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Water International
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Water International

0250-8060

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwin20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 631 23 33 6
Earth Science 663 4 4 3

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 46
Documents by Best Scientists*: 68
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 67
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.47
Impact Factor: 1.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Water International?

The journal primarily tackles Water resources, Water resource management, Environmental protection, Environmental resource management and Hydrology. It explores issues in Water resources which can be linked to other research areas like Agriculture, Natural resource economics and Water supply. The research on Water resource management tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Water scarcity, Irrigation, Water use and Aquifer, Groundwater.

The work on Environmental protection tackled in it brings together disciplines like Water quality and Environmental planning. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Environmental resource management, apply to Corporate governance as well. As a part of Water International, discussions in Hydrology involve topics like Drainage basin, Flood myth and Surface runoff.

Most of the works presented in it deals with Drainage basin but it intersects with the subject of Structural basin.

  • Water resources (28.93%)
  • Water resource management (20.35%)
  • Environmental protection (16.54%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Understanding: the Drought Phenomenon: The Role of Definitions (1569 citations)
  • Basic Water Requirements for Human Activities: Meeting Basic Needs (800 citations)
  • Appraisal and Assessment of World Water Resources (711 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Water International:

The journal publications focus largely on the fields of Water resources, Water resource management, Environmental resource management, Environmental protection and Drainage basin. The studies on Water resources discussed at the journal articles can also contribute to research in the domains of Water use, Sustainable development and Water supply. The most cited papers with studies in Environmental protection featured incorporate elements of Flood myth, Politics and Environmental planning.

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

  • World War II
  • Law
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The foci of the journal are Environmental planning, Water resource management, Corporate governance, Water security and Drainage basin. In addition to Water resource management research, it aims to explore topics under Watershed, Agriculture, Climate change, Water cycle and Groundwater recharge. The journal addresses concerns in Drainage basin which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Law and economics, Operationalization, International law, Doctrine and Sustainability.

The Sustainability research presented in it explores the relationship between Information system and the closely related topic of Environmental resource management. Research in Reuse and the interrelating topic of Water resources were among the subjects of interest in the Urban planning studies discussed in the journal. The journal emphasizes research on Water resources, which includes concerns such as Water industry.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A source-to-sea approach to emerging pollutants in freshwater and oceans: pharmaceuticals in the Baltic Sea region (2 citations)
  • Economy-wide assessment of potential long-term impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Sudan (2 citations)
  • A review on implementing managed aquifer recharge in the Middle East and North Africa region: methods, progress and challenges (1 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 International (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Asit K. Biswas (28 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Cecilia Tortajada (25 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • James E. Nickum (16 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Rutgerd Boelens (14 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Salman M. A. Salman (14 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 International (based on the number of publications) are:

  • International Water Management Institute (88 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Wageningen University and Research Centre (35 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Colorado State University (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • World Bank (27 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, 11.94% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 22.03% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.47% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 20.34% of all publications and 49.15% 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 destruction of the Kakhovka dam and its consequences

    (2023)
    56 Citations
  • COVID-19 heightens water problems around the world

    Cecilia Tortajada;Asit K. Biswas

    (2020)
    31 Citations
  • The impact of COVID-19 on water and food systems: flattening the much bigger curve ahead

    Martin Keulertz;Mark Mulligan;John Anthony Allan

    (2020)
    20 Citations
  • A multifaceted quantitative index for sustainability assessment of groundwater management: application for aquifers around Iran

    (2022)
    18 Citations
  • The effect of policy incoherence on the emergence of groundwater-related subsidence phenomena: a case study from Iran

    (2022)
    15 Citations
  • Water use characteristics and impact factors in the Yellow River basin, China

    Ziqi Yan;Zuhao Zhou;Jiajia Liu;Hao Wang

    (2020)
    15 Citations
  • A methodology to identify vulnerable transboundary aquifer hotspots for multi-scale groundwater management

    Christina M. Fraser;Robert M. Kalin;Modesta Kanjaye;Zione Uka

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Learning from the past to build the future governance of groundwater use in agriculture

    (2021)
    9 Citations
  • Water insecurity, water borrowing and psychosocial stress among Daasanach pastoralists in northern Kenya

    (2022)
    9 Citations
  • The advent of EU water reuse regulation in the Mediterranean region: policy and legislative adaptation to address non-conventional water resources utilization in agriculture

    (2023)
    6 Citations

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