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Hydrological Research Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources.
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ISSN 1882-3416Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 131 / 194 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Water Science and Technology | 215 / 279 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Hydrological Research Letters is Q3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 131 of 194) and Q4 in Water Science and Technology (rank 215 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
Hydrological Research Letters 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.338, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$414 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.
Hydrological Research Letters is published by Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources. Its ISSN is 1882-3416.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Hydrological Research Letters has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 1.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #107 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Hydrological Research Letters published 46 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (85.9%), United States (1.5%) and Germany (1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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