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Water Resources and Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2212-4284Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,798 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geography, Planning and Development | 192 / 876 | 78th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 191 / 755 | 74th | Q2 |
| Water Science and Technology | 88 / 279 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
Water Resources and Economics is Q1 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 192 of 876), Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 191 of 755) and Q2 in Water Science and Technology (rank 88 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
Water Resources and Economics 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.810, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,798 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 Resources and Economics is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2212-4284.
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 Resources and Economics has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 4.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 825 Scopus journals in Geography, Planning and Development.
Water Resources and Economics published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 32. 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 89 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (23.6%), China (11.2%) and Spain (9.6%).
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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