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Climate Research

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Published by: Inter-Research Science

https://www.int-res.com/journals/cr/cr-home/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 502 18 20 7
Environmental Sciences 580 45 39 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 86
Documents by Best Scientists*: 66
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 123
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.476
Impact Factor: 1.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Climate Research?

Climate Research mainly deals with areas of study such as Climatology, Climate change, Precipitation, Atmospheric sciences and Ecology. Some problems in Climatology that were presented in Climate Research overlapped with concepts under Period (geology), Meteorology, Climate model and Downscaling. The studies in Climate change featured incorporate elements of Agriculture, Phenology and Environmental resource management.

Environmental resource management study tackled is connected to the field of Vulnerability. The research on Precipitation discussed in it draws on the closely related field of Hydrology. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Atmospheric sciences, apply to Atmosphere as well.

  • Climatology (52.05%)
  • Climate change (39.34%)
  • Precipitation (21.84%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Advantages of the mean absolute error (MAE) over the root mean square error (RMSE) in assessing average model performance (2120 citations)
  • A high-resolution data set of surface climate over global land areas (1842 citations)
  • Changes in precipitation with climate change (1676 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Climate Research:

The most cited publications primarily tackle Climatology, Climate change, Precipitation, Downscaling and Ecology. The journal articles focus on Climatology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Period (geology), Meteorology, Climate model and Atmospheric sciences. While the most cited articles focused on Climate change, they were also able to explore topics like Environmental resource management, Physical geography and Phenology.

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

  • Ecology
  • Statistics
  • Climate change

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Climatology, Climate change, Physical geography, Ecology and China. Climate Research explores issues in Climatology which can be linked to other research areas like El Niño and Downscaling, Precipitation. The study of Downscaling encompasses disciplines such as Global warming, as well as fields such as Paleoclimatology, all of which overlap with one another.

The featured works in Adaptation strategies, which all belong in the domain if Climate change, also overlaps with concepts under Agricultural engineering. The featured Ecology works encompass concepts such as Ecosystem and Body condition and examines them in conjunction with Reproduction (economics) and Mediation. China research featured in Climate Research incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Sunshine duration and Aeolian processes.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Non-pooled oak ( Quercus spp.) stable isotopes reveal enhanced climate sensitivity compared to ring widths (3 citations)
  • Mean temperature evolution on the Spanish mainland 1916−2015 (3 citations)
  • Climate change and maize production in the Vaal catchment of South Africa : assessment of farmers’ awareness, perceptions and adaptation strategies (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.

The top authors publishing in Climate Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Nils Chr. Stenseth (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Mikhail A. Semenov (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Filippo Giorgi (16 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Miroslav Trnka (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Tim H. Sparks (15 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 Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Max Planck Society (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Spanish National Research Council (18 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Pennsylvania State University (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (16 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (15 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, 26.42% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 10.26% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 15.38% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 23.08% of all publications and 51.28% 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

  • Role of changing land use and land cover (LULC) on the 2018 megafloods over Kerala, India

    (2022)
    14 Citations
  • The future of paleoclimate

    Jan Esper;Jan Esper;Ulf Büntgen

    (2021)
    14 Citations
  • Substantial increase in yield predicted by wheat ideotypes for Europe under future climate.

    Nimai Senapati;Simon Griffiths;Malcolm Hawkesford;Peter R. Shewry

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Food web approach for managing Arctic wildlife populations in an era of rapid environmental change

    Jarad Pope Mellard;John-André Henden;Åshild Ønvik Pedersen;Filippo Marolla

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • Challenges and opportunities when implementing strategic foresight: lessons learned when engaging stakeholders in climate-ecological research

    S. Hamel;R. A. Ims;N. G. Yoccoz

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • Observed and expected changes in wildfire-conducive weather and fire events in peri-urban zones and key nature reserves of the Czech Republic

    M. Trnka;J. Balek;M. Možný;E. Cienciala

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Atmospheric characteristics favorable for the development of mesoscale convective complexes in southern Brazil

    Flávia D. S. Moraes;Francisco E. Aquino;Thomas L. Mote;Joshua D. Durkee

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Mean temperature evolution on the Spanish mainland 1916−2015

    Leire Sandonis;José Carlos González-Hidalgo;Dhais Peña-Angulo;Santiago Beguería

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Non-pooled oak ( Quercus spp.) stable isotopes reveal enhanced climate sensitivity compared to ring widths

    Michal Rybníček;Michal Rybníček;Tomáš Kolář;Tomáš Kolář;Alexander Ač;Jan Balek

    (2021)
    9 Citations

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