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npj Clean Water is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Springer Nature.
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Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 7 / 279 | 97th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 17 / 432 | 96th | Q1 |
| Pollution | 12 / 180 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 14 / 151 | 91st | Q1 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.6.
npj Clean Water is Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 7 of 279), Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 17 of 432) and Q1 in Pollution (rank 12 of 180), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
npj Clean Water 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 16.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.153, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 57.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 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.
npj Clean Water is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 2059-7037.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
npj Clean Water has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 13.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
npj Clean Water published 115 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 133. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (25.9%), United States (10.8%) and South Korea (9.6%).
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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