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Global Issues in Water Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Springer International Publishing AG.
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ISSN 2211-0631Verify ISSN ↗2211-0658Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 705 / 876 | 19th | Q4 |
| Water Science and Technology | 242 / 279 | 13th | Q4 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 385 / 432 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2010–2023), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Global Issues in Water Policy is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 705 of 876), Q4 in Water Science and Technology (rank 242 of 279) and Q4 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 385 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Issues in Water Policy is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4, 19th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Global Issues in Water Policy is published by Springer International Publishing AG. Its print ISSN is 2211-0631 and its online ISSN is 2211-0658.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Global Issues in Water Policy has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #558 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Global Issues in Water Policy published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 61. 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.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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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