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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 354 62 85 15

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 86
Documents by Best Scientists*: 98
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: 1.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Weather?

The aim of Weather is to expand the discussion of research in Meteorology, Climatology, Atmospheric sciences, Oceanography and Storm.

  • Meteorology (23.64%)
  • Climatology (20.68%)
  • Atmospheric sciences (6.42%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Climate change 2001: The scientific basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (3086 citations)
  • Radiative forcing of climate change (1411 citations)
  • Measuring the strength of ENSO events: How does 1997/98 rank? (971 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Weather:

The journal papers mainly deal with areas of study such as Climatology, Meteorology, Atmospheric sciences, Oceanography and Storm. The most cited papers deal with Climatology in conjunction with Flooding (psychology) and similar fields in Flood myth. The journal papers focus on Meteorology but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Physical geography and Remote sensing.

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

  • World War II
  • Ecology
  • Meteorology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The primary areas of discussion in Weather are Climatology, Meteorology, Climate change, Storm and Physical geography. Weather features Climatology research that overlaps with concepts in Thunderstorm. Weather tackles issues in Meteorology, particularly in the topics of Numerical weather prediction and Tornado.

The journal links adjacent topics like Climate change with Natural resource economics. The featured Storm study falls within the wider topic of Oceanography. The study on Physical geography presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Snow.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Extreme rainfall in East Africa October 2019 – January 2020 and context under future climate change (16 citations)
  • The wet and stormy UK winter of 2019/2020 (6 citations)
  • Weather Observations Website (4 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 Weather (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Philip Eden (123 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jim Galvin (99 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Stephen Burt (62 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Roger Brugge (33 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Dennis Wheeler (33 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 Weather (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Met Office (679 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Reading (190 papers) published 11 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of East Anglia (104 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Imperial College London (86 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Manchester (49 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, 59.35% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 52.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 2.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.00% of all publications and 28.00% 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

  • Extreme rainfall in East Africa October 2019 – January 2020 and context under future climate change

    Caroline M. Wainwright;Declan L. Finney;Mary Kilavi;Emily Black

    (2021)
    193 Citations
  • The 2018–2019 Arctic stratospheric polar vortex

    Simon H. Lee;Amy H. Butler;Amy H. Butler

    (2020)
    69 Citations
  • Severe thunderstorms with large hail across Germany in June 2019

    Jannik Wilhelm;Susanna Mohr;Heinz Jürgen Punge;Bernhard Mühr

    (2021)
    47 Citations
  • The 2018/2019 drought in the UK: a hydrological appraisal

    S. Turner;L. J. Barker;J. Hannaford;K. Muchan

    (2021)
    43 Citations
  • The summer 2021 Switzerland hailstorms: weather situation, major impacts and unique ­observational data

    (2022)
    43 Citations
  • Predicting the unprecedented: forecasting the June 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave

    (2022)
    38 Citations
  • The wet and stormy UK winter of 2019/2020

    Paul A. Davies;Mark McCarthy;Nikos Christidis;Nick Dunstone

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • Unusual appearance of mother-of-pearl clouds above El Calafate, Argentina (50°21′S, 72°16′W)

    Andreas Dörnbrack;Bernd Kaifler;Natalie Kaifler;Markus Rapp

    (2020)
    29 Citations
  • Development of a prototype real-time sting-jet precursor tool for forecasters

    Suzanne L. Gray;Oscar Martínez-Alvarado;Duncan Ackerley;Dan Suri

    (2021)
    24 Citations
  • The 2019/2020 floods in the UK: a hydrological appraisal

    C. Sefton;K. Muchan;S. Parry;B. Matthews

    (2021)
    21 Citations

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