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Irrigation and Drainage is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1531-0353Verify ISSN ↗1531-0361Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,450 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 146 / 422 | 65th | Q2 |
| Soil Science | 68 / 167 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Irrigation and Drainage is Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 146 of 422) and Q2 in Soil Science (rank 68 of 167), by CiteScore 2025.
Irrigation and Drainage 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.454, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 55.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,450 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.
Irrigation and Drainage is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1531-0353 and its online ISSN is 1531-0361.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Irrigation and Drainage has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 1.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #161 of 410 Scopus journals in Agronomy and Crop Science.
Irrigation and Drainage published 163 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 173. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (21.6%), Iran (9.6%) and India (6.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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