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Meteorological Applications
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Meteorological Applications

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 310 72 88 17

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 120
Documents by Best Scientists*: 125
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 7
SCIMAGO H-index: 76
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.833
Impact Factor: 2.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Meteorological Applications?

The scientific interests tackled in Meteorological Applications are Meteorology, Climatology, Precipitation, Remote sensing and Atmospheric sciences. The journal dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Meteorology and Radar. Specifically, studies on Weather radar are prevalent in the Radar works discussed.

Topics in Climatology were tackled in line with various other fields like Climate change and Weather forecasting. Meteorological Applications centers on topics in Precipitation, with a focus on Quantitative precipitation forecast.

  • Meteorology (50.64%)
  • Climatology (38.56%)
  • Precipitation (15.36%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Nimrod: a system for generating automated very short range forecasts (290 citations)
  • Fuzzy verification of high-resolution gridded forecasts: a review and proposed framework (281 citations)
  • Optimization of neural networks for precipitation analysis in a humid region to detect drought and wet year alarms (269 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Meteorological Applications:

The most cited articles cover a variety of subjects, including Meteorology, Climatology, Precipitation, Remote sensing and Econometrics. The journal articles focus on Meteorology as well as the interrelated topics of Radar. Issues in Climatology were discussed in the journal publications, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Flood myth, Climate change and Atmospheric sciences.

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

  • Statistics
  • Meteorology
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The objective of the journal is to combine knowledge in the areas of Meteorology, Climatology, Precipitation, Atmospheric sciences and Numerical weather prediction. More specifically, the research on Meteorology in it is related to Data assimilation. The journal focuses on Climatology research which is adjacent to topics in Wind resource.

While it focused on Precipitation, it was also able to explore topics like Hydrology, Southern Hemisphere, Flood forecasting and Warning system. Atmospheric sciences research featured in Meteorological Applications incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Air quality index, Atmosphere, Ozone and Sea surface temperature. The journal explores issues in Numerical weather prediction which can be linked to other research areas like Kalman filter, Tropical cyclone and Identification (information).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Response of surface ozone concentration to emission reduction and meteorology during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Europe (4 citations)
  • Possible influence of the convection schemes in regional climate model RegCM4.6 for climate services over Central Africa (3 citations)
  • Drought characteristics over Nepal Himalaya and their relationship with climatic indices (2 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 Meteorological Applications (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Pak Wai Chan (28 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • U. C. Mohanty (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Chris G. Collier (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lee Chapman (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • John E. Thornes (14 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 Meteorological Applications (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Met Office (142 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Reading (68 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (37 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Birmingham (35 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bureau of Meteorology (32 papers) absent at the last 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, 14.81% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 21.74% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 17.39% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.39% of all publications and 43.48% 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

  • Characterizing the winter meteorological drivers of the European electricity system using targeted circulation types

    Hannah C. Bloomfield;David J. Brayshaw;Andrew J. Charlton-Perez

    (2020)
    67 Citations
  • Response of surface ozone concentration to emission reduction and meteorology during the COVID‐19 lockdown in Europe

    Adrien Deroubaix;Guy P. Brasseur;Guy P. Brasseur;Benjamin Gaubert;Inga Labuhn

    (2021)
    49 Citations
  • Drought trend, frequency and extremity across a wide range of climates over Iran

    Milad Nouri;Milad Nouri;Mehdi Homaee

    (2020)
    44 Citations
  • Characterizing renewable energy compound events across Europe using a logistic regression‐based approach

    (2022)
    40 Citations
  • An open workflow to gain insights about low‐likelihood high‐impact weather events from initialized predictions

    (2022)
    39 Citations
  • Using machine learning to predict fire-ignition occurrences from lightning forecasts

    Ruth Coughlan;Francesca Di Giuseppe;Claudia Vitolo;Christopher Barnard

    (2021)
    37 Citations
  • Projected changes in drought characteristics over the Western Cape, South Africa

    Myra Naik;Babatunde J. Abiodun

    (2020)
    34 Citations
  • Towards operational impact forecasting of building damage from winter windstorms in Switzerland

    Thomas Röösli;Thomas Röösli;Christof Appenzeller;David N. Bresch;David N. Bresch

    (2021)
    31 Citations
  • Greenland ice sheet rainfall climatology, extremes and atmospheric river rapids

    (2023)
    31 Citations
  • Attribution of Amazon floods to modes of climate variability: A review

    Jamie Towner;Hannah L. Cloke;Waldo Lavado;William Santini

    (2020)
    27 Citations

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