Climate Research

Aims & Scope

Basic and applied research devoted to all aspects of climate – past, present and future.

Investigation of the reciprocal influences between climate and organisms (including climate effects on individuals, populations, ecological communities and entire ecosystems), as well as between climate and human societies.

CR invites high-quality Research Articles, Reviews, Notes and Comments/Reply Comments (see Clim Res 20:187), CR SPECIALS and Opinion Pieces.

For details see the Guidelines for Authors.

Papers may be concerned with: -Interactions of climate with organisms, populations, ecosystems, and human societies -Short- and long-term changes in climatic elements, such as humidity and precipitation, temperature, wind velocity and storms, radiation, carbon dioxide, trace gases, ozone, UV radiation -Human reactions to climate change; health, morbidity and mortality; clothing and climate; indoor climate management -Climate effects on biotic diversity.

Paleoecology, species abundance and extinction, natural resources and water levels -Historical case studies, including paleoecology and paleoclimatology -Analysis of extreme climatic events, their physicochemical properties and their time–space dynamics.

Climatic hazards -Land-surface climatology.

Soil degradation, deforestation, desertification -Assessment and implementation of adaptations and response options -Applications of climate models and modelled future climate scenarios.

Methodology in model development and application

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.6
2024	1.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	12066

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	152

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.476

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	123

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Advantages of the mean absolute error (MAE) over the root mean square error (RMSE) in assessing average model performance

  Citation: 4307

  Authors: CJ, K

• Changes in precipitation with climate change

  Citation: 2924

  Authors: KE

• A high-resolution data set of surface climate over global land areas

  Citation: 1852

  Authors: M, D, M, I

• Observed coherent changes in climatic extremes during the second half of the twentieth century

  Citation: 1647

  Authors: P, LV, P, B, M, AMG, T

• RegCM4: model description and preliminary tests over multiple CORDEX domains

  Citation: 1159

  Authors: F, E, F, L, MB, X, N, GT, V, G, UU, S, I, TA, AB, A, AS, AL, F, LC, C

• Possible impacts of Indian Ocean Dipole mode events on global climate

  Citation: 900

  Authors: NH, T

• A knowledge-based approach to the statistical mapping of climate

  Citation: 892

  Authors: C, WP, GH, GL, P

• African climate change: 1900-2100

  Citation: 851

  Authors: M, R, T, M, D

• Climate and the match or mismatch between predator requirements and resource availability

  Citation: 741

  Authors: JM, DØ, G, NC

• The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): unforeseen successes in animal ecology

  Citation: 613

  Authors: N, S, T, N, B, M, K

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