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Water Science and Engineering is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Editorial Office of Water Science and Engineering.
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ISSN 1674-2370Verify ISSN ↗2405-8106Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Office of Water Science and Engineering
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean Engineering | 9 / 123 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Civil and Structural Engineering | 58 / 434 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.7.
Water Science and Engineering is Q1 in Ocean Engineering (rank 9 of 123) and Q1 in Civil and Structural Engineering (rank 58 of 434), by CiteScore 2025.
Water Science and Engineering is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 8.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.907, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Water Science and Engineering is published by Editorial Office of Water Science and Engineering. Its print ISSN is 1674-2370 and its online ISSN is 2405-8106.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Water Science and Engineering has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 3.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 99 Scopus journals in Ocean Engineering.
Water Science and Engineering published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 72. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (47.1%), India (5.1%) and Vietnam (4.8%).
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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