Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering

Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering is a quarterly open-access journal on hydrogeology and groundwater engineering, issued since 2013 and published by Tsinghua University Press for the Institute of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences.《地下水科学与工程学报》是一本季刊型开放获取期刊，主题覆盖水文地质与地下水工程，2013 年创刊，由清华大学出版社为中国地质科学院水文地质环境地质研究所出版。

Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, ranking 93rd of 132 titles in WATER RESOURCES (Q3, ESCI), and every article is free to read in full on the publisher's SciOpen platform.2025 年影响因子为 1.9，在 WATER RESOURCES 类目 132 种期刊中列第 93 位（ESCI 的 Q3 区），全文在出版社的 SciOpen 平台免费开放。

Scope

• Aquifer architecture and groundwater flow sit at the centre of the remit, covering porous, fractured and karst media, and also the movement of heat, solutes and particles through them.含水层结构与地下水流是刊物的核心议题，涵盖孔隙、裂隙与岩溶三类介质，也涉及水与热、溶质与颗粒在其中的运移。
• Hydrogeochemistry and isotope tracing appear regularly, from water-rock interaction and groundwater dating to the use of environmental tracers for estimating recharge and mixing proportions.水文地球化学与同位素示踪常年占有一席之地，内容涉及水岩相互作用、地下水定年，以及用环境示踪剂估算补给与混合比例。
• Papers on contamination follow nitrate and salinity loads as well as trace metals and emerging organic compounds, then examine the treatment and remediation methods applied to polluted aquifers.污染类论文关注硝酸盐与盐分的升高，也关注微量金属和新出现的有机化合物，并讨论受污染含水层的处理与修复方法。
• Seawater intrusion and aquifer salinization in coastal plains form a standing topic, including the monitoring and modelling used to separate marine encroachment from evaporative concentration.沿海平原的海水入侵与含水层咸化是长期主题，含用于区分海水侵入与蒸发浓缩的监测与模拟工作。
• Geothermics and deep groundwater are treated as one system, through work on geothermal fields, deep circulation and the thermal signature of large sedimentary basins.地热与深层地下水被放在同一系统中考察，涉及地热田、深循环，以及大型沉积盆地的热异常特征。
• Karst water keeps a steady presence, covering conduit and diffuse flow, spring discharge and karst collapse, and extending to the vulnerability of karst aquifers to pollution.岩溶水持续受到关注，内容含管道流与扩散流，也含泉流量与岩溶塌陷，还涉及岩溶含水层对污染的敏感性。
• Groundwater-dependent ecosystems and the soil zone enter through studies of phreatophyte water use and baseflow maintenance, and through the ecological consequences of a falling water table.依赖地下水的生态系统与包气带土壤同样进入刊物，研究涉及植物耗水、基流维持，以及水位下降带来的生态后果。
• Land subsidence and engineering geology are covered through aquifer compaction and earth fissures, and through the interaction between groundwater withdrawal and urban infrastructure.地面沉降与工程地质通过含水层压密、地裂缝，以及地下水开采与城市基础设施的相互作用得到呈现。
• Monitoring networks and new instrumentation are reported as tools in their own right, as are remote sensing and data sciences, with attention to sensor design and long hydrological records.监测网建设与新型仪器作为独立工具被报道，遥感与数据科学同样如此，内容含传感器设计与长序列水文记录的整理。
• Resource assessment and development appear as water-resource and mineral-resource evaluations, well-field design, and estimates of sustainable yield for large pumping districts.资源评价与开发以水资源和矿产资源评价、井场设计，以及大型开采区可持续开采量的估算等形式出现。
• Water quality and public health are paired with vulnerability and risk assessment, most often where geogenic arsenic and fluoride constrain drinking-water supplies.水质与公共健康同脆弱性和风险评价并列，原生砷与氟制约饮用水供给的地区最常进入这一栏。
• Management and policy questions also fall inside the scope, through water allocation rules, groundwater governance and the economics of conjunctive use with surface water.管理与政策问题同样在范围之内，涉及水资源管理、配水规则，以及地表水与地下水联合调度的经济分析。
• Interdisciplinary submissions are invited, tying groundwater problems to climate and to social and economic research, and to atmospheric science, geomorphology and geophysics.刊物欢迎跨学科投稿，把地下水问题同气候与社会经济研究相连，也同大气科学、地貌学与地球物理相连。
• Four article types are accepted: original research, comprehensive reviews and reports carrying large sample datasets, with short communications reserved for compact but complete results.文章类型含原创研究、综述，以及附带大量实测样本数据的报告，短通讯留给篇幅紧凑而结论完整的结果。

History

• The journal was founded in 2013, its first volume opening with research papers in issue 1, under three sponsors: the Institute of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology of CAGS, the China Chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists and the Commission on Hydrogeology of the Geological Society of China.刊物 2013 年创刊，第 1 卷第 1 期即刊出首批研究论文，主办方为中国地质科学院水文地质环境地质研究所、国际水文地质学家协会中国国家委员会，以及中国地质学会水文地质专业委员会。
• Volume 1 ran to three issues in 2013, and from volume 2 in 2014 the journal settled into four issues a year, the rhythm it still keeps at volume 14, while the Crossref record covers 2013 to 2017 and resumes in 2023, the intervening numbers having been registered under the prefix 10.19637.第 1 卷在 2013 年只出 3 期，自 2014 年第 2 卷起固定为每年 4 期，第 14 卷仍是这个节奏，Crossref 的记录只覆盖 2013 至 2017 年并在 2023 年接上，中间各期登记在 10.19637 前缀之下。
• One volume is completed each calendar year, so volume 11 belongs to 2023 and volume 14 to 2026, and the issue numbers restart at 1 every January.每个日历年完成一卷，第 11 卷对应 2023 年，第 14 卷对应 2026 年，期号每年 1 月从 1 重新起算。
• For its first decade the title was run from the institute's own editorial office in Shijiazhuang, which handled editing and printing in house, and the office still answers from a Shijiazhuang address.最初十年，刊物由研究所在石家庄自设的编辑部运作，编辑与印制都在内部完成，联络地址至今仍落在石家庄。
• A cooperation agreement with Tsinghua University Press took effect in 2023, and since then every accepted article has gone to SciOpen, the press's open-access platform, alongside the journal's own site.2023 年与清华大学出版社的合作生效，此后录用的文章同步上线该社的开放获取平台 SciOpen，与刊物自有网站并行发布。
• Two serial numbers are in use, 2305-7068 for the printed edition and 2097-7476 for the electronic one, and both are printed on the journal's about page.刊物使用两个刊号，印刷版为 2305-7068，电子版为 2097-7476，二者均列在刊物的期刊介绍页上。
• No article processing charge is levied, as the Directory of Open Access Journals records, and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports give the gold open-access share as 92.63 percent.刊物不收取文章处理费，这一点在开放获取期刊目录中有记录，2025 年期刊引证报告给出的金色开放获取比例为 92.63%。
• Indexing now covers the Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus, DOAJ, GeoRef, CABI, Chemical Abstracts Service and EBSCO, with ProQuest, CNKI and the abstract journal AJ added to the same list.收录该刊的数据库包括新兴来源引文索引，Scopus，DOAJ，GeoRef，CABI，化学文摘社与 EBSCO，另有 ProQuest，中国知网与文摘刊物 AJ。
• The earliest impact factor on record here is 1.7 for 2023, rising to 1.8 in 2024 and 1.9 in 2025, while the five-year figure is 1.6.可查记录中最早的影响因子为 2023 年的 1.7，2024 年升至 1.8，2025 年为 1.9，五年影响因子同期为 1.6。
• In the 2025 release the title sits in the third quartile of WATER RESOURCES at rank 93 of 132, with a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.42.在 2025 年的榜单中，刊物位于 WATER RESOURCES 类目第三区，132 种期刊里排第 93 位，期刊引证指标为 0.42。
• Output stays deliberately small, about 28 articles a year in the same report, against 356 citations in total and a cited half-life of 3.9 years.发文量刻意保持在较小规模，同一份报告记为每年约 28 篇，总被引 356 次，被引半衰期为 3.9 年。
• Authors have come from China, the United States, the Netherlands, France, Japan, Canada, Australia, Russia, Mongolia, Thailand, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Iran, Pakistan and Vietnam, by the editors' own count.据编辑部自述，作者来自中国，美国，荷兰，法国，日本，加拿大，澳大利亚，俄罗斯，蒙古，泰国，印度，印度尼西亚，摩洛哥，伊朗，巴基斯坦与越南。
• English has been the only language of publication throughout, and accepted manuscripts pass professional language editors before typesetting.出版语言自始至终只有英语，录用的稿件在排版前还要经过专职英文编辑的语言加工。

Editors

• LI Qing-hua, director of the Institute of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, holds the editor-in-chief post and also presides over the China Chapter of the International Association of Hydrogeologists.主编 LI Qing-hua 主持中国地质科学院水文地质环境地质研究所，并兼任国际水文地质学家协会中国国家委员会主席。
• LI Qing-hua also heads the Key Laboratory of Groundwater Science and Engineering under the Ministry of Natural Resources and has been named an outstanding young talent by that ministry.他还领导自然资源部地下水科学与工程重点实验室，并获该部优秀青年科技人才称号。
• Seven honorary editors-in-chief are listed: YUAN Dao-xian of the Institute of Karst Geology, LIN Xue-yu of Jilin University, LU Yao-ru of the founding institute, WANG Yan-xin of China University of Geosciences Wuhan, WU Qiang of China University of Mining and Technology Beijing, SHI Jian-sheng of the CGS aerogeophysical remote sensing centre and HAO Zi-guo of the China Geological Survey.刊物另设 7 位名誉主编，分别为岩溶地质研究所的 YUAN Dao-xian，吉林大学的 LIN Xue-yu，创刊所的 LU Yao-ru，中国地质大学（武汉）的 WANG Yan-xin，中国矿业大学（北京）的 WU Qiang，中国地质调查局航空物探遥感中心的 SHI Jian-sheng，以及中国地质调查局的 HAO Zi-guo。
• Ten deputy editors-in-chief are printed in alphabetical order, among them António Chambel of the International Association of Hydrogeologists in Portugal and Yongje KIM of the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources.副主编共 10 位，按姓氏字母排序，其中含国际水文地质学家协会的 António Chambel（葡萄牙），以及韩国地质资源研究院的 Yongje KIM。
• Most of the other deputies come from the survey system and from Chinese universities, such as CAO Wen-geng and LI Ya-song at the founding institute, GUO Hua-ming at China University of Geosciences Beijing and WU Ji-chun at Nanjing University.其余副主编多来自地质调查系统与高校，如创刊所的 CAO Wen-geng 与 LI Ya-song，中国地质大学（北京）的 GUO Hua-ming，南京大学的 WU Ji-chun。
• Two executive deputy editors-in-chief, HUANG Guan-xing and WEN Xue-ru of the founding institute, carry the day-to-day handling of manuscripts.日常稿件处理由两位执行副主编承担，均来自创刊所，即 HUANG Guan-xing 与 WEN Xue-ru。
• The board announced on the journal site numbers more than sixty scholars, set in alphabetical order without subject sections, and it mixes Chinese institutions with a large overseas contingent.刊物网站上公布的编委会有六十余位学者，按字母顺序排列且不分组，中国机构与相当数量的海外学者混编。
• Overseas members sit in Britain, the United States, Portugal, South Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, Jordan, Tunisia, Morocco, Iraq and India, which keeps the reviewer pool wider than the home country.海外编委分布于英国，美国，葡萄牙，南非，韩国，马来西亚，约旦，突尼斯，摩洛哥，伊拉克与印度，审稿人池因此超出本国范围。
• Manuscripts are peer reviewed strictly on subject specialty and on language, and the office states that language revision is done by professional English editors rather than left to authors.稿件按专业与语言两方面严格送审，编辑部说明语言修订由专职英文编辑完成，不交由作者自理。
• Turnaround is advertised as fast, with about three days to a first decision and typically two months to a final one.编辑部给出的周期偏快，初审意见约 3 天返回，终审通常 2 个月左右完成。
• Submissions go through the journal's online system in Word format, and a signed copyright transfer agreement is uploaded once a paper is accepted.投稿经刊物自己的在线系统提交，正文用 Word 格式，录用后需签署并上传版权转让协议。
• Abstracts are capped at 250 words and three to eight keywords are required, a limit the guide applies to research articles and reviews alike.摘要限 250 词以内，关键词 3 至 8 个，作者指南对研究论文与综述的要求一致。
• Karst hydrogeology holds a visible place on the board, through the honorary editor from the Institute of Karst Geology and a karst specialist among the members, matching the steady output on conduit flow and spring behaviour.岩溶水文地质在编委会有明显位置，名誉主编出自岩溶地质研究所，编委中亦有岩溶方向专家，这与刊物持续刊出的管道流与泉行为研究相呼应。
• The author guide fixes a section order that runs from introduction and study area through results and discussion to conclusions, and asks for references drawn largely from the past two or three years.作者指南规定了固定的章节顺序，从引言与研究区，经结果与讨论，到结论，并要求参考文献尽量取自最近两三年。