Sci-Bytes> Journals Ranked by Impact: Water Resources
Week of November 21, 2010
Rank | 2009 Impact Factor | Impact 2005-09 | Impact 1981-2009 |
---|---|---|---|
1 |
Water Research (4.36) |
Water Research (7.60) |
Water Resources Research (23.62) |
2 |
Hydrology & Earth System Sciences (2.46) |
Vadose Zone Journal (4.92) |
Regulated Rivers – Research & Management (20.25) |
3 |
Water Resources Research (2.45) |
Journal of Hydrology (4.75) |
Water Research (19.98) |
4 |
Journal of Hydrology (2.43) |
Advances in Water Resources (4.19) |
Clays & Clay Minerals (19.11) |
5 |
Advances in Water Resources (2.35) |
Water Resources Research (4.18) |
Journal of Irrigation & Drainage Engineering (14.02) |
6 |
Desalination (2.03) |
Hydrology & Earth System Sciences (4.04) |
Journal of Hydrology (14.01) |
7 |
Agricultural Water Management (2.02) |
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (4.01) |
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (13.67) |
8 |
Water Resources Management (2.01) |
River Research and Applications (3.88) |
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution (11.38) |
9 |
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology (2.01) |
Environmental Toxicology (3.85) |
Ground Water (11.23) |
10 |
Vadose Zone Journal (1.99) |
Acta Hydrochimica et Hydrobiologica (3.53) |
Hydrological Processes (11.02) |
The above table compares the citation impact of journals in a given field as measured over three different time spans. The left-hand column ranks journals based on their 2009 "impact factor," as enumerated in the current edition of Journal Citations Report®.
The 2009 impact factor is calculated by taking the number of all current citations to source items published in a journal over the previous two years and dividing by the number of articles published in the journal during the same period--in other words, a ratio between citations and recent citable items published. The rankings in the next two columns show impact over longer time spans, based on figures from Journal Performance Indicators.
In these columns, total citations to a journal's published papers are divided by the total number of papers that the journal published, producing a citations-per-paper impact score over a five-year period (middle column) and a 29-year period (right-hand column). SOURCE: Journal Citations Report and Journal Performance Indicators.
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