Water Research X

Water Research X is a gold open access journal published by Elsevier for the science and technology of the anthropogenic water cycle, launched in 2018 as the open access partner of Water Research and relaunched as a fully independent journal in 2023, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.0《水研究 X》（Water Research X）是（Elsevier）出版的金色开放获取期刊，聚焦人为水循环的科学与技术，2018 年作为《Water Research》的开放获取伙伴刊创办，2023 年重新定位为完全独立的期刊，2025 年影响因子为 7.0。

Scope

• The journal covers the science and technology of the anthropogenic water cycle该刊覆盖人为水循环的科学与技术。
• Water and wastewater treatment processes, including municipal, agricultural, industrial and on-site treatment, resource recovery and residual management, are central水与废水处理工艺居于核心，包括市政、农业、工业与就地处理，以及资源回收与残余物管理。
• Urban hydrology, including drainage systems and stormwater management, is within scope城市水文学，包括排水系统与雨水管理，属于其范围。
• Chemical, microbial and particulate contaminants such as nanoparticles and microplastics, together with water quality sensing, monitoring and fate assessment, are covered收录化学、微生物与颗粒污染物如纳米颗粒与微塑料，以及水质传感、监测与归趋评估。
• The impact of human activity on inland, tidal, coastal and urban water bodies is addressed人类活动对内陆、潮汐、沿海与城市水体的影响亦在讨论之列。
• Sanitation, public health and risk assessment, and anaerobic digestion with solid and hazardous waste management, are included收录范围还包括环境卫生、公共卫生与风险评估，以及厌氧消化与固体及危险废物管理。

History

• The journal was launched in 2018 as the gold open access sister journal of Water Research, with its first issue appearing in December 2018该刊 2018 年作为《Water Research》的金色开放获取姊妹刊创办，首期于 2018 年 12 月出版。
• Until the end of 2022 the two titles were managed by the same editorial board, and neither handling editor nor reviewers knew which journal a manuscript had been submitted to至 2022 年底，两刊由同一编委会管理，处理编辑与审稿人均不知稿件投往哪一刊。
• From 2023 it was relaunched as a prestigious gold open access journal, parallel to but independent of Water Research自 2023 年起该刊重新定位为独立于《Water Research》但平行运行的金色开放获取期刊。
• It received its first impact factor of 9.365, ranking fourth among water research journals at the time该刊获得首个影响因子 9.365，当时在水研究类期刊中列第 4 位。
• It is published online only under electronic ISSN 2589-9147 with an article processing charge of 2690 US dollars and a waiver policy该刊仅在线出版，电子 ISSN 为 2589-9147，文章处理费为 2690 美元并设有减免政策。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 8.566 in 2021 through 9.365 in 2022 and 8.2 in 2024 to 7.0 in 2025其影响因子由 2021 年的 8.566 经 2022 年的 9.365 与 2024 年的 8.2 变为 2025 年的 7.0。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Zhiguo Yuan of the University of Queensland in Australia主编为澳大利亚（University of Queensland）的（Zhiguo Yuan）。
• The journal was until 2022 handled by the same editors as Water Research, after which it built its own editorial arrangements该刊在 2022 年之前与《Water Research》共用编辑团队，其后建立自身的编辑安排。
• Manuscripts undergo anonymous peer review and are checked for plagiarism, with around fifteen weeks expected from submission to publication稿件实行匿名同行评审并作重复率检查，从投稿到发表平均约 15 周。
• Submissions are handled through the journal's Editorial Manager site投稿通过期刊的（Editorial Manager）站点处理。
• The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus and the Directory of Open Access Journals该刊被（Science Citation Index Expanded）、（Scopus）与（Directory of Open Access Journals）收录。