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River Research and Applications is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1535-1459Verify ISSN ↗1535-1467Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,110 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science (all) | 97 / 249 | 61st | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 121 / 279 | 56th | Q2 |
| Environmental Chemistry | 95 / 157 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present (also 1996), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
River Research and Applications is Q2 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 97 of 249), Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 121 of 279) and Q3 in Environmental Chemistry (rank 95 of 157), by CiteScore 2025.
River Research and Applications 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.651, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 120.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,110 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.
River Research and Applications is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1535-1459 and its online ISSN is 1535-1467.
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.
River Research and Applications has an h-index of 118 and a 2-year mean of 2.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #99 of 234 Scopus journals in Environmental Science (all).
River Research and Applications published 174 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 200. 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 (38.4%), Canada (10.6%) and China (10.1%).
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 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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