I believe the increased Climate
Dynamics citation rate is due to the increased interest and
concern over climate and climate change that has occurred in the last
several years, and the growing
recognition that the climate system must be considered as a whole.
(It's also, of course, due to the journal's reputation for publishing
authoritative and well-reviewed research papers.)
A challenge to publishing in this field is keeping the necessary
balance between an ever-increasing volume of submitted manuscripts and
the maintenance of high standards of review and publication.
There is now widespread agreement among climate scientists working
in the field that detectable global warming is occurring, which was
not the case when the journal started in 1985.
The research published in Climate Dynamics is contributing
to a better understanding of the nature of climate and climate change,
and thereby to the formulation of rational environmental policy.
Prof. W. Lawrence Gates, Executive Editor
Climate Dynamics
Springer-Verlag, publishers
rofessor
W. Lawrence Gates, one of the executive editors of Climate
Dynamics, provides a brief commentary about the status of
this journal in global warming research. In our Special Topics
analysis of global warming research over the past decade, Climate
Dynamics ranks at #2 by total citations among the top 25
journals in this field. Climate Dynamics is also among
the top 50 journals in the Geosciences field of the 
Web product. In addition to his responsibilities for Climate
Dynamics, Professor Gates is also the Director of the
Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA.
