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Water Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), DOAJ. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1110-4929Verify ISSN ↗2357-0008Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 203 / 491 | 58th | Q2 |
| Pollution | 100 / 180 | 44th | Q3 |
| Water Science and Technology | 157 / 279 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Water Science is Q2 in Ecology (rank 203 of 491), Q3 in Pollution (rank 100 of 180) and Q3 in Water Science and Technology (rank 157 of 279), by CiteScore 2025.
Water Science is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2, 58th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.507, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
Water Science is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1110-4929 and its online ISSN is 2357-0008.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Water Science has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 2.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #139 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Water Science published 45 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Egypt (40%), India (11.3%) and Nigeria (5.7%).
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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