Journal of Climatology and Weather Forecasting-Editorial Note

Abstract

This is prideful and exultant to mention that during the year 2019, all the issues of volume 7 were published online well within the time and the print issues were also brought out and dispatched within 30 days of publishing the issue online. The articles published in Journal of Climatology & Weather Forecasting have been cited 132 times by eminent researchers all around the world. All published articles of this journal are included in the indexing and abstracting coverage of Index Copernicus, Google Scholar, Publons, World Cat and much other coverage. The Journal Impact factor is 0.96. The journal is using Editorial Manager System for quality in review process. Editorial Manager is an online manuscript submission, review and tracking systems. Review processing is performed by the editorial board members of Journal of Climatology & Weather forecasting or outside experts; at least two independent reviewers approval followed by editor approval is required for acceptance of any citable manuscript. Authors may submit manuscripts and track their progress through the system, hopefully to publication. Reviewers can download manuscripts and submit their opinions to the editor. Editors can manage the whole submission/review/revise/publish process. The visitor’s traffic is the benchmark for the success of any scientific journal and the Journal of Climatology & Weather Forecasting is constantly attracting viewers across the world. According to the Google Analytics, more than readers are visiting to our journal websites for submitting manuscripts, to browse the latest research published on climate and to refer the published content for conceptualizing their research study, deriving research hypotheses, case reports and validating their contributions. Readers from the major countries including United States, Japan, United Kingdom, India, Egypt and Nigeria visit our journal domain to learn about the ongoing research activities in this field. The promotion of the individual author contributions is taken care of and hence the authors enjoy the reputation among global audience. During the calendar year 2019, JCWF received a number of papers out of which 48% were rejected in the preliminary screening and 20% were rejected during the peer review process. Around 32% articles has been processed and published online. A total of 50 research scientists from all over the world contributed as reviewer in the journal. We have 13 Editors in the Editorial Board of the journal who actively contributed with their valuable services throughout the year for the publication of articles. I take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of the Editor in chief Dr. Shoichiro Ozaki and Dr. Richard Snow during the final editing of articles published and the support rendered by the editorial assistant, Dr. Alessandro Pezzoli in bringing out issues of JCWF in time. I would also like to express my gratitude to all the authors, reviewers, the publisher, the advisory and the editorial board of JCWF, the office bearers for their support in bringing out yet another volume of JCWF and look forward to their unrelenting support to bring out the Volume 8 of JCWF in scheduled time.