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Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate
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Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate

Published by: EDP Sciences

https://www.swsc-journal.org/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 143 16 21 14
Earth Science 206 42 50 18
Environmental Sciences 464 24 29 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 86
Documents by Best Scientists*: 85
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 48
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.834
Impact Factor: 2.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate?

Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate primarily tackles Space weather, Meteorology, Ionosphere, Earth's magnetic field and Atmospheric sciences. The Space weather works featured in Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate incorporate elements from Coronal mass ejection, Geomagnetic storm, Solar wind and Remote sensing. The journal holds forums on Coronal mass ejection that merges themes from other disciplines such as Astronomy, Solar flare, Astrophysics, Heliosphere and Interplanetary spaceflight.

The concepts on Solar flare presented in Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate can also apply to other research fields, including Solar energetic particles and Flare. It addresses concerns in Solar wind which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Computational physics, Magnetohydrodynamics and Magnetosphere. The journal is mostly focused on Meteorology, specifically Storm.

The presented Ionosphere research focuses mostly on Scintillation and, on occasion, topics in Interplanetary scintillation. Earth's magnetic field research is concerned with Geomagnetically induced current in particular. Atmospheric sciences research in Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate involves the investigation of Solar cycle studies, all of which are linked to disciplines such as Sunspot.

  • Space weather (42.12%)
  • Meteorology (23.20%)
  • Ionosphere (22.30%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The International Reference Ionosphere 2012 – a model of international collaboration (423 citations)
  • The 1859 space weather event revisited: limits of extreme activity (179 citations)
  • EUHFORIA: European heliospheric forecasting information asset (155 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate:

The journal papers are mainly concerned with subjects like Space weather, Meteorology, Atmospheric sciences, Ionosphere and Geomagnetic storm. The most cited papers hold forums on Meteorology that merge themes from other disciplines such as Committee on Space Research, Earth's magnetic field and Observatory. The published papers focus on Ionosphere but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Scintillation and GNSS applications.

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

  • Statistics
  • Astronomy
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal aims to foster the development of research in Space weather, Earth's magnetic field, Geomagnetic storm, Solar wind and Coronal mass ejection. Space weather research discussed in the journal aim to provide more information in the subject of Meteorology. Topics in Earth's magnetic field explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Local time, Atmosphere, Computation and Ionosphere.

The studies on Geomagnetic storm discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Storm, Transmission line, Geophysics and Proton flux. The journal focuses on Solar wind but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Magnetosphere, Astrophysics and Atmospheric sciences. Topics in Coronal mass ejection were tackled in line with various other fields like Interplanetary spaceflight and Optics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Graphical evidence for the solar coronal structure during the Maunder minimum: comparative study of the total eclipse drawings in 1706 and 1715 (11 citations)
  • The Dalton Minimum and John Dalton's Auroral Observations (9 citations)
  • Thermosphere modeling capabilities assessment: geomagnetic storms (5 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 Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Anna Belehaki (20 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Jean Lilensten (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Ioanna Tsagouri (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Mike Lockwood (14 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Luke Barnard (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 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 Space Weather and Space Climate (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Royal Observatory of Belgium (35 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • German Aerospace Center (25 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Goddard Space Flight Center (23 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (22 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • INAF (21 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 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, 14.55% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 31.91% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 31.91% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 23.40% of all publications and 12.77% 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

  • What sustained multi-disciplinary research can achieve: The space weather modeling framework

    Tamas I. Gombosi;Yuxi Chen;Alex Glocer;Zhenguang Huang

    (2021)
    98 Citations
  • A global climatological model of extreme geomagnetic field fluctuations

    Neil C. Rogers;James A. Wild;Emma F. Eastoe;Jesper W. Gjerloev

    (2020)
    62 Citations
  • Semi-annual, annual and Universal Time variations in the magnetosphere and in geomagnetic activity: 1. Geomagnetic data

    Mike Lockwood;Mathew J. Owens;Luke A. Barnard;Carl Haines

    (2020)
    55 Citations
  • The Interplanetary and Magnetospheric causes of Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) > 10 A in the Mäntsälä Finland Pipeline: 1999 through 2019

    Bruce T. Tsurutani;Rajkumar Hajra

    (2021)
    47 Citations
  • Accuracy assessment of the quiet-time ionospheric F2 peak parameters as derived from COSMIC-2 multi-GNSS radio occultation measurements

    Iurii Cherniak;Irina Zakharenkova;John Braun;Qian Wu;Qian Wu

    (2021)
    43 Citations
  • Unexpected space weather causing the reentry of 38 Starlink satellites in February 2022

    (2022)
    41 Citations

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