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Climate Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Inter-Research.
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ISSN 0936-577XVerify ISSN ↗1616-1572Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inter-Research
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science (all) | 118 / 249 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Atmospheric Science | 92 / 160 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 105 / 157 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Climate Research is Q2 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 118 of 249), Q3 in Atmospheric Science (rank 92 of 160) and Q3 in Environmental Chemistry (rank 105 of 157), by CiteScore 2025.
Climate Research is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.535, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 127.
Climate Research is published by Inter-Research. Its print ISSN is 0936-577X and its online ISSN is 1616-1572.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Climate Research has an h-index of 143 and a 2-year mean of 1.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #139 of 234 Scopus journals in Environmental Science (all).
Climate Research published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 56. 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 82 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from China (28.3%), Iran (11.9%) and Brazil (7.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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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