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Journal of Climate is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.4), WoS SCIE. Published by American Meteorological Society.
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ISSN 0894-8755Verify ISSN ↗1520-0442Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric Science | 18 / 160 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present (also 1988–1989), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.4.
Journal of Climate is Q1 in Atmospheric Science (rank 18 of 160), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Climate 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 8.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.176, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 356.
Journal of Climate is published by American Meteorological Society. Its print ISSN is 0894-8755 and its online ISSN is 1520-0442.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Climate has an h-index of 419 and a 2-year mean of 2.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #56 of 157 Scopus journals in Atmospheric Science.
Journal of Climate published 470 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 598. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (35.6%), United States (32%) and United Kingdom (6.5%).
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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