International Journal of Climatology

Aims & Scope

The International Journal of Climatology aims to span the well established but rapidly growing field of climatology, through the publication of research papers, short communications, major reviews of progress and reviews of new books and reports in the area of climate science.

The Journal’s main role is to stimulate and report research in climatology, from the expansive fields of the atmospheric, biophysical, engineering and social sciences.

Coverage includes: Climate system science; Local to global scale climate observations and modelling; Seasonal to interannual climate prediction; Climatic variability and climate change; Synoptic, dynamic and urban climatology, hydroclimatology, human bioclimatology, ecoclimatology, dendroclimatology, palaeoclimatology, marine climatology and atmosphere-ocean interactions; Application of climatological knowledge to environmental assessment and management and economic production; Climate and society interactions

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.8
2024	3.50

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	3757

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	6327

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.163

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	201

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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, 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.

• Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas

  Citation: 16181

  Authors: Robert J., Susan E., Juan L., Peter G., Andy

• WorldClim 2: new 1‐km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

  Citation: 12234

  Authors: Stephen E., Robert J.

• Updated high‐resolution grids of monthly climatic observations – the <scp>CRU TS3</scp>.10 Dataset

  Citation: 5289

  Authors: I., P.D., T.J., D.H.

• An improved method of constructing a database of monthly climate observations and associated high-resolution grids

  Citation: 3283

  Authors: Timothy D., Philip D.

• Two decades of urban climate research: a review of turbulence, exchanges of energy and water, and the urban heat island

  Citation: 2645

  Authors: A. John

• Physiographically sensitive mapping of climatological temperature and precipitation across the conterminous United States

  Citation: 2419

  Authors: Christopher, Michael, Joseph I., Wayne P., Matthew K., George H., Jan, Phillip P.

• Linking climate change modelling to impacts studies: recent advances in downscaling techniques for hydrological modelling

  Citation: 1728

  Authors: H. J., S., C.

• Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) revisited: parameter fitting, evapotranspiration models, tools, datasets and drought monitoring

  Citation: 1546

  Authors: Santiago, Sergio M., Fergus, Borja

• Development of gridded surface meteorological data for ecological applications and modelling

  Citation: 1434

  Authors: John T.

• Climatic warming in the Tibetan Plateau during recent decades

  Citation: 1403

  Authors: Xiaodong, Baode

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