OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Water International is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Water insecurity compounds the global coronavirus crisis	39
Governing water insecurity: navigating indigenous water rights and regulatory politics in settler colonial states	35
The potential impact of water quality on the spread and control of COVID-19 in Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon	32
COVID-19 and water resources management: reframing our priorities as a water sector	31
COVID-19 heightens water problems around the world	28
Mercury pollution in Colombia: challenges to reduce the use of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the light of the Minamata Convention	26
A review on implementing managed aquifer recharge in the Middle East and North Africa region: methods, progress and challenges	20
COVID-19 ‘free water’ initiatives in the Global South: what does the Ghanaian case mean for equitable and sustainable water services?	19
Water and sanitation in Dhaka slums: access, quality, and informality in service provision	19
The moral hazards of smart water management	18
China’s water diplomacy in the Mekong: a paradigm shift and the role of Yunnan provincial government	18
Informal water vendors and the urban poor: evidence from a Nairobi slum	17
Water: consumption, usage patterns, and residential infrastructure. A comparative analysis of three regions in the Lima metropolitan area	16
Economy-wide assessment of potential long-term impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Sudan	15
The impact of COVID-19 on water and food systems: flattening the much bigger curve ahead	15
Exploring challenges in safe water availability and accessibility in preventing COVID-19 in refugee settlements	15
A source-to-sea approach to emerging pollutants in freshwater and oceans: pharmaceuticals in the Baltic Sea region	14
The devil’s in the details: data exchange in transboundary waters	14
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam and its consequences	14
Autogestiónand water sharing networks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María	14
Exploring water access in rural Kenya: narratives of social capital, gender inequalities and household water security in Kitui county	13
Exploring the future impacts of urbanization and climate change on groundwater in Arusha, Tanzania	12
Reconceptualization of the Transboundary Water Interaction Nexus (TWINS): approaches, opportunities and challenges	12
Integrating spatial and social characteristics in the DPSIR framework for the sustainable management of river basins: case study of the Katari River Basin, Bolivia	11
Water research and nationalism in the post-truth era	11

Power in water diplomacy	11
Unpacking wastewater reuse arrangements through a new framework: insights from the analysis of Egypt	11
A methodology to identify vulnerable transboundary aquifer hotspots for multi-scale groundwater management	11
Energizing Mid–East water diplomacy: The potential for regional water–energy exchanges	10
Lesson learning in the Colorado River Basin	10
Knowledge, context and problemsheds: a critical realist method for interdisciplinary water studies	9
Integrated Smart Water Management of the sanitation system of the Greater Paris region	8
An adaptation pathways approach to water management and governance of tourist islands: the example of the Southern Aegean Region in Greece	8
Advancing urban water security: The urbanization of water–society relations and entry–points for political engagement	8
A comparative analysis of urban and rural household water insecurity experiences during the 2011–17 drought in Ceará, Brazil	7
Evaluating the effectiveness of land and water integrative practices for achieving water sustainability within the Colorado River Basin: perceptions and indicators	7
The effect of policy incoherence on the emergence of groundwater-related subsidence phenomena: a case study from Iran	7
Institutional innovation and smart water management technologies in small-scale irrigation schemes in southern Africa	7
Drip irrigation as a socio-technical configuration: policy design and technological choice in Western India	7
Water law and the response to COVID-19	7
Environmental management in the Bohai and Baltic seas from a source-to-sea perspective: challenges and opportunities	7
Land reclamation projects in the Egyptian Western Desert: management of 1.5 million acres of groundwater irrigation	7
Livelihood security enhancement though innovative water management in dryland India	7
Mapping and navigating ontologies in water governance: the case of the Ganges	7
A GIS-based solution for urban water management	7
Rural water provision at the state-society interface in Latin America	7
The practical challenges of achieving sustainable wetland agriculture in Nigeria’s Cross River basin	6
Achieving drinking water and sanitation related targets of SDG 6 at Shahidbug slum, Dhaka	6
Anticipating elite capture: the social devaluation of municipal tap water users in the Phoenix metropolitan area	6
A multifaceted quantitative index for sustainability assessment of groundwater management: application for aquifers around Iran	6
Community response to the provision of alternative water supplies: A focus on chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) in rural Sri Lanka	6
Building foundations for source-to-sea management: the case of sediment management in the Lake Hawassa sub-basin of the Ethiopian Rift Valley	5
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector	5
Untapping the sustainable water bank’s public financing for Dutch drinking water companies	5
Climate change and the water quality threats posed by the emerging contaminants per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and microplastics	5
Success and sustainability of nutrient pollution reduction in the Danube River Basin: recovery and future protection of the Black Sea Northwest shelf	5
Contested baselines and transboundary water resources management, with illustrations from the Nile	5
Mobilization of bias: learning from drought and flood crises in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Jakarta	4
Ozymandias in the desert: irrigation in Saudi Arabia	4
The implications of social and economic barriers to safe drinking water for municipal level policy in Ghana	4
Promoting water conservation habits in shower use: review of water utility websites in OECD cities	4
When the virtual water runs out: local and global responses to addressing unsustainable groundwater consumption	4
‘We were displaced several times since 1956’: the Tonga– Goba involuntary resettlement experiences at the Kariba Dam	4
A critical review of the transboundary aquifers in South-Eastern Europe and new insights from the EU’s water framework directive implementation process	4
A visualization tool for citizen-science marine debris big data	4
Water governance indicators in theory and practice: applying the OECD’s water governance indicators in the North American Great Lakes region	4
The water–man eristic dialectics for sustainable hydro-governance	4
Smart water management: can it improve accessibility and affordability of water for everyone?	4
Binational reflections on pathways to groundwater security in the Mexico–United States borderlands	4
Community-of-interests across source-to-sea systems: an international law perspective	4
Fifty years of water research: has it made a difference?	4
When the water runs dry: supporting adaptive governance in transboundary river basins	4
Impact of land use and occupation on potential groundwater recharge in a Brazilian savannah watershed	3
Dam operation using satellite data and hydrological models: the case of Roseires dam and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Blue Nile River	3
Lake Victoria water levels declining (2000-2006): the role of absent and uncertain data in a transboundary water controversy	3

Water insecurity and patchwork adaptability in Bangalore’s low-income neighbourhoods	3
Changing the development paradigm in African agricultural water management to resolve water and food challenges	3
Persisting narratives undermine potential water scarcity solutions for informal areas of Mexico City: the case of two settlements in Xochimilco	3
Agri-vector water: boosting rainfed agriculture with urban water allocation to support urban–rural linkages	3
Do needs motivate the exchange of data in transboundary waters? Insights from Africa’s shared basins	3
Climate change is increasing global salt pollution	3
Masculinity and smart water management: why we need a critical perspective	3
Mixing waters: stakeholder influence in transboundary water conflict and cooperation	3
SWM and urban water: Smart management for an absurd system?	3
Using innovative smart water management technologies to monitor water provision to refugees	3
Advances in monitoring transboundary water cooperation? Reflecting on the development and implementation of SDG indicator 6.5.2	3
Diffusion of small-scale pumped irrigation technologies and their association with farmer-led irrigation development in Malawi	3
Learning from the past to build the future governance of groundwater use in agriculture	3
Boldly boring: public banks and public water in the Nordic region	3
Smart Water Management: the way to (artificially) intelligent water management, or just another pretty name?	3
Water wars, conflict and cooperation – how the virtual water concept helped change the discourse	3
Strategies for climate change adaptation: lessons learnt from long-term planning in the Netherlands and Bangladesh	3
Assessing the operational efficiency of wastewater services whilst accounting for data uncertainty and service quality: a semi-parametric approach	3
Editors’ introduction to the IWRA Mentored Articles section	3
Sino-Kazakhstan transboundary water allocation cooperation study: analysis of willingness and policy implementation	3
Power plus: Tony Allan’s contributions to understanding transboundary water arrangements	3
Transparency, regional diversity, and capacity building: cornerstones for trust and engagement in good water governance	3