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Journal of Groundwater Hydrology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Japanese Association of Groundwater Hydrology.
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ISSN 0913-4182Verify ISSN ↗2185-5943Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Association of Groundwater Hydrology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth-Surface Processes | 171 / 184 | 7th | Q4 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 411 / 434 | 5th | Q4 |
| Water Science and Technology | 266 / 279 | 4th | 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 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Journal of Groundwater Hydrology is Q4 in Earth-Surface Processes (rank 171 of 184), Q4 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 411 of 434) and Q4 in Water Science and Technology (rank 266 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Groundwater Hydrology 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 7th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.155, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
Journal of Groundwater Hydrology is published by Japanese Association of Groundwater Hydrology. Its print ISSN is 0913-4182 and its online ISSN is 2185-5943.
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.
Journal of Groundwater Hydrology has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #125 of 172 Scopus journals in Earth-Surface Processes.
Journal of Groundwater Hydrology published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 43. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (98.7%), Mongolia (0.5%) and United States (0.3%). 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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