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Journal of Hydro-Environment Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1570-6443Verify ISSN ↗1876-4444Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 60 / 279 | 78th | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 98 / 434 | 77th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 116 / 432 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Environmental Engineering | 70 / 241 | 71st | Q2 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 65 / 157 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.2.
Journal of Hydro-Environment Research is Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 60 of 279), Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 98 of 434) and Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 116 of 432), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Hydro-Environment 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 6.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.534, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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.
Journal of Hydro-Environment Research is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1570-6443 and its online ISSN is 1876-4444.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Hydro-Environment Research has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 2.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #95 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Journal of Hydro-Environment Research published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 55. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (16.7%), South Korea (12%) and Iran (10%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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