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Atmospheric Research
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Atmospheric Research

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 48 583 921 58

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 819
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1130
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 27
SCIMAGO H-index: 148
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.44
Impact Factor: 4.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Atmospheric Research?

The discussions in Atmospheric Research mainly cover the fields of Meteorology, Atmospheric sciences, Climatology, Precipitation and Aerosol. The research on Meteorology tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Radar and Remote sensing. Planetary boundary layer, Atmosphere, Convection and Liquid water content are some topics wherein Atmospheric sciences research discussed in it have an impact.

Some problems in Climatology that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Climate change and Climate model. While Precipitation is the focus of Atmospheric Research, it also provided insights into the studies of Snow and Satellite. The research on Aerosol tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Particle, Particulates, Mineralogy, Environmental chemistry and Air pollution.

Issues in Environmental chemistry were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Sulfate and Chemical composition. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Air pollution, apply to Air quality index as well. The work on Thunderstorm addressed in it expands to the thematically related Severe weather.

  • Meteorology (34.02%)
  • Atmospheric sciences (29.38%)
  • Climatology (27.93%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Line shape and the water vapor continuum (572 citations)
  • New RAMS cloud microphysics parameterization part I: the single-moment scheme (522 citations)
  • State-of-the-art on power line de-icing (425 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Atmospheric Research:

The published papers focus on Meteorology, Climatology, Aerosol, Atmospheric sciences and Precipitation. Many of the studies tackled in the most cited papers connect Meteorology with a similar field of study like Satellite. The journal papers explore issues in Aerosol which can be linked to other research areas like Particle, Mineralogy, Environmental chemistry, Air pollution and Sulfate.

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

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Statistics
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Atmospheric Research mainly tackles studies in Climatology, Atmospheric sciences, Meteorology, Water vapor and Satellite. Topics in Climatology were tackled in line with various other fields like Urbanization, Pollutant emissions, Climate extremes, Extreme climate and Urban climatology. The research on Atmospheric sciences featured in it combines topics in other fields like Moisture, Atmospheric moisture, Humidity and Distribution (number theory).

The concepts on Meteorology presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Random forest and Interpolation. The journal explores topics in Water vapor which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Radiation, Driving factors, Sky and Cloud fraction. Satellite research presented in Atmospheric Research encompasses a variety of subjects, including Coefficient of determination and Precipitation.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Variation of carbon dioxide mole fraction at a typical urban area in the Yangtze River Delta, China (0 citations)
  • The impacts of multi-physics parameterization on forecasting heavy rainfall induced by weak landfalling Typhoon Rumbia (2018) (0 citations)
  • tEvaluation and comparison of precipitation estimates and hydrologic utility of CHIRPS, TRMM 3B42 V7 and PERSIANN-CDR products in various climate regimes (0 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 Atmospheric Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • José Luis Sánchez (53 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yuesi Wang (42 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Junji Cao (34 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Eduardo García-Ortega (31 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Clive Saunders (29 papers) absent 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 Atmospheric Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (568 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 115 less than at the previous edition,
  • Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (264 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • China Meteorological Administration (148 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 46 less than at the previous edition,
  • Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (134 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (96 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 2022 edition, 22.22% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 28.57% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.29% of all publications and 57.14% 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

  • Added value of CMIP6 over CMIP5 models in simulating Indian summer monsoon rainfall

    A. Gusain;S. Ghosh;S. Karmakar

    (2020)
    365 Citations
  • Innovative trend analysis of annual and seasonal rainfall in the Yangtze River Delta, eastern China

    Yuefeng Wang;Youpeng Xu;Hossein Tabari;Jie Wang

    (2020)
    265 Citations
  • Multi-model ensemble predictions of precipitation and temperature using machine learning algorithms

    Kamal Ahmed;Kamal Ahmed;D.A. Sachindra;Shamsuddin Shahid;Zafar Iqbal

    (2020)
    258 Citations
  • Evaluation of CMIP6 GCM rainfall in mainland Southeast Asia

    Zafar Iqbal;Shamsuddin Shahid;Kamal Ahmed;Kamal Ahmed;Tarmizi Ismail

    (2021)
    195 Citations
  • Assessment of CMIP6 in simulating precipitation over arid Central Asia

    Hao Guo;Anming Bao;Tao Chen;Guoxiong Zheng

    (2021)
    156 Citations
  • Inconsistency in historical simulations and future projections of temperature and rainfall: A comparison of CMIP5 and CMIP6 models over Southeast Asia

    Mohammed Magdy Hamed;Mohammed Magdy Hamed;Mohamed Salem Nashwan;Shamsuddin Shahid;Tarmizi bin Ismail

    (2022)
    154 Citations
  • Spatial performance of multiple reanalysis precipitation datasets on the southern slope of central Himalaya

    Yingying Chen;Yingying Chen;Shankar Sharma;Xu Zhou;Kun Yang;Kun Yang

    (2021)
    152 Citations
  • Evaluation of CMIP6 precipitation simulations across different climatic zones: Uncertainty and model intercomparison

    Farhad Yazdandoost;Sogol Moradian;Ardalan Izadi;Amir Aghakouchak

    (2021)
    150 Citations
  • Characteristics of summertime ambient VOCs and their contributions to O3 and SOA formation in a suburban area of Nanjing, China

    Ahsan Mozaffar;Yan-Lin Zhang;Meiyi Fan;Fang Cao

    (2020)
    135 Citations
  • Air quality changes in cities during the COVID-19 lockdown: A critical review.

    Max G. Adam;Phuong T.M. Tran;Phuong T.M. Tran;Rajasekhar Balasubramanian

    (2021)
    125 Citations

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