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PLOS Climate

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SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
5.1
SJR
1.261
CiteScore
4.3
Years of issue
2024-2025
journal names
PLOS Climate
Publications
572
Citations
3 435
h-index
25
Publications
572
Citations
3 346
Top-3 citing journals
PLOS Climate
PLOS Climate (116 citations)
Sustainability
Sustainability (65 citations)
Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports (48 citations)
Top-3 organizations
University of Washington
University of Washington (23 publications)
University of Oxford
University of Oxford (13 publications)
Top-3 countries
USA (144 publications)
United Kingdom (51 publications)
Canada (45 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Citing journals

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PLOS Climate
116 citations, 3.38%
Sustainability
65 citations, 1.89%
Scientific Reports
48 citations, 1.4%
Science of the Total Environment
35 citations, 1.02%
PLoS ONE
35 citations, 1.02%
Environmental Research Letters
33 citations, 0.96%
Global Change Biology
30 citations, 0.87%
Frontiers in Marine Science
30 citations, 0.87%
Climate
27 citations, 0.79%
Climate Policy
27 citations, 0.79%
Environmental Science and Policy
23 citations, 0.67%
Nature Climate Change
22 citations, 0.64%
Nature Communications
22 citations, 0.64%
Communications Earth & Environment
21 citations, 0.61%
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
19 citations, 0.55%
Urban Climate
19 citations, 0.55%
Frontiers in Climate
19 citations, 0.55%
npj Climate Action
19 citations, 0.55%
Journal of Environmental Management
18 citations, 0.52%
Climatic Change
18 citations, 0.52%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
16 citations, 0.47%
Marine Policy
16 citations, 0.47%
Forests
16 citations, 0.47%
Marine Environmental Research
15 citations, 0.44%
The Lancet Planetary Health
14 citations, 0.41%
Science
14 citations, 0.41%
Environmental Sociology
13 citations, 0.38%
Geophysical Research Letters
13 citations, 0.38%
Energy Research and Social Science
12 citations, 0.35%
Environment, Development and Sustainability
12 citations, 0.35%
Heliyon
12 citations, 0.35%
One Earth
12 citations, 0.35%
The Journal of Climate Change and Health
12 citations, 0.35%
Ambio
11 citations, 0.32%
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
11 citations, 0.32%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
11 citations, 0.32%
Marine Pollution Bulletin
11 citations, 0.32%
Sustainable Cities and Society
11 citations, 0.32%
International Journal of Climatology
11 citations, 0.32%
Land
11 citations, 0.32%
Climate and Development
11 citations, 0.32%
Journal of Environmental Psychology
11 citations, 0.32%
ICES Journal of Marine Science
11 citations, 0.32%
Frontiers in Environmental Science
11 citations, 0.32%
SSRN Electronic Journal
11 citations, 0.32%
Discover Sustainability
11 citations, 0.32%
Environmental Research Communications
11 citations, 0.32%
Ecological Economics
10 citations, 0.29%
Biogeosciences
10 citations, 0.29%
Water (Switzerland)
10 citations, 0.29%
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
10 citations, 0.29%
Environmental Research Climate
10 citations, 0.29%
Journal of Cleaner Production
9 citations, 0.26%
Ecology and Evolution
9 citations, 0.26%
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
9 citations, 0.26%
Earth's Future
9 citations, 0.26%
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
9 citations, 0.26%
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
9 citations, 0.26%
Scientific data
8 citations, 0.23%
Frontiers in Psychology
8 citations, 0.23%
Diversity
8 citations, 0.23%
Ecological Indicators
8 citations, 0.23%
Energy Policy
8 citations, 0.23%
Biological Conservation
8 citations, 0.23%
Frontiers in Public Health
8 citations, 0.23%
Coral Reefs
8 citations, 0.23%
Sustainable Development
8 citations, 0.23%
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
8 citations, 0.23%
Forest Ecology and Management
8 citations, 0.23%
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
8 citations, 0.23%
GeoHealth
7 citations, 0.2%
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
7 citations, 0.2%
Atmosphere
7 citations, 0.2%
Aquaculture
7 citations, 0.2%
Fish and Fisheries
7 citations, 0.2%
Earth Systems and Environment
7 citations, 0.2%
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
7 citations, 0.2%
People and Nature
7 citations, 0.2%
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
7 citations, 0.2%
PLOS Global Public Health
7 citations, 0.2%
Trees Forests and People
7 citations, 0.2%
Regional Studies in Marine Science
6 citations, 0.17%
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
6 citations, 0.17%
Environmental Politics
6 citations, 0.17%
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
6 citations, 0.17%
Ecosphere
6 citations, 0.17%
PeerJ
6 citations, 0.17%
iScience
6 citations, 0.17%
Acta Tropica
6 citations, 0.17%
Global Environmental Change
6 citations, 0.17%
Animals
6 citations, 0.17%
Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
6 citations, 0.17%
Climate Risk Management
6 citations, 0.17%
Risk Analysis
6 citations, 0.17%
BMC Public Health
6 citations, 0.17%
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
6 citations, 0.17%
Agricultural Systems
6 citations, 0.17%
Climate of the Past
6 citations, 0.17%
Science advances
6 citations, 0.17%
Nature Ecology and Evolution
6 citations, 0.17%
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Citing publishers

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Elsevier
843 citations, 24.54%
Springer Nature
675 citations, 19.65%
Wiley
309 citations, 9%
MDPI
276 citations, 8.03%
Taylor & Francis
225 citations, 6.55%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
174 citations, 5.07%
Frontiers Media S.A.
135 citations, 3.93%
IOP Publishing
71 citations, 2.07%
SAGE
64 citations, 1.86%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
63 citations, 1.83%
Oxford University Press
52 citations, 1.51%
American Geophysical Union
50 citations, 1.46%
Copernicus
44 citations, 1.28%
Cambridge University Press
27 citations, 0.79%
The Royal Society
23 citations, 0.67%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
22 citations, 0.64%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
20 citations, 0.58%
Emerald
19 citations, 0.55%
Annual Reviews
18 citations, 0.52%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
17 citations, 0.49%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
12 citations, 0.35%
BMJ
12 citations, 0.35%
Research Square Platform LLC
10 citations, 0.29%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
8 citations, 0.23%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
8 citations, 0.23%
PeerJ
8 citations, 0.23%
EDP Sciences
7 citations, 0.2%
Inter-Research Science Center
7 citations, 0.2%
Canadian Science Publishing
7 citations, 0.2%
CSIRO Publishing
7 citations, 0.2%
SciELO
7 citations, 0.2%
Mary Ann Liebert
6 citations, 0.17%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
6 citations, 0.17%
IntechOpen
6 citations, 0.17%
American Meteorological Society
5 citations, 0.15%
IGI Global
5 citations, 0.15%
University of Chicago Press
4 citations, 0.12%
CAB International
4 citations, 0.12%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
4 citations, 0.12%
Walter de Gruyter
3 citations, 0.09%
The Company of Biologists
3 citations, 0.09%
American Medical Association (AMA)
3 citations, 0.09%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
3 citations, 0.09%
CABI Publishing
3 citations, 0.09%
Geological Society of London
3 citations, 0.09%
F1000 Research
3 citations, 0.09%
Pleiades Publishing
2 citations, 0.06%
Pensoft Publishers
2 citations, 0.06%
American Public Health Association
2 citations, 0.06%
Allerton Press
2 citations, 0.06%
Scientific Research Publishing
2 citations, 0.06%
CAIRN
2 citations, 0.06%
Environmental Health Perspectives
2 citations, 0.06%
Rockefeller University Press
1 citation, 0.03%
Trans Tech Publications
1 citation, 0.03%
Liverpool University Press
1 citation, 0.03%
American Society for Microbiology
1 citation, 0.03%
AIP Publishing
1 citation, 0.03%
Magnolia Press
1 citation, 0.03%
American Academy of Pediatrics
1 citation, 0.03%
University of Warsaw
1 citation, 0.03%
American Speech Language Hearing Association
1 citation, 0.03%
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
1 citation, 0.03%
British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery
1 citation, 0.03%
IWA Publishing
1 citation, 0.03%
University of Colorado
1 citation, 0.03%
American Society of Animal Science
1 citation, 0.03%
African Journals online
1 citation, 0.03%
Brazilian Association for Ecological Science and Conservation
1 citation, 0.03%
Society of Petroleum Engineers
1 citation, 0.03%
Water Environment Federation
1 citation, 0.03%
American Society for Nutrition
1 citation, 0.03%
Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
1 citation, 0.03%
AAGR Aerosol and Air Quality Research
1 citation, 0.03%
Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
1 citation, 0.03%
Science in China Press
1 citation, 0.03%
Singapore Medical Association
1 citation, 0.03%
Medknow
1 citation, 0.03%
Hindawi Limited
1 citation, 0.03%
ASME International
1 citation, 0.03%
Thomas Telford
1 citation, 0.03%
JMIR Publications
1 citation, 0.03%
Academy of Science of South Africa
1 citation, 0.03%
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski - Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego
1 citation, 0.03%
Baishideng Publishing Group
1 citation, 0.03%
Human Kinetics
1 citation, 0.03%
Scandinavian University Press / Universitetsforlaget AS
1 citation, 0.03%
AOSIS
1 citation, 0.03%
Berghahn Books
1 citation, 0.03%
South Florida Publishing LLC
1 citation, 0.03%
SLACK
1 citation, 0.03%
Maximum Academic Press
1 citation, 0.03%
Scientific Scholar
1 citation, 0.03%
Russian Geographical Society
1 citation, 0.03%
Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Education Novosibirsk State Agrarian University
1 citation, 0.03%
American Dairy Science Association
1 citation, 0.03%
Lectito Publications
1 citation, 0.03%
Canadian Institute of Forestry
1 citation, 0.03%
AMO Publisher
1 citation, 0.03%
Journal of Graduate Medical Education
1 citation, 0.03%
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University of Washington
23 publications, 4.02%
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
14 publications, 2.45%
University of Oxford
13 publications, 2.27%
Basque Centre for Climate Change
13 publications, 2.27%
Columbia University
11 publications, 1.92%
University of British Columbia
11 publications, 1.92%
ETH Zurich
9 publications, 1.57%
Yale University
9 publications, 1.57%
George Mason University
9 publications, 1.57%
University of Leeds
9 publications, 1.57%
University of Bern
8 publications, 1.4%
Michigan State University
8 publications, 1.4%
Stanford University
8 publications, 1.4%
University of California, Santa Cruz
8 publications, 1.4%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8 publications, 1.4%
University College London
7 publications, 1.22%
Cornell University
7 publications, 1.22%
Oregon State University
7 publications, 1.22%
Harvard University
7 publications, 1.22%
University of Cambridge
6 publications, 1.05%
London School of Economics and Political Science
6 publications, 1.05%
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
6 publications, 1.05%
University of KwaZulu-Natal
6 publications, 1.05%
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
6 publications, 1.05%
University of Bristol
6 publications, 1.05%
University of Exeter
6 publications, 1.05%
University of Colorado Boulder
6 publications, 1.05%
French Institute of Health and Medical Research
6 publications, 1.05%
Memorial University of Newfoundland
6 publications, 1.05%
University of Zurich
5 publications, 0.87%
University of New South Wales
5 publications, 0.87%
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
5 publications, 0.87%
University of Copenhagen
5 publications, 0.87%
James Cook University
5 publications, 0.87%
Duke University
5 publications, 0.87%
University of California, Berkeley
5 publications, 0.87%
University of California, Davis
5 publications, 0.87%
McGill University
5 publications, 0.87%
University of Graz
5 publications, 0.87%
Wageningen University and Research Centre
5 publications, 0.87%
University of Miami
5 publications, 0.87%
University of Florida
5 publications, 0.87%
National Center for Atmospheric Research
5 publications, 0.87%
University of Tennessee
5 publications, 0.87%
Imperial College London
4 publications, 0.7%
University of Bergen
4 publications, 0.7%
University of Queensland
4 publications, 0.7%
Griffith University
4 publications, 0.7%
Education University of Hong Kong
4 publications, 0.7%
Colorado State University
4 publications, 0.7%
University of California, Los Angeles
4 publications, 0.7%
University of Ghana
4 publications, 0.7%
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
4 publications, 0.7%
University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica
4 publications, 0.7%
Paris Cité University
4 publications, 0.7%
Utrecht University
4 publications, 0.7%
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
4 publications, 0.7%
Université Laval
4 publications, 0.7%
Environment and Climate Change Canada
4 publications, 0.7%
BRAC University
4 publications, 0.7%
University of Bath
4 publications, 0.7%
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
3 publications, 0.52%
Technical University of Munich
3 publications, 0.52%
Lund University
3 publications, 0.52%
Heidelberg University
3 publications, 0.52%
Stockholm University
3 publications, 0.52%
Umeå University
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Lausanne
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Geneva
3 publications, 0.52%
Australian National University
3 publications, 0.52%
Delft University of Technology
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Oslo
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Edinburgh
3 publications, 0.52%
Stony Brook University
3 publications, 0.52%
Johns Hopkins University
3 publications, 0.52%
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Otago
3 publications, 0.52%
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Tasmania
3 publications, 0.52%
Boston University
3 publications, 0.52%
Nelson Mandela University
3 publications, 0.52%
Dalhousie University
3 publications, 0.52%
North Carolina State University
3 publications, 0.52%
Northwestern University
3 publications, 0.52%
University of California, San Diego
3 publications, 0.52%
University of California, San Francisco
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Arizona
3 publications, 0.52%
Newcastle University
3 publications, 0.52%
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
3 publications, 0.52%
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Coimbra
3 publications, 0.52%
Erasmus University Rotterdam
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Alberta
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Granada
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Ottawa
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Guelph
3 publications, 0.52%
Indiana University Bloomington
3 publications, 0.52%
University of Connecticut
3 publications, 0.52%
Hawassa University
3 publications, 0.52%
University College Cork (National University of Ireland, Cork)
3 publications, 0.52%
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USA, 144, 25.17%
USA
144 publications, 25.17%
United Kingdom, 51, 8.92%
United Kingdom
51 publications, 8.92%
Canada, 45, 7.87%
Canada
45 publications, 7.87%
Germany, 34, 5.94%
Germany
34 publications, 5.94%
Australia, 22, 3.85%
Australia
22 publications, 3.85%
Switzerland, 18, 3.15%
Switzerland
18 publications, 3.15%
China, 15, 2.62%
China
15 publications, 2.62%
Netherlands, 13, 2.27%
Netherlands
13 publications, 2.27%
South Africa, 12, 2.1%
South Africa
12 publications, 2.1%
France, 11, 1.92%
France
11 publications, 1.92%
Italy, 10, 1.75%
Italy
10 publications, 1.75%
Norway, 10, 1.75%
Norway
10 publications, 1.75%
Sweden, 9, 1.57%
Sweden
9 publications, 1.57%
Bangladesh, 8, 1.4%
Bangladesh
8 publications, 1.4%
Spain, 8, 1.4%
Spain
8 publications, 1.4%
Kenya, 8, 1.4%
Kenya
8 publications, 1.4%
Colombia, 7, 1.22%
Colombia
7 publications, 1.22%
Japan, 7, 1.22%
Japan
7 publications, 1.22%
Brazil, 6, 1.05%
Brazil
6 publications, 1.05%
Ghana, 6, 1.05%
Ghana
6 publications, 1.05%
Denmark, 6, 1.05%
Denmark
6 publications, 1.05%
Ireland, 6, 1.05%
Ireland
6 publications, 1.05%
New Zealand, 6, 1.05%
New Zealand
6 publications, 1.05%
Uruguay, 6, 1.05%
Uruguay
6 publications, 1.05%
Finland, 6, 1.05%
Finland
6 publications, 1.05%
Austria, 4, 0.7%
Austria
4 publications, 0.7%
India, 4, 0.7%
India
4 publications, 0.7%
Peru, 4, 0.7%
Peru
4 publications, 0.7%
Belgium, 3, 0.52%
Belgium
3 publications, 0.52%
Costa Rica, 3, 0.52%
Costa Rica
3 publications, 0.52%
Mexico, 3, 0.52%
Mexico
3 publications, 0.52%
Nepal, 3, 0.52%
Nepal
3 publications, 0.52%
Nigeria, 3, 0.52%
Nigeria
3 publications, 0.52%
Chile, 3, 0.52%
Chile
3 publications, 0.52%
Ethiopia, 3, 0.52%
Ethiopia
3 publications, 0.52%
Jamaica, 3, 0.52%
Jamaica
3 publications, 0.52%
Portugal, 2, 0.35%
Portugal
2 publications, 0.35%
Argentina, 2, 0.35%
Argentina
2 publications, 0.35%
Barbados, 2, 0.35%
Barbados
2 publications, 0.35%
Bhutan, 2, 0.35%
Bhutan
2 publications, 0.35%
Qatar, 2, 0.35%
Qatar
2 publications, 0.35%
Malaysia, 2, 0.35%
Malaysia
2 publications, 0.35%
Mozambique, 2, 0.35%
Mozambique
2 publications, 0.35%
Puerto Rico, 2, 0.35%
Puerto Rico
2 publications, 0.35%
Republic of Korea, 2, 0.35%
Republic of Korea
2 publications, 0.35%
Senegal, 2, 0.35%
Senegal
2 publications, 0.35%
Singapore, 2, 0.35%
Singapore
2 publications, 0.35%
Tanzania, 2, 0.35%
Tanzania
2 publications, 0.35%
Philippines, 2, 0.35%
Philippines
2 publications, 0.35%
Ukraine, 1, 0.17%
Ukraine
1 publication, 0.17%
Benin, 1, 0.17%
Benin
1 publication, 0.17%
Guatemala, 1, 0.17%
Guatemala
1 publication, 0.17%
Grenada, 1, 0.17%
Grenada
1 publication, 0.17%
Greece, 1, 0.17%
Greece
1 publication, 0.17%
Georgia, 1, 0.17%
Georgia
1 publication, 0.17%
Guam, 1, 0.17%
Guam
1 publication, 0.17%
Zimbabwe, 1, 0.17%
Zimbabwe
1 publication, 0.17%
Israel, 1, 0.17%
Israel
1 publication, 0.17%
Jordan, 1, 0.17%
Jordan
1 publication, 0.17%
Iran, 1, 0.17%
Iran
1 publication, 0.17%
Iceland, 1, 0.17%
Iceland
1 publication, 0.17%
Cuba, 1, 0.17%
Cuba
1 publication, 0.17%
Liberia, 1, 0.17%
Liberia
1 publication, 0.17%
Lebanon, 1, 0.17%
Lebanon
1 publication, 0.17%
Madagascar, 1, 0.17%
Madagascar
1 publication, 0.17%
Morocco, 1, 0.17%
Morocco
1 publication, 0.17%
Palau, 1, 0.17%
Palau
1 publication, 0.17%
Panama, 1, 0.17%
Panama
1 publication, 0.17%
Paraguay, 1, 0.17%
Paraguay
1 publication, 0.17%
Poland, 1, 0.17%
Poland
1 publication, 0.17%
Rwanda, 1, 0.17%
Rwanda
1 publication, 0.17%
Northern Mariana Islands, 1, 0.17%
Northern Mariana Islands
1 publication, 0.17%
Seychelles, 1, 0.17%
Seychelles
1 publication, 0.17%
Solomon Islands, 1, 0.17%
Solomon Islands
1 publication, 0.17%
Thailand, 1, 0.17%
Thailand
1 publication, 0.17%
Togo, 1, 0.17%
Togo
1 publication, 0.17%
Trinidad and Tobago, 1, 0.17%
Trinidad and Tobago
1 publication, 0.17%
Turkey, 1, 0.17%
Turkey
1 publication, 0.17%
Uganda, 1, 0.17%
Uganda
1 publication, 0.17%
Micronesia, 1, 0.17%
Micronesia
1 publication, 0.17%
Fiji, 1, 0.17%
Fiji
1 publication, 0.17%
Sri Lanka, 1, 0.17%
Sri Lanka
1 publication, 0.17%
Ecuador, 1, 0.17%
Ecuador
1 publication, 0.17%
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