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Water Science and Technology
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Water Science and Technology

0273-1223

Published by: IWA Publishing

https://iwaponline.com/wst

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 272 125 171 19
Engineering and Technology 426 97 138 18

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 420
Documents by Best Scientists*: 466
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 163
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.637
Impact Factor: 2.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Water Science and Technology?

The journal aims to foster the development of research in Environmental engineering, Wastewater, Waste management, Sewage treatment and Effluent. Environmental engineering research presented in Water Science and Technology encompasses a variety of subjects, including Nitrification, Aeration, Water quality, Pollution and Denitrification. Water quality studies tackled cover an aspect of the field of Hydrology.

Water Science and Technology addresses concerns in Denitrification which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Nitrate and Anoxic waters. Wastewater research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Environmental chemistry, Waste disposal, Pulp and paper industry and Bioreactor. Environmental chemistry research discussed connects with the study of Biodegradation.

Issues in Waste management were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Anaerobic exercise and Anaerobic digestion. Sewage treatment works presented in it have a specific focus on Activated sludge. The presented Effluent research focuses mostly on Chromatography and, on occasion, topics in Adsorption.

  • Environmental engineering (27.20%)
  • Wastewater (23.89%)
  • Waste management (18.56%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Activated sludge model No. 3 (1794 citations)
  • Defining the biomethane potential (BMP) of solid organic wastes and energy crops: a proposed protocol for batch assays. (1211 citations)
  • The IWA Anaerobic Digestion Model No 1 (ADM1) (1161 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Water Science and Technology:

The published articles investigate areas of study like Environmental engineering, Wastewater, Waste management, Sewage treatment and Effluent. In addition to Environmental engineering research, the journal articles aim to explore topics under Nitrification, Water quality, Environmental chemistry, Denitrification and Wetland. The study of Wastewater in the most cited articles encompasses disciplines such as Phosphorus, as well as fields such as Enhanced biological phosphorus removal, all of which overlap with one another.

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

  • Ecology
  • World War II
  • Bacteria

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Wastewater, Adsorption, Nuclear chemistry, Pulp and paper industry and Chemical engineering are among the topics commonly tackled in the journal. Water Science and Technology explores topics in Wastewater which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Effluent and Sewage treatment. The discussions emphasized the topic of Sewage treatment in an attempt to further explore the field of Waste management.

The journal focuses on Adsorption research which is adjacent to topics in Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The work on Nuclear chemistry tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Scanning electron microscope, Catalysis, Degradation (geology) and Aqueous solution. Water Science and Technology focuses on Chemical engineering but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Photocatalysis and Membrane.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A review of Cryptosporidium spp. and their detection in water. (38 citations)
  • Phosphate removal from water using bottom ash: Adsorption performance, coexisting anions and modelling studies (29 citations)
  • Optimization of Congo red dye adsorption from wastewater by a modified commercial zeolite catalyst using response surface modeling approach. (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 Science and Technology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Peter A. Vanrolleghem (169 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • M.C.M. van Loosdrecht (96 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Derin Orhon (90 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gatze Lettinga (88 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wolfgang Rauch (76 papers) published 3 papers 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 Science and Technology (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Technical University of Denmark (304 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Delft University of Technology (295 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Tokyo (286 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Istanbul Technical University (257 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Ghent University (251 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, 10.47% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 4.55% 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 1.95% of all publications and 87.88% 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

  • Phosphate removal from water using bottom ash: Adsorption performance, coexisting anions and modelling studies

    Khalid S Hashim;Khalid S Hashim;Hind Mufeed Ewadh;Adnan A Muhsin;Salah L Zubaidi

    (2021)
    115 Citations
  • Towards a standardization of biomethane potential tests: a commentary

    Christof Holliger;Sergi Astals;Hélène Fruteau de Laclos;Sasha D. Hafner

    (2021)
    115 Citations
  • Recent progress using membrane aerated biofilm reactors for wastewater treatment.

    Huanqi He;Brett M Wagner;Avery L Carlson;Cheng Yang

    (2021)
    70 Citations
  • A critical review of the data pipeline: how wastewater system operation flows from data to intelligence.

    Jean-David Therrien;Niels Nicolaï;Peter A. Vanrolleghem

    (2020)
    47 Citations
  • Optimized microplastic analysis based on size fractionation, density separation and μ-FTIR.

    Olga Konechnaya;Sabine Lüchtrath;Larissa Dsikowitzky;Jan Schwarzbauer

    (2020)
    47 Citations
  • Activated persulfate by iron-based materials used for refractory organics degradation: a review.

    Yanjiao Gao;Pascale Champagne;David Blair;Ouwen He

    (2020)
    45 Citations
  • Towards the long term implementation of real time control of combined sewer systems: a review of performance and influencing factors.

    (2022)
    44 Citations

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