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Water Alternatives is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.1), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Water Alternatives Association.
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ISSN 1965-0175Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Water Alternatives Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 55 / 745 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 140 / 876 | 84th | Q1 |
| Water Science and Technology | 61 / 279 | 78th | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 117 / 432 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.1.
Water Alternatives is Q1 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 55 of 745), Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 140 of 876) and Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 61 of 279), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Water Alternatives is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.940, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 59.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$377 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.
Water Alternatives is published by Water Alternatives Association. Its ISSN is 1965-0175.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Water Alternatives has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #648 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Water Alternatives published 2 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2009 with 6. 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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