OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Water International is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Enhancing water security in a changing world: experiences and perspectives in China and implications for the world	85
Housing inadequacy and income in Brazil: water supply and sewage in metropolitan areas	25
The international and historical dimensions of Chilean water bureaucracy	22
Tony Allan: a magic toolbox of theoretical frameworks, a never-ending story	18
The marketization of water: environmental movements’ narratives and common experiences on water transfer projects in Colorado and western Iran	17
Institutional challenges to efficient governance: water, sanitation and wastewater in Egypt	14
Provisioning of water ecosystem services in the Kapingazi River Basin in Kenya: can prospects of willingness to pay improve water quality and quantity?	13
Editors’ introduction	12
Water International Best Paper 2021 Awards	12
Editors’ introduction to the IWRA mentored articles section	11
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector	11
Editors’ introduction	10
Egypt’s water balancing act	10
Towards effective cooperation dynamics in transboundary river basins: a case study of the Nile and Orontes rivers	10
A life exploring blind corners, part two	10
Correction	9
Editors’ introduction	9
Recent advances in smart water technology of drainage systems in China	9
Mismatches between policy planning and implementation on the actively living with flood approach in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	8
White water footprint: valuable subdivision in water footprint	8
Faecal contamination on lettuce irrigated with different water sources in Maputo, Mozambique	8
Advances in the application of smartphones in hydrology	8
Open access and the evolving academic publishing landscape of the water sector	8
Scalar politics in international water law	8
Assessing water management through decentralization: state–region issues in the Ebro Basin (Spain)	7

The effect of policy incoherence on the emergence of groundwater-related subsidence phenomena: a case study from Iran	7
Water International Best Paper 2023 Awards	7
Understanding institutional changes in irrigation management: a comparative case study of two communities in the Venezuelan Andes	7
Editors’ introduction	7
Does data lead to cooperation? Lessons from Water Accounting Plus in the Cauvery basin, India	7
How does a master plan contribute to strengthening transboundary water management? A case study in West Africa	6
Participatory analysis of water-related conflict risks in complex adaptive systems – the case of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali	6
The Ven Te Chow Memorial Lecture: Environment and Development: Urgent Need for a Water Perspective	6
Governance and management of large US river basins in diverse regions under a federal government model	6
Editors’ introduction	6
Basin-wide knowledge exchange for the sustainable management of the Colorado River	6
Critical success factors for sustainably establishing localized groundwater supply systems	6
The current legal framework for pollution control in the Niger River Basin relative to SDG 6.3	5
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure in public water enterprises in Andalusia, Spain	5
Water environment governance under the Central Environmental Protection Inspection mechanism: a collaborative governance strategy from a multi-agent perspective	5
Editors’ introduction	5
Climate change is increasing global salt pollution	5
So near, yet so far: an Egyptian perspective on the US-facilitated negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam	5
Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis	5
Sanctioned discourse and the power of hegemonic imaginings	5
Letter from the IWRA President	5
A thriving Murray–Darling Basin in 50 years: actions in the face of climate change	5
Building bridges to achieve SDG 6 and integrated water resources management: an assessment of stakeholder integration in the Saiss region, Morocco	5
‘We were displaced several times since 1956’: the Tonga– Goba involuntary resettlement experiences at the Kariba Dam	5
Water reuse blueprint: from waste to resource	5
Water, conflict, and peace: a decade of developments	4
Community water governance for climate-resilient water security in Fiji	4
Water: A biography	4
Climate change impacts on water resources and adaptive water policy: case studies in the east monsoon area of China	4
Africa’s water security in the twenty-first century	4
Water International Best Paper 2024 Awards	4
Transition of Vietnam’s water governance towards sustainability	4
The role of the private sector in sustainable development	4
Identifying and estimating the social values of irrigation: a plea for being explicit	4
The extraordinary drought provision and the future of the Rio Grande water deliveries under the 1944 US–Mexico water treaty: an exploratory policy analysis	4
Editors’ introduction	4
Model application for monitoring and locating leakages in rural area water pipeline networks	4
Virtual water, international relations and the new geopolitics of food	4
Editors’ introduction	4
Special issues of Water International	4
Gender and social inclusion in community water resource management: lessons from two districts in the Himalayan foothills and the Terai in Nepal	4
Different regulatory approaches to enhanced water protection in selected European jurisdictions	4
Governance attributes for building water resilience: a literature review	4
What is the role for multistakeholder platforms in transboundary basin governance? Distilling lessons from three cases and applying them in the Incomati Basin	4
Toward global water security and resilience: a call for improved cooperation for coherent responses	4
Irrigated urban agriculture: a mixture of farming scales, water flows and actors in Nairobi, Kenya	4
Clearing the waters: a review of transboundary water quality governance	4
Managed aquifer recharge in Mexico: proposals for an improved legal framework and public policies	4
Challenges and prospects of reclaimed water reuse in Spanish agriculture	4
Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data	4

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