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Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Copernicus Publications.
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ISSN 1027-5606Verify ISSN ↗1607-7938Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 10 / 194 | 95th | Q1 |
| Water Science and Technology | 26 / 279 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.5.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is Q1 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 10 of 194) and Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 26 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 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 10.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.035, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 194.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,725 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.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences is published by Copernicus Publications. Its print ISSN is 1027-5606 and its online ISSN is 1607-7938.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences has an h-index of 233 and a 2-year mean of 7.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences published 348 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 367. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Germany (16.8%), China (15.1%) and United States (14.5%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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