Nature Climate Change
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| description | scientific journal |
| Area of Expertise | Natural sciences , social sciences |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Macmillan Publishers Ltd. ( Great Britain ) |
| First edition | 2011 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Editor-in-chief | Rory Howlett |
| editor | Nature Publishing Group |
| Web link | www.nature.com/nclimate/ |
| ISSN (print) | 1758-678X |
| ISSN (online) | 1758-6798 |
Nature Climate Change is an English-language scientific journal on current climate change ( global warming ). It is the first journal of the Nature Publishing Group to also publish the work of social scientists . The impact factor in 2016 was 19.304, the five-year impact factor 21.108. This placed the journal in second place out of 229 scientific journals listed in the environmental sciences category and first out of 85 journals in the meteorology and atmospheric sciences category for the impact factor .
Story and editor
The journal is published by the Nature Publishing Group, which among other things publishes the journal Nature .
Nature Climate Change was founded in April 2011 and replaced the online resource Nature Reports Climate Change .
The editor-in-chief is Rory Howlett, who previously (with a brief interruption) had been an editor at Nature magazine since 1987 . An external group of reviewers was also appointed to support the assessment of the newly added social sciences .
content
The aim is to publish the most relevant research on the "Effects of climate change and its implications for business, politics and the world in general". High quality original works from the natural and social sciences are published. The journal also includes a discussion forum for leading experts through the publication of opinions, analyzes and reviews. Reference is made to the most important developments (“Research Highlights”). Original articles by recognized science journalists are also published.
Topics covered include the following areas: adaptation to climate change, anthropology, atmospheric science, biochemistry, communication, cryosphere science, ecology, economics, energy, ethics, geography, health, hydrology, influences and vulnerability, mitigation (mitigation of climate change), modeling, oceanography , Paleoclimatology , politics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, sustainability and development.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olive Heffernan: New beginnings. In: Nature Reports Climate Change , May 5, 2010, doi : 10.1038 / climate.2010.41 .
- ↑ Journal Citation Reports 2016. Retrieved June 23, 2017.
- ↑ http://www.nature.com/climate/index.html
- ↑ http://www.nature.com/nclimate/about/about-eds/index.html
- ↑ Notice of the American Psychological Association
- ↑ http://www.nature.com/nclimate/about/index.html