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Climatic Change
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Climatic Change

0165-0009

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/10584

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Ecology and Evolution 77 137 151 32
Environmental Sciences 87 319 356 41

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 705
Documents by Best Scientists*: 623
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 27
SCIMAGO H-index: 228
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.57
Impact Factor: 4.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Climatic Change?

The primary areas of discussion in Climatic Change are Climate change, Climatology, Global warming, Precipitation and Environmental resource management. The works on Climate change deal in particular with Climate model. The study on Climate model presented is investigated in conjunction with research in Downscaling.

The Climatology works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Period (geology), Meteorology, Atmospheric sciences and Global change. Precipitation research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Hydrology and Physical geography. It facilitates discussions on Environmental resource management that incorporate concepts from other fields like Political economy of climate change and Vulnerability.

  • Climate change (54.50%)
  • Climatology (29.15%)
  • Global warming (14.89%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The representative concentration pathways: an overview (4304 citations)
  • The RCP greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions from 1765 to 2300 (2291 citations)
  • OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE OF RECENT CHANGE IN THE NORTHERN HIGH-LATITUDE ENVIRONMENT (1751 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Climatic Change:

The journal publications are organized to address concerns in the fields of Climate change, Climatology, Global warming, Precipitation and Climate model. The studies on Climate change discussed at the most cited articles can also contribute to research in the domains of Hydrology, Greenhouse gas, Environmental resource management and Environmental protection. Period (geology), Atmospheric sciences and Physical geography are some topics wherein Climatology research discussed in the published articles has an impact.

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

  • Ecology
  • World War II
  • Law

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal investigates studies in Climate change, Global warming, Climatology, Precipitation and Agriculture. While Climate change is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Context (language use), Environmental planning, Natural resource economics, Greenhouse gas and Politics. Most of the works presented in the journal deals with Natural resource economics but it intersects with the subject of Productivity.

The Climatology research dealing mostly with Northern Hemisphere is the focus of it. The studies in Precipitation featured incorporate elements of Climate model, Physical geography and Water resources. It centers on topics in Agriculture, with a focus on Livelihood.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Evaluating Process-Based Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change Mitigation (14 citations)
  • Past and future snowmelt trends in the Swiss Alps: the role of temperature and snowpack (6 citations)
  • Pathways and pitfalls in extreme event attribution (4 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 Climatic Change (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Detlef P. van Vuuren (56 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 10 less than at the previous edition,
  • Dario Camuffo (35 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Richard S.J. Tol (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stephen H. Schneider (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Keywan Riahi (30 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 Climatic Change (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (227 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (178 papers) published 16 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (170 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 24 less than at the previous edition,
  • International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (116 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 13 less than at the previous edition,
  • Stanford University (115 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less 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, 6.56% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 15.29% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.09% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.53% of all publications and 59.09% 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

  • Towards a comprehensive look at global drivers of novel extreme wildfire events

    Andrea Duane;Marc Castellnou;Lluís Brotons

    (2021)
    281 Citations
  • Implications of various effort-sharing approaches for national carbon budgets and emission pathways

    Nicole J. van den Berg;Nicole J. van den Berg;Heleen L. van Soest;Heleen L. van Soest;Andries F. Hof;Andries F. Hof;Michel G. J. den Elzen

    (2020)
    277 Citations
  • Pathways and pitfalls in extreme event attribution

    Geert Jan van Oldenborgh;Karin van der Wiel;Sarah Kew;Sjoukje Philip

    (2021)
    246 Citations
  • Climate change attribution and the economic costs of extreme weather events: a study on damages from extreme rainfall and drought

    David J. Frame;Suzanne M. Rosier;Ilan Noy;Luke J. Harrington;Luke J. Harrington

    (2020)
    228 Citations
  • Attribution of the heavy rainfall events leading to severe flooding in Western Europe during July 2021

    Unknown

    (2023)
    219 Citations
  • Gender and climate risk management: evidence of climate information use in Ghana

    Samuel T. Partey;Angela D. Dakorah;Robert B. Zougmoré;Mathieu Ouédraogo

    (2020)
    183 Citations
  • Indicators of climate change in agricultural systems

    Jerry L. Hatfield;John Antle;Karen A. Garrett;Roberto Cesar Izaurralde;Roberto Cesar Izaurralde

    (2020)
    181 Citations
  • Prolonged Siberian heat of 2020 almost impossible without human influence

    Andrew Ciavarella;Daniel Cotterill;Peter Stott;Sarah Kew

    (2021)
    149 Citations

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