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Impact Factor

According to Wikipedia, the impact factor is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in scientific journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones. The impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), now part of Clarivate. Impact factors are calculated yearly for those journals that are indexed in Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports.

Mine Water and the Environment’s Impact Factor is

3.184 in 2019.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 June 2020 08:28  

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Mine Water is the water that collects in both surface and underground mines. It comes from the inflow of rain or surface water and from groundwater seepage. During the active life of the mine, water is pumped out to keep the mine dry and to allow access to the ore body. Pumped water may be used in the extraction process, pumped to tailings impoundments, used for activities like dust control, or discharged as a waste. The water can be of the same quality as drinking water, or it can be very acidic and laden with high concentrations of potentially toxic elements.

(from UNEP/GRID-Arenda web site)