Water S.a. impact factor, indexing, ranking (2025)

Aim and Scope

The Water S.a. is a research journal that publishes research related to Environmental Science; Immunology and Microbiology. This journal is published by the South African Water Research Commission. The ISSN of this journal is 18167950, 03784738. Based on the Scopus data, the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) of water s.a. is 0.401.

Also, please check the following important details about water s.a.: Publisher, ISSN, Ranking, Indexing, Impact Factor (if applicable), Publication fee (APC), Review Time, and Acceptance Rate.

According to Clarivate's JCR, journals indexed in SCIE/SSCI have an impact factor.

Water S.a. Ranking

Journal Rank: 12465

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank): 0.401

Quartile: Q3

H-Index: 66

The SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) measures citations weighted by prestige. It is useful for comparing journals within the same field, and forms the basis of the subject category ranking. A journal SJR indicator is a numeric value representing the average number of weighted citations received during a selected year per document published in that journal during the previous three years, as indexed by Scopus. Higher SJR indicator values are meant to indicate greater journal prestige. SJR is developed by the Scimago Lab, originated from a research group at University of Granada. Q1 journals are cited more often and by more prestigious journals than those in the other quartiles.

Each subject category of journals is divided into four quartiles: Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4. Q1 is occupied by the top 25% of journals in the list; Q2 is occupied by journals in the 25 to 50% group; Q3 is occupied by journals in the 50 to 75% group and Q4 is occupied by journals in the 75 to 100% group.

CiteScore of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal. This journal evaluation metric was launched in December 2016 by Elsevier as an alternative to the generally used JCR impact factors (calculated by Clarivate). CiteScore is based on the citations recorded in the Scopus database rather than in JCR, and those citations are collected for articles published in the preceding four years instead of two or five.

Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) is calculated annually from Scopus data. It is a sophisticated metric that intrinsically accounts for field-specific differences in citation practices.

Important Metrics

Journal Title:	Water S.A.
Publisher:	South African Water Research Commission
ISSN:	18167950, 03784738
Type:	journal
Journal Scope:	Environmental Science; Immunology and Microbiology
Country:	South Africa
H-Index:	66
SJR:	0.401
Quartile:	Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology (Q3); Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (Q3); Waste Management and Disposal (Q3); Water Science and Technology (Q3)

Indexing

The water s.a. is indexed in:

UGC CARE
Scopus
DOAJ

An indexed journal means that the journal has gone through and passed a review process of certain requirements done by a journal indexer.

The Web of Science Core Collection includes the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), and Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).

Quartile

The latest Quartile of water s.a. is Q3.

Publication fee

Based on the Official Journal Homepage, the water s.a. does not charge any publication fee.

An article processing charge (APC), also known as a publication fee, is a fee which is sometimes charged to authors. Most commonly, it is involved in making a work available as open access (OA), in either a full OA journal or in a hybrid journal.

Journal Publication Time

The Journal Publication Time means the average number of weeks between article submission and publication. According to the journal website, the water s.a. publishes research articles in 53 weeks on an average.

Call for Papers

Visit to the official website of the journal/ conference to check the details about call for papers.

How to publish in Water S.a.?

If your research is related to Environmental Science; Immunology and Microbiology, then visit the official website of water s.a. and send your manuscript.

Tips for publishing in Water S.a.:

Selection of research problem.
Presenting a solution.
Designing the paper.
Make your manuscript publication worthy.
Write an effective results section.
Mind your references.

Acceptance Rate

Acceptance rate is the ratio of the number of articles submitted to the number of articles published. Researchers can check the acceptance rate on the journal website. Alternatively, they can contact the editor of the journal.

Final Summary

It is published by South African Water Research Commission.
The journal is indexed in UGC CARE, Scopus, DOAJ.
It is an open access journal.
The (SJR) SCImago Journal Rank is 0.401.
The publication time (Average number of weeks between article submission and publication) of the journal is 53 weeks.
Based on the Official Journal Homepage, the water s.a. does not charge any publication fee.