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Journal of Tropical Meteorology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE. Published by Science Press.
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ISSN 1004-4965Verify ISSN ↗1006-8775Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Science Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric Science | 121 / 160 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present (also 2008–2015), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 2.
Journal of Tropical Meteorology is Q4 in Atmospheric Science (rank 121 of 160), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Tropical Meteorology 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 2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.487, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Journal of Tropical Meteorology is published by Science Press. Its print ISSN is 1004-4965 and its online ISSN is 1006-8775.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Tropical Meteorology has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 157 Scopus journals in Atmospheric Science.
Journal of Tropical Meteorology published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 55. 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 33 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (97%). 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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