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Best Atmospheric Science journals

160 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Atmospheric Science. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 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 93th Q1 SCIE No
12 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 9.7 92th Q1 SCIE Yes
13 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 9.2 92th Q1 SCIE No
14 Elementa 9.2 91th 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 83th Q1 SCIE No
28 Atmospheric Pollution Research 7.3 82th Q1 SCIE No
29 European Journal of Remote Sensing 7.2 82th Q1 SCIE Yes
30 International Journal of Climatology 7.1 81th 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 73th Q2 SCIE No
44 International Journal of Biometeorology 5.7 72th Q2 SCIE No
45 Monthly Weather Review 5.6 72th Q2 SCIE No
46 Weather and Forecasting 5.6 71th 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 63th Q2 SCIE Yes
60 Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 4.8 62th Q2 SCIE No
61 Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 4.7 62th Q2 SCIE Yes
62 Journal of Meteorological Research 4.7 61th 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 53th Q2 SCIE Yes
76 Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 4.1 52th Q2 SCIE No
77 Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 3.9 52th Q2 SCIE No
78 Journal of Spatial Science 3.9 51th 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 43th Q3 No
92 Climate Research 3.3 42th Q3 SCIE No
93 Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography 3.3 42th Q3 SCIE Yes
94 Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 3.2 41th 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

Rank and percentile are within the Atmospheric Science Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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