Water Resources: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Water Research	115
2	Journal of Hydrology	77
3	Desalination	75
4	Journal of Water Process Engineering	74
5	Water	73
6	CATENA	61
7	Agricultural Water Management	55
8	International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction	51
-	Water Resources Research	51
10	Ocean & Coastal Management	49
11	Applied Water Science	42
-	Water Air and Soil Pollution	42
13	Natural Hazards	41
-	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	41
15	Water Resources Management	40
-	npj Clean Water	40
17	Environmental Modelling & Software	36
18	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	34
-	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	34
-	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	34
21	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	33
22	Environmental Earth Sciences	32
23	Journal of Water and Climate Change	31
-	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	31
25	Journal of Hydrology-Regional Studies	30
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	30
27	Water Science and Technology	29
-	International Soil and Water Conservation Research	29
-	Environmental Toxicology	29
30	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water	28
31	Advances in Water Resources	27
32	Hydrological Processes	23
-	Water Supply	23
-	International Journal of Disaster Risk Science	23
35	Journal of Flood Risk Management	22
-	Water Resources and Industry	22
37	Water Environment Research	21
-	Journal of Hydroinformatics	21
-	Hydrological Sciences Journal-Journal des Sciences Hydrologiques	21
40	Exposure and Health	20
-	Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management	20
42	Water Research X	19
-	Environmental Science-Water Research & Technology	19
-	International Journal of Sediment Research	19
-	Hydrology Research	19
46	Natural Hazards Review	18
-	Hydrogeology Journal	18
48	Journal of the American Water Resources Association	17
-	China Ocean Engineering	17
-	Groundwater	17

-	River Research and Applications	17
52	Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology	16
-	Irrigation Science	16
-	Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems	16
55	Journal of Hydrologic Engineering	15
-	Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice	15
-	Vadose Zone Journal	15
-	Water Policy	15
59	Journal of Water SAnitation and Hygiene for Development	14
-	Urban Water Journal	14
-	Ecohydrology	14
62	Journal of Hydraulic Engineering	13
-	Mine Water and the Environment	13
-	Environmental Fluid Mechanics	13
-	Irrigation and Drainage	13
66	Journal of Hydro-Environment Research	12
-	Wetlands Ecology and Management	12
-	Journal of Soil and Water Conservation	12
-	Clean-Soil Air Water	12
70	Water and Environment Journal	11
-	Journal of Hydraulic Research	11
-	Water International	11
-	International Journal of Water Resources Development	11
74	Water Resources and Economics	10
-	Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering	10
-	Water Resources	10
77	Water Economics and Policy	9
78	Soil and Water Research	8
-	Canadian Water Resources Journal	8
-	Journal of Waterway Port Coastal and Ocean Engineering	8
-	Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation	8
82	Lake and Reservoir Management	7
-	Grundwasser	7
-	Journal Awwa	7
85	Engenharia Sanitaria e Ambiental	6
86	Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Water Management	5
-	Tecnologia y Ciencias del Agua	5
-	Wasserwirtschaft	5