Water Policy

Water Policy is published by IWA 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 Water resources management and optimization, Water Governance and Infrastructure and Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies, together about 46.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Water management and water infrastructure are preconditions for civilization, and demands on our water resources are increasing. In some regions these demands are exceeding capacities to supply water. Our old water institutions, laws, regulations, treaties and agreements are straining to meet the new demographic realities. Throughout the world there is a growing need to build a capacity for integrated water management in order to create new opportunities for cooperation, community and peace building; to respond to scarcities; and to manage local, national and trans-boundary conflicts. Building this capacity for integrated water management calls for a new dialogue between many different private and public communities - policy making, diplomatic, administrative, financial, legal and technical/scientific. This dialogue must also include the traditional water communities - industrial, urban, agricultural and transportation. Water Policy provides a forum for this dialogue. It invites these communities into this forum both to shape and to be shaped by thinking and debate on water policy worldwide. Water Policy is an Open Access journal publishing reviews, research papers and progress reports in, among others, the following areas: financial, diplomatic, organizational, legal, administrative and research; organized by country, region or river basin. Water Policy also publishes reviews of books and grey literature. The journal will publish analyses, reviews and debates on all policy aspects of water resources. Examples of such topics are: Ecosystems, engineering, management and restoration Engineering and design River-basin and watershed management Multiple uses of water Pollution monitoring and control Management, use and sharing of trans-boundary waters, treaties and allocation agreements Capacity building Flood control and disaster management Groundwater remediation and the conjunctive use of groundwater and surface water Public participation, consensus building and confidence building Conflict management and negotiations of water resources Demand management Commercialization of water Integrated water resources management Allocation of risks among stakeholders Water Policy is published monthly. Water Policy is indexed and abstracted in leading databases, including ChronosHub, Dimensions (Digital Science), DOAJ, EBSCO Knowledge Base, Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers (NSD), ProQuest, PubMed Central, Science Explorer, SCImago Journa

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Water Resources

Editor-in-chief Jerome DelliPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of SciencePublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor

2.01LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

2.1Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

3.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.56LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.67LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

50LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

85OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,014OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.38OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

71LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Average review time (community reports)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 27 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

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.

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• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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Publisher

IWA Publishing

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

ISSN

1366-7017

Electronic ISSN

1996-9759

Society / sponsor

International Water Association

Latest issue on the website

Volume 28, Issue 8 (August 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ