Climate Research

Climate Research is published by Inter-Research and is in Zone 4 of Earth Sciences in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations and Climate change impacts on agriculture, together about 43.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

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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Research area (LetPub): Environmental Sciences

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2.08LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

3.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.54LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.49LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

94LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

143OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,403OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.17OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

28.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

14LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

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Publisher

Inter-Research

Country or region

GERMANY

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

ISSN

0936-577X

Electronic ISSN

1616-1572

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub