''Water Resources Research'' is a
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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published by the
American Geophysical Union
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, covering research in the social and natural sciences of water. The
editor-in-chief
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is
Georgia Destouni (
Stockholm University
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), who took over from Martyn Clark (2017-2020).
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 5.240.
Water Resources Research was begun in 1965, with
Walter B. Langbein and
Allen V. Kneese as its founding editors.
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English-language journals
American Geophysical Union academic journals
Wiley (publisher) academic journals
Monthly journals
Academic journals established in 1965
Environmental social science journals
Hydrology journals
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