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Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education
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Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education

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Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 758 8 17 4

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Number of Best Scientists*: 16
Documents by Best Scientists*: 24
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
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Impact Factor: 1.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education?

The concepts of Water resources, Environmental resource management, Water resource management, Environmental planning and Hydrology are tackled in the journal. Integrated water resources management is a key component of Water resources research discussed in Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education. Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education facilitates discussions on Environmental resource management that incorporate concepts from other fields like Watershed management and Resource (biology).

While Water resource management is the focus of Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, it also provided insights into the studies of Water conservation and Groundwater. The journal is mostly focused on Groundwater, specifically Aquifer. It features Natural resource economics research that overlaps with concepts in Agriculture.

  • Water resources (20.84%)
  • Environmental resource management (19.66%)
  • Water resource management (14.68%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Political Economy and Political Ecology of the Hydro-Social Cycle (336 citations)
  • Integrated Water Management (180 citations)
  • Assessment of Potential Antibiotic Contaminants in Water and Preliminary Occurrence Analysis (154 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education:

The most cited papers mainly deal with areas of study such as Integrated water resources management, Environmental resource management, Water resources, Environmental planning and Natural resource economics. While work presented in the journal papers provide substantial information on Integrated water resources management, it also covers topics in Water resource management, International security, Government, Sustainability and Politics. The works on Environmental resource management tackled in the most cited articles bring together disciplines like Corporate governance, Resource management, Land management and Natural resource management.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Ecology
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education aims to foster the development of research in Water resources, Environmental planning, Environmental quality, Political economy and Ideology. The research on Water resources discussed in Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education draws on the closely related field of Engineering ethics. While work presented in Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education provided substantial information on Environmental planning, it also covered topics in Risk perception, Resilience (network), Dominion and Flood hazard, Flood myth.

The study on Political economy presented in Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education intersects with the topics under Politics.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Addressing Water Resources and Environmental Quality Programming Needs in Arequipa, Peru (0 citations)
  • Potential Health Hazards of Roadside Springs: Results from Central New York (0 citations)
  • Engaging the Public in Water Policy: Do Political Affiliation and Ideology Matter? (0 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Tamim M. Younos (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Linda Stalker Prokopy (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Alexander G. Fernald (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Christopher L. Lant (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Charles W. Howe (6 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Southern Illinois University Carbondale (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Arizona (20 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Purdue University (17 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 7 less than at the previous edition,
  • New Mexico State University (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • United States Army Corps of Engineers (15 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 28.57% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 71.43% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Integrated Hydrologic and Hydraulic Analysis of Torrential Flood Hazard in Arequipa, Peru

    Katy E. Mazer;Abigail A. Tomasek;Fariborz Daneshvar;Laura C. Bowling

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Coproduction Challenges in the Context of Changing Rural Livelihoods

    Ruxandra Popovici;Katy E. Mazer;Anna E. Erwin;Zhao Ma

    (2020)
    9 Citations
  • Chlorophyll and Phycocyanin Raw Fluorescence May Inform Recreational Lake Managers on Cyanobacterial HABs and Toxins: Lake Fayetteville Case Study

    (2023)
    7 Citations
  • Assessment of Arequipa's Hydrometeorological Monitoring Infrastructure to Support Water Management Decisions

    André Geraldo de Lima Moraes;Edwin Bocardo-Delgado;Laura C. Bowling;Fariborz Daneshvar

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Creating a Collaboration Framework to Evaluate International University-led Water Research Partnerships

    Katy E. Mazer;Anna Erwin;Ruxandra Popovici;Edwin Bocardo-Delgado

    (2020)
    4 Citations
  • Using Remote Sensing to Discover Historic Context of Human‐Environmental Water Resource Dynamics

    Zach Brecheisen;Nicholas Hamp-Adams;Abigail Tomasek;Erika J. Foster

    (2020)
    3 Citations
  • Total Microcystin Concentration Variability in Water Samples and Recommended Minimum Volume (20 mL) for Freeze Thaw Cycles

    (2023)
    2 Citations
  • Natural Characteristics and Human Activity Influence Turbidity and Ion Concentrations in Streams

    Erin E. Scott;Brian E. Haggard

    (2021)
    2 Citations
  • Addressing Water Resources and Environmental Quality Programming Needs in Arequipa, Peru

    Laura C. Bowling;Katy E. Mazer;Edwin Bocardo-Delgado;Jane R. Frankenberger

    (2021)
    1 Citations
  • Informing Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Program Design and Watershed Planning: Case Study of StreamSmart Data Analysis in the Upper White River Basin, Arkansas

    (2023)
    1 Citations

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