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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 178 120 158 26

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 252
Documents by Best Scientists*: 267
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 10
SCIMAGO H-index: 53
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.788
Impact Factor: 3.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Climate?

The concepts of Climate change, Climatology, Precipitation, Atmospheric sciences and Agriculture are tackled in the journal. Climate change research presented is mostly focused on the subject of Global warming. The work on Climatology tackled in it brings together disciplines like Meteorology, Climate model, Downscaling and Trend analysis.

Precipitation research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Hydrology, Drainage basin and Water resources. The works on Hydrology deal in particular with Surface runoff. While Agriculture is the focus of Climate, it also provided insights into the studies of Natural resource economics and Socioeconomics.

  • Climate change (42.91%)
  • Climatology (28.98%)
  • Precipitation (21.20%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Factors affecting farmers' adaptation strategies to environmental degradation and climate change effects: A farm level study in bangladesh (111 citations)
  • Rising Precipitation Extremes across Nepal (105 citations)
  • Climate Change and Variability in Ghana: Stocktaking (93 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Climate:

The journal publications primarily focus on research topics in Climatology, Climate change, Precipitation, Global warming and Hydrology. While work presented in the journal papers provide substantial information on Climatology, it also covers topics in Climate model, Downscaling, Seasonality and Water resources. In addition to Climate change research, the journal publications aim to explore topics under Environmental planning, Agriculture, Environmental resource management, Flood myth and Greenhouse gas.

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

  • Ecology
  • Climate change
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Climate was organized to reinforce research efforts on Climate change, Climatology, Precipitation, Global warming and Agriculture. While work presented in Climate provided substantial information on Climate change, it also covered topics in Physical geography, Vulnerability and Environmental planning. The Climatology works featured in Climate incorporate elements from Index (economics), Spatial distribution and Extreme value theory.

The studies in Precipitation featured incorporate elements of Drainage basin and Atmospheric sciences. Climate facilitates discussions in Effects of global warming as part of the larger field of Global warming, however, it also tackles fields such as HVAC. The study on Agriculture presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Trend analysis.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Global Surface Temperature: A New Insight (14 citations)
  • A Long-Term Spatiotemporal Analysis of Vegetation Greenness over the Himalayan Region Using Google Earth Engine (6 citations)
  • The Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Urban Heat Island Intensity: Implications for East Africa’s Urban Development (5 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 Climate (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Nir Y. Krakauer (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Mattheos Santamouris (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Bernd Diekkrüger (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michele Zinzi (6 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • Bruce A. McCarl (6 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 Climate (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Kyoto University (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Goddard Space Flight Center (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Rhode Island (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (3 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Max Planck Society (3 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, 93.20% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 10.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 20.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 70.00% 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

  • The Impacts of Urbanisation and Climate Change on the Urban Thermal Environment in Africa

    Unknown

    (2022)
    136 Citations
  • A Long-Term Spatiotemporal Analysis of Vegetation Greenness over the Himalayan Region Using Google Earth Engine

    Nikul Kumari;Ankur Srivastava;Umesh Chandra Dumka

    (2021)
    105 Citations
  • Impact of Urbanization on Urban Heat Island Intensity in Major Districts of Bangladesh Using Remote Sensing and Geo-Spatial Tools

    (2022)
    91 Citations
  • Global Surface Temperature: A New Insight

    Mohammad Valipour;Sayed M. Bateni;Changhyun Jun

    (2021)
    74 Citations
  • Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Wind Energy

    Rebecca J. Barthelmie;Sara C. Pryor

    (2021)
    68 Citations
  • Impact of Dietary Meat and Animal Products on GHG Footprints: The UK and the US

    (2022)
    53 Citations
  • On Tanzania’s Precipitation Climatology, Variability, and Future Projection

    Krishna Borhara;Binod Pokharel;Brennan Bean;Liping Deng

    (2020)
    52 Citations
  • Urban Overheating and Cooling Potential in Australia: An Evidence-Based Review

    Komali Yenneti;Lan Ding;Deo Prasad;Giulia Ulpiani

    (2020)
    50 Citations
  • Drought Early Warning in Agri-Food Systems

    Maarten van Ginkel;Chandrashekhar Biradar

    (2021)
    47 Citations
  • What Do Global Climate Models Tell Us about Future Arctic Sea Ice Coverage Changes?

    (2020)
    45 Citations

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