysis (New Version 2.3) and a Review of 2017 Global Precipitation (206 citations)
  • Assessing the Transferability of the Regional Climate Model REMO to Different COordinated Regional Climate Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX) Regions (138 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Atmosphere:

The most cited papers are organized to reinforce research efforts on Climatology, Meteorology, Atmospheric sciences, Air quality index and Aerosol. The most cited papers explore topics in Climatology which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Climate change, Climate model, Precipitation and Evapotranspiration. Issues in Atmospheric sciences were discussed in the journal publications, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Atmosphere and China.

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 Atmosphere (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Yeon-Hee Kim (32 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Kyung-On Boo (27 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Young-Hwa Byun (23 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Baek-Jo Kim (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Andreas Matzarakis (20 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 2 less 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 Atmosphere (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Max Planck Society (34 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Yonsei University (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • United States Environmental Protection Agency (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Seoul National University (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • McGill University (14 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, 95.06% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 22.73% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 3.03% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.67% of all publications and 57.58% 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

  • Does air pollution influence COVID-19 outbreaks?

    Daniele Contini;Francesca Costabile

    (2020)
    280 Citations
  • NOx emission reduction and recovery during COVID-19 in East China

    Ruixiong Zhang;Yuzhong Zhang;Haipeng Lin;Xu Feng

    (2020)
    261 Citations
  • Comparison of Reanalysis and Observational Precipitation Datasets Including ERA5 and WFDE5

    Birgit Hassler;Axel Lauer

    (2021)
    170 Citations
  • Field Evaluation of Low-Cost PM Sensors (Purple Air PA-II) Under Variable Urban Air Quality Conditions, in Greece

    Iasonas Stavroulas;Georgios Grivas;Panagiotis Michalopoulos;Eleni Liakakou

    (2020)
    155 Citations
  • ECLand: The ECMWF Land Surface Modelling System

    Souhail Boussetta;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Gabriele Arduini;Emanuel Dutra

    (2021)
    119 Citations
  • Evaluation of Meteorological Drought and Flood Scenarios over Kenya, East Africa

    Brian Ayugi;Guirong Tan;Rouyun Niu;Zeyao Dong

    (2020)
    119 Citations
  • Meteorological Analysis of the 2021 Extreme Wildfires in Greece: Lessons Learned and Implications for Early Warning of the Potential for Pyroconvection

    Unknown

    (2022)
    117 Citations
  • Overview of Observed Clausius-Clapeyron Scaling of Extreme Precipitation in Midlatitudes

    (2020)
    113 Citations
  • The Role of Fossil Fuel Combustion Metals in PM2.5 Air Pollution Health Associations

    Polina Maciejczyk;Lung-Chi Chen;George Thurston

    (2021)
    92 Citations
  • Quantification of Atmospheric Ammonia Concentrations: A Review of Its Measurement and Modeling

    Arshad Arjunan Nair;Fangqun Yu

    (2020)
    85 Citations

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