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Water and Environment Journal

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 546 27 31 8
Engineering and Technology 980 12 15 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 67
Documents by Best Scientists*: 69
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 49
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.495
Impact Factor: 1.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Water and Environment Journal?

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Environmental engineering, Hydrology, Waste management, Water quality and Sewage treatment. While Water and Environment Journal focused on Environmental engineering, it was also able to explore topics like Water pollution and Pollution. Water and Environment Journal focuses on different Hydrology studies like Drainage basin, Groundwater, Surface runoff, Flood myth and Water resources.

The research on Water resources discussed in it draws on the closely related field of Water resource management. Research on Waste management presented in Water and Environment Journal focuses, in particular, on Effluent, Waste treatment, Sludge, Activated sludge and Sewage sludge treatment. Environmental planning and Environmental protection are some topics wherein Water quality research discussed in the journal have an impact.

Studies on Environmental protection discussed in it link to the field of Water supply. Many of the studies tackled connect Wastewater with a similar field of study like Pulp and paper industry.

  • Environmental engineering (21.27%)
  • Hydrology (18.30%)
  • Waste management (15.55%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The Impact and Sustainability of Community Water Supply and Sanitation Programmes in Developing Countries (190 citations)
  • The potential of green roofs to manage Urban Stormwater (186 citations)
  • Cyanobacterial (Blue‐Green Algal) Toxins and their Significance in UK and European Waters (129 citations)

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

The most cited papers mainly tackle studies in Environmental engineering, Hydrology, Waste management, Water quality and Environmental protection. The Environmental engineering research presented in the published articles focuses mostly on Pollution and, on occasion, topics in Aquifer. The most cited papers explore topics in Water quality which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Water pollution and Surface water.

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

  • Ecology
  • World War II
  • Law

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The scientific interests tackled in the journal are Pulp and paper industry, Wastewater, Sewage treatment, Water quality and Environmental chemistry. While Pulp and paper industry is the focus of Water and Environment Journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Nutrient and Activated sludge. It explores issues in Wastewater which can be linked to other research areas like Membrane, Irrigation and Effluent.

Water quality studies covered in Water and Environment Journal falls within the purview of Hydrology.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Characteristics of an atrazine degrading bacterium and the construction of a microbial agent for effective atrazine degradation (18 citations)
  • Photocatalysis of xenobiotic organic compounds in greywater using zinc oxide nanoparticles: a critical review (8 citations)
  • Nanotechnology‐based wastewater treatment (7 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 Water and Environment Journal (based on the number of publications) are:

  • David Butler (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Miklas Scholz (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Judy England (11 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Nigel Horan (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • David Kay (10 papers) published 1 paper 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 Water and Environment Journal (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Environment Agency (74 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Cranfield University (49 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • National Rivers Authority (47 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Imperial College London (45 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Birmingham (43 papers) published 1 paper 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, 4.96% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 8.96% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 2.99% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.19% of all publications and 76.87% 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

  • A study of Cr(VI) and NH4+adsorption using greensand (glauconite) as a low‐cost adsorbent from aqueous solutions

    Dariush Naghipour;Kamran Taghavi;Mehdi Ashournia;Jalil Jaafari;Jalil Jaafari

    (2020)
    55 Citations
  • Characteristics of an atrazine degrading bacterium and the construction of a microbial agent for effective atrazine degradation

    Jiangwei Zhu;Li Fu;Zili Meng;Caihua Jin

    (2021)
    39 Citations
  • Risk-based water resources planning in practice: a blueprint for the water industry in England

    Jim W. Hall;Mohammad Mortazavi-Naeini;Edoardo Borgomeo;Bill Baker

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Application of a simazine degrading bacterium, Arthrobacter ureafaciens XMJ‐Z01 for bioremediation of simazine pollution

    Jiangwei Zhu;Yan Zhao;Li Fu;Zongmin Liu

    (2020)
    32 Citations
  • A review of applications of animal-inspired evolutionary algorithms in reservoir operation modelling

    Mahsa Jahandideh-Tehrani;Omid Bozorg-Haddad;Hugo A. Loáiciga

    (2021)
    25 Citations
  • Online sequential extreme learning machine in river water quality (turbidity) prediction: a comparative study on different data mining approaches

    Mohammad Zounemat‐Kermani;Meysam Alizamir;Marzieh Fadaee;Adarsh Sankaran Namboothiri

    (2021)
    23 Citations
  • Comparison of UV‐Cl and UV‐H2O2 advanced oxidation processes in the degradation of contaminants from water and wastewater: A review

    (2023)
    18 Citations
  • A study of the Resilience Analysis Grid method and its applicability to the water sector in England and Wales

    Mayra Rodríguez;Elizabeth Lawson;David Butler

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • Start‐up strategy and bacterial community analysis of SNAD process for treating anaerobic digester liquor of swine wastewater (ADLSW) in a continuous‐flow biofilm reactor

    Xin Xin;Qin Liu;David Werner;Hang Lu

    (2020)
    16 Citations

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