Applied Water Science

Applied Water Science is a fully open access journal published by SpringerOpen that began in 2011 with sponsorship from the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and addresses water scarcity from a systems perspective, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.7.《应用水科学》（Applied Water Science）由（SpringerOpen）出版，2011 年创刊，获阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王科技城资助，为完全开放获取期刊，从系统视角应对水资源短缺，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.7。

Scope

• Water scarcity is treated as a systems problem, so supply, treatment, distribution, reuse and governance are considered together rather than in isolation.水资源短缺被视为系统性问题，供给、处理、输配、回用与治理被放在一起考虑，而非彼此孤立。
• Sustainable management of natural water resources, from assessment to allocation, is a stated pillar of the journal.天然水资源的可持续管理，从评估到配置，是期刊明确的一大支柱。
• Water desalination, including membrane and thermal routes, receives sustained attention because of its relevance to arid regions.海水淡化，含膜法与热法路线，因与干旱地区高度相关而获得持续关注。
• Drinking water treatment and wastewater treatment are covered as engineering problems with public health consequences.饮用水处理与废水处理作为具有公共卫生后果的工程问题被纳入。
• Water resources planning, investigation and management, including modelling and policy analysis, complete the core topics.水资源规划、调查与管理，含建模与政策分析，构成其余核心议题。
• Recycling and reuse of wastewater, and the search for alternative water sources, are framed with a focus on arid and semi-arid environments.废水回收与再利用，以及对替代水源的探索，均以干旱与半干旱环境为重点。
• Theoretical work is accepted provided it is sound and innovative, and the journal publishes original articles and reviews rather than conference material.理论研究只要扎实且具创新性即可受理，期刊发表原创论文与综述，不刊载会议材料。

History

• The journal was launched in 2011 as a fully funded open access title, with the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Riyadh as sponsor.本刊于 2011 年以全额资助的开放获取期刊形式创办，资助方为利雅得的阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王科技城。
• Its opening editorial was written by Abdulrahman I. Alabdulaaly of that city's science agency and Enrico Drioli of the University of Calabria.创刊社论由该科技城的（Abdulrahman I. Alabdulaaly）与卡拉布里亚大学的（Enrico Drioli）共同撰写。
• That editorial set out the case for a holistic journal at a time when desalination and reuse were treated as separate technical specialities.该社论在淡化与回用尚被当作彼此分离的技术门类之时，提出了办一份整体性期刊的主张。
• Authorship was free of charge at launch, and the journal now levies an article processing charge with a waiver policy for authors who cannot pay.创刊时作者无需付费，如今期刊收取论文处理费，并对无力支付者设有减免政策。
• Articles carry continuous numbering within a single annual volume, so papers appear without waiting for an issue to be assembled.论文在同一卷内连续编号，无需等待凑齐一期即可刊出。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.7, level with 5.7 in 2024 and against 5.411 in 2022, and the title ranks 19th of 132 in water resources.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.7，与 2024 年的 5.7 持平，2022 年为 5.411，在水资源类 132 种期刊中位列第 19。

Editors

• Saad A. Aljlil of the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology is one of two editors-in-chief.两位主编之一（Saad A. Aljlil）任职于阿卜杜勒阿齐兹国王科技城。
• Francesca Macedonio of the Institute on Membrane Technology of the Italian National Research Council shares the editor-in-chief role and works on membrane separation.另一位主编（Francesca Macedonio）任职于意大利国家研究委员会膜技术研究所，研究膜分离。
• The founding editors were Abdulrahman I. Alabdulaaly, then at the Saudi science agency, and Enrico Drioli, a membrane scientist at the University of Calabria.创刊主编为时任沙特科技机构研究人员的（Abdulrahman I. Alabdulaaly）与卡拉布里亚大学膜科学家（Enrico Drioli）。
• An international scientific board was envisaged from the outset as the body through which the journal would engage the wider water community.期刊自创办起即设想以一个国际科学委员会为桥梁，与更广泛的水领域学界互动。
• Peer review is anonymous, the journal follows Committee on Publication Ethics guidance on misconduct, and authors must not misrepresent results.评审采用匿名方式，期刊按出版伦理委员会准则处理学术不端，作者不得歪曲研究结果。
• Because the journal is sponsored by a national science agency, its editorial priorities lean toward problems of arid and semi-arid regions rather than temperate water systems.因期刊由国家级科技机构资助，其编辑优先方向偏向干旱与半干旱地区的问题，而非温带水系统。