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Journal of Soil and Water Conservation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0022-4561Verify ISSN ↗1941-3300Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nature and Landscape Conservation | 60 / 231 | 74th | Q2 |
| Agronomy and Crop Science | 134 / 422 | 68th | Q2 |
| Soil Science | 65 / 167 | 61st | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 117 / 279 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation is Q2 in Nature and Landscape Conservation (rank 60 of 231), Q2 in Agronomy and Crop Science (rank 134 of 422) and Q2 in Soil Science (rank 65 of 167), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.523, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 100.
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0022-4561 and its online ISSN is 1941-3300.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation has an h-index of 124 and a 2-year mean of 1.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 216 Scopus journals in Nature and Landscape Conservation.
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 102. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (81.6%), China (5.3%) and Brazil (2.1%). 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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