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Journal of Water and Health is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by IWA Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1477-8920Verify ISSN ↗1996-7829Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IWA Publishing
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 185 / 725 | 74th | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 98 / 279 | 65th | Q2 |
| Infectious Diseases | 128 / 361 | 64th | Q2 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 64 / 147 | 56th | Q2 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 66 / 151 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.8.
Journal of Water and Health is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 185 of 725), Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 98 of 279) and Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 128 of 361), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Water and Health 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.693, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 75.
Journal of Water and Health is published by IWA Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1477-8920 and its online ISSN is 1996-7829.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Water and Health has an h-index of 86 and a 2-year mean of 3.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #100 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Journal of Water and Health published 104 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 167. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (22.7%), Japan (5.1%) and China (4.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1 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.
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