About JWMM

Mission and Intent

Using the evolving digital modes of R&D communication, The Journal of Water Management Modeling (JWMM) strives to be the first open access exchange in the special sub-discipline of water management modeling. JWMM publishes novel methodologies and advances, from basic research to planning, engineering and operational studies, with an accent on useful and pragmatic ideas and engineering. Accentuating the nuanced difference between applied technology and fundamental science, JWMM fosters an unusual cooperation between three sub-communities (developers, users, and beneficiaries) on conceptual and practical engineering models of urban, rural, and watershed scale water supply and drainage systems, both natural and engineered.

By communicating digitally and using the latest web development technologies, JWMM disseminates new ideas as widely and effectively as possible. Like other recent science journals, JWMM is an example of peer-reviewed, open access publishing - access to the published material and its reuse is free; length, format and quantity of online articles published is unrestricted; and the publication process is in fact a fast, painless, and pleasant experience.

The Journal of Water Management Modeling obtains many of its papers from the annual International Conference on Water Management Modelling (formerly on Urban Water Systems) held in Toronto and virtually, and has grown naturally from the annual monograph produced for that series of conferences, a series renowned for its commitment to a positive presenting and publishing experience, and for being particularly supportive of young authors. Thus JWMM editors and reviewers have 25 years of demonstrated concern for encouraging postgraduate R&D in hydrology and hydraulics modeling.

Open Access

The Journal of Water Management Modeling is an open-access (OA) publication. Open access means that articles and papers are available without barriers to all who could benefit from them. Practically speaking, all published works will be available to a worldwide audience, free, immediately on publication.

JWMM content will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium. The user can download, print, copy, distribute, and link-to the full text of articles, provided full attribution is given to both the author/s and JWMM.

As such, JWMM can be considered a Diamond, Gratis OA journal.

Publishing Fees

There are no fees charged for publishing in The Journal of Water Management Modeling.

JWMM will continue to solicit feedback from the community towards making the articles and website as accessible and usable as possible. Please send any comments and questions to staff at info@chijournal.org.

Impact

The animated image below shows the global readership of the JWMM over the past year (by unique IP address). This illustrates the worldwide impact of the journal and the reach your paper will have when you choose to publish with the JWMM.

Source: CHI 2022

Papers published in the The Journal of Water Management Modeling are currently indexed through the following sites:

• SCOPUS
• Web of Science
• EBSCO
• Google Scholar

Editorial Board

Operated entirely independently of our funder, CHI, editorial decisions are the sole responsibility of the Editorial Board. JWMM editors and reviewers strive to maximize the influence of every author’s published work, through effective, fair, swift, and constructive editorial decision-making, and by setting the standards that make the JWMM the go-to source in our sub-discipline.

Management

	Rob James President and CEO, CHI, Guelph, ON.
	William James Editor in Chief, Professor Emeritus University of Guelph, Guelph, ON.
	Laura-Lee Fletcher Journal Manager, CHI, Guelph, ON.
	Nandana Perera Managing Editor, Senior Engineer, CHI, Guelph, ON.

Editorial Board

	Mohammad Saud Afzal Editor - hydraulics and coastal engineering, computational fluid dynamics, hydrodynamics, sediment transport, wave-current interaction, hydraulic structures, ocean engineering. Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
	Daniel Allasia Editor - urban watersheds modeling, stormwater control measures (SCM) in tropical climate. Associate Professor, University of Santa Maria, Brazil.
	Hazi Azamathulla Editor - numerical modeling, soft computing techniques in water resources and hydraulic engineering. Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.
	Chris Brooker Editor - urban stream renaturalisation, community and climate appropriate LIDs. Owner cba Specialist Engineers, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Witwatersrand, SA.
	Lloyd Chua Editor - AI, water quality monitoring and modeling, rainfall-runoff modeling, watershed management, water resources engineering. Associate Head of School (International), Deakin University, Australia.
	Kim N. Irvine Senior Editor - water quality, WSUD, integrating urban design and modeling, smart cities, field techniques. Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University, Pathum Thani, Thailand.
	Darko Joksimovic Senior Editor - optimization. Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
	Mehdi Ketabchy Editor - stormwater management strategies, stream thermal modeling, BMP/LID design, and urban model development. PhD Student / Water Resources Engineer, Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Gannett Fleming, Inc., Baltimore, MD.
	Goutam Konapala Editor - rainfall runoff modeling, stochastic hydrology, remote sensing aided hydrologic modeling, and machine learning for water management. Associate Earth Scientist - Machine Learning in Climate Science, NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre, Baltimore, MD.
	James Y. Li Senior Editor - low impact devices. Professor of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
	Ho Huu Loc Editor - urban hydrometeorology, flood risks, and climate change. Assistant Professor, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
	Manish Pandey Editor - river hydraulics, river health monitoring, water resources engineering. Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology, Wrangal, India.
	Diego Paez Editor - water distribution analysis, stormwater modeling, coastal and fluvial risk assessment. Water Resources Engineer, CHI, Guelph, ON.
	Nelly Peyron Senior Editor - Europe. Associate Professor and Water Energy Environment Program Manager, EPF Graduate School of Engineering, and President and CEO of Hydropraxis, Montpellier, France.
	Robert E. Pitt Deputy Editor - Cudworth Professor of Urban Water Systems, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.
	Gilles Rivard Editor - urban watersheds modeling, stormwater control measures (SCM) in cold climate. Vice-President, NHC, Lasalle, QC.
	Hailiang Shen Senior Editor - water distribution, 2D-3D hydrodynamic modeling. Project Engineer, CHI, Guelph, ON.
	David J. Sample Editor - stormwater, water quality, watershed modeling. Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia Beach, VA.
	Redahegn (Redi) Sileshi Editor - stormwater management and urban storm hydrology. Associate Professor, University of North Georgia, Gainesville, GA.
	José Vasconcelos Senior Editor - unsteady flows and transients, numerical methods. Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL.
	Jy S. Wu Senior Editor - hydraulics. Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Civil Engineering, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC.
	Mohammad Zakwan Editor - machine learning and optimization tools, river hydrology, water quality. Assistant Professor, School of Technology, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India.

Reviewers

Every paper is independently peer reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers, those selected by the editors for publication form the content of this journal. Recent reviewers include:

Review process

The review process in brief

When received, each submission is reviewed by the Journal Manager for suitability and then submitted to Crossref Similarity Check to identify any plagiarism. Once cleared, the paper is redacted prior to sending for review. Upon receiving the full submission, a member of the Editorial Board will usually review the article him or herself and solicit at least one other external reviewer. An online consultation session is opened with the reviewer(s) once two reviews have been received, with any outstanding reviewers prompted to submit their review and join the discussion. The Reviewing editor will record an editorial decision in the JWMM Managemet site, with input welcome from the other reviewer(s). A Senior editor is available at each stage to provide guidance and oversight of the process as a whole. Our aim is to provide clear and decisive instructions to authors, so that they know what they need to do to get the article published. If a revision is requested, the decision letter will usually include a single set of instructions; the full reviews in this case are not sent to the authors. If the decision is that the article cannot be revised in a reasonable time frame for publication inThe Journal of Water Management Modeling and must therefore be rejected, the letter will usually include the full reviews, with the reasons clearly explained.

Anonymity

We remove the author names and affiliations from the manuscripts before sending them to reviewers and do not release the identities of the reviewers to the authors (double-blind peer review). If the work is rejected and the author requests the reports for the purposes of submission to another journal, we will request each reviewer’s permission to reveal his or her identity and report to said journal.

Confidentiality

The review process is strictly confidential and must be treated as such by reviewers. Reviewers should not contact anyone not directly involved with the assessment of the article, including colleagues or other experts in the field, unless this has been discussed and approved in advance by the Reviewing editor.

Competing interests

We ask reviewers to recognise potential competing interests that could lead them to be positively or negatively disposed towards an article. Reviewers should inform the editors or journal staff if they are close competitors or collaborators of the authors. They should reveal whether they have a personal relationship with an author and whether they have reviewed the authors’ articles in the past. Reviewers must recuse themselves if they feel that they are unable to offer an impartial review. We will also make every effort to follow authors’ requests to exclude reviewers, provided that a specific reason is provided.

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