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Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 141 79 71 30
Earth Science 149 60 55 23
Ecology and Evolution 176 69 36 19

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 243
Documents by Best Scientists*: 154
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 80
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.524
Impact Factor: 5.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water?

The scientific interests tackled in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water are Environmental resource management, Hydrology, Environmental planning, Water resources and Ecology. Environmental resource management research featured in it incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Flood myth, Corporate governance, Ecosystem and Sustainability. The journal served as a forum through which researchers explored different topics like Flood myth and Resilience (network).

More specifically, the research on Ecosystem in it is related to Ecosystem services. The Hydrology research presented places emphasis on topics like STREAMS and Hydrology (agriculture). Environmental planning and Water quality are closely related fields of research discussed in the journal.

In particular, the Ecology works presented emphasize discussions on Biodiversity.

  • Environmental resource management (20.70%)
  • Hydrology (11.68%)
  • Environmental planning (10.66%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Hydrological drought explained (431 citations)
  • A review of remote sensing based actual evapotranspiration estimation (176 citations)
  • A review of the fate of micropollutants in wastewater treatment plants (160 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water:

The most cited articles are mainly concerned with subjects like Environmental resource management, Hydrology, Climate change, Ecology and Ecosystem. Field (geography) and Fluvial are some topics wherein Environmental resource management research discussed in the published papers has an impact. While Climate change is the focus of the journal papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Climatology, Remote sensing, Land use and Water resources.

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

  • Ecology
  • Law
  • China

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal aims to foster the development of research in Flood myth, Water resource management, Ecology, Environmental resource management and Water resources. The work on Flood myth tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Natural (archaeology) and Flooding (psychology). The tackled Flooding (psychology) research is interrelated with Flood forecasting which concerns subjects like Climate change.

The research on Environmental resource management featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Floodplain, Restoration ecology, Ecosystem, Visualization and Biogeochemistry. The journal explores the study of Floodplain to improve our understanding of the broader topic of Hydrology. Some problems in Water resources that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Baseflow, Groundwater flow, Government, Water quality and Geothermal energy.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Regionalization of hydrological modeling for predicting streamflow in ungauged catchments: A comprehensive review (15 citations)
  • A review of hydrologic signatures and their applications (10 citations)
  • Challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts: A review (8 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 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Thomas Hartmann (6 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Stuart N. Lane (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Amber Wutich (5 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Megan Klaar (5 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Sera L. Young (5 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 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Wageningen University and Research Centre (14 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Melbourne (13 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Lausanne (11 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (10 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Leeds (10 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous 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, 1.45% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 30.88% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.76% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 13.24% of all publications and 44.12% 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

  • Challenges in modeling and predicting floods and droughts: A review

    Manuela I. Brunner;Louise Slater;Lena M. Tallaksen;Martyn Clark

    (2021)
    388 Citations
  • Regionalization of hydrological modeling for predicting streamflow in ungauged catchments: A comprehensive review

    Yuhan Guo;Yongqiang Zhang;Lu Zhang;Zhonggen Wang

    (2021)
    305 Citations
  • A review of groundwater in high mountain environments

    Lauren D. Somers;Lauren D. Somers;Jeffrey M. McKenzie

    (2020)
    277 Citations
  • Ensemble flood forecasting: Current status and future opportunities

    Wenyan Wu;Rebecca Emerton;Qingyun Duan;Andrew W. Wood

    (2020)
    242 Citations
  • Drought: Progress in broadening its understanding

    Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile;Qiuhong Tang;Wenhong Li;Xingcai Liu

    (2020)
    227 Citations
  • Beaver: Nature's ecosystem engineers

    Richard E. Brazier;Alan Puttock;Hugh A. Graham;Roger E. Auster

    (2021)
    220 Citations
  • Toward catchment hydro-biogeochemical theories

    Li Li;Pamela L. Sullivan;Paolo Benettin;Olaf A. Cirpka

    (2021)
    156 Citations
  • The behavioral turn in flood risk management, its assumptions and potential implications

    Christian Kuhlicke;Christian Kuhlicke;Sebastian Seebauer;Paul Hudson;Chloe Begg

    (2020)
    151 Citations
  • Parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis in hydrological modeling

    (2021)
    130 Citations

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