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Urban Water Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1573-062XVerify ISSN ↗1744-9006Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 290 / 876 | 66th | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 134 / 279 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Urban Water Journal is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 290 of 876) and Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 134 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
Urban Water Journal 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.500, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 64.
Urban Water Journal is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1573-062X and its online ISSN is 1744-9006.
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.
Urban Water Journal has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 1.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #282 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Urban Water Journal published 122 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 125. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (13.1%), China (9.8%) and Brazil (5.7%).
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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