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Manuscript Auditing →01Impact factor
Impact factor of Frontiers in Water (2026)
The impact factor shown here is the 2-year mean citedness: citations received in a year by the papers Frontiers in Water published in the two previous years, divided by the number of those papers. That is the same formula as the Journal Impact Factor, applied to the open citation data of OpenAlex. The journal is listed in JCR 2024, so it also has an official Journal Impact Factor published by Clarivate, which can differ because it counts citations from Web of Science journals only.
Rank in its subject categories
- Q2Water Resourcesrank 38 of 138 journals
Quartiles here rank journals of the same Web of Science category by 2-year citedness; they are not the official JCR quartiles.
Citations and papers per year
Open access (listed in DOAJ); article processing charge listed at about US$1,418.
02Fee waivers
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03Indexing
Indexing of Frontiers in Water
- eISSN
- 2624-9375
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Country
- Switzerland
- Language
- English
- Scopus source type
- Journal
- Web of Science categories
- Water Resources
From the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab, updated 1 March 2026. Indexing can change: confirm on the Web of Science Master Journal List or the Scopus source list before submitting. Official Journal Impact Factors and JCR quartiles are published by Clarivate; the impact factor and quartile on this page are calculated from OpenAlex open data (see how the impact factor works).
04What it publishes
What Frontiers in Water publishes: real papers
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05Published papers
Papers published in Frontiers in Water
Papers from the publication records ScholarsColab tracks, with their year and citations. Author names are not shown.
- Quantifying dissolved black carbon in fire-affected estuaries: a case study from the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires20260 citations
- Water-centered ecotourism planning: ecohydrological capacity and institutional barriers in a semiarid metropolis20260 citations
- Bridging gaps in sparse groundwater data: classical, ensemble, and deep learning approaches for single-and multi-well imputation20260 citations
- Hydrological connectivity: improving coastal literacy and resilience in classrooms and communities in the City of Wilmington20260 citations
- Assessing recharge, discharge, and sea-level rise impacts in a coastal aquifer using a new approach20260 citations
- Machine learning generated streamflow drought forecasts for the conterminous United States (CONUS): developing and evaluating an operational tool to enhance …20260 citations
- Community water scarcity practices in Ngwezi River Basin, Southern Zambia20250 citations
- Deep Reinforcement Learning for complex hydropower management: evaluating Soft Actor-Critic with a learned system dynamics model20250 citations
- Simultaneous adsorptive removal of Pb2+, Cd2+, Cu2+, and Zn2+ using raw Norway Spruce biomass: a low-cost and eco-friendly solution for wastewater treatment20250 citations
- Siloed funding of multibenefit projects highlights the need for funding programs that integrate cobenefits20250 citations
- Downscaling GRACE total water storage data using random forest: a three-round validation approach under drought conditions20250 citations
- Concentrating solar power (CSP) assisted FO hybrid systems for desalination of seawater: a preliminary study20250 citations
- Enhancing access to underutilized ground water potential for improving livelihoods and conflict reduction in Kagera Sub-Basin, Tanzania20250 citations
- Core technologies for hydropower digitalization within the Energy Internet framework: a mini-review20250 citations
- Research on the impact of digital infrastructure construction on ecological resilience in the Yellow River Basin—empirical evidence from 75 cities in the Yellow River …20250 citations
- Assessment of groundwater drought risk in arid regions using standardized indices and reliability analysis20250 citations
- Combining microcosm20250 citations
- Exploring alternate coupling inputs of a data-driven model for optimum daily streamflow prediction in calibrated SWAT-BiLSTM rainfall-runoff modeling20250 citations
- Hybrid STL-SARIMA forecasting of reservoir inflows in climate-vulnerable basins: a case study in the Yalong River20250 citations
- Cropland repurposing as a tool for water sustainability and just land transition in California: review and best practices20250 citations
- Reinforcement learning applications in water resource management: a systematic literature review20250 citations
- Proximal remote sensing of dissolved organic matter in aqua-culture ponds via multi-temporal spectral correction20250 citations
- Groundwater fluoride modeling using an artificial neural network: a review20250 citations
- Groundwater modeling of the Aguascalientes Valley aquifer to evaluate the transport of fluoride and arsenic: current state and recommended next steps20250 citations
- Urban water network planning and management: perspectives and solutions in the transition towards smart systems from the city to the end-use scale20250 citations
- Enhancing flood prediction through remote sensing, machine learning, and Google Earth Engine20250 citations
- Leak detection in water supply networks using inverse transient analysis in time and frequency domain: a comparative investigation20250 citations
- Global applications of stable isotopes for identifying nitrate pollution sources in groundwater: a comprehensive review20250 citations
- Solar-powered irrigation as a curse for vulnerable water basins? A community case study using the water–energy–food security nexus20250 citations
- Navigating water discord: a review of water conflicts in the common resource management system in coastal areas20250 citations
- Remote sensing and machine learning integration to detect and forecast floods in Lodwar Town, Turkwel Basin, Kenya20250 citations
- Optimizing irrigation efficiency: a case study of the Bakbakti Rice System in Akdala Massif20250 citations
- Emerging trends in IoT for aquatic systems: a systematic literature review20250 citations
- Operational response to contamination in water distribution systems: a multi-objective Bayesian optimization approach20250 citations
- Mapping the research landscape: energy storage of bio-nanoparticle-enhanced phase change materials for solar desalination—a scientometric framework20250 citations
- Hydrological connectivity: a review and emerging strategies for integrating measurement, modeling, and management20250 citations
- Education about, in, and for wetlands: practices, premises, possibilities, and challenges20250 citations
- Advancing water security in semi-arid Brazil: expansion of water storage infrastructure and human-water system co-evolution20250 citations
- Bridging the divide: analysing disparities in drinking water services between urban and rural areas in Lilongwe, Malawi—implications for water justice and …20250 citations
- Stochastic multi-objective optimization for flood control in multi-reservoir systems: an adaptive Progressive Hedging approach with scenario clustering20250 citations
- Animating the critical zone: beavers as critical zone engineers20250 citations
- Planning for the future, algae bloom dynamics in water management and ecosystem restoration efforts20250 citations
- Public-private partnerships in US rural water infrastructure: challenges, opportunities, and needs20250 citations
- Enhancing water security and landscape resilience through multibenefit land repurposing20250 citations
- Integrated catchment and coastal management for resilient urban flood mitigation under climate change20250 citations
- Site-specific relationships between algal biomass and floating photovoltaic solar energy in human-made bodies of water20250 citations
- The impacts of irrigation and groundwater drainage induced salinity and overflooding of evaporation ponds in Khuzestan, Iran20250 citations
- The optimal location of tanks in water distribution networks using failure tolerance20250 citations
- Joint calibration of Manning's roughness and seepage in canals using NSGA-II for precision hydrodynamic modeling20250 citations
- Developing an explainable deep learning module based on the LSTM framework for flood prediction20250 citations
- A participatory approach for developing a geospatial toolkit for mapping the suitability of California's Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program (MLRP) in support of …20250 citations
- Eco-profile approach in watershed and river basin management for addressing water rights and conflicts at micro scale20250 citations
- A global perspective on electrical resistivity tomography, electromagnetic and ground penetration radar methods for estimating groundwater recharge zones20250 citations
- Managed aquifer recharge as a strategy to redistribute excess surface flow to baseflow in snowmelt hydrologic regimes20240 citations
- Comprehensive analysis of methods for estimating actual paddy evapotranspiration—A review20240 citations
- Assessing and mapping water-energy-food nexus smart innovations and practices in Vhembe District Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa20240 citations
- Integrating groundwater pumping data with regression-enhanced random forest models to improve groundwater monitoring and management in a coastal region20240 citations
- Conceptual framework to incorporate drainage solutions in the urban open space system20240 citations
- A call for water conservation research interventions informed by community engagement and input:“There was no going back after my trust in it turned”20240 citations
- Assessing the role of stakeholders in sustainable groundwater resources management using power-interest matrix (PIM): in Hamedan-Bahar plain, Iran20240 citations
- Deep Convolutional LSTM for improved flash flood prediction20240 citations
- Estimating willingness-to-pay for adaptations to climate change in water resources projects: demonstration for Lesotho irrigation investment20240 citations
- Multiparameter analysis of Diuron and its metabolites (DCA and DCPMU) in different stages of zebrafish (Danio rerio) development20240 citations
- Modelling and prediction of aeration efficiency of the venturi aeration system using ANN-PSO and ANN-GA20240 citations
- Modeling continental US stream water quality using long-short term memory and weighted regressions on time, discharge, and season20240 citations
- Promoting integrated blue–green infrastructure for urban resilience—lessons learned from case studies20240 citations
- Impact of deep learning-driven precipitation corrected data using near real-time satellite-based observations and model forecast in an integrated hydrological model20240 citations
- Integrating resilience and nexus approaches in managing flood risk20240 citations
- Translating pumping test data into groundwater model parameters: a workflow to reveal aquifer heterogeneities and implications in regional model parameterization20240 citations
- The Three-Points Sponge Policy approach; toward an enhanced multi-level resilience strategy20240 citations
- Predictive analysis of groundwater balance and assessment of safe yield using a probabilistic groundwater model for the Dead Sea Basin20240 citations
- Spatiotemporal characterization and hydrological impact of drought patterns in northwestern Morocco20240 citations
- Predicting seepage losses from lined irrigation canals using machine learning models20230 citations
- Environmental isotopes (δ18O–δ2H, 222Rn) and electrical conductivity in backtracking sources of urban pipe water, monitoring the stability of water quality and …20230 citations
- Advancement in hydrological modeling and water resources management for achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)20230 citations
- Dam removal blind spots: debating the importance of community engagement in dam decommissioning projects20230 citations
- Viewing river corridors through the lens of critical zone science20230 citations
- Spatial distribution and determinants of limited access to improved drinking water service among households in Ethiopia based on the 2019 Ethiopian Mini …20230 citations
- Willing to have, willing to help, or ready to own—Determinants of variants of stewardship social practices around Blue-Green Infrastructure in dense urban …20230 citations
- Detecting industrial discharges at an advanced water reuse facility using online instrumentation and supervised machine learning binary classification20230 citations
- A review on irrigation parameterizations in Earth system models20230 citations
- A review of machine learning concepts and methods for addressing challenges in probabilistic hydrological post-processing and forecasting20230 citations
- Assessment of inland flood hazard sensitivity to hydrological intensification in coastal watersheds20230 citations
- Impact of anthropogenic disturbances on agroforestry ecosystems20230 citations
- Hydraulic head change predictions in groundwater models using a probabilistic neural network20230 citations
- Advancing non-optical water quality monitoring in Lake Tana, Ethiopia: insights from machine learning and remote sensing techniques20230 citations
- Investigating machine learning and ensemble learning models in groundwater potential mapping in arid region: case study from Tan-Tan water-scarce region …20230 citations
- Assessing future changes in hydroclimatic processes in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, with the expanded Bluecat framework20230 citations
- Impact of hydraulic and physicochemical factors on spatiotemporal variations of particle-associated bacteria in a drinking water distribution system20230 citations
- Pinpointing drivers of widespread colonization of Legionella pneumophila in a green building: Roles of water softener system, expansion tank, and reduced …20230 citations
- Analyzing scenarios and designing initiatives toward just transitions: Coproducing knowledge with (in) the dried fish sector in the Indian Sundarbans20230 citations
- Water-energy-food-ecosystem nexus in India—A review of relevant studies, policies, and programmes20230 citations
- The role of network structure in integrated water management: a case study of collaboration and influence for adopting nature-based solutions20230 citations
- Nitrogen removal performance and bacterial community analysis of a multistage step-feeding tidal flow constructed wetland20230 citations
- Microwave remote sensing for agricultural drought monitoring: Recent developments and challenges20230 citations
- A geospatial web-based integrative analytical tool for the water-energy-food nexus: the iWEF 1.020230 citations
- Trend assessment of changing climate patterns over the major agro-climatic zones of Sindh and Punjab20230 citations
- Evaluating deep learning architecture and data assimilation for improving water temperature forecasts at unmonitored locations20230 citations
- The continuum of wood-induced channel bifurcations20230 citations
- Super-resolution and uncertainty estimation from sparse sensors of dynamical physical systems20230 citations
- The convergence of AI, IoT, and big data for advancing flood analytics research20230 citations
- Pore-scale modeling of mineral growth and nucleation in reactive flow20220 citations
- A sustainability planning framework and methods for rural drinking water in Satara District, Maharashtra, India20220 citations
- Seasonal prediction of Horn of Africa long rains using machine learning: the pitfalls of preselecting correlated predictors20220 citations
- Multifidelity surrogate models for efficient uncertainty propagation analysis in salars systems20220 citations
- Water-energy-food nexus tools in theory and practice: a systematic review20220 citations
- Application of distributed ledger platforms in smart water systems—A literature review20220 citations
- Identifying minimum information requirements to improve integrated modeling capabilities: Lessons learned from dynamic adaptive policy pathways20220 citations
- Drought, water management, and social equity: Analyzing Cape Town, South Africa's water crisis20220 citations
- Comparative study of traditional and deep-learning denoising approaches for image-based petrophysical characterization of porous media20220 citations
- Assessing the hydropower potential using hydrological models and geospatial tools in the White Bandama watershed (Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa)20220 citations
- Broadening the use of machine learning in hydrology20210 citations
- Data and information systems management for the urban water infrastructure condition assessment20210 citations
- Computational microfluidics for geosciences20210 citations
- Considerations when applying large-scale PIV and PTV for determining river flow velocity20210 citations
- Exploring environmental factors that drive diel variations in tree water storage using wavelet analysis20210 citations
- Research history and functional systems of fog water harvesting20210 citations
- Robust image-based streamflow measurements for real-time continuous monitoring20210 citations
- Surface flow velocities from space: Particle image velocimetry of satellite video of a large, sediment-laden river20210 citations
- Enabling automatic detection of anomalies in wastewater: A highly simplified approach to defining “normal” in complex chemical mixtures20210 citations
- On the spatio-temporal under-representation of isotopic data in ecohydrological studies20210 citations
- Reducing urban flood risk through building-and lot-scale flood mitigation approaches: Challenges and opportunities20210 citations
- COVID-19 lockdown disruptions on water resources, wastewater, and agriculture in India20210 citations
- Integrating invasive and non-invasive monitoring sensors to detect field-scale soil hydrological behavior20200 citations
- Impact of input feature selection on groundwater level prediction from a multi-layer perceptron neural network20200 citations
- Increasing coastal disaster resilience using smart city frameworks: Current state, challenges, and opportunities20200 citations
- Using convolutional neural networks for streamflow projection in California20200 citations
- Machine learning vs. physics-based modeling for real-time irrigation management20200 citations
06Reviewer comments
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09Questions
Frequently asked questions
What is the impact factor of Frontiers in Water?
Based on OpenAlex citation data (October 2026), the 2-year impact factor of Frontiers in Water is 4.30: papers it published in the two previous years were cited 4.30 times on average in a year. The journal is listed in JCR 2024, so Clarivate also publishes an official Journal Impact Factor, which can differ.
What is the h-index of Frontiers in Water?
The h-index of Frontiers in Water is 51 (OpenAlex, October 2026): 51 of its papers have each been cited at least 51 times. Its i10-index is 457.
What is the APC of Frontiers in Water?
OpenAlex lists an article processing charge (APC) of about US$1,418 for Frontiers in Water, an open access journal (data from October 2026). APCs change and can differ by article type, country or discounts, so confirm the current charge on the journal’s website before submitting.
Is Frontiers in Water a Q2 journal?
By 2-year citedness, Frontiers in Water ranks 38 of 138 journals in Water Resources, which places it in Q2 of that Web of Science category. This ranking is calculated by ScholarsColab from OpenAlex data; the official JCR quartile can differ.
Is Frontiers in Water indexed in Scopus?
Yes. Frontiers in Water appears in the Scopus list, according to the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab (updated 1 March 2026). Always confirm the current status on the official list before submitting.
Is Frontiers in Water an SCIE journal?
Frontiers in Water is listed in ESCI of the Web of Science Core Collection, but not in SCIE, according to the indexing lists used on ScholarsColab (updated 1 March 2026). Always confirm the current status on the official list before submitting.
Is Frontiers in Water in Journal Citation Reports (JCR)?
Yes. Frontiers in Water is listed in JCR 2024, so it has a Journal Impact Factor. For the current impact factor and quartile, check Journal Citation Reports.
What topics does Frontiers in Water publish?
The papers published in Frontiers in Water that we track most often mention water, model, system, learning, management, groundwater. Check the journal’s aims and scope for its full coverage.
How many papers published in Frontiers in Water does ScholarsColab track?
We track 128 papers published in Frontiers in Water between 2020 and 2026, cited 0 times in total, with a median of 0 citations per paper.
Does Frontiers in Water offer an APC waiver?
Frontiers in Water follows the policy of Frontiers: no country list; fee support is granted case by case on demonstrated need. No country rule: the publisher decides case by case, or has no waiver scheme. Rules verified 27 October 2026; confirm on the publisher's page.
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