Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Aims & Scope

Climate change has become one of the most visible phenomena in the world today, recognized through the changes occurring to physical climates, natural and managed environments and social organizations, and also through deliberations about ethical responsibility and public policy.

WIREs Climate Change offers a unique platform for exploring current and emerging knowledge from the many disciplines that contribute to our understanding of this phenomenon – environmental history, the humanities, physical and life sciences, social sciences, engineering and economics.

This publication has been developed in association with the Royal Meteorological Society and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in the UK and provides an important new encyclopedic reference for climate change scholarship and research.

It also acts as a forum for gaining a wider set of perspectives about how climate change is understood, analyzed and contested around the world.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	10.3
2024	9.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	3.803

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	127

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	473

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	7105

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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, Environmental Science and Social 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.

• Drought under global warming: a review

  Citation: 2459

  Authors: Aiguo

• Indices for monitoring changes in extremes based on daily temperature and precipitation data

  Citation: 1531

  Authors: Xuebin, Lisa, Gabriele C., Philip, Albert Klein, Thomas C., Blair, Francis W.

• Communicating climate change: history, challenges, process and future directions

  Citation: 705

  Authors: Susanne C.

• From environmental to climate justice: climate change and the discourse of environmental justice

  Citation: 689

  Authors: David, Lisette B.

• Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence

  Citation: 626

  Authors: Roger A., Andy, Dev, Rezaul, Clive, Faisal, Kees Klein, Udaysankar, Richard, Souleymane, Markus, Pavel, Nathalie

• What shapes perceptions of climate change?

  Citation: 563

  Authors: Elke U.

• A compound event framework for understanding extreme impacts

  Citation: 551

  Authors: Michael, Seth, Aloke, Martin, Bart, Kathleen, James, Sandra, Doerte, Mark

• Tropical cyclones and climate change

  Citation: 541

  Authors: Kevin J.E., John L., Philip J., Sethurathinam, Suzana J., Greg, Thomas R., James P., Tsz‐cheung, Adam, Masato

• Explaining differential vulnerability to climate change: A social science review

  Citation: 526

  Authors: Kimberley, R. Dean, Heather, Michael, Ben, Isabel, J. Timmons, Marcy, Benjamin P., Robert

• Attribution of extreme weather and climate‐related events

  Citation: 520

  Authors: Peter A., Nikolaos, Friederike E. L., Ying, Jean‐Paul, Geert Jan, Robert, Hans, Peter, Pascal, Francis W.

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