Atmospheric Science Letters

Top Research Topics at Atmospheric Science Letters?

The journal is mainly concerned with subjects like Climatology, Atmospheric sciences, Meteorology, Precipitation and Monsoon. The work on Climatology tackled in Atmospheric Science Letters brings together disciplines like Climate change and Climate model. While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Atmospheric sciences, it also covered topics in Atmosphere, Convection and Aerosol.

Atmospheric Science Letters explores issues in Meteorology which can be linked to other research areas like Radar and Remote sensing. The journal features research on Sea surface temperature in an attempt to reinforce studies in the field of Oceanography.

• Climatology (59.75%)
• Atmospheric sciences (28.07%)
• Meteorology (24.89%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Extending North Atlantic Oscillation reconstructions back to 1500 (393 citations)
• The next generation of NWP: explicit forecasts of convection using the weather research and forecasting (WRF) model (349 citations)
• Development of a high resolution daily gridded temperature data set (1969–2005) for the Indian region (308 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Atmospheric Science Letters:

The most cited publications explore disciplines such as Climatology, Meteorology, Atmospheric sciences, Precipitation and Climate change. The published articles address concerns in Climatology which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Oceanography and Climate model. The journal publications explore research in Atmospheric sciences alongside concepts in Aerosol and other areas of study in Satellite.

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

• Statistics
• Meteorology
• Climate change

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses on Climatology, Atmospheric sciences, Precipitation, Meteorology and Atmosphere. Some problems in Climatology that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Vortex and Predictability. The Diurnal temperature variation studies presented in the journal fall under the field of Atmospheric sciences, but it also has connections to other fields such as Flux.

Aside from investigating topics in Downscaling under Precipitation, the journal also explores concepts in Clausius–Clapeyron relation. It explores issues in Meteorology which can be linked to other research areas like Representation (mathematics) and Mode (statistics). Sea surface temperature and Monsoon are some topics wherein Teleconnection research discussed in Atmospheric Science Letters have an impact.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Forecast Impact of FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 GNSS Radio Occultation Measurements (6 citations)
• Roles of the Tibetan Plateau vortices in the record Meiyu rainfall in 2020 (6 citations)
• Water availability trends across water management zones in Uganda (3 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.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Atmospheric Science Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

• Dudley E. Shallcross (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Jan Polcher (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Douglas J. Parker (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Wen Chen (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Sebastian Reich (8 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Atmospheric Science Letters (based on the number of publications) are:

• Chinese Academy of Sciences (116 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
• Met Office (74 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
• Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (55 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
• University of Reading (47 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
• China Meteorological Administration (40 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 1 more 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, 2.04% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 43.75% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.33% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.58% of all publications and 33.33% 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.