Weather Climate and Society

Weather Climate and Society is published by American Meteorological Society 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 Disaster Management and Resilience, Climate Change Communication and Perception and Flood Risk Assessment and Management, together about 29.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Weather, Climate, and Society (WCAS) (ISSN: 1948-8327; eISSN: 1948-8335) publishes research and reviews that address economics, policy analysis, political science, history, communication, and institutional, social, health, and behavioral scholarship and research relating to weather and climate, including both climate variability and longer-term climate change. Contributions must include evidence-based analysis and substantive discussion of the interactions of weather and climate with society, taking an integrated approach, drawing on both the social and physical sciences. Since many authors of WCAS papers are from social science disciplines, for which funding is generally more limited than in the physical sciences, the AMS Council has eliminated page charges for this journal. 2025 Impact Factor: 2.54

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Editor-in-chief Emma ArcherPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 14%); most named Mainland China 1, Taiwan, China 1, India 1, Spain 1, Brazil 1 (7 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2.42LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.54Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

4.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.75LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.08LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

27LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

67OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

471OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.36OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

5.15%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

70LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

American Meteorological Society

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

ISSN

1948-8327

Electronic ISSN

1948-8335

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website