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Water Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by IWA Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0273-1223Verify ISSN ↗1996-9732Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Science and Technology | 62 / 279 | 77th | Q1 |
| Environmental Engineering | 71 / 241 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present (also 1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.1.
Water Science and Technology is Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 62 of 279) and Q2 in Environmental Engineering (rank 71 of 241), by CiteScore 2025.
Water Science and Technology 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.664, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 168.
Water Science and Technology is published by IWA Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0273-1223 and its online ISSN is 1996-9732.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Water Science and Technology has an h-index of 192 and a 2-year mean of 4.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 263 Scopus journals in Water Science and Technology.
Water Science and Technology published 188 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 636. 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 (2026), authors are most often from China (25.3%), United States (8.8%) and Mexico (5.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0 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.
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