Water Practice & Technology

Water Practice & Technology is the official journal of the International Water Association, issued since 2006 by IWA Publishing in London as an electronic-only title under the eISSN 1751-231X and devoted to applied water engineering, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 2.4 and a place in the third quartile of Water Resources within ESCI.《水实践与技术》是国际水协会（International Water Association）的官方期刊，由协会下属的 IWA Publishing 自 2006 年在伦敦出版，只有电子版，国际标准连续出版物号为 1751-231X，内容专注水处理与水管理的工程实务，2025 年期刊影响因子 2.4，在 ESCI 的水资源类居第三四分位。

Scope

• The aims page states the remit in a single sentence, covering papers on all practical aspects of water and wastewater treatment and management throughout the whole water cycle.宗旨页用一句话界定收稿范围，即贯穿整个水循环的供水与污水处理及其管理的全部实务面向。
• Papers are aimed in the first place at practitioners, and the same page adds scientists, managers and those active in training and professional development as a secondary readership.论文首先面向实务工作者，同一页还把科研人员、管理人员以及从事培训与职业发展的人士列为读者。
• The subject list runs through solutions to practical problems in the design, operation or management of water supply and wastewater treatment, with drainage and flood protection named alongside.主题清单围绕供水与污水处理在设计、运行或管理中的实际问题展开，解决办法是稿件的主线。
• Drainage and flood protection are named subjects in their own right, and papers filed under them deal with the sewers, storage and outfalls that keep a town dry.排水与防洪各自列为主题，稿件处理城镇排水系统与防洪设施的运行与改造。
• Environmental management is the fourth named area, and it takes in the effect of abstractions and discharges on the rivers, lakes and coastal waters that receive them.环境管理是第四个单列的主题，讨论取水与排放对受纳水体的影响。
• Social, economic and public participation aspects of water are written into the aims, so cost, affordability and public consultation count as part of the practical record a utility keeps.水的社会、经济与公众参与面向写进了宗旨，成本负担与公众咨询因此也算实务记录的一部分。
• Informative case studies come first among the four content forms, and each one sets out the scheme, the problem it faced and the measured outcome it delivered.信息型案例研究是四类内容形态的第一类，每篇都要交代工程背景、遇到的问题与最终测到的结果。
• Practical know-how reports follow, written to pass on operating experience in enough detail that another utility can reuse it without repeating the same costly lesson.实务经验报告排在第二类，把运行经验写到可以复用的细度，让同行不必为同一条教训再付一次代价。
• Full-scale applications of new technologies make up the third form, and the emphasis falls on works built and run at real size, not on bench trials.新技术的全规模应用是第三类，重点落在真正建成并运行的工程，实验室规模的小试不在其列。
• Best practice and applied management concepts form the fourth, covering the routines and procedures by which a utility runs its assets from one year to the next.最佳实践与应用管理概念构成第四类，覆盖水务企业年复一年运行资产时依循的流程与规程。
• Lessons learnt from unsuccessful experiences are named in the scope, an explicit invitation to report trials that failed to deliver what their designers expected of them, with the reasons set out.失败经验的学习被明确写入范围，作者可以把未达预期的试验如实报告，并说明原因所在。
• The water cycle frames the whole list, so a paper may open at an intake, follow treatment and distribution, and close at a discharge point or a reuse scheme.水循环框住了整份清单，一篇稿件可以从取水口写起，经过处理与输配，收在排放口或再生利用工程上。
• Created by the water community, for the water community is how IWA Publishing describes the title on the aims page, and the phrase sets the tone for what gets accepted.IWA Publishing 在宗旨页把这份刊物描述为由水行业创建、为水行业服务，这句话也定下了选稿的基调。
• Special issues gather work on a single theme, and one recent call, Knowledge Exchange in a Regional Context, took in wastewater management, climate adaptation and sustainability.专题刊围绕单一主题组稿，近期一辑名为 Knowledge Exchange in a Regional Context，聚焦污水处理与气候适应，兼及可持续性。
• Review articles form a family of their own in the author instructions, where full reviews sit alongside Mini Reviews and Insight Reviews.综述在作者指南中自成一族，完整综述与 Mini Review、Insight Review 并列收录。
• The training and professional development readership gives the title a second use, since a full-scale case can be taught in a utility classroom as readily as it is cited.培训与职业发展读者群给刊物添了第二重用途，全规模工程的案例既能被引用，也能直接拿进课堂。

History

• IWA Publishing launched the title in 2006 under the International Water Association, and the imprint has carried every volume since, with no change of owner along the way.IWA Publishing 于 2006 年创办本刊，归属国际水协会，此后每一卷都由这家伦敦出版机构出版，没有换过东家。
• Volume numbering began at one in 2006, so 2026 brings the twenty-first, and the home page marks the point with a banner reading celebrating 20 years of cutting-edge research.卷号从 2006 年的第 1 卷起算，2026 年出到第 21 卷，首页以「庆祝 20 年前沿研究」的横幅标记这个节点。
• Issues appear monthly, twelve to a year, and each carries the first day of its month as its publication date, from Issue 1 on 1 January to Issue 9 on 1 September 2026.每年 12 期，每月一期，每期以该月 1 日为出版日期，2026 年第 1 期是 1 月 1 日，第 9 期是 9 月 1 日。
• The National Library of Medicine still records four issues a year for the title, a figure that predates the monthly schedule and no longer describes what reaches readers.美国国家医学图书馆的记录仍写着每年 4 期，这个数字早于改月刊的时间，已经描述不了现在的出版节奏。
• There is no print edition, and the only identifier is the electronic ISSN 1751-231X, printed at the foot of every page of the journal site.本刊没有印刷版，唯一的标识是电子 ISSN 1751-231X，站内每一页的页脚都印着它。
• Access began on subscription alone, and the journal now runs two routes, a free subscription route behind the paywall or a paid open access route for the individual paper.创刊时只有订阅一条路线，如今作者可以在两条路之间选，走订阅路线不收费，走开放获取则需付费。
• IWA Publishing is a not-for-profit society publisher, and any surplus from its journals is rechanneled towards the charitable missions of the International Water Association rather than to shareholders.IWA Publishing 是非营利学会出版机构，刊物结余会回到国际水协会的公益使命，不去分给股东。
• Output has settled near 168 papers a year, the citation base stands at 2,754 and the cited half-life is 3.1 years, a short figure that fits the applied character of the content.年发文量稳定在 168 篇上下，总被引 2754 次，被引半衰期 3.1 年，这个偏短的数字与刊物的实务取向相合。
• The Journal Impact Factor has no value for 2022, then reads 1.6 for 2023, 1.8 for 2024 and 2.4 for 2025, so the three recorded years climb steadily.期刊影响因子在 2022 年没有数值，2023 年为 1.6，2024 年为 1.8，2025 年升至 2.4。
• The 2025 Journal Citation Reports place the title 79th of 132 in Water Resources, third quartile, with a five-year impact factor of 2.3 and a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.46.2025 年的期刊引证报告把本刊列在水资源类第 79 位（共 132 种），属第三四分位，五年影响因子 2.3，期刊引文指标 0.46。
• Web of Science coverage sits in the Emerging Sources Citation Index rather than in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so the rank attached to the title is an ESCI one.本刊在 Web of Science 中的收录位置是新兴来源引文索引，不在核心的 SCIE 之列，分区也按 ESCI 计算。
• Abstracting reaches Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed Central, Dimensions, EBSCO and ProQuest, while the Norwegian Register lists the title among its approved series and CLOCKSS preserves the full run for the long term.文摘与索引覆盖 Scopus 与 DOAJ，也包括 PubMed Central 和 Dimensions，EBSCO 与 ProQuest 同样收录，挪威期刊登记表在列，全文由 CLOCKSS 长期保存。
• Full text is deposited in PubMed Central while PubMed itself indexes selected citations only, and the National Library of Medicine abbreviates the title as Water Pract Technol.全文存入 PubMed Central，PubMed 本身只选录部分条目，国家医学图书馆给的缩写是 Water Pract Technol。

Editors

• Henrik Aspegren, of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology in Sweden, holds the post of Editor-in-Chief and leads the board.主编为瑞典隆德理工学院（Lund Institute of Technology）化学工程系的 Henrik Aspegren，主持整个编委会。
• Twenty-two editors sit under him, listed alphabetically from Enner Herenio de Alcântara of São Paulo State University to Nese Yilmaz of Istanbul University.其下有 22 位编辑，按字母排序，从巴西圣保罗州立大学的 Enner Herenio de Alcântara 排到土耳其伊斯坦布尔大学的 Nese Yilmaz。
• More than half of the twenty-two work in water utilities, consultancies and regulatory bodies rather than universities, among them Thames Water, the Southern Nevada Water Authority, Ghana's PURC and DHI Sweden.22 位编辑中有一半以上来自水务企业、咨询公司与监管机构，泰晤士水务（Thames Water）与南内华达水务局（Southern Nevada Water Authority）在列，加纳公用事业监管委员会（PURC）与瑞典 DHI 也在其中。
• The university wing runs from Doon University and Pondicherry University in India to Chang'an University in China, National Tsing Hua in Taiwan and NTUA in Greece.来自高校的编辑从印度 Doon University 与 Pondicherry University 延伸到中国长安大学，台湾清华大学与希腊国立雅典理工大学同样在列。
• The board makes a preliminary assessment of each submission on quality and relevance, and a paper that fails it is rejected upfront, with a transfer to another IWA Publishing journal offered.编委会先对每篇来稿做初步评估，判断质量与相关性，不合格的稿件在初筛阶段就被拒掉，并可能建议转投 IWA Publishing 旗下的其它期刊。
• A paper that clears that first screen goes to at least two independent reviewers, and the handling editor then chooses between minor revision, major revision, acceptance and rejection.通过初筛的稿件至少送两位独立审稿人，处理编辑随后选择小修或大修，也可以直接录用或退稿。
• Revisions may go back for a second round of review, after which the editor takes the final decision, so no paper is settled by the reviewers alone.需要时修改稿会再送一轮评审，最后由编辑拍板，审稿人的意见本身不构成终局结论。
• Review is single blind, and in the wording of the publisher author names are revealed to the reviewers while reviewer identities remain anonymous to the authors.评审采用单盲，出版方的原话是作者姓名向审稿人公开，审稿人身份对作者保密。
• Each year the publisher and its editors print the names of the referees who reviewed for its journals, and a referee who prefers to stay off that list can say so.出版方与编辑每年公布参与评审的审稿人名单，不愿列名的人可以事先告知编辑部。
• IWA Publishing belongs to COPE, and its Research Integrity Office screens submissions on entry and again through review, holding back any paper with unresolved concerns.IWA Publishing 是 COPE 会员，设有研究诚信办公室，稿件在投递时与评审全程都会被筛查，疑点未清的稿件暂不送审。
• CrossCheck screens every manuscript against the published literature. All authors must give individual ORCID identifiers, and CRediT contributor statements are encouraged rather than required.CrossCheck 负责查重，所有作者须提供各自的 ORCID，贡献声明参照 CRediT 的角色分类。
• A revision is due within one month of the request, otherwise the paper counts as withdrawn, and since October 2025 every image in a revised manuscript needs alt text.修改须在收到通知后一个月内交回，逾期按撤稿处理，2025 年 10 月起修订稿中的每张图片都要附替代文本。
• Research Articles run to about 8,000 words, Reviews and Commentaries to about 2,000, abstracts stop at 200 words, keywords at six in alphabetical order, and Highlights are optional at 425 characters.研究论文建议 8000 词上下，综述与评论约 2000 词，摘要不超过 200 词，关键词至多 6 个并按字母排序，亮点条目可选且限 425 字符。