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Watershed Ecology and the Environment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7), DOAJ. Published by KeAi Communications Co..
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ISSN 2589-4714Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: KeAi Communications Co.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ecology | 62 / 491 | 87th | Q1 |
| Water Science and Technology | 48 / 279 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (miscellaneous) | 69 / 307 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.
Watershed Ecology and the Environment is Q1 in Ecology (rank 62 of 491), Q1 in Water Science and Technology (rank 48 of 279) and Q1 in Environmental Science (miscellaneous) (rank 69 of 307), by CiteScore 2025.
Watershed Ecology and the Environment 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 7, quartile Q1, 87th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.952, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 17.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$700 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.
Watershed Ecology and the Environment is published by KeAi Communications Co. Its ISSN is 2589-4714.
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.
Watershed Ecology and the Environment has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 5.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 469 Scopus journals in Ecology.
Watershed Ecology and the Environment published 44 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 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (25%), India (9.2%) and Bangladesh (7.5%).
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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