Aims and Scope

American Journal of Water Resources is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides rapid publication of articles in all areas of water resources. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of water resources.
  • Agricultural/Forestry Water Issues
  • Aquatic Species of Concern
  • Coastal Issues
  • Drinking Water Treatment
  • Drought Assessment/Response
  • Floodplain Management
  • GIS and Water Management
  • Groundwater Issues
  • Industrial Wastewater Treatment
  • Modeling, Measuring and Prediction of Water Pollution
  • Reactions and Degradation of Wastewater Contaminants
  • Riparian and Aquatic Ecosystems
  • Rivers, Lakes and Estuary Systems
  • Wastewater and Sludge Treatment
  • Wastewater Treatment and Sludge Biotreatment
  • Water Policy and Law
  • Water Purification and Water Supply
  • Water Resources and Quality Assessment
  • Water Source Protection and Sustainable Use
  • Water Supply Management/Planning
  • Water Treatment and Reclamation
  • Water/Energy Issues
  • Watershed Assessment & Management
  • Watershed/ River Basin Management
  • Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

The publication of a peer reviewed journal requires continuous work, responsibility, liability and collaboration from all involved parties: authors, reviewers, editors and board members. The editors have the responsibility of keeping/monitoring the publishing ethics and maintaining the academic record. The Executive and Advisory Editorial Board assume their responsibility on verifying the articles of fraudulent data or plagiarism. The editorial team’s goal is to maintain the publication at the highest publication standards, implying: good quality, original, research based articles, but also corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies, if needed. We appreciate the contributions of every involved party to the work that we publish.

Publication and authorship

  • All submitted papers are subject to strict blind peer review process by at least three national and international reviewers;
  • The rejected articles are not being resent for reviewing;
  • The papers before being sent for reviewing are first checked by anti-plagiarism software. Authors should provide all sources of data used in the research. Plagiarism in all its forms is unethical and it is unacceptable.

Authors' responsibilities

  • Authors must ensure that the submitted article is their original work, which has not been previously published;
  • Authors must ensure that the submitted article has not been considered for publication elsewhere;
  • Authors must state that all data in the paper are real and authentic;
  • Authors must report any errors in their published paper to the Editors;
  • Authors should provide revised version of their article, according to the reviewers' recommendations.

Reviewers' responsibilities

  • Any manuscript received for reviewing will be treated as confidential document;
  • Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors;
  • Reviews should be conducted objectively, and observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments, so that authors can use them for improving the paper;
  • Reviewers should inform the editors on any substantial similarity between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper;
  • Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Editors' responsibilities

  • Editors decide which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published;
  • Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publication;
  • Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively on the basis of their academic merit;
  • Peer review assists the editors in making editorial decisions. Editors should publish only peer reviewed accepted articles;
  • Editors should have a clear picture of a research's funding sources;
  • An editor must not use unpublished information in the editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

Plagiarism Policy

Whether intentional or not, plagiarism is a serious violation. Plagiarism is the copying of ideas, text, data and other creative work (e.g. tables, figures and graphs) and presenting it as original research without proper citation. We define plagiarism as a case in which a paper reproduces another work with at least 25% similarity and without citation.

If evidence of plagiarism is found before/after acceptance or after publication of the paper, the author will be offered a chance for rebuttal. If the arguments are not found to be satisfactory, the manuscript will be retracted and the author sanctioned from publishing papers for a period to be determined by the responsible Editor(s).

Screening for plagiarism

We check each submission for plagiarism with dedicated software, to prevent such unethical practices.​

Indexing

Google Scholar

J-Gate

WorldCat

CrossRef

CNKI SCHOLAR

CAS Source Index (CASSI)

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine(BASE)

Academia

Computer Literature Index

Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek（EZB）

JournalTOCs

Copyright

Creative CommonsThe authors' publications in SciEP are distributed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license. The license was developed to facilitate open access, namely, free immediate access to and unrestricted reuse of original works of all types. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/