Integrated Watershed Management

Integrated Watershed Management

Number of Volumes 6
Number of Issues 19
Number of Articles 146
Number of Contributors 386
Article View 337,953
PDF Download 195,525
View Per Article 2314.75
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Number of Submissions 283
Rejected Submissions 115
Reject Rate 41
Accepted Submissions 146
Acceptance Rate 52
Time to Accept (Days) 81
Number of Indexing Databases 4
Number of Reviewers 484

"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.

 

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).


Regarding the rules of ethics in publications, this journal is subject to the rules of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and follows the executive regulations of the Law on Prevention and Combating Fraud in Scientific Works. In addition, the reviewing process in the journal is strictly confidential.

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

 

Copyrights: The author retains unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights.

This journal is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws. 

Current Issue: Volume 6, Issue 1 - Serial Number 19, Spring 2026 

Evaluating the effects of land use change on soil conservation with the InVEST model

Pages 147-163

10.22034/iwm.2025.2064577.1235

Mohammad Rahmati, Siamak Dokhani, Reza Ghazavi, Alireza Daneshi, Hamid Noori

Keywords Cloud

  • Climate change
  • Remote Sensing
  • Desertification
  • watershed management
  • flood
  • Drought
  • Watershed
  • NDVI
  • integrated management
  • Land use
  • Ecosystem services
  • AHP
  • Local communities
  • GIS
  • Downscaling
  • Soil loss
  • Groundwater
  • Modeling
  • CMIP6
  • Social Network Analysis
  • InVEST Model
  • Sediment
  • natural resources
  • Integrated watershed management
  • SPI index
  • Hyrcanian forests
  • water resources
  • Sustainable management
  • Participation
  • vegetation
  • Eskandari sub-watershed
  • water management
  • Kermanshah
  • hierarchical analysis
  • variogram
  • MPSIAC model
  • Soil erosion
  • SDSM model
  • Ilam
  • MNDWI
  • fire
  • Vegetation cover
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Questionnaire
  • governance system
  • Geographic Information System
  • stakeholders
  • Machine Learning
  • Sistan
  • soil
  • Runoff
  • Soil Moisture
  • Lorestan province
  • Environmental factors
  • Wind erosion
  • Google Earth Engine
  • artificial intelligence
  • Factor analysis
  • Maximum Entropy
  • water erosion
  • index
  • hydrology
  • analytic hierarchy process
  • Air pollution
  • Sixth Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)
  • Meteorological drought
  • Economic Valuation
  • Precipitation
  • Calibration
  • multi-criteria decision making
  • Ecosystem Sustainability
  • Soil carbon
  • Local Resilience
  • Water harvesting
  • Sentinel-1A imagery
  • Aspect
  • Degradation
  • LARS-WG Model
  • Land suitability
  • Drought indices
  • Coefficient of Determination
  • Integrated Resource Management
  • Geographical Information System (GIS)
  • Arid and semi-arid regions
  • Channel Confluence
  • Kashkan
  • Forest Reservoir
  • Heavy Metal Pollution Index (HPI)
  • Decision Making Models
  • Spatial pattern
  • Integration
  • Ordinary Least Squares regression
  • Protection and planning
  • Dehdez
  • Khuzestan
  • Water Resources‎
  • HADCAM3
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Water resources adequacy
  • Spatial distribution
  • Range ecosystem
  • Innovation in Rural Areas
  • Dynamic Management
  • Rainfed
  • Land Governance
  • Hydrological models
  • Soil properties
  • causal factors
  • Grazing Gradient
  • Specific sediment yield
  • Social Resilience
  • Community needs assessment
  • Drought extent
  • erosion
  • Groundwater potential
  • Particle Swarm Optimization
  • Cochran formula
  • Exit Strategies
  • Climate Scenarios
  • Land use change
  • Cultural Ecosystem Services
  • Water bodies
  • freshness degree
  • Causal model
  • Gully erosion
  • statistical analysis
  • Regional Climate Model
  • Shour River
  • Inclined surfaces
  • Random forest (RF)
  • rain catchment
  • Iran
  • Tourism
  • sectional area
  • Groundwater Recharge
  • Sediment delivery ratio
  • Channel cross
  • Environmental data
  • Water level decline
  • Sustainable development goals
  • group decision-making
  • SWAT+
  • water resources assessment
  • Bam-Narmashir Plain
  • Thtoughfall Spatial Distribution
  • Climate
  • Local community livelihoods
  • Naein Great River Basin
  • hydrometric stations
  • Texture
  • Acid rain
  • Dry Areas
  • SWI index
  • Chahdashi
  • natural resources governance
  • Tajan watershed
  • illegal logging
  • summer rangelands
  • Semnan
  • EVI
  • Kashkan watershed
  • Natural Resource Loss
  • Sloped terrains
  • Graphical Analysis for Interactive Assistance (GAIA)
  • Tafresh County
  • Site Selection
  • replacement cost method
  • community-weighted mean
  • Global Standards
  • Furrows system
  • Experimental watersheds
  • Vahdat Dam (Qeshlag)
  • Erosion Monitoring
  • Triangular Fuzzy Number
  • Socio-ecological system
  • LARS-WG
  • human factors
  • Fuzzy-AHP method
  • Food Security
  • Participation link
  • Holilan
  • empowerment
  • Sustainability Matrix
  • Enhanced vegetation index
  • Management strategies, Ecosystem, Causal Relationships, Prioritization of responses
  • Zagros forests
  • Sustainable Watershed
  • Yazd Province
  • population growth
  • groundwater balance
  • Landfill site selection
  • Persian oak
  • rangeland
  • Great Naein river basin
  • Behesht Abad basin
  • Regression
  • Golshan Tabas
  • Talar watershed
  • Baseflow separation
  • Trust