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npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
H-index 54

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

2397-3722

Published by: Nature Portfolio

https://www.nature.com/npjclimatsci/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 58 513 512 53

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 678
Documents by Best Scientists*: 584
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 39
SCIMAGO H-index: 56
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.907
Impact Factor: 8.4

Top Publications

  • Designing vegetation barriers for urban air pollution abatement: a practical review for appropriate plant species selection

    Yendle Barwise;Prashant Kumar

    (2020)
    313 Citations
  • Increased occurrence of high impact compound events under climate change

    Unknown

    (2022)
    310 Citations
  • Formation of secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic precursors in laboratory studies

    Unknown

    (2022)
    284 Citations
  • Global increase in wildfire potential from compound fire weather and drought

    Unknown

    (2022)
    273 Citations
  • Increasing heat and rainfall extremes now far outside the historical climate

    Alexander Robinson;Alexander Robinson;Alexander Robinson;Jascha Lehmann;David Barriopedro;Stefan Rahmstorf;Stefan Rahmstorf

    (2021)
    255 Citations
  • Australia’s Black Summer pyrocumulonimbus super outbreak reveals potential for increasingly extreme stratospheric smoke events

    David A. Peterson;Michael D. Fromm;Richard H. D. McRae;James R. Campbell

    (2021)
    213 Citations
  • Lifecycle of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere

    Dantong Liu;Cenlin He;Joshua P. Schwarz;Xuan Wang

    (2020)
    181 Citations
  • Estimating global mean sea-level rise and its uncertainties by 2100 and 2300 from an expert survey

    Benjamin Peter Horton;Nicole S. Khan;Niamh Cahill;Janice Ser Huay Lee

    (2020)
    159 Citations
  • Global climatology and trends in convective environments from ERA5 and rawinsonde data

    (2021)
    140 Citations
  • Northern Hemisphere drought risk in a warming climate

    (2021)
    135 Citations

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