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Journal of Water and Climate Change is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by IWA Publishing.
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ISSN 2040-2244Verify ISSN ↗2408-9354Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IWA Publishing
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 51 / 279 | 81st | Q1 |
| Atmospheric Science | 33 / 160 | 79th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 102 / 432 | 76th | Q1 |
| Global and Planetary Change | 44 / 134 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
Journal of Water and Climate Change is Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 51 of 279), Q1 in Atmospheric Science (rank 33 of 160) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 102 of 432), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Water and Climate Change 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.850, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
Journal of Water and Climate Change is published by IWA Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2040-2244 and its online ISSN is 2408-9354.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Water and Climate Change has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 4.66 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Journal of Water and Climate Change published 189 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 319. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (12.8%), China (12.8%) and Bangladesh (9%).
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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