OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Water International is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Water International Best Paper 2022 Awards	49
A life exploring blind corners	47
From zero-sum to variable-sum on the Nile	31
Model application for monitoring and locating leakages in rural area water pipeline networks	25
The extraordinary drought provision and the future of the Rio Grande water deliveries under the 1944 US–Mexico water treaty: an exploratory policy analysis	25
Quantifying ecosystem services from trees of an urban park in Amsterdam	23
Promoting water conservation habits in shower use: review of water utility websites in OECD cities	19
Editors’ introduction	13
Economic analysis of public investment in alternative agricultural water management schemes: a case study from northern Ghana	11
A note from the editors	11
Toward global water security and resilience: a call for improved cooperation for coherent responses	9
Does financial inclusion improve household drinking water source? An application to the case of Togo	9
Water International Best Paper 2019 Awards	9
Editors' introduction	9
Agri-vector water: boosting rainfed agriculture with urban water allocation to support urban–rural linkages	8
Performance analysis of Chilean water companies after the privatization of the industry: the influence of ownership	8
Institutional challenges to efficient governance: water, sanitation and wastewater in Egypt	8
Spatial heterogeneity of household water insecurity in rural Uganda: implications for development	7
Professor Tony Allan and Libya	7
Governance attributes for building water resilience: a literature review	7
Enhancing water security in a changing world: experiences and perspectives in China and implications for the world	7
Editors’ introduction	6
Tony Allan: a magic toolbox of theoretical frameworks, a never-ending story	6
Assessing the soundness of water governance: lessons learned from applying the 10 Building Blocks Approach	6
What is the state of water infrastructure governance research in Nigeria? A review	6

Water: A biography	6
Urban potable reuse: contrasting perspectives of water industry professionals and elected politicians in Sydney, Australia	6
Editors’ introduction	6
Introduction to section 1	6
Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data	5
Patterns in transboundary aquifer governance: comparative analysis of eight case studies from the perspective of efficacy	5
Social cost–benefit analysis of natural treatment systems in India: implications for benefits model and governance	5
Provisioning of water ecosystem services in the Kapingazi River Basin in Kenya: can prospects of willingness to pay improve water quality and quantity?	5
The international and historical dimensions of Chilean water bureaucracy	5
Fifty years of water research: has it made a difference?	5
Data-sharing and decision support system to improve governance in transboundary waters in the La Plata River basin	5
International water law in 2070	5
White or blue water footprint? Components of water footprint model of crops	4
Beyond barriers: the fluid roles young people adopt in water conflict and cooperation	4
The marketization of water: environmental movements’ narratives and common experiences on water transfer projects in Colorado and western Iran	4
International Meuse Commission: 20 years of cooperation	4
Community water governance for climate-resilient water security in Fiji	4
Water demand and usage trends among group water schemes: implication for water conservation in Ireland	4
Water governance indicators in theory and practice: applying the OECD’s water governance indicators in the North American Great Lakes region	4
Recent advances in smart water technology of drainage systems in China	4
Transparency, regional diversity, and capacity building: cornerstones for trust and engagement in good water governance	4
Remembering Michael Campana (1948–2024)	4
Housing inadequacy and income in Brazil: water supply and sewage in metropolitan areas	4
Locating the channel and other tales from the river bank: constants and change in river boundary delimitation	4
Access to water and COVID-19: a regression discontinuity analysis for the peri-urban areas of metropolitan Lima, Peru	4
Reversing deforestation in a time of changing climate: implications for water management	3
I remember Tony	3
Egypt’s water balancing act	3
Water International Best Paper 2020 Awards	3
Institutions for reoperating reservoirs in semi-arid regions facing climate change and competing societal water demands: insights from Colorado	3
An evaluation framework for localized groundwater supply systems at critical facilities	3
Water International Best Paper 2021 Awards	3
Water governance in the Mekong region: the role and impact of civil society organizations	3
Groundwater use for urban water security in tropical Africa – operational situation and institutional perspectives	3
Irrigation and its wider regional impacts in Australia	3
A life exploring blind corners, part two	3
‘Tony here!’ Reflections on Professor Tony Allan	3
Correction	3
A new water management model and the role of IWRA in water disputes	3
Introduction to section 2	3
Institutionalizing groundwater management and transboundary aquifer cooperation in sub-Saharan lake and river basin organizations	3
Addendum	3
The European Investment Bank and its role in financing public water	3
A role for the IWRA in international water disputes?	3
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector	3
Editors’ introduction	3
The role of science in international water law	3
The optics of ‘Day Zero’ and the role of the state in water security for a township in Cape Town (South Africa)	3
Towards effective cooperation dynamics in transboundary river basins: a case study of the Nile and Orontes rivers	3
Critical analysis of the river basin management system in South Korea since 2018	3

Economies of water in Delhi: a neo-Polanyian analysis	2
A semi-qualitative approach to the operationalization of the Food–Environment–Energy–Water (FE²W) Nexus concept for infrastructure planning: a case study of the Niger Basin	2
Assessment of the failure to implement a much-needed rural water and sanitation project in Brazil	2
The governance of water innovation: To quench a thirst	2
Beijing Declaration	2
Governance failures and knowledge asymmetries in the state river basin committees and their impacts on water resource management in Brazil	2
Can sponge city construction in mainland China restore the river basin hydrology to an undeveloped state?	2
Editors’ introduction	2
A comparative analysis of urban and rural household water insecurity experiences during the 2011–17 drought in Ceará, Brazil	2
Gender and social inclusion in community water resource management: lessons from two districts in the Himalayan foothills and the Terai in Nepal	2
Editors’ introduction	2
The role of the private sector in sustainable development	2
Resolving the problems of commensurability in valuing water	2
Squeezed by austerity and pressured to recover costs: Portugal’s municipal water operators in need of public bank finance	2
The future of piped water	2
Water insecurity, water borrowing and psychosocial stress among Daasanach pastoralists in northern Kenya	2
Managerial, clientelist or populist? Lake governance in the Indian city of Bangalore	2
Assessing the capacity gaps of decentralized rural water management: qualitative evidence from Ghana	2
Rural water provision at the state-society interface in Latin America	2
IWRA 50th anniversary interview	2
Governance in the La Plata River Basin and OECD principles: an opinion survey of transboundary water professionals	2
Mismatches between policy planning and implementation on the actively living with flood approach in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	2
Supply chain water-reporting practices in the food, beverage and tobacco sector: a comparative study	2
Identifying and estimating the social values of irrigation: a plea for being explicit	2
Exploring the use of data and models in transboundary water governance	2
Contested baselines and transboundary water resources management, with illustrations from the Nile	2
Different regulatory approaches to enhanced water protection in selected European jurisdictions	2
Changing the development paradigm in African agricultural water management to resolve water and food challenges	2
International water law and hydropolitics: an enquiry into the water conflict between India and Nepal	2
Analysing water provision in the critical interface of formal and informal urban water regimes	2
White water footprint: valuable subdivision in water footprint	2
Scalable Water Balances from Earth Observations (SWEO): results from 50 years of remote sensing in hydrology	2
Water International Best Paper 2018 Awards	2
Can measuring the impact of water governance turn the tide?	2
Land reclamation projects in the Egyptian Western Desert: management of 1.5 million acres of groundwater irrigation	2
Lessons from the last 30 years for future water resource management in national and transboundary basins	2
Editors’ introduction	2
‘No one can compete since no one dares to lend more cheaply!’: Turkey’s Ilbank and public water finance	2