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Water Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by IWA Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1366-7017Verify ISSN ↗1996-9759Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 273 / 876 | 68th | Q2 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 191 / 432 | 55th | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 125 / 279 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present (also 1998), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Water Policy is Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 273 of 876), Q2 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 191 of 432) and Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 125 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
Water Policy 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.564, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 73.
Water Policy is published by IWA Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1366-7017 and its online ISSN is 1996-9759.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Water Policy has an h-index of 84 and a 2-year mean of 2.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #194 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Water Policy published 73 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 119. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (22.7%), Netherlands (12%) and India (10.4%).
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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