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PLOS Water

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SCImago
Q2
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
2.8
SJR
0.656
CiteScore
2.8
Years of issue
2024-2025
journal names
PLOS Water
Publications
340
Citations
1 312
h-index
16
Publications
340
Citations
1 278
Top-3 citing journals
PLOS Water
PLOS Water (92 citations)
Water (Switzerland)
Water (Switzerland) (36 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Top-3 countries
USA (117 publications)
United Kingdom (23 publications)
Australia (20 publications)

Most cited in 5 years

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Citing journals

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PLOS Water
92 citations, 7.01%
Science of the Total Environment
45 citations, 3.43%
Water (Switzerland)
36 citations, 2.74%
Water Research
25 citations, 1.91%
Frontiers in Water
21 citations, 1.6%
Sustainability
19 citations, 1.45%
Environmental Research Letters
18 citations, 1.37%
Journal of Water Sanitation and Hygiene for Development
16 citations, 1.22%
Environmental Science & Technology
13 citations, 0.99%
PLoS ONE
13 citations, 0.99%
Journal of Water and Health
12 citations, 0.91%
ACS ES&T Water
12 citations, 0.91%
Hydrological Processes
10 citations, 0.76%
Journal of Hydrology
10 citations, 0.76%
International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
8 citations, 0.61%
Environmental Science and Policy
8 citations, 0.61%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
7 citations, 0.53%
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
7 citations, 0.53%
Frontiers in Public Health
7 citations, 0.53%
Environmental Pollution
7 citations, 0.53%
Scientific Reports
7 citations, 0.53%
Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology
7 citations, 0.53%
BMC Public Health
7 citations, 0.53%
Water Resources Research
7 citations, 0.53%
PLOS Global Public Health
7 citations, 0.53%
Nature Water
7 citations, 0.53%
Environmental Challenges
7 citations, 0.53%
Environmental Research
6 citations, 0.46%
Water Economics and Policy
6 citations, 0.46%
Land
6 citations, 0.46%
Ecological Indicators
6 citations, 0.46%
Water Environment Research
6 citations, 0.46%
Geophysical Research Letters
6 citations, 0.46%
BMJ Global Health
6 citations, 0.46%
Remote Sensing
6 citations, 0.46%
Health and Place
6 citations, 0.46%
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
6 citations, 0.46%
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
6 citations, 0.46%
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
6 citations, 0.46%
Journal of Cleaner Production
5 citations, 0.38%
Scientific data
5 citations, 0.38%
Journal of the American Water Resources Association
5 citations, 0.38%
Environmental Modelling and Software
5 citations, 0.38%
Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies
5 citations, 0.38%
Groundwater for Sustainable Development
5 citations, 0.38%
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
5 citations, 0.38%
Frontiers in Environmental Science
5 citations, 0.38%
Chemosphere
5 citations, 0.38%
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
5 citations, 0.38%
Urban Water Journal
5 citations, 0.38%
Journal of Water Process Engineering
5 citations, 0.38%
AWWA Water Science
5 citations, 0.38%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
4 citations, 0.3%
Agricultural Water Management
4 citations, 0.3%
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
4 citations, 0.3%
Environmental Health Insights
4 citations, 0.3%
iScience
4 citations, 0.3%
Geoforum
4 citations, 0.3%
Earth's Future
4 citations, 0.3%
Environment, Development and Sustainability
4 citations, 0.3%
Local Environment
4 citations, 0.3%
Heliyon
4 citations, 0.3%
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
4 citations, 0.3%
Water Policy
4 citations, 0.3%
Frontiers in Microbiology
4 citations, 0.3%
npj Clean Water
4 citations, 0.3%
Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability
4 citations, 0.3%
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
3 citations, 0.23%
Sustainable Cities and Society
3 citations, 0.23%
Toxicology Reports
3 citations, 0.23%
Microorganisms
3 citations, 0.23%
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
3 citations, 0.23%
Water Science and Technology
3 citations, 0.23%
Environments - MDPI
3 citations, 0.23%
Annual Review of Resource Economics
3 citations, 0.23%
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution
3 citations, 0.23%
Policy Studies Journal
3 citations, 0.23%
The Lancet
3 citations, 0.23%
Environmental Science and Technology Letters
3 citations, 0.23%
Environmental Geochemistry and Health
3 citations, 0.23%
Chemical Engineering Journal
3 citations, 0.23%
Climate
3 citations, 0.23%
Applied Geochemistry
3 citations, 0.23%
Water Resources Management
3 citations, 0.23%
Journal of Environmental Management
3 citations, 0.23%
Theoretical and Applied Climatology
3 citations, 0.23%
Water Security
3 citations, 0.23%
Hydrology
3 citations, 0.23%
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management - ASCE
3 citations, 0.23%
Journal of Hazardous Materials
3 citations, 0.23%
World Development
3 citations, 0.23%
Urban Climate
3 citations, 0.23%
SSRN Electronic Journal
3 citations, 0.23%
Communications Earth & Environment
3 citations, 0.23%
Sustainable Water Resources Management
3 citations, 0.23%
Urban Science
3 citations, 0.23%
World Water Policy
3 citations, 0.23%
Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
3 citations, 0.23%
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
2 citations, 0.15%
American Review of Public Administration
2 citations, 0.15%
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Elsevier
354 citations, 26.98%
Springer Nature
171 citations, 13.03%
MDPI
124 citations, 9.45%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
120 citations, 9.15%
Wiley
86 citations, 6.55%
Frontiers Media S.A.
50 citations, 3.81%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
48 citations, 3.66%
Taylor & Francis
47 citations, 3.58%
IWA Publishing
42 citations, 3.2%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
32 citations, 2.44%
IOP Publishing
27 citations, 2.06%
SAGE
12 citations, 0.91%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
12 citations, 0.91%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
12 citations, 0.91%
Oxford University Press
9 citations, 0.69%
American Society for Microbiology
9 citations, 0.69%
American Geophysical Union
9 citations, 0.69%
Copernicus
9 citations, 0.69%
Emerald
8 citations, 0.61%
BMJ
8 citations, 0.61%
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
8 citations, 0.61%
World Scientific
6 citations, 0.46%
Water Environment Federation
6 citations, 0.46%
Research Square Platform LLC
6 citations, 0.46%
Annual Reviews
5 citations, 0.38%
Cambridge University Press
4 citations, 0.3%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
4 citations, 0.3%
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
4 citations, 0.3%
IGI Global
3 citations, 0.23%
Pleiades Publishing
2 citations, 0.15%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2 citations, 0.15%
University of Chicago Press
2 citations, 0.15%
Pensoft Publishers
2 citations, 0.15%
Canadian Science Publishing
2 citations, 0.15%
CSIRO Publishing
2 citations, 0.15%
JMIR Publications
2 citations, 0.15%
AMO Publisher
2 citations, 0.15%
Walter de Gruyter
1 citation, 0.08%
Mary Ann Liebert
1 citation, 0.08%
The Royal Society
1 citation, 0.08%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
1 citation, 0.08%
American Meteorological Society
1 citation, 0.08%
The Company of Biologists
1 citation, 0.08%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
1 citation, 0.08%
Information Processing Society of Japan
1 citation, 0.08%
International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
1 citation, 0.08%
American Public Health Association
1 citation, 0.08%
Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources
1 citation, 0.08%
Science in China Press
1 citation, 0.08%
Hindawi Limited
1 citation, 0.08%
Publications Office of the European Union
1 citation, 0.08%
Knowledge E DMCC
1 citation, 0.08%
FARC of the North-East named N.V. Rudnitskogo
1 citation, 0.08%
Academy of Science of South Africa
1 citation, 0.08%
PAGEPress Publications
1 citation, 0.08%
PANORAMA Publishing House
1 citation, 0.08%
Institute of Research and Community Services Diponegoro University (LPPM UNDIP)
1 citation, 0.08%
CAIRN
1 citation, 0.08%
IntechOpen
1 citation, 0.08%
South Florida Publishing LLC
1 citation, 0.08%
Environmental Health Perspectives
1 citation, 0.08%
Innovative Scholars and Researchers Alliance
1 citation, 0.08%
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
24 publications, 7.06%
Emory University
14 publications, 4.12%
University of Colorado Boulder
12 publications, 3.53%
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
11 publications, 3.24%
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
9 publications, 2.65%
University of Leeds
9 publications, 2.65%
Stanford University
8 publications, 2.35%
University of Melbourne
7 publications, 2.06%
North Carolina State University
7 publications, 2.06%
Tufts University
7 publications, 2.06%
University of Technology Sydney
6 publications, 1.76%
Makerere University
6 publications, 1.76%
University of California, Berkeley
6 publications, 1.76%
University of California, Merced
6 publications, 1.76%
Edith Cowan University
5 publications, 1.47%
Harvard University
5 publications, 1.47%
University of Washington
5 publications, 1.47%
Ohio State University
5 publications, 1.47%
University of Michigan
5 publications, 1.47%
ETH Zurich
4 publications, 1.18%
Michigan State University
4 publications, 1.18%
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
4 publications, 1.18%
York University
4 publications, 1.18%
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
4 publications, 1.18%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
4 publications, 1.18%
University of Oxford
3 publications, 0.88%
Johns Hopkins University
3 publications, 0.88%
Pennsylvania State University
3 publications, 0.88%
Victoria University of Wellington
3 publications, 0.88%
Monash University
3 publications, 0.88%
Northwestern University
3 publications, 0.88%
Colorado State University
3 publications, 0.88%
Virginia Tech
3 publications, 0.88%
West Virginia University
3 publications, 0.88%
Duke University
3 publications, 0.88%
University of California, Los Angeles
3 publications, 0.88%
University of California, Davis
3 publications, 0.88%
University of Texas at Austin
3 publications, 0.88%
Cranfield University
3 publications, 0.88%
University of Miami
3 publications, 0.88%
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
3 publications, 0.88%
Indiana University Bloomington
3 publications, 0.88%
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
3 publications, 0.88%
Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
3 publications, 0.88%
University of Idaho
3 publications, 0.88%
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
3 publications, 0.88%
University of Indonesia
2 publications, 0.59%
Delft University of Technology
2 publications, 0.59%
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Southampton
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Otago
2 publications, 0.59%
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Queensland
2 publications, 0.59%
Griffith University
2 publications, 0.59%
Columbia University
2 publications, 0.59%
University of KwaZulu-Natal
2 publications, 0.59%
Washington State University
2 publications, 0.59%
Arizona State University
2 publications, 0.59%
New York University
2 publications, 0.59%
Brigham and Women's Hospital
2 publications, 0.59%
University of California, San Francisco
2 publications, 0.59%
University of California, Santa Barbara
2 publications, 0.59%
University of California, Santa Cruz
2 publications, 0.59%
Newcastle University
2 publications, 0.59%
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Notre Dame
2 publications, 0.59%
Georgia State University
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Ghana
2 publications, 0.59%
University for Development Studies
2 publications, 0.59%
University of the West of England
2 publications, 0.59%
Wayne State University
2 publications, 0.59%
McGill University
2 publications, 0.59%
Lancaster University
2 publications, 0.59%
University of British Columbia
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Waterloo
2 publications, 0.59%
Purdue University
2 publications, 0.59%
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Tokyo
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Yamanashi
2 publications, 0.59%
Temple University
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Sheffield
2 publications, 0.59%
Wageningen University and Research Centre
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Victoria
2 publications, 0.59%
Western University
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Toronto
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Florida
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Kentucky
2 publications, 0.59%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2 publications, 0.59%
Goddard Space Flight Center
2 publications, 0.59%
Polytechnique Montréal
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Connecticut
2 publications, 0.59%
International Livestock Research Institute (Kenya)
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Nairobi
2 publications, 0.59%
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
2 publications, 0.59%
Bahir Dar University
2 publications, 0.59%
Meteorological Office
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Northern British Columbia
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Lethbridge
2 publications, 0.59%
University of Yaoundé I
2 publications, 0.59%
Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
2 publications, 0.59%
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USA, 117, 34.41%
USA
117 publications, 34.41%
United Kingdom, 23, 6.76%
United Kingdom
23 publications, 6.76%
Australia, 20, 5.88%
Australia
20 publications, 5.88%
Canada, 14, 4.12%
Canada
14 publications, 4.12%
Switzerland, 12, 3.53%
Switzerland
12 publications, 3.53%
Uganda, 8, 2.35%
Uganda
8 publications, 2.35%
Kenya, 7, 2.06%
Kenya
7 publications, 2.06%
Germany, 6, 1.76%
Germany
6 publications, 1.76%
India, 5, 1.47%
India
5 publications, 1.47%
Sweden, 5, 1.47%
Sweden
5 publications, 1.47%
France, 4, 1.18%
France
4 publications, 1.18%
Spain, 4, 1.18%
Spain
4 publications, 1.18%
Italy, 4, 1.18%
Italy
4 publications, 1.18%
Netherlands, 4, 1.18%
Netherlands
4 publications, 1.18%
New Zealand, 4, 1.18%
New Zealand
4 publications, 1.18%
China, 3, 0.88%
China
3 publications, 0.88%
Ghana, 3, 0.88%
Ghana
3 publications, 0.88%
Cameroon, 3, 0.88%
Cameroon
3 publications, 0.88%
Nepal, 3, 0.88%
Nepal
3 publications, 0.88%
Nigeria, 3, 0.88%
Nigeria
3 publications, 0.88%
South Africa, 3, 0.88%
South Africa
3 publications, 0.88%
Japan, 3, 0.88%
Japan
3 publications, 0.88%
Bangladesh, 2, 0.59%
Bangladesh
2 publications, 0.59%
Denmark, 2, 0.59%
Denmark
2 publications, 0.59%
Dominican Republic, 2, 0.59%
Dominican Republic
2 publications, 0.59%
Indonesia, 2, 0.59%
Indonesia
2 publications, 0.59%
Colombia, 2, 0.59%
Colombia
2 publications, 0.59%
Malawi, 2, 0.59%
Malawi
2 publications, 0.59%
Mexico, 2, 0.59%
Mexico
2 publications, 0.59%
Mozambique, 2, 0.59%
Mozambique
2 publications, 0.59%
Fiji, 2, 0.59%
Fiji
2 publications, 0.59%
Ethiopia, 2, 0.59%
Ethiopia
2 publications, 0.59%
Portugal, 1, 0.29%
Portugal
1 publication, 0.29%
Austria, 1, 0.29%
Austria
1 publication, 0.29%
Belize, 1, 0.29%
Belize
1 publication, 0.29%
Brazil, 1, 0.29%
Brazil
1 publication, 0.29%
Burkina Faso, 1, 0.29%
Burkina Faso
1 publication, 0.29%
Vietnam, 1, 0.29%
Vietnam
1 publication, 0.29%
Guatemala, 1, 0.29%
Guatemala
1 publication, 0.29%
Greece, 1, 0.29%
Greece
1 publication, 0.29%
Zambia, 1, 0.29%
Zambia
1 publication, 0.29%
Zimbabwe, 1, 0.29%
Zimbabwe
1 publication, 0.29%
Jordan, 1, 0.29%
Jordan
1 publication, 0.29%
Iran, 1, 0.29%
Iran
1 publication, 0.29%
Ireland, 1, 0.29%
Ireland
1 publication, 0.29%
Cambodia, 1, 0.29%
Cambodia
1 publication, 0.29%
Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1, 0.29%
Democratic Republic of the Congo
1 publication, 0.29%
Côte d'Ivoire, 1, 0.29%
Côte d'Ivoire
1 publication, 0.29%
Madagascar, 1, 0.29%
Madagascar
1 publication, 0.29%
Mali, 1, 0.29%
Mali
1 publication, 0.29%
Myanmar, 1, 0.29%
Myanmar
1 publication, 0.29%
Norway, 1, 0.29%
Norway
1 publication, 0.29%
Pakistan, 1, 0.29%
Pakistan
1 publication, 0.29%
Rwanda, 1, 0.29%
Rwanda
1 publication, 0.29%
Tanzania, 1, 0.29%
Tanzania
1 publication, 0.29%
Trinidad and Tobago, 1, 0.29%
Trinidad and Tobago
1 publication, 0.29%
Finland, 1, 0.29%
Finland
1 publication, 0.29%
Croatia, 1, 0.29%
Croatia
1 publication, 0.29%
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