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WIREs Climate Change
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WIREs Climate Change

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 142 63 56 30

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 169
Documents by Best Scientists*: 119
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 8
SCIMAGO H-index: 127
SCIMAGO SJR: 3.803
Impact Factor: 10.3

Overview

Top Research Topics at Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change?

The topics of Climate change, Environmental resource management, Climatology, Politics and Global warming are the focal point of discussions in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. Topics in Climate change were tackled in line with various other fields like Natural resource economics, Corporate governance and Greenhouse gas. Environmental resource management research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Climate change mitigation, Process (engineering), Vulnerability and Environmental planning.

The Climatology works featured in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change incorporate elements from Downscaling and Precipitation. Topics in Politics explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Political economy and Public relations.

  • Climate change (81.40%)
  • Environmental resource management (18.90%)
  • Climatology (14.29%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Drought under global warming: a review (1858 citations)
  • Indices for monitoring changes in extremes based on daily temperature and precipitation data (925 citations)
  • Communicating climate change: history, challenges, process and future directions (612 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change:

The published articles explore disciplines such as Climate change, Environmental resource management, Climatology, Climate model and Global warming. In particular, the Climate change works presented in the published papers emphasize discussions on Political economy of climate change. While Climate model is the key highlight in the most cited articles, thet also covered some subjects on Radiative forcing and Earth system science.

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 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (based on the number of publications) are:

  • James D. Ford (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lorraine Whitmarsh (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Nicholas Frank Pidgeon (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Timothy M. Lenton (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Mike Hulme (5 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 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of East Anglia (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Exeter (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Melbourne (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Oxford (13 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 2022 edition, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% 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

  • The Southern Annular Mode: Variability, trends, and climate impacts across the Southern Hemisphere

    Ryan L. Fogt;Gareth J. Marshall

    (2020)
    476 Citations
  • Low‐carbon transition risks for finance

    Gregor Semieniuk;Gregor Semieniuk;Emanuele Campiglio;Jean-Francois Mercure;Jean-Francois Mercure;Ulrich Volz;Ulrich Volz

    (2021)
    400 Citations
  • Convection-permitting modeling with regional climate models: Latest developments and next steps

    Philippe Lucas-Picher;Daniel Argüeso;Erwan Brisson;Yves Tramblay

    (2021)
    271 Citations
  • Unraveling the influence of atmospheric evaporative demand on drought and its response to climate change

    Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano;Tim R. McVicar;Diego G. Miralles;Yuting Yang

    (2020)
    264 Citations
  • The effect of carbon pricing on technological change for full energy decarbonization: A review of empirical ex-post evidence

    Johan Lilliestam;Anthony Patt;Germán Bersalli

    (2021)
    164 Citations
  • Mangrove forests under climate change in a 2°C world

    Unknown

    (2022)
    144 Citations
  • Clouds, radiation, and atmospheric circulation in the present-day climate and under climate change

    Aiko Voigt;Aiko Voigt;Nicole Albern;Paulo Ceppi;Kevin Grise

    (2021)
    143 Citations
  • Multispecies justice: Climate‐just futures with, for and beyond humans

    Petra Tschakert;David Schlosberg;Danielle Celermajer;Lauren Rickards

    (2021)
    118 Citations
  • Drought and society: Scientific progress, blind spots, and future prospects

    (2022)
    87 Citations
  • Observed and projected changes in global climate zones based on Köppen climate classification

    Diyang Cui;Shunlin Liang;Dongdong Wang

    (2021)
    83 Citations

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