Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS), co-sponsored by IAP and CNC-IAMAS, was selected into "2012 The Highest International Impact Academic Journals of China" (Science/Technology/Medicine) 175 Titles, ranking No. 36. The list of evaluating academic journals with international impact was organized by China Academic Journals Electronic Publishing House, China Scientific Literature Evaluation and Measuring Research Center and Library of Tsinghua University (Fig. 1).

In addition, in a recent “Market Intelligence & Web Analytics” released by AAS’ publisher Springer, it reported that the full text requests of AAS papers are 26547 from SpringerLink, much more than they are in 2011. The full-text requests by geography shows USA and China are two biggest requesting countries (Fig. 2). The top 10 most requested AAS papers in 2012 (Table 1) mainly focus on regional climate model, climate change in China, monsoons and atmospheric chemistry, precisely reflecting AAS’ mission, i.e., introducing high-level research on atmospheric sciences with Chinese regional characteristics to the world. AAS 2011 Impact Factor is 0.987, making a solid progress toward its target of becoming world leading journal of atmospheric research.

Figure 1 The award plate

Fig 2: Full-text Article Requests by Geography from SpringerLink.