Journals Metrics (draft)

Peer reviewed and highly respected, AMS journals are consistently ranked near the top of their fields. Since 1919, our journals have been publishing some of the top research in the atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrologic sciences.

Journal Title Impact Factor Impact Factor Ranking* 5-Year Impact Factor Cited Half Life CiteScore CiteScore Ranking† SJR SJR Ranking‡
BAMS 8.166 3 25.17 10.2 7.15 3 4.51 1
JAMC 2.364 37 2.896 14 2.38 40 1.402 27
JTECH 2.224 43 2.577 10.6 2.39 39 1.237 29
JAS 3.282 24 3.54 17.9 3.13 31 2.6 8
JCLI 4.805 9 5.922 9 5.28 8 3.838 3
JHM 4.158 12 4.671 7.9 4.45 11 2.413 11
MWR 3.146 27 3.582 14.9 3.33 26 2.588 10
WAF 2.288 40 2.676 10.9 2.38 40 1.744 18
WCAS 2.043 46 2.723 5 2.13 44 0.861 78
JPO 3.389 5 3.472 14.8 3.16 20 2.48 3
EI 2.457 80 2.297 8.7 2.12 36 0.913 48

 

*BAMS, JAMC, JTECH, JAS, JCLI, JHM, MWR, WAF, and WCAS are ranked out of 86 journals in the Meteorology and Atmospheric Science category. JPO is ranked out of 65 journals in the Oceanography category. EI is ranked out of 195 journals in the Geosciences category.

BAMS, JAMC, JTECH, JAS, JCLI, JHM, MWR, and WAF are ranked out of 109 journals in Atmospheric Sciences category. WCAS is ranked out of 255 journals in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) category. JPO is ranked out of 118 journals in Oceanography category. EI is ranked out of 182 journals in General Earth and Planetary Sciences.

BAMS, JAMC, JTECH, JAS, JCLI, JHM, MWR, and WAF are ranked out of 121 journals in the Atmospheric Sciences category. WCAS is ranked out 528 journals in the Social Sciences (miscellaneous) category. JPO is ranked out of 153 journals in the Oceanography category. EI is ranked out of 318 journals in the Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) category.

Explanation of Journal Metrics

Impact Factor (Clarivate Analytics)

The impact factor is the ratio between citations and recent citable items published. The impact factor of a journal is calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years. Read more

Cited Half Life (Clarivate Analytics)

Cited Half Life is the median age of citations received by a journal during the year. A cited half-life of 4 means the median age of ciations is 4 years (half are to items newer than 4 years and half are older). Read more

CiteScore (Scopus)

CiteScore calculates the average number of citations received in a calendar year by all items published in that journal in the preceding three years. Read more

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) (Scopus)

SJR is the measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from. Read more