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Weather, Climate, and Society

American Meteorological Society · United States · Est. 2009

ISSN1948-8335

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE · SSCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.747

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.688

Total Worksi

921

Total Citationsi

19,531

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.03

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Environmental Studies; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Social Sciences (miscellaneous); Atmospheric Science; Global and Planetary Change.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2009

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications921

Publisher OrgAmerican Meteorological Society

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

American Meteorological Society

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1948-8335

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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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

1.5k

2019

960

2020

1.1k

2021

831

2022

501

2023

186

2024

2025

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.

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)Q1

Atmospheric ScienceQ2

Global and Planetary ChangeQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Environmental StudiesMeteorology & Atmospheric Sciences

Scopus Categories

Atmospheric ScienceSocial Sciences (miscellaneous)Global and Planetary Change

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Disaster Management and ResilienceClimate Change Communication and PerceptionFlood Risk Assessment and ManagementClimate change impacts on agricultureRisk Perception and ManagementClimate Change and Health ImpactsClimate variability and modelsMeteorological Phenomena and SimulationsTropical and Extratropical Cyclones ResearchClimate Change, Adaptation, Migration

Frequently asked questions about Weather, Climate, and Society

Is Weather, Climate, and Society a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Weather, Climate, and Society: 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 Weather, Climate, and Society?

Weather, Climate, and Society 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 1.03.

Is Weather, Climate, and Society indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Weather, Climate, and Society is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Weather, Climate, and Society?