Journal of Water and Health

Journal of Water and Health is a peer-reviewed journal issued by IWA Publishing, the publishing house of the International Water Association, founded in 2003 and devoted to the health consequences of waterborne microorganisms and chemical substances. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4.《水与健康》由 IWA Publishing 出版，该机构是 International Water Association 的出版部门，刊物 2003 年创刊，专注水传播微生物与化学物质带来的健康后果，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4。

Scope

• The stated remit is the health implications and control of waterborne microorganisms and chemical substances, framed for industrialised countries and low-income settings alike.办刊宗旨落在水传播微生物与化学物质的健康影响及其控制，工业化国家与低收入国家的情境一并纳入视野。

• Drinking-water treatment receives sustained attention, from coagulation and filtration through to the disinfection step where pathogen control and by-product formation pull against each other.饮用水处理受到持续关注，从混凝与过滤一直写到消毒环节，病原体控制与副产物生成在这一步彼此牵制。

• Disinfection by-products form a subject of their own, covering trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids alongside nitrosamines and the toxicological reading of chronic low-dose exposure.消毒副产物自成一个题目，涵盖三卤甲烷与卤乙酸类卤代副产物以及亚硝胺，并讨论低剂量长期暴露的毒理学解读。

• Microbial hazards are handled genus by genus, with Vibrio and Campylobacter among the bacteria, enteric viruses, protozoa such as Cryptosporidium, and free-living amoebae that shelter them.微生物危害按类群逐一处理，涉及弧菌与弯曲杆菌等细菌，肠道病毒，隐孢子虫一类原虫，以及为其提供庇护的自由生活阿米巴。

• Quantitative microbial risk assessment is a methodological staple, and papers often pair exposure modelling with dose-response data in order to rank competing treatment options.定量微生物风险评估是刊内常见方法，论文常把暴露建模与剂量反应数据结合起来，用以给不同处理方案排序。

• Wastewater surveillance expanded quickly after 2020, and the journal now publishes sewage epidemiology on SARS-CoV-2, enteric viruses and antimicrobial resistance genes.污水监测方向在 2020 年之后扩展很快，刊物如今常登 SARS-CoV-2、肠道病毒与耐药基因的污水流行病学稿件。

• Antimicrobial resistance in water environments is treated as an environmental health problem, spanning wastewater discharges, aquaculture and the irrigation of farmland with treated effluent.水环境中的抗微生物药物耐药性按环境卫生问题处理，涉及污水排放、水产养殖，以及用再生水灌溉农田。

• Wastewater treatment and reuse appear in their health dimension, with attention to pathogen removal, regrowth during distribution, and the exposure routes that follow irrigation or aquifer recharge.污水处理与回用从健康维度切入，关注病原体去除、输配过程中的再生长，以及灌溉或含水层回灌之后的暴露途径。

• Recreational and bathing waters are covered on their own terms, including faecal indicator monitoring, bloom-forming cyanobacteria and the forecast tools used to close beaches.娱乐用水与浴场用水单列一类，涉及粪源指示菌监测、形成水华的蓝细菌，以及用于关闭海滩的预报工具。

• Premise plumbing and building water systems draw attention for Legionella and other opportunistic pathogens, a subject that binds engineering design to outbreak investigation.建筑给水系统与室内管道因军团菌等机会性病原体而受到关注，这一题目把工程设计同暴发调查绑在一处。

• Chemical contaminants are followed from source to tap, with pesticides and pharmaceuticals, perfluorinated compounds and trace metals appearing beside conventional water-quality parameters.化学污染物从源头追到龙头，农药与药物、全氟化合物以及痕量金属常同常规水质指标并列出现。

• Regulation and standard-setting are treated as research subjects in their own right, since a guideline value for a pathogen or a chemical has to rest on evidence the journal publishes.法规与标准制定本身也被当作研究对象，病原体或化学物质的准则值终究要以刊物发表的证据为依据。

• Climate and source-water change enter through drought and flooding, saltwater intrusion and the shifting seasonality of waterborne disease, each of which alters treatment requirements.气候与水源变化经由干旱与洪水、咸潮入侵以及水传播疾病季节性的改变进入选题，每一项都会改动处理要求。

• Household water treatment, safe storage and sanitation in low-resource settings form a standing strand, with field trials and implementation studies printed next to laboratory work.资源匮乏地区的家庭水处理与安全储水另有一条常设线索，现场试验与实施研究同实验室工作并列刊出。

• Aesthetic quality, taste and odour included, stays inside the remit because public acceptance of drinking water rests on it as much as on compliance figures.感官品质连同嗅味留在选题之内，公众对饮用水的接受程度既取决于达标数字，也取决于这一层体验。

History

• The first volume appeared in March 2003 under IWA Publishing, the London house of the International Water Association, with Avenel in New Jersey recorded as a second place of publication.第 1 卷于 2003 年 3 月问世，出版方为 IWA Publishing，即 International Water Association 设在伦敦的出版机构，出版地另记 New Jersey 的 Avenel。^[1]

• IWA had itself been created in 1999 by the merger of the International Water Supply Association and the International Association on Water Quality, and the new title gave the federation a health-oriented outlet.International Water Association 本身在 1999 年由 International Water Supply Association 与 International Association on Water Quality 合并而成，这份新刊为联合会提供了面向健康的出口。

• A launch editorial in the opening issue set the tone, promising work on the health implications and control of waterborne microorganisms and chemical substances for developed and developing countries alike.创刊号的一篇社论定下基调，承诺刊载水传播微生物与化学物质的健康影响及控制方面的稿件，发达国家与发展中国家一体对待。

• Volume numbering has run without a break since 2003, so the 2026 volume is the twenty-fourth, and the title has never been changed or transferred to another owner.卷号自 2003 年起连续编排，2026 年为第 24 卷，刊名始终未改，出版权也未易主。

• MEDLINE, PubMed and Index Medicus have indexed the journal from the first issue of volume one, which is rare for a title launched in the same calendar year.MEDLINE、PubMed 与 Index Medicus 从第 1 卷第 1 期起即收录该刊，创刊当年便进入索引的情形并不常见。

• Supplement issues carried themed collections in the later 2000s, with volumes 4 to 7 each adding one or two extra numbers between 2006 and 2009.2000 年代后期以增刊形式登载专题文集，第 4 卷至第 7 卷在 2006 年至 2009 年间各增出一到两期。

• Four issues a year was the pattern from 2003 to 2015, matching the quarterly rhythm that most society-owned water titles followed at the time.2003 年至 2015 年每年出版 4 期，与当时多数学会所属水类期刊的季度节奏相符。

• Volume 14 in 2016 brought a move to six issues a year, and the bimonthly schedule held for six volumes until the end of 2021.2016 年第 14 卷改为每年 6 期，双月形制延续了六个卷次，到 2021 年底为止。

• From volume 20 in 2022 the journal went monthly, and the Crossref record shows twelve numbers in every volume published since then.自 2022 年第 20 卷起改为月刊，Crossref 记录显示此后每一卷都是 12 期。

• The move to full open access came in 2021, when articles began to appear under Creative Commons terms instead of behind a subscription wall.2021 年转为完全开放获取，论文改以知识共享许可发布，不再置于订阅墙之后。

• A short editorial that year told readers about the change, and the whole archive has stayed freely readable from that point onward.同年一篇简短社论向读者通报了这一变动，此后整份过刊保持免费可读。^[2]

• Authors now pay an article processing charge, listed at a standard rate of 2,940 United States dollars, and may choose between CC BY, CC BY-ND and CC BY-NC licences.作者现需支付文章处理费，标准费率为 2 940 美元，可在 CC BY、CC BY-ND 与 CC BY-NC 三种许可之间选择。

• Citation counts have accumulated steadily and reached 3,319 in the 2025 Journal Citation Reports, with an annual output of 89 articles and a cited half-life of 6.3 years.被引总量稳步累积，2025 年 Journal Citation Reports 记为 3 319 次，年发文 89 篇，被引半衰期 6.3 年。

• The impact factor stood at 2.264 in 2022, rose to 2.5 in 2023, and has held at 2.4 in both 2024 and 2025, against a five-year figure of 2.5.影响因子 2022 年为 2.264，2023 年升至 2.5，2024 年与 2025 年均为 2.4，五年影响因子为 2.5。

• In the 2025 edition the journal sits in the third quartile of both of its categories, ranked 276 of 395 in environmental sciences and 119 of 167 in microbiology.2025 年版中该刊在两个类目均列第三四分位，环境科学类为 276/395，微生物学类为 119/167。

Editors

• Nicholas J. Ashbolt holds the editor-in-chief post from the Future Industries Institute at the University of South Australia, where he is the Peter Teasdale Chair in Environmental Health Risk Assessment and works with the Cooperative Research Centre for Solving Antimicrobial Resistance in Agribusiness, Food and Environments.主编为（Nicholas J. Ashbolt），任职于南澳大利亚大学（University of South Australia）未来产业研究所，兼任环境健康风险评估领域的 Peter Teasdale 讲席教授，并参与解决农食与环境抗菌药物耐药问题的合作研究中心（CRC SAAFE）。

• Wastewater-based epidemiology is the one subfield with its own editorial tier, headed by Matthew J. Wade of the UK Health Security Agency and supported by six editors from the United States, China, Spain, South Africa and the United Kingdom.污水流行病学是唯一设有独立编辑层级的子领域，由英国卫生安全局（UK Health Security Agency）的（Matthew J. Wade）领衔，另有六位编辑来自美国、中国、西班牙、南非与英国。

• Below that sit 13 editors drawn from nine countries, among them Morteza Abbaszadegan at Arizona State University, Sungwoo Bae at the National University of Singapore, Shinya Echigo at Kyoto University and Arun Kumar at IIT Delhi.其下是来自九个国家的 13 位编辑，其中包括亚利桑那州立大学（Arizona State University）的（Morteza Abbaszadegan）、新加坡国立大学（National University of Singapore）的（Sungwoo Bae）、京都大学（Kyoto University）的（Shinya Echigo）与印度理工学院德里分校（IIT Delhi）的（Arun Kumar）。

• A wider International Editorial Board lists senior figures from public health institutes and universities, among them Jamie Bartram of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Albert Bosch of the University of Barcelona.范围更广的国际编委会收录公共卫生机构与高校的资深学者，其中包括北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill）的（Jamie Bartram）与巴塞罗那大学（University of Barcelona）的（Albert Bosch）。

• Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's Editorial Manager portal, which the journal's own pages link to directly.稿件经出版方的 Editorial Manager 门户投递，刊物网页直接给出该入口。

• Review is single anonymous, so reviewers know who wrote the paper while authors never learn their names, as the publisher's peer-review policy sets out.评审采用单向匿名，审稿人知道作者身份，作者始终不知审稿人姓名，出版方的同行评审政策如此规定。

• Handling editors commission reports from outside specialists, and the decision rests on those reports rather than on the impression of a single reader.处理编辑向外部专家征求评审意见，最终判断依据这些意见作出，单凭一位读者的印象不足以定稿。

• An editorial board page and a separate peer-review policy page sit on the journal site, so authors can read both before sending a manuscript.编委会页面与一份独立的同行评审政策页面并置于刊物网页上，作者投稿前可以逐项查看。

• Editorials act as the journal's own voice, and one has marked each turn in its history, from the 2003 launch to the open-access announcement of 2021.社论是刊物自己的声音，刊史每一次转折都有社论相随，2003 年创刊如此，2021 年开放获取的通告也如此。

• The 2022 editorial on SARS-CoV-2 in water was written by Eiji Haramoto of Yamanashi University, Gertjan Medema of KWR and Delft, John Scott Meschke of Washington and Susan Petterson of Water and Health.2022 年刊出的水中 SARS-CoV-2 专题社论由（Eiji Haramoto，山梨大学）、（Gertjan Medema，KWR 与代尔夫特理工大学）、（John Scott Meschke，华盛顿大学）与（Susan Petterson，Water and Health）撰写。

• A 2023 editorial on wastewater-based epidemiology carried seven authors, among them Matthew J. Wade of the UK Health Security Agency and Christobel Ferguson of the Water Research Foundation.刊物 2023 年刊出的一篇污水流行病学社论署有七位作者，其中包括（Matthew J. Wade，英国卫生安全局）与（Christobel Ferguson，水研究基金会）。

• Public health bodies have used the same channel, as in 2007 when Maria Neira and Jamie Bartram of the World Health Organization wrote the lead editorial.公共卫生机构也用过这一渠道，2007 年由世界卫生组织的（Maria Neira）与（Jamie Bartram）执笔撰写卷首社论。

• Themed collections under guest editors recur, and the people who assemble them write a short introduction stating what the collection adds to the field.由客座编辑主持的专题合集反复出现，组稿人会在卷首写一段简短说明，交代这组合集为领域补充了什么。

• The instructions for authors, linked from the journal and from DOAJ, carry the open-access statement, the licence terms and the formatting rules for references.作者须知在刊物网页与 DOAJ 条目中都有链接，载明开放获取声明、许可条款与参考文献格式要求。