The above Perspective article, for which I was the handling editor, was published on-line by WIREs Climate Change on 17 January 2022 following peer review. Wiley’s, the journal’s publisher, have today — 5th April 2023 — published an ‘Article Note’ to accompany this Perspective, referring to a formal complaint the publisher received about my handling […]
WIREs Climate Change
COP26 – So is it “too late” (to stop dangerous climate change)?
Just over two years ago, in October 2019, WIREs Climate Change published an on-line special collection of nine opinion articles from hand-picked scholars around the world who each, in their own way, answered the question ‘Is it too late...
Latest articles in WIREs Climate Change, Vol 12(1), 2021
The latest issue of WIREs Climate Change, Volume 12(1) 2021, is now available on-line. The 10 review articles in this issue include Dana Fisher and Sohana Nasrin on climate activism and its effects, Mike Schafer and James Painter...
Academic Peer Reviewing: Saying ‘Yes’ or Saying ‘No’
Have you just received an invitation to review a submitted journal manuscript, or a grant application? Not sure whether or not to accept the invitation? You’ve got way too much work on your desk already. What should you decide?...
WIREs Climate Change celebrates 10 years
The two professional associations that sponsor Wiley’s WIREs Climate Change – the Royal Geographical Society (with the IBG) and the Royal Meteorological Society – recognise the landmark as the journal passes it’s 10 year anniversary. During this period over...
Social scientific knowledge in times of crisis: What climate change can learn from coronavirus (and vice versa)
Read this new editorial commentary from WIREs Climate Change, written with colleagues from Orebro University, Sweden. Abstract. Crisis, by its very nature, requires decisive intervention. However, important questions can be obscured by the very immediacy of the crisis condition....
WIREs Climate Change – rising impact factor
The new journal impact factors for 2017 announced in June show the growing citation success of the journal which I edit, WIREs Climate Change. Our Thomson-Reuters JIF for 2016 was 5.12, the highest we have been since the journal launched in 2010. This places WIREs Climate Change 5th in the ‘meteorology and atmospheric science’ […]