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Journal of Water Process Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2214-7144Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,350 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality | 19 / 282 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 58 / 325 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 31 / 151 | 79th | Q1 |
| Process Chemistry and Technology | 19 / 84 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.6.
Journal of Water Process Engineering is Q1 in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (rank 19 of 282), Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 58 of 325) and Q1 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 31 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Water Process Engineering 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 9.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.229, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 125.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,350 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 Water Process Engineering is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2214-7144.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Water Process Engineering has an h-index of 142 and a 2-year mean of 7.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 199 Scopus journals in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.
Journal of Water Process Engineering published 2,519 papers in 2025. 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 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (60.8%), India (6.9%) and Portugal (4%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 4 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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