Integrated Watershed Management

"Call for papers"

The scientific journal "Integrated Watershed Management", as an open acesse journal, announces its readiness to receive research, review and short articles. This journal has applied for a publishing license from the Press Supervisory Board of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. The journal has been organized by the Ilam University and is the result of joint activity with the Iranian Rainwater Catchment Systems Association. The journal will inform the authors of the reviewing results within one to two months by quickly and accurately evaluating the submitted articles, and the initial acceptance letter for the respected authors will be available for download from the journal's website. Accepted articles will be published online after final approval and will be published in subsequent issues of the journal.
According to the ISC database report, this Journal was included in the list of second quartile (Q2) journals in the evaluation of the year 2024 with an impact factor of 0.271.

Plagiarism Policy
Close adaptation of the thoughts and expressions of other authors, copying in the expression of ideas, structural similarities in the text or attributing the ideas and results of others without proper reference, or introducing it as a genuine scientific research, is considered "plagiarism" and the policy of this journal is "The fight against plagiarism". For this purpose, authors should check the similarity through the iThenticate for English Abstracts and samimnoor system for Farsi sections (Similarity should be less than %25).
This journal is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. In addition, the reviewing process in the journal is strictly confidential.

Open access statement
This journal is committed to open access and fulfils the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) definition of open access. All articles published in this journal are immediately available for free and open access without delay, embargo periods, or registration requirements. This journal is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). Under an Open Access license, authors are the copyright holder in this journal and retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions, but allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, and copy the article's content, provided that the original authors and source are properly cited.

ISC IF: 0.271 (Q2)
Country: Iran
Publishing Type: Electronic
Publishing Start: 2021
Publishing Period: Quarterly
Journal Language: Persian (Extended English Abstract)
Specialization: Watershed Management, Soil and Water Conservation, Soil Erosion, Modelling of Natural Ecosystems, natural hazards (flood, drought and mass movement) and …
Journal Type: Scientific Journal
Articles to be reviewed: Research, Review and Short Articles
Article Processing Charges: Free (No APC)
Free access to articles: Yes (Open Access)
Reviewing Type: Confidential Double-Blind
Initial investigation Time: One Week
Referee Time: Two Months
Copyright: This Journal is an open access Journal licensed under the Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0) International License
Journal Email: iwm@ilam.ac.ir