SOLA - Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Top Research Topics at Sola?

The main research concerns discussed in the journal are Climatology, Atmospheric sciences, Meteorology, Precipitation and Remote sensing. The journal is focused mainly on Climatology, particularly Tropical cyclone. The research on Atmospheric sciences featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Lidar, Atmosphere and Aerosol.

The journal tackles issues in Meteorology, particularly in the topics of Typhoon and Data assimilation.

• Climatology (55.39%)
• Atmospheric sciences (29.74%)
• Meteorology (25.53%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

• A 44-Year Daily Gridded Precipitation Dataset for Asia Based on a Dense Network of Rain Gauges (444 citations)
• The Japanese 55-year Reanalysis "JRA-55": An Interim Report (393 citations)
• Global Concentrations of CO2 and CH4 Retrieved from GOSAT: First Preliminary Results (372 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Sola:

The published articles tackle a plethora of topics, such as Climatology, Atmospheric sciences, Meteorology, Precipitation and Global warming. While Climatology is the key highlight in the journal articles, thet also covered some subjects on Climate change and Rainband. The works on Meteorology tackled in the most cited publications bring together disciplines like Kalman filter and Range (statistics).

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

• Meteorology
• Statistics
• Tropical cyclone

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal was organized to reinforce research efforts on Climatology, Typhoon, Meteorology, Atmospheric sciences and Oceanography. Topics in Climatology explored in the journal were investigated in conjunction with research in Snow, Convection, Predictability and Precipitation. Sola facilitates discussions on Typhoon that incorporate concepts from other fields like Tornado, C band and Distribution (number theory).

It facilitates discussions in Moisture supply as part of the larger field of Meteorology, however, it also tackles fields such as Track (disk drive). Atmospheric sciences research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Methane emissions, Atmosphere, Moist convection and Arctic. While work presented in it provided substantial information on Oceanography, it also covered topics in Structural basin and La Niña.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

• Characteristics of Atmospheric Environments of Quasi-Stationary Convective Bands in Kyushu, Japan during the July 2020 Heavy Rainfall Event (7 citations)
• Enhancement of Extremely Heavy Precipitation Induced by Typhoon Hagibis (2019) due to Historical Warming (2 citations)
• Future Changes of a Slow-Moving Intense Typhoon with Global Warming: A Case Study Using a Regional 1-km-mesh Atmosphere–Ocean Coupled Model (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.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing in Sola (based on the number of publications) are:

• Takemasa Miyoshi (25 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• Nobuo Sugimoto (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Hiroshi Tanaka (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
• Tetsuya Takemi (19 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• Masaki Satoh (19 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.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Sola (based on the number of publications) are:

• Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (179 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• University of Tokyo (116 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
• Japan Meteorological Agency (96 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
• University of Tsukuba (78 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
• Kyoto University (75 papers) published 7 papers at the last edition, 5 more 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, 8.16% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 73.33% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.89% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 6.67% of all publications and 11.11% 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.