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Desalination and Water Treatment is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1944-3986Verify ISSN ↗1944-3994Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Engineering | 42 / 123 | 66th | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 116 / 279 | 58th | Q2 |
| Pollution | 86 / 180 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.2.
Desalination and Water Treatment is Q2 in Ocean Engineering (rank 42 of 123), Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 116 of 279) and Q2 in Pollution (rank 86 of 180), by CiteScore 2025.
Desalination and Water Treatment is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 4.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.520, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 96.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,000 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Desalination and Water Treatment is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1944-3986 and its online ISSN is 1944-3994.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Desalination and Water Treatment has an h-index of 107 and a 2-year mean of 8.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 99 Scopus journals in Ocean Engineering.
Desalination and Water Treatment published 638 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,805. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 70 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Iran (17.9%), China (17.6%) and India (7.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 48 retracted papers are recorded (2.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 5 of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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