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Climate Services
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Climate Services

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 239 100 105 21
Ecology and Evolution 427 13 20 9

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 138
Documents by Best Scientists*: 135
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 41
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.198
Impact Factor: 4.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Climate Services?

Climate Services mainly tackles studies in Climate change, Environmental resource management, Climate services, Environmental planning and Agriculture. While Climate change is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Service (business) and Precipitation. It links adjacent topics like Service (business) with Knowledge management.

Aside from research in Environmental resource management, Climate Services also discusses Psychological resilience studies. The journal focuses on Climate services as well as the interrelated topic of Public relations. In addition to Environmental planning research, Climate Services aims to explore topics under Stakeholder and Political economy of climate change.

Agriculture and Weather and climate are closely related fields of research discussed in the journal. The study on Climate model presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Downscaling. Attendees of the journal participated in discussions that delve into both Work (electrical) and Process (engineering).

  • Climate change (42.02%)
  • Environmental resource management (23.94%)
  • Climate services (19.68%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • How representative is the spread of climate projections from the 5 CMIP5 GCMs used in ISI-MIP? (84 citations)
  • What can climate services learn from theory and practice of co-production? (73 citations)
  • Sectoral use of climate information in Europe: A synoptic overview (65 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Climate Services:

The journal papers facilitate discussions on Climate change, Environmental planning, Climate services, Environmental resource management and Climate model. The journal publications tackle studies in Service (business) and the interrelated subject of Knowledge management to gain insights into Climate change. The published papers address concerns in Environmental planning which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Agriculture and Stakeholder.

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

  • Climate change
  • Agriculture
  • The Internet

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Climate Services facilitates discussions on Climate change, Agriculture, Environmental resource management, Climate services and Precipitation. The Climate change study tackling the subject of Downscaling is the focus of it. The Agriculture study presented in Climate Services encompasses related topics like Cropping and Agricultural productivity and also examines its connection to subjects such as Psychological resilience.

The research on Environmental resource management featured in it combines topics in other fields like Snow, Flooding (psychology), Climate model and Index (economics). It focuses on Climate services but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Added value, Decision matrix, Field (geography) and Service provider. It explores topics in Precipitation which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Volatility (finance), Wind speed, Futures contract and Yield (finance).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Pan-European meteorological and snow indicators of climate change impact on ski tourism. (3 citations)
  • Understanding climate services for enhancing resilient agricultural systems in Anglophone West Africa: The case of Ghana (3 citations)
  • Co-production of climate services: A story map for future coastal flooding for the city of Flensburg (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 Services (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chris Hewitt (10 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Carlo Buontempo (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Andrea Damm (6 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Mark A. Liniger (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • José M. Gutiérrez (5 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 Services (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Met Office (18 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Leeds (11 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Finnish Meteorological Institute (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • United States Forest Service (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • MeteoSwiss (8 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as 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, 5.26% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 38.89% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.89% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.44% of all publications and 27.78% 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

  • GCMeval – An interactive tool for evaluation and selection of climate model ensembles

    Kajsa M. Parding;Andreas Dobler;Carol F. McSweeney;Oskar A. Landgren

    (2020)
    92 Citations
  • A CMIP6-based multi-model downscaling ensemble to underpin climate change services in Australia

    Unknown

    (2023)
    87 Citations
  • Pan-European meteorological and snow indicators of climate change impact on ski tourism.

    Samuel Morin;Raphaëlle Samacoïts;Hugues François;Carlo M. Carmagnola

    (2021)
    83 Citations
  • Climate Scenarios for Switzerland CH2018 – Approach and Implications

    (2022)
    55 Citations
  • Understanding the farmers’ choices and adoption of adaptation strategies, and plans to climate change impact in Africa: A systematic review

    (2023)
    55 Citations
  • Opportunities and barriers for using climate information for building resilient agricultural systems in Sudan savannah agro-ecological zone of north-eastern Ghana

    Philip Antwi-Agyei;Andrew J. Dougill;Robert C. Abaidoo

    (2021)
    52 Citations
  • Climate services for managing societal risks and opportunities

    Chris D. Hewitt;Chris D. Hewitt;Roger Stone

    (2021)
    50 Citations
  • CH2018 – National climate scenarios for Switzerland: How to construct consistent multi-model projections from ensembles of opportunity

    Silje Lund Sørland;Andreas M. Fischer;Sven Kotlarski;Hans R. Künsch

    (2020)
    42 Citations
  • A global meta-analysis of climate services and decision-making in agriculture

    Lorna Born;Steven Prager;Julian Ramirez-Villegas;Pablo Imbach;Pablo Imbach

    (2021)
    40 Citations

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