Nature Climate Change
Last updated ISSN 1758-678X
Nature Climate Change is published by Nature Portfolio in environmental science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $12,690.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Nature Climate Change concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Climate variability and models
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Climate change and permafrost
Key facts
| Publisher | Nature Portfolio |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1758-678X, 1758-6798 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $12,690 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,535 |
| Publishing since | 2007 |
| Journal website | www.nature.com/nclimate/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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