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Earth's Future
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Earth's Future

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 36 634 565 61
Ecology and Evolution 61 210 179 35

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1179
Documents by Best Scientists*: 789
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 50
SCIMAGO H-index: 87
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.819
Impact Factor: 8.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Earth’s Future?

Earth’s Future investigates studies in Climate change, Climatology, Environmental resource management, Global warming and Atmospheric sciences. It focuses on Climate change but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Environmental planning, Water resource management, Agriculture, Natural resource economics and Physical geography. The Climatology works featured in it incorporate elements from Climate model, Coupled model intercomparison project, Sea level and Precipitation.

Earth’s Future encompasses Sea level studies in the context of Oceanography as a whole.

  • Climate change (30.45%)
  • Climatology (23.04%)
  • Environmental resource management (10.89%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Probabilistic 21st and 22nd Century Sea-Level Projections at a Global Network of Tide-Gauge Sites (456 citations)
  • Global warming releases microplastic legacy frozen in Arctic Sea ice (449 citations)
  • An apparent hiatus in global warming (429 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Earth’s Future:

The published articles are organized to address concerns in the fields of Climate change, Climatology, Global warming, Sea level and Environmental resource management. The most cited publications explore themes in Climate change like Climate sensitivity and link them with other fields of study like Context (language use). In addition to Climatology research, the journal publications aim to explore topics under Elevation, Atmospheric sciences, Climate model, Coupled model intercomparison project and Precipitation.

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 Earth’s Future (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Philippe Ciais (11 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Guy Brasseur (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Robert E. Kopp (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Scott C. Hagen (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Philip J. Ward (8 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as 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.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Earth’s Future (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (60 papers) published 17 papers at the last edition, 6 more than at the previous edition,
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (40 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (32 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Arizona State University (29 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Columbia University (25 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 3 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, 1.91% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 29.87% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 17.53% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 22.73% of all publications and 29.87% 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.

Top Publications

  • Twenty-First Century Drought Projections in the CMIP6 Forcing Scenarios

    B. I. Cook;B. I. Cook;J. S. Mankin;J. S. Mankin;K. Marvel;K. Marvel;A. P. Williams

    (2020)
    948 Citations
  • The 2018–2020 Multi‐Year Drought Sets a New Benchmark in Europe

    Unknown

    (2022)
    366 Citations
  • Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Drought Patterns Over East Africa

    Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile;Qiuhong Tang;Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari;Xingcai Liu

    (2020)
    347 Citations
  • Insights from CMIP6 for Australia's future climate

    Michael Richard Grose;Sugata Narsey;Francois Delage;Andrew J. Dowdy

    (2020)
    327 Citations
  • Partitioning the uncertainty of ensemble projections of global glacier mass change

    Ben Marzeion;Regine Hock;Brian Anderson;Andrew Bliss

    (2020)
    269 Citations
  • Global Agricultural Water Scarcity Assessment Incorporating Blue and Green Water Availability Under Future Climate Change

    Unknown

    (2022)
    248 Citations
  • Why We Can No Longer Ignore Consecutive Disasters

    Marleen C. de Ruiter;Anaïs Couasnon;Marc J.C. van den Homberg;James E. Daniell

    (2020)
    242 Citations
  • Guidelines for Studying Diverse Types of Compound Weather and Climate Events

    Emanuele Bevacqua;Emanuele Bevacqua;Carlo De Michele;Colin Manning;Anaïs Couasnon

    (2021)
    216 Citations
  • Identifying a Safe and Just Corridor for People and the Planet

    Johan Rockström;Johan Rockström;Joyeeta Gupta;Joyeeta Gupta;Timothy M. Lenton;Dahe Qin;Dahe Qin

    (2021)
    184 Citations
  • Regional Climate Sensitivity of Climate Extremes in CMIP6 Versus CMIP5 Multimodel Ensembles

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Mathias Hauser

    (2020)
    161 Citations

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