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International Journal of Water is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
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ISSN 1465-6620Verify ISSN ↗1741-5322Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 756 / 876 | 13th | Q4 |
| Water Science and Technology | 254 / 279 | 9th | Q4 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 395 / 432 | 8th | 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 2007–present (also 2000–2005), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
International Journal of Water is Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 756 of 876), Q4 in Water Science and Technology (rank 254 of 279) and Q4 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 395 of 432), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Water 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 0.6, quartile Q4, 13th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.140, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 20.
International Journal of Water is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1465-6620 and its online ISSN is 1741-5322.
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.
International Journal of Water has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 0.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #657 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
International Journal of Water published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 41. 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 53 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (43.4%), Iraq (9.4%) and Iran (9.4%).
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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