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Water Biology and Security is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2097-4132Verify ISSN ↗2772-7351Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Science and Zoology | 17 / 520 | 96th | Q1 |
| Aquatic Science | 16 / 259 | 94th | Q1 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) | 20 / 253 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Water Science and Technology | 32 / 279 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.5.
Water Biology and Security is Q1 in Animal Science and Zoology (rank 17 of 520), Q1 in Aquatic Science (rank 16 of 259) and Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 20 of 253), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Water Biology and Security is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 8.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.126, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 19.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Water Biology and Security is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its print ISSN is 2097-4132 and its online ISSN is 2772-7351.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Water Biology and Security has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 2.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #78 of 502 Scopus journals in Animal Science and Zoology.
Water Biology and Security published 135 papers in 2025. 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 China (64.9%), Brazil (5.8%) and Italy (4.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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