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Journal of Operational Meteorology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS ESCI. Published by National Weather Association.
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ISSN 2325-6184Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Weather Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computers in Earth Sciences | 43 / 76 | 44th | Q3 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 153 / 225 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Atmospheric Science | 115 / 160 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Journal of Operational Meteorology is Q3 in Computers in Earth Sciences (rank 43 of 76), Q3 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 153 of 225) and Q3 in Atmospheric Science (rank 115 of 160), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Operational Meteorology 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.599, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
Journal of Operational Meteorology is published by National Weather Association. Its ISSN is 2325-6184.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Operational Meteorology has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 68 Scopus journals in Computers in Earth Sciences.
Journal of Operational Meteorology published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 14. 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 56 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (95.5%), Spain (1.8%) and Germany (0.9%). 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. 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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