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H2Open Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by IWA Publishing.
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Publisher: IWA Publishing
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 117 / 307 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 165 / 432 | 61st | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 109 / 279 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
H2Open Journal is Q2 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 117 of 307), Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 165 of 432) and Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 109 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
H2Open Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.538, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
H2Open Journal is published by IWA Publishing. Its ISSN is 2616-6518.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
H2Open Journal has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 2.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #124 of 291 Scopus journals in Environmental Science (miscellaneous).
H2Open Journal published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 50. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Bangladesh (17.7%), Ethiopia (16.3%) and United States (5.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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