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Climatic Change

Springer Science and Business Media B.V. · Netherlands · Est. 1953

ISSN1573-1480

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

1.396

H-Indexi

278

SNIPi

1.601

Total Worksi

7,276

Total Citationsi

500,357

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.66

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Climatic Change is an international English-language journal which offers an interdisciplinary forum for the scientific exchange on problems related to climatic variations. The journal is dedicated to the totality of the problem of climatic variability and change. Clima tic Change offers contributors the opportunity to communicate the essence of their studies to people in other climate-related disciplines.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1953

Annual Volume~ 205 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications7,276

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

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Submission Info

Peer Reviewdouble-blind peer-review

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

7/11 · 64%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Springer Science and Business Media B.V.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1573-1480

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

double-blind peer-review

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

276

14k

2019

328

11k

2020

318

10k

2021

196

4.4k

2022

192

3.1k

2023

177

1.7k

2024

247

876

2025

179

140

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Atmospheric ScienceQ1

Global and Planetary ChangeQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Environmental SciencesMeteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

Scopus Categories

Atmospheric ScienceGlobal and Planetary Change

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Climate variability and modelsClimate Change Policy and EconomicsClimate change impacts on agricultureAtmospheric and Environmental Gas DynamicsPlant Water Relations and Carbon DynamicsClimate Change Communication and PerceptionHydrology and Watershed Management StudiesTree-ring climate responsesMeteorological Phenomena and SimulationsHydrology and Drought Analysis

Frequently asked questions about Climatic Change

Is Climatic Change a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Climatic Change: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Climatic Change?

Climatic Change is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 3.66.

Is Climatic Change indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Climatic Change is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.