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Water Waves is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2523-367XVerify ISSN ↗2523-3688Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analysis | 133 / 210 | 36th | Q3 |
| Applied Mathematics | 478 / 680 | 29th | Q3 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 282 / 397 | 29th | Q3 |
| Computational Mathematics | 152 / 212 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Water Waves is Q3 in Analysis (rank 133 of 210), Q3 in Applied Mathematics (rank 478 of 680) and Q3 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 282 of 397), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Water Waves 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 36th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.329, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,490 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 Waves is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2523-367X and its online ISSN is 2523-3688.
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 Waves has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 1.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #74 of 193 Scopus journals in Analysis.
Water Waves published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 28. 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 100 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (18.1%), France (15%) and Norway (8.5%).
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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