Water Resources Research: impact and ranking
Water Resources Research has a 2-year mean citedness of 7.22 in OpenAlex, which ranks #807 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 421. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.22 #807 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 421 #163 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.5M #196 of 18,122
- Works
- 24k 65.4 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Water Resources 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 Resources Research: 7.22, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Water Resources Research #807 of 18,122 journals, in the top 4%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Water Resources Research?
OpenAlex gives Water Resources Research an h-index of 421: 421 of its papers have each been cited at least 421 times. That ranks #163 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Water Resources Research publish?
OpenAlex records 23,530 works in Water Resources Research from 1965 to 2026, cited 1,539,810 times in all, 65.4 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #196 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Water Resources Research
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0043-1397
- In OpenAlex
- 1965 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex lists Water Resources Research as fully open access and as indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,000.
- OpenAlex record
- S204847658
Journals ranked near Water Resources Research
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Water Resources Research on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 778 | The American Journal of Human Genetics | 7.32 | 386 |
| 784 | Food Research International | 7.31 | 280 |
| 795 | Analytical Chemistry | 7.27 | 483 |
| 816 | Applied Thermal Engineering | 7.20 | 252 |
| 825 | Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences | 7.18 | 328 |
| 835 | Bioresource Technology | 7.16 | 437 |
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.