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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Water Research	113
2	Journal of Hydrology	72
3	Desalination	69
4	CATENA	58
5	Agricultural Water Management	52
6	Ocean & Coastal Management	46
7	Water Resources Research	45
8	Environmental Modelling & Software	40
-	Natural Hazards	40
-	Hydrology and Earth System Sciences	40
11	Water Air and Soil Pollution	36
12	Water Resources Management	35
13	Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences	33
14	Environmental Earth Sciences	32
15	Water Science and Technology	31
16	Physics and Chemistry of the Earth	29
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	29
-	Environmental Geochemistry and Health	29
19	Advances in Water Resources	28
20	Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk	27
-	Environmental Toxicology	27
-	Journal of Contaminant Hydrology	27
-	Journal of Water and Climate Change	27
24	Hydrological Processes	25
25	Hydrological Sciences Journal-Journal des Sciences Hydrologiques	23
26	Water Supply	22
27	Journal of Flood Risk Management	21
28	International Journal of Sediment Research	20
-	Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management	20
30	Water Environment Research	19
-	Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems	19
32	Irrigation Science	18
33	Ecohydrology	17
34	Hydrogeology Journal	16
-	Journal of Hydroinformatics	16
-	Journal of the American Water Resources Association	16
37	Mine Water and the Environment	15
-	Vadose Zone Journal	15
-	Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice	15
-	Natural Hazards Review	15
-	River Research and Applications	15
-	China Ocean Engineering	15
-	Ecohydrology & Hydrobiology	15
44	Journal of Water SAnitation and Hygiene for Development	14
-	Groundwater	14
-	Journal of Hydrologic Engineering	14
47	Water Policy	13
-	Journal of Hydraulic Engineering	13
-	Journal of Soil and Water Conservation	13
50	Environmental Fluid Mechanics	12

-	Irrigation and Drainage	12
-	Urban Water Journal	12
-	Water and Environment Journal	12
-	Journal of Hydro-Environment Research	12
-	Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering	12
56	Water Resources	11
-	Journal of Hydraulic Research	11
58	Journal of Waterway Port Coastal and Ocean Engineering	10
-	Soil and Water Research	10
-	Water International	10
-	Wetlands Ecology and Management	10
-	International Journal of Water Resources Development	10
63	Clean-Soil Air Water	9
64	Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation	8
65	Journal Awwa	7
-	Canadian Water Resources Journal	7
67	Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Water Management	6
-	Engenharia Sanitaria e Ambiental	6
-	Lake and Reservoir Management	6
-	Grundwasser	6
71	Tecnologia y Ciencias del Agua	5
72	Wasserwirtschaft	4