Current Climate Change Reports

Current Climate Change Reports is a peer-reviewed review journal published by Springer, established in 2015 and covering research and policy issues across climate change, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 12.3.（Current Climate Change Reports）是由（Springer）出版的同行评审综述期刊，2015 年创刊，涵盖气候变化领域的研究与政策议题，2025 年影响因子为 12.3。

Scope

• It provides concise review articles on a wide range of topical subjects in the field of climate change.该刊提供气候变化领域广泛热点主题的简明综述文章。
• Coverage spans ecological impacts, advances in modeling, sea level projections, extreme events, and climate feedback and sensitivity.覆盖范围包括生态影响、建模进展、海平面预测、极端事件以及气候反馈与敏感性。
• It also addresses hydrologic impact, effects on human health, and economics and policy issues.该刊亦涉及水文影响、对人类健康的影响以及经济与政策议题。
• Section Editors are appointed in key areas such as aerosols, decadal predictability, human health, global energy budgets and sea level projections.该刊在气溶胶、年代际可预测性、人类健康、全球能量收支与海平面预测等关键领域任命栏目编辑。
• Section Editors select topics on which leading experts contribute comprehensive reviews emphasizing new developments and recently published papers of major importance.栏目编辑选定选题，由领域内领军专家撰写综合评述，突出新进展与近期发表的重要论文。
• Every manuscript undergoes single-blind peer review, in which at least two outside reviewers assess quality, accuracy and relevance.所有稿件均经单盲同行评审，由至少两位外部评审人评估质量、准确性与相关性。
• Frequently cited reviews address the bias correction of climate simulations, drought indices, and precipitation extremes.被高频引用的综述涉及气候模拟的偏差校正、干旱指数与极端降水。^[1][2][3]

History

• It was launched by Springer in 2015 as part of its Current Reports series of review journals.该刊由（Springer）于 2015 年创办，属其（Current Reports）综述期刊系列。
• It publishes one volume per year, appearing in four issues from March to December in its earlier volumes.该刊每年出版一卷，早期各卷分 3 月至 12 月的四期出版。
• Its publishing model is hybrid, combining subscription content with open access articles.该刊采用混合出版模式，兼有订阅内容与开放获取文章。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 9.077 in 2021, 9.711 in 2022, 10.3 in 2024 and 12.3 in 2025, with a 2024 five-year value of 13.9.其影响因子 2021 年为 9.077、2022 年为 9.711、2024 年为 10.3、2025 年为 12.3，2024 年五年影响因子为 13.9。
• The median time from submission to first decision is 17 days, and the journal is indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus.投稿至首次决定的中位时间为 17 天，该刊被（Science Citation Index Expanded）与（Scopus）收录。

Editors

• Its Editor-in-Chief is Peter E. Thornton of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.其主编为（Oak Ridge National Laboratory）的（Peter E. Thornton）。
• Thornton directs the Climate Change Science Institute and heads Earth Systems Science at Oak Ridge.（Thornton）在（Oak Ridge）主持气候变化科学研究所，并主管地球系统科学。
• The editorial board includes Susan Solomon of MIT, Inez Fung of UC Berkeley, Adam Sobel of Columbia University and Masaki Satoh of the University of Tokyo.编委会成员包括（MIT）的（Susan Solomon）、（UC Berkeley）的（Inez Fung）、（Columbia University）的（Adam Sobel）与（University of Tokyo）的（Masaki Satoh）。
• Other members include Claudia Tebaldi and Benjamin Bond-Lamberty of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Mojib Latif of GEOMAR.其他编委包括（Pacific Northwest National Laboratory）的（Claudia Tebaldi）与（Benjamin Bond-Lamberty），以及（GEOMAR）的（Mojib Latif）。
• Section Editors cover areas such as hydrologic impact, forest management, snow processes and isotope-based carbon science.栏目编辑覆盖水文影响、森林管理、积雪过程与基于同位素的碳科学等领域。
• The international Editorial Board reviews the annual table of contents and ensures topics are current and include emerging research.国际编委会审阅年度目录，确保选题紧跟前沿并涵盖新兴研究。