AWWA Water Science

AWWA Water Science is the research journal of the American Water Works Association, published by Wiley, and it deals with drinking water treatment, distribution and the running of supply systems.《AWWA 水科学》是美国自来水厂协会的研究型期刊，由 Wiley 出版，内容覆盖饮用水处理、输配以及供水系统的运行。

Volume 1 opened in 2019, and the 2025 Journal Impact Factor stands at 1.9 against a five-year figure of 2.5, ranking 93rd among 132 titles in water resources.该刊第 1 卷于 2019 年开卷，2025 年影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子 2.5，在水资源类目 132 种期刊中列第 93 位。

Scope

• Coverage stays close to the utility, so a paper usually starts from a problem that a treatment plant, a distribution crew or a finance office has to solve.选题贴近供水企业，论文多从一个处理厂、一支管网队伍或一间财务部门必须解决的问题出发。
• Conventional treatment supplies a steady share, with coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation and the softening steps that come before filtration all represented.常规处理占去稳定的一块，混凝、絮凝、沉淀以及过滤之前的软化环节都有稿子。
• Filtration draws particular attention, from biological conversions of existing filters and the aluminium species that settle on media to granular activated carbon and ozone-biological trains.过滤尤受关注，既有对旧滤池的生物改造、滤料上沉积的铝物种，也有颗粒活性炭与臭氧生物活性炭组合工艺。
• Disinfection studies range across chlorine and chloramine practice, ultraviolet reactors and advanced oxidation, with byproduct control running alongside as a constant companion.消毒研究横跨氯与氯胺的运行、紫外反应器与高级氧化，副产物控制始终紧随其后。
• Contaminant work centres on lead and corrosion control, arsenic release inside distribution systems, the cost of nitrate treatment and the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances now dominating the field.污染物方向集中在铅与腐蚀控制、输配系统内的砷释放、硝酸盐处理成本，以及如今占据主场的全氟与多氟化合物。
• Cyanotoxins and harmful algal blooms form a cluster of their own, covering source water monitoring, anatoxin adsorption on activated carbon and the state-level responses to bloom seasons.蓝藻毒素与有害藻华自成一簇，涵盖水源监测、活性炭对 Anatoxin-a 的吸附，以及各州对藻华季的应对。
• Potable reuse is treated as a subject in its own right, with reverse osmosis, ultraviolet advanced oxidation and performance indicators for indirect and direct schemes.饮用水回用被当作独立题目处理，反渗透、紫外线高级氧化，以及间接回用与直接回用的性能指标都有专门研究。
• Distribution problems appear often, among them water main breaks, pressure transients, mitered elbows and the metering error that follows a badly placed fitting.输配问题出现频繁，干管爆裂、压力瞬变、斜接弯头，以及安装位置不当的管件引起的计量偏差也占去不少篇幅。
• Metering gets unusually close reading, since papers test residential meters under short intermittent flows, surge conditions and long service intervals.计量得到的关注超出寻常，论文在短促间歇流、涌流与长期服役的条件下检验户用水表。
• Building plumbing carries a section of its own, with stagnation after extended closure, Legionella monitoring and the removal performance of point-of-use filters all studied.建筑内部管道自成一节，长时间停用后的滞水、Legionella 监测与龙头净水器的去除效果各有专文。
• Lead service lines attract repeated attention, from the relation between water quality and pipe deposits to online maps that publicise line locations and press replacement forward.铅管入户段反复成为题目，从水质与管垢的关系，到公开管段位置、推动更换的在线地图。
• Source water protection reaches watershed scale questions, including wildfire contamination of networks, pipeline spill risk and the yield of rainwater harvesting in dry cities.水源保护延伸到流域尺度的问题，包括山火对管网的污染、输油管道泄漏风险，以及干旱城市的雨水收集潜力。
• Utility management and finance hold a firm place, with affordability indices, rate progressivity, governance autonomy and rural compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act.企业经营管理与财务占稳一席，可负担性指数、费率累进性、治理自主权，以及农村地区对《安全饮用水法》的遵守都在讨论之列。
• Modelling and data work runs through the list as well, from monthly demand forecasting and main failure prediction to hydraulic and water quality simulation.建模与数据工作同样贯穿各个方向，从月度需水量预测、干管失效预报，到水力与水质模拟。

History

• The first issue carried a January/February 2019 dateline, although nine papers had already gone online during November and December 2018.第 1 卷第 1 期的刊期标为 2019 年一二月，不过 2018 年 11 月与 12 月已有九篇论文先行上线。
• Volume and issue numbering has held steady since then, six numbers to a volume, dated January, March, May, July, September and November.此后卷期编号一直规整，每卷六期，分别标注 1 月、3 月、5 月、7 月、9 月与 11 月。
• One volume covers one year, so volume 1 ran from late 2018 into 2019, volume 7 through 2025 and volume 8 through 2026.一卷对一年，第 1 卷从 2018 年末跨到 2019 年，第 7 卷对应 2025 年，第 8 卷对应 2026 年。
• John Wiley & Sons took the publishing role from the outset, with the editorial address recorded at Hoboken, New Jersey, and the association listed as corporate author.出版事务自始由 John Wiley & Sons 承担，编辑地址著录在新泽西州霍博肯，协会则被列为团体作者。
• The title is electronic only, issued as a remote online resource, so no print run has existed and each paper is placed by an article number.该刊只出电子版，以远程在线资源的形式发行，从未有纸质印刷，每篇论文以文章编号定位。
• Article identifiers follow the aws2 stem, so a paper reads 10.1002/aws2.1363 rather than a page range inside a bound volume.文章标识沿用 aws2 词干，一篇论文写作 10.1002/aws2.1363，而不是合订卷内的页码区间。
• Roughly 380 DOIs are registered under the title, and output has hovered near fifty papers a volume, thinning to 32 in 2024 and 37 in 2025.该刊名下注册了约 380 个 DOI，每卷篇数长期在 50 篇上下，2024 年降到 32 篇，2025 年为 37 篇。
• It stands apart from Journal AWWA, the association's flagship, which has appeared continuously since 1914 and serves a membership readership rather than a research one.它与协会旗舰刊 Journal AWWA 分工不同，后者自 1914 年起连续出版，面向会员读者而非研究群体。
• Topical collections gave the journal a second rhythm, with potable reuse gathered in 2020 and harmful algal blooms in 2024.专题合辑为刊物添了另一种节奏，2020 年集中推出饮用水回用，2024 年集中推出有害藻华。
• The title is indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index, and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports place it in the third quartile of water resources, 93rd of 132.该刊收录于 Emerging Sources Citation Index，2025 年版期刊引证报告把它放在水资源类目第三分区，132 种中列第 93 位。
• The impact factor rose from 1.8 to 1.9 between the 2024 and 2025 releases, while the five-year figure of 2.5 sits well above the annual one.影响因子在 2024 年版与 2025 年版之间由 1.8 升到 1.9，五年影响因子 2.5 明显高过单年数值。
• Citations total 622 with a cited half-life of 4.4 years, and a journal citation indicator of 0.38 places the title at the 29.9th percentile.总被引 622 次，被引半衰期 4.4 年，期刊引证指数 0.38，在类目中的百分位为 29.9。
• Access is hybrid, since roughly 38 percent of recent content appears under gold open access terms while the rest stays behind a subscription.访问模式为混合型，近年约 38% 的内容以金色开放获取条款发表，其余仍留在订阅范围内。
• Licences differ paper by paper, with CC BY used beside CC BY-NC-ND and CC BY-NC, and older articles carrying the publisher's own terms.许可逐篇不同，CC BY 与 CC BY-NC-ND、CC BY-NC 并存，较早的文章则沿用出版方自有条款。

Editors

• Editorial authority is shared between the association and the publisher, with AWWA supplying subject standing and Wiley the production machinery.编辑权由协会与出版方分担，AWWA 提供学科声望，Wiley 承担生产流程。
• Kenneth L. Mercer wrote the opening piece of volume 1, a short statement titled Connecting Water Professionals to Get Things Done.第 1 卷的开篇文字由 Kenneth L. Mercer 执笔，题为《Connecting Water Professionals to Get Things Done》。^[1]
• That text set a tone the journal has kept, asking for papers written so that a utility engineer can act on the result.这篇短文定下刊物一直延续的调子，要求论文写到供水工程师能据此动手的程度。
• Topical collections are introduced by outside scholars, as when Kerry J. Howe wrote the preface to the potable reuse collection in the November 2020 issue.专题合辑的导言由外部学者执笔，2020 年 11 月号的饮用水回用合辑即由 Kerry J. Howe 撰写前言。^[2]
• A second collection, on harmful algal blooms, arrived in January 2024 with an introduction signed by Dionysios Dionysiou, Nicole Blute, Triantafyllos Kaloudis, Lauren Weinrich and Arash Zamyadi.另一部有害藻华合辑于 2024 年 1 月面世，导言由 Dionysios Dionysiou、Nicole Blute、Triantafyllos Kaloudis、Lauren Weinrich 与 Arash Zamyadi 五人署名。^[3]
• Reviewers are thanked in print, and the lists of 2019 and 2020 appeared in the closing issues of volume 1 and volume 2, headed by the title plus the year and Reviewer Recognition.审稿人在版面上得到致谢，2019 年与 2020 年的名录分别刊于第 1 卷与第 2 卷的末一期，标题由刊名加年份与 Reviewer Recognition 组成。
• Correspondence is handled openly, with letters to the editor printed in 2026 and answered by the authors of the papers they address.读者来信处理得公开，2026 年刊出的来信由被评论论文的作者答复。
• One exchange had Joseph A. Cotruvo raise objections, and Eric S. Peterson, Benjamin D. Stanford, William Raseman, Caroline Russell, Chad Seidel and Gretchen Bruce answered him in the July 2026 issue.其中一次由 Joseph A. Cotruvo 提出异议，Eric S. Peterson、Benjamin D. Stanford、William Raseman、Caroline Russell、Chad Seidel 与 Gretchen Bruce 在 2026 年 7 月号作答。
• Perspective pieces sit beside original research, and a 2021 example reviewed functionalised bio-adsorbents for stripping perfluoroalkyl substances from water.视角类文章与原创研究并列，2021 年的一篇评述梳理了去除水中全氟化合物的功能化生物吸附剂。
• Manuscripts are expected in American English, and the author guidelines warn that a paper may be returned when the prose falls below the standard the editors set.稿件须用美式英语撰写，投稿指南说明文字不达标的论文可能被退回。
• Submissions, licensing and typesetting run through Wiley's online platform, which also issues the digital object identifiers under the 10.1002 prefix.投稿、授权与排版统一走 Wiley 的在线平台，10.1002 前缀下的数字对象标识也由该平台发放。