Water Research: impact and ranking
Water Research has a 2-year mean citedness of 13.3 in OpenAlex, which ranks #203 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 460. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 13.3 #203 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 460 #127 of 18,122
- Citations
- 2.3M #88 of 18,122
- Works
- 32k 72.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Water Research?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Water Research: 13.3, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Water Research #203 of 18,122 journals, in the top 1%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Water Research?
OpenAlex gives Water Research an h-index of 460: 460 of its papers have each been cited at least 460 times. That ranks #127 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Water Research publish?
OpenAlex records 31,996 works in Water Research from 1904 to 2026, cited 2,320,747 times in all, 72.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #88 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Water Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0043-1354
- In OpenAlex
- 1904 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Water Research as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,660.
- OpenAlex record
- S52566953
Journals ranked near Water Research
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Water Research on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 183 | Journal of Financial Economics | 13.8 | 573 |
| 184 | Cement and Concrete Research | 13.8 | 373 |
| 198 | Nature Biotechnology | 13.4 | 630 |
| 204 | Food Hydrocolloids | 13.3 | 279 |
| 206 | Carbohydrate Polymers | 13.3 | 344 |
| 207 | Journal of Cleaner Production | 13.2 | 454 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.