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Weather, Climate, and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by American Meteorological Society.
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ISSN 1948-8327Verify ISSN ↗1948-8335Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 117 / 744 | 84th | Q1 |
| Atmospheric Science | 71 / 160 | 55th | Q2 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 70 / 134 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
Weather, Climate, and Society is Q1 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 117 of 744), Q2 in Atmospheric Science (rank 71 of 160) and Q3 in Global and Planetary Change (rank 70 of 134), by CiteScore 2025.
Weather, Climate, and Society is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.747, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 59.
Weather, Climate, and Society is published by American Meteorological Society. Its print ISSN is 1948-8327 and its online ISSN is 1948-8335.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Weather, Climate, and Society has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 1.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #236 of 703 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous).
Weather, Climate, and Society published 84 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 84. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (54.2%), China (18.2%) and Germany (3%). 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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