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Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 1674-2834Verify ISSN ↗2376-6123Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | 28 / 154 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Atmospheric Science | 51 / 160 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters is Q1 in Oceanography (rank 28 of 154) and Q2 in Atmospheric Science (rank 51 of 160), by CiteScore 2025.
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.037, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,200 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 1674-2834 and its online ISSN is 2376-6123.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 1.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #73 of 143 Scopus journals in Oceanography.
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters published 112 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (88.4%), United States (2.6%) and Bangladesh (1.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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