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Monthly Weather Review
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Monthly Weather Review

0027-0644

Published by: American Meteorological Society

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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 144 272 445 29

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 318
Documents by Best Scientists*: 481
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 214
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.495
Impact Factor: 3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Monthly Weather Review?

The foci of Monthly Weather Review are Climatology, Meteorology, Atmospheric sciences, Mesoscale meteorology and Precipitation. Monthly Weather Review facilitates discussions on Climatology that incorporate concepts from other fields like Cyclone and Oceanography. Storm, Data assimilation, Convection, Tornado and Thunderstorm are some of the facets of Meteorology tackled in Monthly Weather Review.

Issues in Data assimilation were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Kalman filter and Ensemble Kalman filter. The work on Atmospheric sciences addressed in it expands to the thematically related Atmosphere.

  • Climatology (35.47%)
  • Meteorology (34.96%)
  • Atmospheric sciences (15.98%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • GENERAL CIRCULATION EXPERIMENTS WITH THE PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS (10571 citations)
  • On the Assessment of Surface Heat Flux and Evaporation Using Large-Scale Parameters (4680 citations)
  • A New Vertical Diffusion Package with an Explicit Treatment of Entrainment Processes (3857 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Monthly Weather Review:

The journal papers investigate areas of study like Climatology, Meteorology, Atmospheric sciences, Mesoscale meteorology and Precipitation. Most of the Climatology studies addressed in the published articles also intersect with Oceanography. Meteorology research in the journal articles connects with the study of Radar.

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

  • Statistics
  • Ecology
  • Meteorology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The topics of Climatology, Meteorology, Atmospheric sciences, Tropical cyclone and Convection are the focal point of discussions in the journal. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Climatology, it also covered topics in Predictability and Precipitation. Meteorology research featured in Monthly Weather Review incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Assimilation (biology) and Cloud computing.

It explores topics in Atmospheric sciences which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Atmosphere and Boundary layer. It connects the study in Data assimilation with the closely related area of Algorithm.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Michael (2018): Storm Structure and the Relationship to Environmental and Air–Sea Interactions (6 citations)
  • Convective-storm environments in subtropical South America from high-frequency soundings during RELAMPAGO-CACTI (5 citations)
  • Radiosonde Observations of Environments Supporting Deep Moist Convection Initiation during RELAMPAGO-CACTI (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 Monthly Weather Review (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Herbert H. Kimball (242 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Alfred J. Henry (222 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Willis E. Hurd (134 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lance F. Bosart (120 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Irving F. Hand (112 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 Monthly Weather Review (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (1070 papers) published 28 papers at the last edition, 10 more than at the previous edition,
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (938 papers) published 15 papers at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Oklahoma (366 papers) published 21 papers at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • Pennsylvania State University (303 papers) published 10 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Colorado State University (301 papers) published 8 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, 8.06% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 40.21% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 13.92% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 22.68% of all publications and 23.20% 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

  • Simulated Tropical Precipitation Assessed across Three Major Phases of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)

    Stephanie Fiedler;Traute Crueger;Roberta D’Agostino;Karsten Peters

    (2020)
    149 Citations
  • A review of innovation-based methods to jointly estimate model and observation error covariance matrices in ensemble data assimilation

    Pierre Tandeo;Pierre Ailliot;Marc Bocquet;Alberto Carrassi;Alberto Carrassi

    (2020)
    124 Citations
  • On the Extreme Rainfall Event of 7 May 2017 over the Coastal City of Guangzhou. Part I: Impacts of Urbanization and Orography

    Jinfang Yin;Da-Lin Zhang;Yali Luo;Ruoyun Ma

    (2020)
    93 Citations
  • Heavy Precipitation over Italy from the Mediterranean Storm “Vaia” in October 2018: Assessing the Role of an Atmospheric River

    S. Davolio;S. Della Fera;S. Laviola;M. M. Miglietta

    (2020)
    80 Citations
  • The Rapid Intensification and Eyewall Replacement Cycles of Hurricane Irma (2017)

    Michael S. Fischer;Robert F. Rogers;Paul D. Reasor

    (2020)
    50 Citations
  • Tracking Mesoscale Convective Systems that are Potential Candidates for Tropical Cyclogenesis

    Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio;Jenni L. Evans;George S. Young

    (2020)
    49 Citations
  • Extensive High-Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data Analysis of Tropical Cyclones: Comparisons with SFMR Flights and Best Track

    Clement Combot;Alexis Mouche;John Knaff;Yili Zhao

    (2020)
    48 Citations
  • Observation of jet stream winds during NAWDEX and characterization of systematic meteorological analysis errors

    Andreas Schäfler;Ben Harvey;John Methven;James D. Doyle

    (2020)
    47 Citations
  • Using explainable machine learning forecasts to discover sub-seasonal drivers of high summer temperatures in western and central Europe

    (2022)
    47 Citations
  • Predictability of Deep Convection in Idealized and Operational Forecasts: Effects of Radar Data Assimilation, Orography and Synoptic Weather Regime

    Kevin Bachmann;Christian Keil;George C. Craig;Martin Weissmann

    (2020)
    47 Citations

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