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Water Resources Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.2), ABDC A, WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0043-1397Verify ISSN ↗1944-7973Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 31 / 279 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.2.
Water Resources Research is Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 31 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
Water Resources Research 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 9.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.778, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 290.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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 Research is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0043-1397 and its online ISSN is 1944-7973.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Water Resources Research has an h-index of 426 and a 2-year mean of 6.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Water Resources Research published 743 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (28.2%), United States (27.7%) and United Kingdom (4.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 9 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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