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Water Cycle is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2666-4453Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 19 / 279 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Engineering (miscellaneous) | 28 / 300 | 90th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 28 / 241 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.2.
Water Cycle is Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 19 of 279), Q1 in Engineering (miscellaneous) (rank 28 of 300) and Q1 in Environmental Engineering (rank 28 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
Water Cycle 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 11.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.426, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 23.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,100 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 Cycle is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its ISSN is 2666-4453.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Water Cycle has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 5.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Water Cycle published 56 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (58.9%), Canada (3.3%) and Indonesia (2.8%). 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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