npj Clean Water

npj Clean Water is a fully open-access, online-only journal published by Nature Portfolio in partnership with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, launched in 2018 and devoted to all aspects of the sustainable supply of clean water, and it recorded a Journal Impact Factor of 11.0 for 2025（npj Clean Water）（npj 清洁水）由（Nature Portfolio）与沙特法赫德国王石油与矿业大学（KFUPM）合作出版，2018 年创办的纯在线完全开放获取期刊，聚焦洁净水可持续供应的各个环节，2025 年影响因子为 11.0。

Scope

• The journal considers research that explores all aspects of the sustainable supply of clean water, spanning cutting-edge science and technology as well as application, policy and societal issues期刊审视探索洁净水可持续供应各方面的研究，从前沿科学与技术延伸到应用、政策与社会议题。
• Coverage runs from drinking water and wastewater treatment by physical, chemical or biological means to new materials and process technologies, including nanotechnologies and integrated nanostructured materials报道范围从以物理、化学或生物方式处理饮用水与废水，延伸到新材料与新工艺，涵盖纳米技术与集成纳米结构材料。
• Desalination of seawater, groundwater and non-traditional wastes for recycling or reuse is a named core area, as is renewable energy integrated with water treatment for clean water production海水、地下水与非传统废水的淡化回用被点名为核心方向，水处理与可再生能源耦合以生产洁净水亦同。
• The scope extends to advances in measuring and detecting regulated water quality parameters, including real-time monitoring of pathogens and emerging contaminants范围延伸至受管制水质参数测量与检测的进展，包括病原体与新兴污染物的实时监测。
• It likewise claims software and hardware innovations for reliable clean water distribution and supply, and smart water systems for effective generation, delivery and usage monitoring期刊同样覆盖保障洁净水可靠输配与供应的软硬件创新，以及面向生成、输送与用水监测的智慧水系统。
• Alongside original research the journal publishes brief communications, perspectives, reviews and comments, and its official price list sets research apart from commentary-type content除原创研究外，期刊还刊发简讯、观点、综述与评论，官方价目表把研究类与评述类体裁分开计价。

History

• Founded as a partner title of the npj Series, the journal published its opening papers on 26 April 2018 in a single batch, among them a study removing chromium and nickel from tannery effluent with coated bacterial magnetosomes作为（npj）系列的合作刊创办，期刊于 2018 年 4 月 26 日一次性刊出开篇论文，其中之一即以包覆细菌磁小体去除制革废水中铬与镍的研究。^[1]
• The partnership runs with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, the Saudi institution founded in 1963 as the College of Petroleum and Minerals and now offering 83 programs across eight academic colleges其合作主办方法赫德国王石油与矿业大学于 1963 年以石油与矿业学院之名创立，如今在八个学院开设 83 个项目。
• From the outset every article has been immediately and permanently free online, authors retain copyright, the licence is CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND, and waivers or discounts apply for corresponding authors in the world's lowest income countries自创刊起每篇论文即永久免费在线获取，版权由作者保留，许可为（CC BY）或（CC BY-NC-ND），通讯作者来自全球最低收入国家者可获费用减免。
• The publisher's indexing list names the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, the Directory of Open Access Journals, Chemical Abstracts Service, INSPEC, Ei Compendex, CNKI and Wanfang, and the journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics出版方自报收录名单含（SCIE）、（Scopus）、开放获取期刊目录（DOAJ）、美国化学文摘社（CAS）、（INSPEC）、（Ei Compendex）、（CNKI）与万方，期刊并为国际出版伦理委员会（COPE）成员。
• The publisher frames the title as supporting Sustainable Development Goal 6 on clean water and sanitation and reports that over half of the 2025 articles touched one or more of the seventeen goals出版方将该刊定位为支撑第 6 项“洁净水与卫生”可持续发展目标，并公布 2025 年过半论文至少涉及 17 项可持续发展目标之一。
• Its authoritative impact history records a Journal Impact Factor of 9.378 for 2021, 12.19 for 2022, 11.4 for 2024 and 11.0 for 2025, holding first-quartile rank in chemical engineering, environmental sciences and water resources权威序列记录其影响因子 2021 年为 9.378，2022 年为 12.19，2024 年为 11.4，2025 年为 11.0，在化学工程、环境科学与水资源三个类目均列 Q1 区。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Bhekie B. Mamba, Professor and Executive Dean of the College of Science, Engineering and Technology at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, an expert in nanotechnology, polymer chemistry and water treatment主编为（Bhekie B. Mamba），比勒陀利亚南非大学（University of South Africa）科学与工程技术学院教授兼执行院长，专长纳米技术、高分子化学与水处理。
• Two Deputy Editors serve beside him, Peng Liang of Tsinghua University working on water-sector decarbonization and resource recovery from wastewater, and Tiezheng Tong of Arizona State University working on circular water economy and membrane desalination其下设两名副主编：清华大学环境学院的（Peng Liang），研究水务脱碳与废水资源化；亚利桑那州立大学的（Tiezheng Tong），研究循环水经济与膜法淡化。
• Ten Associate Editors are named, based at institutions including the University of Exeter, the University of Wollongong, McMaster University, the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Missouri, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin University, Peking University, Nottingham Ningbo China and the University of South Africa列名的 10 位助理编辑分布于埃克塞特大学、伍伦贡大学、麦克马斯特大学、萨斯喀彻温大学、密苏里大学、中国科学院大学、天津大学、北京大学、宁波诺丁汉大学与南非大学等机构。
• A further editorial board of about fifty-three members is listed, concentrated in the United States, Japan, China and Saudi Arabia and reaching some eighteen countries编委会另列约 53 位成员，集中于美国、日本、中国与沙特阿拉伯，覆盖约 18 个国家。
• Peer review follows the common editorial policies of the Nature Portfolio in a single anonymous format, with clauses also governing duplicate submission, preprints and image integrity同行评审依（Nature Portfolio）通行编辑政策采单匿名格式，相关条款同时约束重复投稿、预印本与图像诚信。
• Manuscripts are submitted through the Springer Nature portal, and the standing article processing charge for original research is £2990 or $4090 or €3290, with lower fees for the commentary genres稿件经（Springer Nature）投稿门户提交，原创研究的现行文章处理费为 2990 英镑或 4090 美元或 3290 欧元，评述类体裁费用较低。