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Best Atmospheric Science journals

160 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Atmospheric Science. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 40 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Reviews Earth and Environment 98.9 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 20.4 99th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
3 Current Climate Change Reports 17.8 98th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Climate Policy 12.6 97th Q1 SSCI C No
5 Weather and Climate Extremes 12.6 97th Q1 SCIE – Yes
6 Urban Climate 12.2 96th Q1 SCIE – No
7 npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 11.4 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
8 Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 11.1 95th Q1 SCIE – No
9 Advances in Atmospheric Sciences 10.6 94th Q1 SCIE – No
10 Climate Risk Management 10.4 94th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
11 Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
12 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 9.7 92nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
13 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 9.2 92nd Q1 SCIE – No
14 Elementa 9.2 91st Q1 SCIE – Yes
15 Advances in Climate Change Research 9 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
16 Atmospheric Research 8.6 90th Q1 SCIE – No
17 IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 8.5 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
18 Journal of Climate 8.4 89th Q1 SCIE – No
19 Climate Services 8.2 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
20 Climatic Change 8 87th Q1 SCIE – No
21 Weather and Climate Dynamics 8 87th Q1 ESCI – Yes
22 Frontiers in Climate 7.7 86th Q1 ESCI – Yes
23 Climate Dynamics 7.6 85th Q1 SCIE – No
24 Natural Hazards 7.6 85th Q1 SCIE – No
25 Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology 7.6 84th Q1 SCIE – Yes
26 Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Research 7.4 84th Q1 ESCI – Yes
27 Atmospheric Environment 7.4 83rd Q1 SCIE – No
28 Atmospheric Pollution Research 7.3 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
29 European Journal of Remote Sensing 7.2 82nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
30 International Journal of Climatology 7.1 81st Q1 SCIE – No
31 Geography Compass 6.8 80th Q1 SSCI – No
32 PLOS Climate 6.8 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
33 Journal of Water and Climate Change 6.8 79th Q1 SCIE – Yes
34 Climate 6.5 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
35 Space Weather 6.5 78th Q1 SCIE – Yes
36 Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 6.2 77th Q1 SCIE – Yes
37 Journal of Aerosol Science 6.1 77th Q1 SCIE – No
38 Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 6 76th Q1 SCIE – No
39 Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 6 75th Q1 SCIE – No
40 Yingyong Qixiang Xuebao 5.9 75th Q1 – – Yes
41 Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 5.8 74th Q2 SCIE – No
42 Journal of Hydrometeorology 5.7 74th Q2 SCIE – No
43 Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 5.7 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
44 International Journal of Biometeorology 5.7 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
45 Monthly Weather Review 5.6 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
46 Weather and Forecasting 5.6 71st Q2 SCIE – No
47 Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health 5.6 70th Q2 SCIE – No
48 Oceanologia 5.6 70th Q2 SCIE – Yes
49 Advances in Space Research 5.6 69th Q2 SCIE – No
50 Boundary-Layer Meteorology 5.5 69th Q2 SCIE – No
51 Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters 5.5 68th Q2 ESCI – Yes
52 Tropical Cyclone Research and Review 5.5 67th Q2 ESCI – Yes
53 Atmosphere 5.4 67th Q2 ESCI, SCIE – Yes
54 ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 5.3 66th Q2 SCIE – No
55 Atmospheric Environment: X 5.3 65th Q2 ESCI – Yes
56 Ocean Modelling 5.2 65th Q2 SCIE – No
57 Theoretical and Applied Climatology 5.2 64th Q2 SCIE – No
58 Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 5.1 64th Q2 SCIE – No
59 Journal of Hydroinformatics 5 63rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
60 Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 4.8 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
61 Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 4.7 62nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
62 Journal of Meteorological Research 4.7 61st Q2 SCIE – No
63 Advances in Meteorology 4.6 60th Q2 SCIE – Yes
64 Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics 4.6 60th Q2 SCIE – No
65 Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 4.6 59th Q2 SCIE – No
66 Atmosphere - Ocean 4.5 59th Q2 SCIE – No
67 Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate 4.5 58th Q2 SCIE – Yes
68 Atmospheric Science Letters 4.4 57th Q2 SCIE – Yes
69 Climate Change Research 4.4 57th Q2 – – No
70 IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems 4.3 56th Q2 ESCI – No
71 Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences 4.3 55th Q2 – – No
72 Weather, Climate, and Society 4.3 55th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
73 Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 4.2 54th Q2 SCIE – No
74 Meteorological Applications 4.1 54th Q2 SCIE – Yes
75 Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science 4.1 53rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
76 Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 4.1 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
77 Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 3.9 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
78 Journal of Spatial Science 3.9 51st Q2 SCIE – No
79 Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment 3.8 50th Q2 ESCI – Yes
80 Earth and Planetary Physics 3.8 50th Q2 ESCI – Yes
81 Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography 3.7 49th Q3 – – Yes
82 Transactions of Atmospheric Sciences 3.7 49th Q3 – – No
83 Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems 3.6 48th Q3 SCIE – Yes
84 Arid Zone Research 3.6 47th Q3 – – No
85 Environmental Research Communications 3.6 47th Q3 SCIE – Yes
86 Physical Geography 3.6 46th Q3 SCIE – No
87 Annales Geophysicae 3.5 45th Q3 SCIE – Yes
88 Weather 3.5 45th Q3 SCIE – No
89 Plateau Meteorology 3.5 44th Q3 – – Yes
90 Arid Land Geography 3.4 44th Q3 – – No
91 Springer Climate 3.3 43rd Q3 – – No
92 Climate Research 3.3 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
93 Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography 3.3 42nd Q3 SCIE – Yes
94 Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 3.2 41st Q3 SCIE – Yes
95 Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans 3.2 40th Q3 SCIE – No
96 Meteorological Monthly 3.1 40th Q3 – – No
97 Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology 3.1 39th Q3 ESCI – No
98 Meteorologische Zeitschrift 3 39th Q3 SCIE – Yes
99 Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 3 38th Q3 SCIE – No
100 GEUS Bulletin 3 37th Q3 SCIE – Yes
101 Geographica Pannonica 2.9 37th Q3 ESCI – Yes
102 Discover Environment 2.8 36th Q3 ESCI – Yes
103 Advances in Earth Science 2.8 35th Q3 – – No
104 Boreal Environment Research 2.7 35th Q3 SCIE – No
105 Geo: Geography and Environment 2.7 34th Q3 ESCI – Yes
106 Chinese Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 2.6 34th Q3 – – No
107 Advances in Global Change Research 2.6 33rd Q3 – – No
108 Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology 2.6 32nd Q3 – – Yes
109 Advances in Science and Research 2.5 32nd Q3 – – Yes
110 Atmosfera 2.5 31st Q3 SCIE – No
111 Journal of Agrometeorology 2.5 30th Q3 – – Yes
112 Meteorology (Switzerland) 2.5 30th Q3 – – Yes
113 International Journal of Global Warming 2.4 29th Q3 SCIE – No
114 Sains Tanah 2.3 29th Q3 ESCI – Yes
115 Journal of Operational Meteorology 2.3 28th Q3 ESCI – No
116 Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 2.3 27th Q3 – – No
117 Die Erde 2.2 27th Q3 SCIE, SSCI – Yes
118 American Chemical Society Environmental Science and Technology Air 2.2 26th Q3 ESCI – No
119 Chinese Journal of Agrometeorology 2.2 25th Q3 – – No
120 Next Sustainability 2.1 25th Q3 ESCI – Yes
121 Journal of Tropical Meteorology 2 24th Q4 SCIE – No
122 Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere 1.9 24th Q4 SCIE – Yes
123 Torrential Rain and Disasters 1.9 23rd Q4 – – Yes
124 Italian Journal of Agrometeorology 1.9 22nd Q4 SCIE – No
125 Journal of Agricultural Meteorology 1.9 22nd Q4 SCIE – No
126 Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia 1.8 21st Q4 – – Yes
127 Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics 1.7 20th Q4 ESCI – No
128 Tropical Geography 1.7 20th Q4 – – Yes
129 Idojaras 1.6 19th Q4 SCIE – No
130 Tree-Ring Research 1.5 19th Q4 SCIE – No
131 Mausam 1.5 18th Q4 SCIE – No
132 Transactions on Aerospace Research 1.5 17th Q4 – – Yes
133 Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and Technology 1.4 17th Q4 – – No
134 Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics 1.3 16th Q4 SCIE – No
135 Meteorologica 1.3 15th Q4 – – Yes
136 Solar-Terrestrial Physics 1.2 15th Q4 ESCI – Yes
137 Russian Meteorology and Hydrology 1.2 14th Q4 SCIE – No
138 ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development 1.1 14th Q4 – – Yes
139 Advances in Polar Science 1.1 13th Q4 – – No
140 Problemy Arktiki i Antarktiki 1.1 12th Q4 – – No
141 Developments in Environmental Science 1 12th Q4 – – No
142 International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses 1 11th Q4 – – No
143 Geoadria 1 10th Q4 ESCI – Yes
144 Revista Brasileira de Geografia Fisica 1 10th Q4 – – Yes
145 Glasnik - Srpskog Geografskog Drustva 0.8 9th Q4 – – Yes
146 Ukrainian Antarctic Journal 0.8 9th Q4 – – Yes
147 Journal of the Earth and Space Physics 0.7 8th Q4 – – Yes
148 Przeglad Geologiczny 0.6 7th Q4 – – No
149 Issledovanie Zemli iz Kosmosa, (Earth Research from Space) 0.5 7th Q4 – – No
150 Przeglad Geofizyczny 0.5 6th Q4 – – Yes
151 Chinese Journal of Polar Research 0.5 5th Q4 – – No
152 Revista de Geociencias do Nordeste 0.4 5th Q4 – – Yes
153 Springer Atmospheric Sciences 0.4 4th Q4 – – No
154 Workshop Solar Influences on the Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Atmosphere 0.3 4th Q4 – – No
155 Historical Geography and Geosciences 0.3 3rd Q4 – – No
156 Nivar 0.3 2nd Q4 – – Yes
157 Mitteilungen des Verbandes der Deutschen Hohlen- und Karstforscher 0.1 2nd Q4 – – No
158 Geographische Rundschau 0.1 1st Q4 – – No
159 Developments in Earth Surface Processes 0 0th Q4 – – No
160 Hrvatski Meteoroloski Casopis 0 0th Q4 – – No

Rank and percentile are within the Atmospheric Science Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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