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Water SA is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by South African Water Research Commission.
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ISSN 0378-4738Verify ISSN ↗1816-7950Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Water Research Commission
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 258 / 432 | 40th | Q3 |
| Water Science and Technology | 172 / 279 | 38th | Q3 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 96 / 151 | 36th | Q3 |
| Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 92 / 134 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.4.
Water SA is Q3 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 258 of 432), Q3 in Water Science and Technology (rank 172 of 279) and Q3 in Waste Management and Disposal (rank 96 of 151), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Water SA 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.376, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 75.
Water SA is published by South African Water Research Commission. Its print ISSN is 0378-4738 and its online ISSN is 1816-7950.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Water SA has an h-index of 85 and a 2-year mean of 0.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #278 of 404 Scopus journals in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.
Water SA published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 147. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (65.7%), China (4%) and India (3.5%). 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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