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Journal of Climate
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Journal of Climate

0894-8755

Published by: American Meteorological Society

https://www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/publications/journals/journal-of-climate/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 35 806 1578 62

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 1073
Documents by Best Scientists*: 1828
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 28
SCIMAGO H-index: 344
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.169
Impact Factor: 4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Climate?

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Climatology, Atmospheric sciences, Precipitation, Climate model and Sea surface temperature. Journal of Climate focuses on Climatology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Climate change, Oceanography and Atmosphere. The Climate change research dealing mostly with Global warming is the focus of it.

The research on Atmospheric sciences featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Convection and Atmospheric model. The concepts on Precipitation presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Monsoon, Tropics and Water cycle. Topics in Climate model were tackled in line with various other fields like General Circulation Model, Meteorology and Greenhouse gas.

While work presented in the journal provided substantial information on Sea surface temperature, it also covered topics in El Niño Southern Oscillation, Teleconnection, Anomaly (natural sciences) and Ocean current. Ocean current and Thermohaline circulation are closely related fields of research discussed in it. Troposphere research discussed connects with the study of Stratosphere.

  • Climatology (97.28%)
  • Atmospheric sciences (23.98%)
  • Precipitation (20.44%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • MERRA: NASA’s Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (3712 citations)
  • An Improved In Situ and Satellite SST Analysis for Climate (3518 citations)
  • A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (3186 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Climate:

The journal publications investigate areas of study like Climatology, Sea surface temperature, Precipitation, Atmospheric sciences and Climate model. The most cited articles hold forums on Climatology that merge themes from other disciplines such as Climate change, Oceanography and Meteorology. The journal publications explore issues in Atmospheric sciences which can be linked to other research areas like Convection and Latitude.

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 Journal of Climate (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Shang-Ping Xie (152 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Bin Wang (131 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 6 less than at the previous edition,
  • Gabriel A. Vecchi (93 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Tim Li (92 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • Arun Kumar (84 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less 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.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

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

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (763 papers) published 22 papers at the last edition, 17 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (701 papers) published 81 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (615 papers) published 30 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Washington (503 papers) published 22 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (348 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 4 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, 3.42% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 41.31% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.45% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.44% of all publications and 32.80% 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

  • Improvements of the Daily Optimum Interpolation Sea Surface Temperature (DOISST) Version 2.1

    Boyin Huang;Chunying Liu;Viva Banzon;Eric Freeman

    (2021)
    1020 Citations
  • Future global meteorological drought hot spots: A study based on CORDEX data

    Jonathan Spinoni;Paulo Barbosa;Edoardo Bucchignani;John Cassano

    (2020)
    438 Citations
  • Why Is the Mediterranean a Climate Change Hot Spot

    A. Tuel;E. A. B. Eltahir

    (2020)
    397 Citations
  • ?A Global, Continental, and Regional Analysis of Changes in Extreme Precipitation

    Qiaohong Sun;Xuebin Zhang;Francis Zwiers;Francis Zwiers;Seth Westra

    (2021)
    354 Citations
  • Changes in Annual Extremes of Daily Temperature and Precipitation in CMIP6 Models

    Chao Li;Chao Li;Francis Zwiers;Francis Zwiers;Xuebin Zhang;Guilong Li

    (2021)
    325 Citations
  • Impact of Model Resolution on Tropical Cyclone Simulation Using the HighResMIP–PRIMAVERA Multimodel Ensemble

    Malcolm John Roberts;Joanne Camp;Jon Seddon;Pier Luigi Vidale

    (2020)
    284 Citations
  • Severe Convective Storms across Europe and the United States. Part II: ERA5 Environments Associated with Lightning, Large Hail, Severe Wind, and Tornadoes

    Unknown

    (2020)
    268 Citations
  • An Evaluation of the Performance of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis Version 3

    L. C. Slivinski;L. C. Slivinski;G. P. Compo;G. P. Compo;P. D. Sardeshmukh;P. D. Sardeshmukh;J. S. Whitaker

    (2021)
    245 Citations
  • Understanding Future Change of Global Monsoons Projected by CMIP6 Models

    Bin Wang;Chunhan Jin;Jian Liu

    (2020)
    206 Citations
  • An overview of the extratropical storm tracks in CMIP6 historical simulations

    Matthew D. K. Priestley;Duncan Ackerley;Jennifer L. Catto;Kevin I. Hodges

    (2020)
    183 Citations

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