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Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Royal Society of Chemistry.
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ISSN 2053-1400Verify ISSN ↗2053-1419Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 49 / 279 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 66 / 241 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology is Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 49 of 279) and Q2 in Environmental Engineering (rank 66 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.800, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 84.
Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology is published by Royal Society of Chemistry. Its print ISSN is 2053-1400 and its online ISSN is 2053-1419.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 2.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #87 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology published 256 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 299. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (24.1%), United States (15.3%) and India (14.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (2.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none 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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