International Journal of River Basin Management

Aims & Scope

There is a need now more than ever to apply an integrated, cross-disciplinary approach to river basin management as recognised by the UN Watercourses Convention, World Water Vision, World Water Council and Global Water Partnership.

The International Journal of River Basin Management addresses this need.

It brings together research dedicated to all aspects of integrated river and floodplain management including catchments, wetlands and estuarine systems.

Examples topics include but are not limited to: • integrated water resources management • spatial planning and management of watershed • flood/drought forecasting and risk management • floodplain, river and estuarine restoration • terrestrial hydrometeorology • ecohydrology • climate change impacts, adaption and mitigation measures • water quality • operation and maintenance strategies for engineered river systems and structures • project-affected-people and stakeholder participation • sustainable and adaptive management • institutional, legislative, social and policy issues • international river basin studies The journal welcomes high-quality submissions from different disciplines across river basin management i.e. hydrology, meteorology, climatology, physical geography, hydraulic engineering, water management and governance.

We invite contributions which include GIS, remote sensing, monitoring, modelling applications and risk assessment.

Submitted papers must be presented clearly and be understandable to researchers who are not subject experts in your particular specialism.

Please see the Instructions for Authors for further details before submitting.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.9
2024	2.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.533

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	48

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10899

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	476

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Environmental Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Development of a non‐intrusive and efficient flow monitoring technique: The space‐time image velocimetry (STIV)

  Citation: 206

  Authors: Ichiro, Hideki, Ryota

• Room for the River: delivering integrated river basin management in the Netherlands

  Citation: 183

  Authors: Jeroen, Sebastiaan, Chris, Richard

• A Brief review of flood forecasting techniques and their applications

  Citation: 182

  Authors: Sharad Kumar, Pankaj, Sanjay K., Pavithra, Vijay P., Desiree, Sanjay, S. P., A. P.

• Resilience strategies for flood risk management in the Netherlands

  Citation: 171

  Authors: M., F., K.M., M.

• Prediction of water quality index (WQI) using support vector machine (SVM) and least square-support vector machine (LS-SVM)

  Citation: 169

  Authors: Wei Cong, Alireza, Jie, Z.

• Development of a European flood forecasting system

  Citation: 166

  Authors: Ad P.J., Ben, Jutta, Jens, Paolina, Ezio, Paul D., Matt, Neil, Keith, Florian, Erdmann, Gdaly, Michael, Anthony, Bo, Jaap, Paolo, Marc, Kai, Eric

• Determination of flow resistance caused by non‐submerged woody vegetation

  Citation: 165

  Authors: Juha

• Rivers, chars and char dwellers of Bangladesh

  Citation: 159

  Authors: Maminul Haque, Iffat, Mustafa, Rob

• A framework for uncertainty analysis in flood risk management decisions

  Citation: 157

  Authors: Jim, Dimitri

• A model conditional processor to assess predictive uncertainty in flood forecasting

  Citation: 157

  Authors: E.

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