Climate of the Past

Top Research Topics at Climate of The Past?

Climate of The Past is organized to address concerns in the fields of Climatology, Oceanography, Holocene, Glacial period and Ice core. Climate of The Past facilitates discussions on Climatology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Climate change, Climate model, Precipitation and Ice sheet. In addition to Climate model research, Climate of The Past aims to explore topics under Atmospheric sciences and Paleoclimatology.

While Precipitation is the focus of Climate of The Past, it also provided insights into the studies of Monsoon and Period (geology). Climate of The Past addresses concerns in the field of Ice sheet by exploring it in line with topics in Arctic ice pack which intersect with Ice stream subjects. Most of the Oceanography studies addressed also intersect with δ18O.

Climate of The Past focuses on Holocene but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Vegetation, Mediterranean climate and Physical geography. The journal focuses on Glacial period research which is adjacent to topics in Northern Hemisphere. Ice core research featured in Climate of The Past incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Snow and Chronology.

• Climatology (56.78%)
• Oceanography (24.53%)
• Holocene (20.33%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• Results of PMIP2 coupled simulations of the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum - Part 1: experiments and large-scale features (978 citations)
• A 60 000 year Greenland stratigraphic ice core chronology (774 citations)
• The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core (345 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Climate of The Past:

The published articles investigate studies in Climatology, Oceanography, Holocene, Ice core and Glacial period. The works on Climatology tackled in the journal publications bring together disciplines like Climate change, Climate model, Paleoclimatology and Ice sheet. The most cited papers deal with Oceanography in conjunction with Precipitation and similar fields in Northern Hemisphere.

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 Climate of The Past (based on the number of publications) are:

• Gerrit Lohmann (44 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
• Ayako Abe-Ouchi (42 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
• Valérie Masson-Delmotte (37 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Amaelle Landais (32 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• Daniel J. Lunt (31 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 2 more 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Climate of The Past (based on the number of publications) are:

• Centre national de la recherche scientifique (190 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition,
• Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (140 papers) published 12 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
• University of Bern (118 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
• Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (105 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
• University of Bremen (102 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 5 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, 6.48% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 56.44% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.86% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.83% of all publications and 12.87% 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.