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Monthly Weather Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE. Published by American Meteorological Society.
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ISSN 0027-0644Verify ISSN ↗1520-0493Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric Science | 45 / 160 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1976–1994, 1973, 1960), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.6.
Monthly Weather Review is Q2 in Atmospheric Science (rank 45 of 160), by CiteScore 2025.
Monthly Weather Review 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.519, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 221.
Monthly Weather Review is published by American Meteorological Society. Its print ISSN is 0027-0644 and its online ISSN is 1520-0493.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Monthly Weather Review has an h-index of 321 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #73 of 157 Scopus journals in Atmospheric Science.
Monthly Weather Review published 163 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 253. 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (58.4%), China (17.8%) and Taiwan (4.8%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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