Integrated Watershed Management

Integrated Watershed Management

Number of Volumes 6
Number of Issues 19
Number of Articles 140
Number of Contributors 367
Article View 323,852
PDF Download 190,209
View Per Article 2313.23
PDF Download Per Article 1358.64
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Number of Submissions 275
Rejected Submissions 109
Reject Rate 40
Accepted Submissions 140
Acceptance Rate 51
Time to Accept (Days) 77
Number of Indexing Databases 8
Number of Reviewers 477

"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
Reviewing Type: Confidential Double-Blind
Initial investigation Time: One Week
Referee Time: Two Months
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
  • flood
  • watershed management
  • Drought
  • Ecosystem services
  • NDVI
  • AHP
  • Watershed
  • Desertification
  • integrated management
  • Soil loss
  • Modeling
  • Sustainable management
  • InVEST Model
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Groundwater
  • Land use
  • Downscaling
  • natural resources
  • Participation
  • Integrated watershed management
  • Local communities
  • SPI index
  • Sediment
  • CMIP6
  • GIS
  • stakeholders
  • Machine Learning
  • Lorestan province
  • soil
  • Precipitation
  • water resources
  • Maximum Entropy
  • Vegetation cover
  • Air pollution
  • Environmental sustainability
  • variogram
  • Sistan
  • hydrology
  • artificial intelligence
  • Soil Moisture
  • Calibration
  • Meteorological drought
  • Ilam
  • MPSIAC model
  • fire
  • multi-criteria decision making
  • water erosion
  • Questionnaire
  • vegetation
  • index
  • water management
  • hierarchical analysis
  • analytic hierarchy process
  • Factor analysis
  • Sixth Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)
  • SDSM model
  • Runoff
  • Geographic Information System
  • MNDWI
  • Hyrcanian forests
  • Economic Valuation
  • Ecosystem Sustainability
  • governance system
  • Eskandari sub-watershed
  • Kermanshah
  • Groundwater potential
  • Mehran Plain
  • Climate
  • Ground water
  • Drought indices
  • Soil properties
  • water
  • River
  • Bushehr Province
  • Soil erosion
  • ILAM Province
  • Geographical Information System
  • Vulnerability
  • Geostatistics
  • heavy metals
  • Fuzzy logic
  • Tourism
  • Environmental factors
  • virtual water
  • Willingness to pay
  • Particle Swarm Optimization
  • Spatial distribution
  • Site Selection
  • Greenhouse gases
  • SWOT
  • Forest management
  • Underground Dam
  • Mann-Kendall test
  • Maxent model
  • Facies
  • Spectral indices
  • Climate Scenarios
  • SDSM
  • Cropping Pattern
  • Choice Experiment
  • Degradation
  • Food Security
  • Aluminum
  • Sustainability
  • Land use change
  • Integration
  • Biodiversity
  • Groundwater resources
  • Trust
  • Land suitability
  • MODIS
  • Sistan and Baluchestan
  • Sustainable development
  • Gully erosion
  • Texture
  • human activities
  • norm
  • Infiltration
  • Geomorphosite
  • Water resources management
  • Spatial pattern
  • hybrid models
  • Linear Programming
  • Multi-layer perceptron
  • Geographical Information System (GIS)
  • Land Subsidence
  • erosion
  • Khuzestan
  • Temperature
  • Collaborative Management
  • ecosystem
  • Drip Irrigation
  • Sediment load
  • erosion intensity
  • grounded theory
  • model
  • Topsis Method
  • participatory management
  • MADM
  • Sustainable development goals
  • rangeland
  • Regression
  • empowerment
  • Qeshm Island
  • Modelling
  • Satellite Imagery
  • RS
  • rural areas
  • dust storm
  • Semnan
  • human factors
  • EVI
  • Natural Disasters
  • Pearson correlation
  • Sarcheshmeh Copper Mine
  • Coefficient of Determination
  • Correlation
  • Dry Areas
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • HYSPLIT
  • LARS-WG
  • Policy-making
  • Yazd Province
  • Tafresh County
  • Validation
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Land surface temperature
  • Metaheuristic algorithm
  • Yazd-Ardakan Plain
  • Land Governance
  • Sensitivity analysis
  • Deep Learning
  • IWM
  • Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW)
  • Species distribution model
  • Fuzzy hierarchical analysis
  • Hydrological models
  • Flow-3D
  • Spatial analysis
  • Discharge
  • Spatial Data Infrastructure
  • Social Resilience
  • Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system
  • Rainfall-runoff
  • Extreme events
  • Synoptic analysis
  • Agricultural Development
  • Curve number
  • Damask Rose
  • Landsat satellite
  • Yazd-Ardakan
  • Interferometry
  • statistical analysis
  • Zagros forests
  • Ecotourism
  • NDDI
  • Wind erosion
  • group decision-making