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Water Economics and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.6), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by World Scientific.
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ISSN 2382-624XVerify ISSN ↗2382-6258Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 385 / 755 | 49th | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 259 / 456 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 246 / 432 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Water Science and Technology | 169 / 279 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.6.
Water Economics and Policy is Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 385 of 755), Q3 in Business and International Management (rank 259 of 456) and Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 246 of 432), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Water Economics and Policy 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.474, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 19.
Water Economics and Policy is published by World Scientific. Its print ISSN is 2382-624X and its online ISSN is 2382-6258.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Water Economics and Policy has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 1.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #441 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Water Economics and Policy 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (33.5%), United States (18.3%) and Spain (7.7%).
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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