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Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), WoS SCIE. Published by IWA Publishing.
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ISSN 2043-9083Verify ISSN ↗2408-9362Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development | 120 / 314 | 61st | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 328 / 725 | 54th | Q2 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 82 / 151 | 46th | Q3 |
| Pollution | 101 / 180 | 44th | Q3 |
| Water Science and Technology | 158 / 279 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development is Q2 in Development (rank 120 of 314), Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 328 of 725) and Q3 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 82 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.491, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 39.
Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development is published by IWA Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2043-9083 and its online ISSN is 2408-9362.
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 Sanitation and Hygiene for Development has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 2.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #75 of 299 Scopus journals in Development.
Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development published 86 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 120. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Kenya (6.6%), United Kingdom (6.6%) and Tanzania (6.1%).
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 1 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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