Nature Climate Change

Nature Climate Change is a monthly peer-reviewed journal launched in 2011 and published by Nature Portfolio, covering the physical, social and life sciences of climate change and its wider implications, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 26.9《自然·气候变化》是由（Nature Portfolio）出版的月刊同行评审期刊，2011 年创办，涵盖气候变化及其深远影响的物理科学、社会科学与生命科学，2025 年影响因子为 26.9。

Scope

• It publishes original research, reviews, perspectives and opinion on the nature, underlying causes and impacts of global climate change, and explores their implications for the economy, policy and the world at large该刊刊载关于全球气候变化的性质、根本原因与影响的原创研究、综述、观点与评论，并探讨其对经济、政策与整个世界的影响。
• It spans the physical, social and life sciences, from atmospheric physics to psychology and policy该刊横跨物理科学、社会科学与生命科学，学科范围从大气物理学延伸到心理学与政策研究。
• Its editorial team is dedicated to disseminating cutting-edge research on climate change and to exploring its implications for society其编辑团队致力于传播气候变化领域的前沿研究，并探讨其对社会的影响。
• It addresses many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including Climate Action, Affordable and Clean Energy and Life on Land该刊回应联合国可持续发展目标中的多项议题，包括气候行动、经济适用的清洁能源与陆地生物。
• It is published monthly in print and online, with content also released online ahead of issue publication该刊以印刷版与在线版月刊形式出版，并会在正式刊期前先行在线发布内容。
• It is a hybrid access journal, so part of its content is published open access该刊为混合获取期刊，故仅部分内容以开放获取出版。

History

• It launched in April 2011 as a full-fledged journal, superseding the earlier Nature Reports Climate Change该刊于 2011 年 4 月作为正式期刊创刊，取代此前的（Nature Reports Climate Change）。
• It is the first thematic and interdisciplinary journal in the Nature Portfolio, created to bring natural and social scientists together around a shared challenge该刊是（Nature Portfolio）内首本主题化与跨学科期刊，为围绕共同挑战汇聚自然科学与社会科学学者而创办。
• It marked its tenth anniversary in 2021 and its fifteenth anniversary in 2026 with special issues该刊于 2021 年迎来十周年、于 2026 年迎来十五周年，并推出纪念专刊。
• Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 26.9, ranking second among 114 meteorology and atmospheric sciences journals and second among 202 environmental studies journals其 2025 年影响因子为 26.9，在 114 种气象学与大气科学期刊中排名第二，在 202 种环境研究期刊中同样排名第二。
• Its most-cited papers include studies of global drought and flood risk under climate change该刊被引最多的论文包括气候变化背景下全球干旱与洪涝风险的研究。^[1]

Editors

• The Chief Editor is Bronwyn Wake, who joined the journal in 2012 and became Chief Editor in May 2016现任主编为 Bronwyn Wake，她 2012 年加入该刊，并于 2016 年 5 月出任主编。
• She has handled research manuscripts and review and opinion articles across physical climate science, ocean and aquatic environments and interdisciplinary work linking natural and social sciences她处理过物理气候科学、海洋与水生环境领域的研究手稿与综述及观点文章，以及连接自然科学与社会科学的跨学科工作。
• She completed postgraduate studies at the University of Tasmania, earning a PhD in trace element biogeochemistry and first-class Honours in Antarctic Studies, and worked in the London and Sydney offices她于（University of Tasmania）完成研究生学业，取得微量元素生物地球化学博士学位与南极研究一等荣誉学位，并曾在伦敦与悉尼办公室任职。
• The journal's editorial team is based in the Nature Portfolio office in London该刊编辑团队设于（Nature Portfolio）的伦敦办公室。
• All research articles are rigorously peer reviewed, and summary points are edited and fact-checked by authors and editors所有研究论文均经严谨同行评审，其要点摘要由作者与编辑进行编辑与事实核查。