Water Security

Water Security is a review-led journal published by Elsevier since 2017, addressing the economic, social, biophysical and institutional dimensions of water security, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.8.《水安全》（Water Security）由（Elsevier）自 2017 年起出版，以综述为主导，讨论水安全的经济、社会、生物物理与制度维度，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.8。

Scope

• Water shortage is treated as a mismatch between availability on one side and access and demand on the other, rather than as a simple scarcity index.水资源短缺被视为供给与获取及需求之间的错配，而不是简单的稀缺指数。
• Flooding covers coastal, river, flash and glacier outburst floods, including hazard, exposure, vulnerability and the measures that reduce risk.洪水主题涵盖海岸、河流、山洪与冰川溃决洪水，包括危险性、暴露度、脆弱性以及降低风险的措施。
• Drought is framed as a persistent shortfall relative to usual demand, with attention to municipal, agricultural, industrial and ecological consequences.干旱被界定为相对常态需求的持续短缺，关注其对城市、农业、工业与生态的后果。
• Governance covers institutions, policy, finance, access, equity and the water-energy-food nexus.治理主题涵盖制度、政策、金融、获取、公平以及水与能源、粮食的关联。
• Health and sanitation links water quality and reliability to public health, including the health effects of wastewater reuse and of extreme events.健康与卫生主题把水质、供水可靠性同公共卫生联系起来，包括污水回用与极端事件的健康影响。
• Ecosystems and ecology, from headwaters to deltas, sit alongside water systems and infrastructure, including ageing assets and the infrastructure gap.从源头到三角洲的生态系统与生态学，同水系统与基础设施并列，包括设施老化与基础设施缺口。
• Cross-cutting work on climate and water, biodiversity and ecosystem function is encouraged, and papers must be genuinely interdisciplinary.气候与水、生物多样性与生态系统功能的交叉研究受到鼓励，论文须真正具备跨学科性。

History

• Volume 1 appeared in July 2017, when water security was emerging as a distinct policy field rather than a subset of water resources management.首卷于 2017 年 7 月出版，当时水安全正从水资源管理的一个分支演变为独立的政策领域。
• The journal was designed around review and synthesis rather than primary case studies, and original research is published only occasionally.期刊以综述与综合而非原始案例研究为设计核心，原创研究仅偶尔刊载。
• Three issues appear each year, in April, August and December, and articles are numbered continuously rather than paginated within issues.每年出版三期，分别在 4 月、8 月与 12 月，文章采用连续编号而非期内页码。
• It is a hybrid title, so subscription content remains while authors may pay an article processing charge to make a paper open access.本刊为混合期刊，订阅内容保留，作者可支付文章处理费使论文开放获取。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.8, against 4.3 in 2024.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.8，2024 年为 4.3。
• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports it ranks 17th of 132 titles in water resources, in the first quartile.在 2025 年期刊引证报告中，本刊于水资源类 132 种期刊中位列第 17，属第一四分位。

Editors

• Upmanu Lall of Arizona State University is editor-in-chief, working on hydrology, climate dynamics, water systems analysis and risk management.亚利桑那州立大学的 Upmanu Lall 任主编，研究水文学、气候动力学、水系统分析与风险管理。
• Four section editors lead the themes: Susan Elliott of Waterloo on health geography, Jagdish Krishnaswamy of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements on ecohydrology, Christopher Scott of Penn State on the water-energy-food nexus and Philip Ward of VU Amsterdam on water risk.四位分栏编辑分管各主题：滑铁卢大学的 Susan Elliott 负责健康地理，印度人居环境研究所的 Jagdish Krishnaswamy 负责生态水文学，宾夕法尼亚州立大学的 Christopher Scott 负责水与能源、粮食关联，阿姆斯特丹自由大学的 Philip Ward 负责水风险。
• An editorial advisory board of about thirty researchers supports the section editors, including hydrologists, economists, engineers and policy scholars.约三十人的编辑顾问委员会支持分栏编辑，成员包括水文学家、经济学家、工程师与政策学者。
• The board has 36 members from 14 countries, led by the United States with 10, the United Kingdom with 7 and Canada with 3.编委会共 36 人，来自 14 个国家，其中美国 10 人、英国 7 人、加拿大 3 人。
• Review is single anonymised, with a median 15 days to first decision and 87 days to a decision after review.评审采用单匿名方式，初审中位 15 天，外审后决定中位 87 天。
• Proposals for syntheses can be discussed with the editors before submission, which suits the journal's commissioned and review-heavy profile.综述提案可在投稿前与编辑商讨，这与期刊以约稿和综述为主的定位相符。