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Springer Water is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2364-6934Verify ISSN ↗2364-8198Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) | 123 / 194 | 36th | Q3 |
| Aquatic Science | 172 / 259 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 208 / 307 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Oceanography | 106 / 154 | 31st | Q3 |
| Water Science and Technology | 200 / 279 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Springer Water is Q3 in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 123 of 194), Q3 in Aquatic Science (rank 172 of 259) and Q3 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 208 of 307), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Springer Water is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3, 36th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Springer Water is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2364-6934 and its online ISSN is 2364-8198.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Springer Water has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 1.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #87 of 179 Scopus journals in Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous).
Springer Water published 196 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 276. 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.
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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