Water Science and Engineering
Water Science and Engineering is a quarterly open access journal sponsored by Hohai University in Nanjing and published by Elsevier, launched in 2008 and covering water resources, the aquatic environment, water ecology and hydraulic engineering, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.3.《水科学与水工程》是由河海大学主办、（Elsevier）出版的水科学英文季刊，2008 年创刊，覆盖水资源、水环境、水生态与水利工程，2025 年影响因子为 5.3。
Scope
- Water resources, including the mechanisms by which water resources evolve in space and time under global climate change.水资源，包括全球气候变化下水资源时空演变机理。
- Sustainable use of water resources that accounts for the interaction between natural systems and human activities.兼顾自然系统与人类活动相互作用的水资源可持续利用。
- Water disasters, covering the formation of floods and droughts and technologies for disaster mitigation.水灾害，涵盖洪涝与干旱的形成机理及减灾技术。
- The aquatic environment and its response to human activities, including pollution of large rivers, lakes and offshore waters.水环境及其对人类活动的响应，包括大江大河、湖泊与近岸海域的污染。
- Comprehensive regulation of the aquatic environment, ecological restoration and water ecology.水环境的综合治理、生态修复与水生态。
- Water engineering, with key technologies for high dam construction and the safe operation of hydraulic structures.水利工程，包括高坝建设关键技术与水工建筑物安全运行。
- Large river and lake regulation, inter-basin water transfer, hydropower development and the ecological problems induced by water projects.江河湖泊治理、跨流域调水、水电开发以及水利工程引发的生态问题。
History
- The journal was founded in 2008 under the sponsorship of Hohai University, and its first volume appeared that year with an editorial office in Nanjing.该刊于 2008 年创刊，由河海大学主办，当年出版第 1 卷，编辑部设在南京。
- It has worked with Elsevier since 2015, and its articles are hosted on ScienceDirect and released open access under Creative Commons licences.该刊自 2015 年起与（Elsevier）合作，论文在（ScienceDirect）平台发布，并以知识共享许可开放获取。
- It is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, Ei Compendex, Scopus, the Chinese Science Citation Database and Chemical Abstracts, among others.该刊被（Emerging Sources Citation Index）、（Ei Compendex）、（Scopus）、中国科学引文数据库与（Chemical Abstracts）等收录。
- It was named a distinctive journal among the first English-language journals of Chinese universities in 2015, and an excellent international impact academic journal of China in 2016 and 2017.该刊 2015 年入选中国高校首批英文期刊特色期刊，2016 年与 2017 年连续获评中国最具国际影响力学术期刊。
- Its first Journal Impact Factor, 4.0, was released in 2023, rising to 4.3 in 2024 and 5.3 in 2025, with a first quartile place in water resources.该刊 2023 年获得首个影响因子 4.0，2024 年升至 4.3，2025 年为 5.3，在水资源类别居 JCR 一区。
- Four issues appear each year, and volume 19 was published in 2026.该刊每年出版四期，2026 年出至第 19 卷。
Editors
- Zhong-bo Yu, professor of hydrology at Hohai University and director of the National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention, is editor-in-chief.现任主编为河海大学水文学教授、水灾害防御全国重点实验室主任余钟波。
- He served as president of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme and works on hydrological cycle mechanisms, surface water and groundwater interaction, and hydrological modelling.他曾任（UNESCO）政府间水文计划主席，研究水文循环机理、地表水与地下水相互作用及水文模拟。
- An international editorial board of professors from leading universities and research institutes supports the journal.由知名高校与科研机构教授组成的国际编委会为期刊提供学术支撑。
- The editorial office is based at Hohai University in Nanjing, and manuscripts are handled through the journal's own submission and review system.编辑部设于南京河海大学，稿件通过期刊自建的投稿与审稿系统处理。
- Manuscripts are submitted in Word and limited to about 6000 words and 14 pages, with an abstract of more than 150 words and five to eight keywords.稿件以（Word）文档投递，篇幅约 6000 词、14 页以内，需附 150 词以上摘要与 5 至 8 个关键词。
- Review is confidential and impartial under COPE guidance, and the journal issues special issues such as those on water security and sustainability.审稿依（COPE）准则保密、公正进行，期刊还出版水安全与可持续性等主题的特刊。