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Journal of Water and Health
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Journal of Water and Health

1477-8920

Published by: IWA Publishing

https://iwaponline.com/jwh

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 394 30 35 14

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 100
Documents by Best Scientists*: 112
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 5
SCIMAGO H-index: 73
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.558
Impact Factor: 2.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Water and Health?

The main points discussed in the journal deals with Water quality, Microbiology, Environmental health, Veterinary medicine and Environmental engineering. In addition to Water quality research, Journal of Water and Health aims to explore topics under Water treatment, Contamination, Water resource management and Water supply. The journal focused on Water treatment research but expanded to cover Portable water purification.

The study on Contamination presented in it intersects with the topics under Environmental chemistry. The journal addresses concerns in Microbiology which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Escherichia coli, Virulence, Polymerase chain reaction and Bacteria. Environmental health research presented in Journal of Water and Health encompasses a variety of subjects, including Sanitation, Waterborne diseases, Outbreak and Public health.

The overlapping concepts between Cryptosporidium and Giardia are the key highlights of Veterinary medicine study. The main emphasis of Journal of Water and Health is the research on Environmental engineering, emphasizing the topic of Wastewater. The presentations focused mostly on Fecal coliform in an attempt to further explore topics in Hydrology.

  • Water quality (24.62%)
  • Microbiology (18.41%)
  • Environmental health (16.44%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Waterborne transmission of protozoan parasites: a worldwide review of outbreaks and lessons learnt. (639 citations)
  • Global challenges in water, sanitation and health. (275 citations)
  • Global cost-benefit analysis of water supply and sanitation interventions (236 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Water and Health:

The journal papers mostly deal with topics like Environmental health, Water quality, Water supply, Microbiology and Veterinary medicine. The most cited publications facilitate discussions on Water quality that incorporate concepts from other fields like Water treatment, Environmental engineering, Contamination, Toxicology and Water pollution. The Water supply research presented in the journal articles focuses mostly on Sanitation and, on occasion, topics in Global health.

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

  • Bacteria
  • Ecology
  • Internal medicine

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Water quality, Environmental health, Veterinary medicine, Microbiology and Wastewater. Research in Sewage and the interrelating topic of Environmental monitoring were among the subjects of interest in the Water quality studies discussed in the journal. The studies in Environmental health featured incorporate elements of Feces and Water supply.

The research on Veterinary medicine tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Antibiotics, Effluent, Acanthamoeba and Bacteria. The research on Microbiology featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Legionella, Legionella pneumophila and Agar. Topics in Fecal coliform were tackled in line with various other fields like Contamination and Turbidity.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • SARS-CoV-2 sewage surveillance in low-income countries: potential and challenges (5 citations)
  • The status of freshwater and reused treated wastewater for agricultural irrigation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (3 citations)
  • Efficiency evaluation of sewage treatment technologies: implications on aquatic ecosystem health (3 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 Water and Health (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Paul R. Hunter (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Nicholas J. Ashbolt (13 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Mark D. Sobsey (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jamie Bartram (11 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Panagiotis Karanis (10 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous 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 Water and Health (based on the number of publications) are:

  • United States Environmental Protection Agency (54 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (41 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Guelph (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of East Anglia (19 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, 4.05% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 2.82% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.63% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.08% of all publications and 77.46% 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

  • The devil is in the details: emerging insights on the relevance of wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 to public health.

    (2021)
    48 Citations
  • Molecular prevalence and subtype distribution of Blastocystis sp. in Asia and in Australia.

    Sara Nemati;Mohammad Reza Zali;Paul Johnson;Hamed Mirjalali

    (2021)
    42 Citations
  • Modeling infection from SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentrations: promise, limitations, and future directions

    (2022)
    40 Citations
  • Contamination level, source identification and health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in drinking water sources of mining and non-mining areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

    (2022)
    36 Citations
  • Respiratory virus concentrations in human excretions that contribute to wastewater: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    (2023)
    28 Citations
  • Research needs for optimising wastewater-based epidemiology monitoring for public health protection

    (2022)
    26 Citations
  • Challenges in realising the potential of wastewater-based epidemiology to quantitatively monitor and predict the spread of disease.

    (2022)
    26 Citations
  • Establishment of local wastewater-based surveillance programmes in response to the spread and infection of COVID-19 – case studies from South Africa, the Netherlands, Turkey and England

    (2022)
    21 Citations
  • Detection and abundance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater in Liechtenstein, and the estimation of prevalence and impact of the B.1.1.7 variant

    R. Markt;L. Endler;F. Amman;A. Schedl

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • Fate of Ascaris at various pH, temperature and moisture levels.

    Jenna Senecal;Annika Nordin;Björn Vinnerås

    (2020)
    20 Citations

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