Clarivate officially released the 2023 Journal Citation Reports? (JCR) on June 20, 2024. JCR publishes each SCIE indexed journal a richarray of citation metrics, including the Journal Impact Factor? (JIF), alongside descriptive data about a journal’s open access content and contributing authors.

According to the newest JCR, the 2023 Impact Factor for the International Soil and Water Conservation Research (ISWCR), the official journal of WASWAC, is 7.3, which indicates ISWCR is a Q1 journal in all three categories of Water Resources, Soil Science, and Environmental Sciences.

ISWCR was officially indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded（SCIE）in July, 2019. The Journal is classified into three subject areas of Water Resources, Soil Science, and Environmental Sciences. ISWCR received its first official Impact Factor (IF for 2019) of 3.770 in June 2020, the IF for 2020, 2021 and 2022 was 6.027, 7.481, and 6.4, respectively. The impact factor of 7.3 this year is the fifth official IF for ISWCR.

Amongst the total of 127 journals in the categories of Water Resources, ISWCR is ranked as 4 which is raised 5 places compared to that in 2023. In the categories of Soil Science, it is ranked as 3 out of 49(Q1), which is raised 3 places compared to that in 2023. In the categories of Environmental Sciences, it is ranked as 38 out of 358 (Q1), which is raised 18 places compared to that in 2023.