On June 29, the Clarivate Analytics have released the 2019 Journal Citation Report. The International Soil and Water Conservation Research (ISWCR), the IRTCES hosted academic English journal, gets the first official Impact Factor (IF) being 3.770. In the total of 94 journals in the category of water resources, ISWCR was ranked 13 as a Q1 journal. In the category of Soil and Environmental science it was rank as 7/38(Q1) and 76/265(Q2), respectively. As being the top among China hosted SCI Journals in the categories of water recourses and soil sciences, ISWCR has becoming the leading Journal of China hosted academic journals in the fields.

The International Soil and Water Conservation Research (ISWCR), initiated in June 2013, is a quarterly academic journal in English and publishes in Science Direct of Elsevier with open access globally. The journal is under the administration of the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR), PRC and is co-owned and sponsored by International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation (IRTCES), China Water & Power Press, and China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR). The aims of ISWCR is to track the development trend, advanced theory, innovative technology, and practice results in soil and water research, to build the academic exchange platform, and to promote the development and prosperity of soil and water conservation discipline. It publishes both research and review papers in soil erosion, soil and water conservation, conservation agriculture, soil evaluation and management, soil degradation, watershed management, sustainable development, and et al. 

Since initiation, ISWCR has developed rapidly and established good reputation in both international academia and publishing industry. It was indexed by Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD) in April 2015, covered by SCOPUS in January 2017, and was indexed by Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) in October 2017 and indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in July 2019. This is the first official impact factor for ISWCR.

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