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Water Security is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2468-3124Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,534 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oceanography | 5 / 154 | 97th | Q1 |
| Water Science and Technology | 20 / 279 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law | 44 / 432 | 89th | Q1 |
| Waste Management and Disposal | 25 / 151 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.
Water Security is Q1 in Oceanography (rank 5 of 154), Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 20 of 279) and Q1 in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (rank 44 of 432), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Water Security 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 11, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.321, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,534 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 Security is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2468-3124.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Water Security has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 4.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 143 Scopus journals in Oceanography.
Water Security published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 26. 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 92 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (23.4%), India (16.3%) and United Kingdom (9.7%).
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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