Journal profile · ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Air Soil and Water Research
ISSN 1178-6221 · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
Air Soil and Water Research: CAS Zone 4 · Environmental Science & Ecology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.9 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,650; review about 8 weeks (community reports); acceptance rate 19.4% (journal website); 37 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Air Soil and Water Research is published by SAGE Publishing and is in Zone 4 of Environmental Science & Ecology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Soil erosion and sediment transport, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies and Water Quality and Pollution Assessment, together about 23.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Air, Soil and Water Research is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal focusing on research pertaining to soil, air and water. The journal seeks to report on properties, … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Editorial board by country: 5 in mainland China (about 6%); most named India 13, United States 10, Spain 6, Mainland China 5, Brazil 3 (81 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Soil erosion and sediment transportAgricultural and Biological Sciences9.6%
- Hydrology and Watershed Management StudiesEnvironmental Science8.5%
- Water Quality and Pollution AssessmentEnvironmental Science5.9%
- Air Quality and Health ImpactsEnvironmental Science5.4%
- Heavy metals in environmentEnvironmental Science5.2%
- Groundwater and Watershed AnalysisEnvironmental Science5.2%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsAgricultural and Biological Sciences4.9%
- Soil and Water Nutrient DynamicsEnvironmental Science4.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Environmental Science & Ecology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Environmental Science & Ecology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Environmental Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.75LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.09LetPub ·
- h-index
- 36OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 173OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.21OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 33LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 367 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 21 | 21 | 11 |
| 2025 | 37 | 37 | 107 |
| 2024 | 33 | 33 | 174 |
| 2023 | 28 | 28 | 350 |
| 2022 | 42 | 42 | 673 |
| 2021 | 33 | 33 | 922 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 8 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 19.4%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 7 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 40 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 8 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,650 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,650 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,650 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- APA
- Not considered
- preprint
Article types accepted12, with length limits
- brief communicationView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gat…Length not stated
- commentaryView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gat…Length not stated
- concise reviewThese are similar to a review, but less elaborate and often sum up several studies in a more concise manner for easier reading and reference.Length not stated
- correspondenceView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gat…Length not stated
- editorialView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gat…Length not stated
- letterView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gat…Length not stated
- original articleView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gat…Length not stated
- original paperView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gat…Length not stated
- research articleical approvals. Suggested length for an Research Article article is 4,000-4,500 words, however this is flexible as the journal is online-only. Plmain text ≤ 4,500 words
- research paperView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gat…Length not stated
- reviewView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gat…Length not stated
- viewpointView our topical sections currently accepting submissions View our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gat…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Manuscript content licensed under Creative Commons Licenses Model summary
Manuscript content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Licenses
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Air, Soil and Water Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single Anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprints accepted Model summary
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Reporting guidelines
Your manuscript must follow the relevant EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines, depending on the type of study. The EQUATOR wizard can help identify the appropriate guideline. You will need to upload the appropriate checklist with your submission. Other resources can be found at NLM’s Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publishing
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1178-6221
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Air Soil and Water Research
What CAS zone is Air Soil and Water Research in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Air Soil and Water Research is in Zone 4 of Environmental Science & Ecology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Environmental Sciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Environmental Science & Ecology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Air Soil and Water Research?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.9; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 6.3, h-index 36.
How long does peer review take at Air Soil and Water Research?
Authors report an average review time of about 8 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 19.4%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Air Soil and Water Research based?
Of the 81 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 5 (about 6%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are India (13), United States (10) and Spain (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Air Soil and Water Research?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Air Soil and Water Research is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Air Soil and Water Research open access, and what is the APC?
Air Soil and Water Research is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .