Aims & Scope

The scope of WIREs Water is at the interfaces between five very different intellectual themes: the basic science of water, its physics and chemistry, flux, and things that it transfers and transforms; life in water, and the dependence of ecosystems and organisms on water to survive and to thrive; the engineering of water to furnish services and to protect society; the people who live with, experience and manage the water environment; and those interpretations that we, as a society, have brought to water through art, religion, history and which in turn shapes how we come to understand it.

These interfaces are not simply designed to be ways of looking at water through what necessarily must be interdisciplinary perspectives.

They are also designed to be outward facing in terms of how water can help to understand wider questions concerning our environment and human-environment interactions.

Topics: - Engineering Water - Human Water - Science of Water - Water and Life

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year Value
2025 5.8

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year Value
2024 2.524

Quartile

Year Value
2024 Q1

h-index

Year Value
2024 80

Journal Rank

Year Value
2024 938

Journal Citation Indicator

Year Value
2024 8817

Impact Factor Trend


Abstracting & Indexing

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


Subjects & Keywords

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


Quick Facts

Current Factor
5.8
First Published: 2025

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

SJR
2.524
First Published: 2024

Quartile

Current Quartile
Q1
First Published: 2024

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