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Journals of the Atmospheric Sciences
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Journals of the Atmospheric Sciences

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 123 278 469 31

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 320
Documents by Best Scientists*: 499
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 7
SCIMAGO H-index: 194
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.675
Impact Factor: 2.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences?

The journal primarily tackles Atmospheric sciences, Meteorology, Mechanics, Climatology and Convection. Topics in Atmospheric sciences explored in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences were investigated in conjunction with research in Atmosphere and Precipitation. Issues in Meteorology were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Radiative transfer and Cloud computing, Liquid water content.

The work tackled in it goes beyond the discipline of Mechanics as it also encompasses Classical mechanics. Some problems in Classical mechanics that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Mathematical analysis, Instability, Potential vorticity, Vorticity and Nonlinear system. The journal links adjacent topics like Climatology with Latitude.

Planetary boundary layer is a focus of the presented Boundary layer works and it dives deep in Planetary boundary layer. The research on Baroclinity discussed in it draws on the closely related field of Barotropic fluid.

  • Atmospheric sciences (37.00%)
  • Meteorology (24.12%)
  • Mechanics (23.95%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Deterministic nonperiodic flow (13648 citations)
  • Numerical Study of Convection Observed during the Winter Monsoon Experiment Using a Mesoscale Two-Dimensional Model (3687 citations)
  • THE DISTRIBUTION OF RAINDROPS WITH SIZE (2857 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences:

The published papers facilitate discussions on Atmospheric sciences, Meteorology, Climatology, Mechanics and Convection. The studies on Atmospheric sciences discussed at the journal papers can also contribute to research in the domains of Atmosphere, Precipitation and Mesoscale meteorology. The journal articles address concerns in the field of Meteorology by exploring it in line with topics in Radiative transfer which intersect with Computational physics subjects.

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 the Atmospheric Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Andrew J. Heymsfield (101 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Richard Rotunno (94 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Isaac M. Held (77 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Richard S. Lindzen (74 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Peter V. Hobbs (72 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 Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (1228 papers) published 32 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Washington (605 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Colorado State University (462 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (418 papers) published 17 papers at the last edition, 8 more than at the previous edition,
  • Goddard Space Flight Center (391 papers) published 3 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, 5.28% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 36.91% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 9.01% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 23.18% of all publications and 30.90% 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

  • Contributions of the Liquid and Ice Phases to Global Surface Precipitation: Observations and Global Climate Modeling

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Carl Schmitt;Chih-Chieh-Jack Chen;Aaron Bansemer

    (2020)
    124 Citations
  • Interpreting and Stabilizing Machine-learning Parametrizations of Convection

    Noah D. Brenowitz;Tom Beucler;Tom Beucler;Michael Pritchard;Christopher S. Bretherton;Christopher S. Bretherton

    (2020)
    120 Citations
  • Observed and Modeled Mountain Waves from the Surface to the Mesosphere Near the Drake Passage

    Unknown

    (2022)
    106 Citations
  • Impacts of Varying Concentrations of Cloud Condensation Nuclei on Deep Convective Cloud Updrafts—A Multimodel Assessment

    Peter J. Marinescu;Susan C. van den Heever;Max Heikenfeld;Andrew I. Barrett

    (2021)
    103 Citations
  • A Hail Growth Trajectory Model for Exploring the Environmental Controls on Hail Size: Model Physics and Idealized Tests

    Matthew R. Kumjian;Kelly Lombardo

    (2020)
    61 Citations
  • Revisiting the Quasi Biennial Oscillation as Seen in ERA5. Part I: Description and Momentum Budget

    Hamid A. Pahlavan;Qiang Fu;John M. Wallace;George N. Kiladis

    (2021)
    59 Citations
  • A Comprehensive Database of the Optical Properties of Irregular Aerosol Particles for Radiative Transfer Simulations

    Masanori Saito;Ping Yang;Jiachen Ding;Xu Liu

    (2021)
    57 Citations
  • Evaluations of the Thermodynamic Phases of Clouds in a Cloud-System-Resolving Model Using CALIPSO and a Satellite Simulator over the Southern Ocean

    Woosub Roh;Masaki Satoh;Tempei Hashino;Hajime Okamoto

    (2020)
    55 Citations
  • The transition from practical to intrinsic predictability of midlatitude weather

    (2022)
    51 Citations
  • Sources and transport pathways of precipitating waters in cold-season deep North Atlantic cyclones

    Lukas Papritz;Franziska Aemisegger;Heini Wernli

    (2021)
    50 Citations

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