Water Resources Research
Last updated ISSN 0043-1397
Water Resources Research is published by Wiley in environmental science. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,000.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Water Resources Research concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Water resources management and optimization
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
Key facts
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0043-1397, 1944-7973 |
| Subject area | Environmental Science |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,000 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 23,545 |
| Publishing since | 1965 |
| Journal website | agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/agu/journal/10.1002/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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