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Weather and Climate Extremes
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Weather and Climate Extremes

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 96 203 221 38

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 268
Documents by Best Scientists*: 264
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 7
SCIMAGO H-index: 68
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.167
Impact Factor: 6.9

Overview

Top Research Topics at Weather and climate extremes?

Weather and climate extremes generally zeroes in on subjects such as Climatology, Precipitation, Climate change, Global warming and Climate model. Some problems in Climatology that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Storm, Downscaling and Extreme value theory. While work presented in Weather and climate extremes provided substantial information on Precipitation, it also covered topics in Atmospheric sciences, Physical geography and Coupled model intercomparison project.

It explores topics in Climate change which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Hazard, Agriculture, Weather and climate and Environmental resource management. Food security and Agricultural productivity studies are all carried out as a component of the study in Agriculture presented. The journal tackles research in various disciplines, including Environmental resource management and Preparedness.

Attendees of it participated in discussions that delve into both Extreme weather and Attribution.

  • Climatology (52.56%)
  • Precipitation (28.13%)
  • Climate change (27.84%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Temperature extremes: Effect on plant growth and development (764 citations)
  • Managing drought risk in a changing climate: The role of national drought policy (280 citations)
  • Managing vulnerability to drought and enhancing livelihood resilience in sub-Saharan Africa: Technological, institutional and policy options (228 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Weather and climate extremes:

The most cited articles focus on Climatology, Climate change, Precipitation, Environmental resource management and Agriculture. The most cited articles hold forums on Climatology that merge themes from other disciplines such as Global warming, Climate model, Downscaling and Atmospheric sciences. The studies on Climate change discussed at the journal papers can also contribute to research in the domains of Hazard and Growing season.

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

  • Statistics
  • Climate change
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Climatology, Precipitation, Climate change, Global warming and Tropical cyclone are the subjects of interest in the journal. The works on Climatology deal in particular with Weather Research and Forecasting Model. The work on Precipitation tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Mediterranean climate, Extreme value theory and Anticyclone.

The presented Climate change research focuses mostly on Greenhouse gas and, on occasion, topics in Forcing (mathematics). Weather and climate extremes facilitates discussions on Global warming that incorporate concepts from other fields like Representative Concentration Pathways, Physical geography, Seasonality and Water cycle. The featured Tropical cyclone studies mainly concentrate on Extreme weather but also cover areas of interest in Return period and Climate model.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Evaluation and comparison of CMIP6 and CMIP5 model performance in simulating the seasonal extreme precipitation in the Western North Pacific and East Asia (7 citations)
  • The 2019 flash droughts in subtropical eastern Australia and their association with large-scale climate drivers (6 citations)
  • Temperature and rainfall extremes change under current and future global warming levels across Indian climate zones (6 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 and climate extremes (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Michael Wehner (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Dáithí Stone (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Sophie C. Lewis (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Lisa V. Alexander (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Jakob Zscheischler (6 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous 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 and climate extremes (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of New South Wales (16 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (14 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (12 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Met Office (12 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Melbourne (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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, 8.24% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 28.21% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.82% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.51% of all publications and 38.46% 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

  • Evaluation of the CMIP6 multi-model ensemble for climate extreme indices

    Yeon-Hee Kim;Seung-Ki Min;Xuebin Zhang;Jana Sillmann

    (2020)
    519 Citations
  • Increases in summertime concurrent drought and heatwave in Eastern China

    Qinqin Kong;Qinqin Kong;Selma B. Guerreiro;Stephen Blenkinsop;Xiao-Feng Li

    (2020)
    208 Citations
  • Evaluation and comparison of CMIP6 and CMIP5 model performance in simulating the seasonal extreme precipitation in the Western North Pacific and East Asia

    Chao-An Chen;Huang-Hsiung Hsu;Hsin-Chien Liang

    (2021)
    167 Citations
  • The record-breaking compound hot and dry 2018 growing season in Germany

    Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Erich M. Fischer

    (2020)
    150 Citations
  • Revisiting future extreme precipitation trends in the Mediterranean

    George Zittis;Adriana Bruggeman;Jos Lelieveld;Jos Lelieveld

    (2021)
    105 Citations
  • Drought projections for Australia: Updated results and analysis of model simulations

    Dewi G.C. Kirono;Vanessa Round;Craig Heady;Francis H.S. Chiew

    (2020)
    95 Citations
  • Characterization of long period return values of extreme daily temperature and precipitation in the CMIP6 models: Part 1, model evaluation

    Michael Wehner;Peter Gleckler;Jiwoo Lee

    (2020)
    89 Citations
  • Compound precipitation and wind extremes over Europe and their relationship to extratropical cyclones

    Laura E. Owen;Jennifer L. Catto;David B. Stephenson;Nick J. Dunstone

    (2021)
    88 Citations
  • Changes in compound drought and hot extreme events in summer over populated eastern China

    Rong Yu;Panmao Zhai

    (2020)
    85 Citations
  • The new historical flood of 2021 in the Amazon River compared to major floods of the 21st century: Atmospheric features in the context of the intensification of floods

    (2021)
    80 Citations

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