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Hydrology Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by IWA Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1998-9563Verify ISSN ↗2224-7955Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 72 / 279 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present (also 1995, 1986–1993, 1973–1980), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.8.
Hydrology Research is Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 72 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
Hydrology Research 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.812, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 63.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,150 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 Research is published by IWA Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1998-9563 and its online ISSN is 2224-7955.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Hydrology Research has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 3.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #68 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Hydrology Research published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 122. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (31.5%), Ethiopia (13.1%) and Mexico (4.3%).
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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