OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Canadian Water Resources Journal is 1. 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
Phosphorus dynamics in agricultural surface runoff at the edge of the field and in ditches during overbank flooding conditions in the Red River Valley	21
How much are Canadians willing to pay for clean surface and ground water? A meta-analysis of the Canadian non-market valuation literature	21
Evaluating the effects of climate change on river water temperature downstream of a hydropower reservoir in western Canada	16
Quantifying the mitigation effect of natural landscapes during an extraordinary flood: the prominent role of the Otter Creek wetlands to middlebury, Vermont, USA, during Tropical Storm Irene	12
List of reviewers for papers received in 2020	8
Towards a better understanding of the evaporative cooling of rivers: case study for the Little Southwest Miramichi River (New Brunswick, Canada)	6
Natural controls on phosphorus concentrations in small Lakes in Central Alberta, Canada	6
Are temperature time series measured at hydrometric stations representative of the river’s thermal regime?	6
Ontario conservation authorities – end, evolve, interlude or epiphany?	5
Comparative analysis of local and large-scale approaches to floodplain mapping: a case study of the Chaudière River	5
Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) for Canada: assessment of probability distributions	5
Six decades of research on river temperature in Canada	4
Implications of disclosure and non-disclosure of flood hazard maps – a synthesis for the Canadian context	4
Large-scale flood modelling based on LiDAR data: a case study in the Southwest Miramichi watershed, New Brunswick, Canada	4
Comparing paleo reconstructions of warm and cool season streamflow (1400–2018) for the North and South Saskatchewan River sub-basins, Western Canada	3
Using field-based, photogrammetric point cloud, orthophoto and LiDAR-derived metrics to assess forest structure–snowpack relationships in the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Forest region	3
Screening and scoping-level assessment of beneficial management practices in a Canadian prairie watershed	3
‘That water out there is no damn good for anybody’: Experiences with declining water quality in a First Nation community	3
Fitting flood frequency distributions using the annual maximum series and the peak over threshold approaches	3
Photosensitizing properties of dissolved organic carbon in Canadian prairie pothole wetland ponds change in response to sunlight	3
Postmortem analysis of safe-yield estimation of a heterogeneous aquifer for rural water supply	3
Correction	3
Testing a modified environmental flows framework for a Southern Ontario (Canada) river system: assessing hydrological alteration and management recommendations	3
Hydrometric data discretization into environmental flow components: a new, practical approach to explore concentration-discharge relationships	3
The importance of groundwater to the upper Columbia River floodplain wetlands	2

Overcoming the challenges of flow forecasting in a data poor region	2
Flood rings, earlywood vessels and hydrological signal in Fraxinus pennsylvanica trees growing along the central Assiniboine river floodplain, southcentral Canada	2
Performance of automated geoprocessing methods for culvert detection in remote Forest environments	2
Updating inflow forecasts using empirical statistical matching for real-time prediction of daily net inflows to Okanagan Lake	2
Summer recreational boating impacts on erosion, turbidity, and phosphorus levels in Canadian freshwater lakes	2
The state of isotope hydrology research in Canada (2007–2022)	2
Modeling of the thermal regime of rivers subject to seasonal ice cover using data from different sources and temporal resolutions	2
Effects of winter water quality conditions on Atlantic Salmon embryo mortality and deformity rates in the Serpentine River (New Brunswick, Canada)	1
Towards a dynamic effective drainage area map for the Canadian Prairie: Sensitivity of contributing area to wetland storage capacity	1
Flood risk assessment data access and equity in Metro Vancouver	1
Design flood estimation in flood hazard studies: a three-decade systematic review of practices in Canada	1
Assessing climate change impacts on North American freshwater habitat of wild Atlantic salmon - urgent needs for collaborative research	1
Editors’ note	1
75 years of Canada-US transborder water quantity hydropolitics	1
Technical guidelines for future intensity–duration–frequency curve estimation in Canada	1
New policy and regulatory reforms for Ontario Conservation Authorities	1
Baseline geographic information on wildfire-watershed risk in Canada: needs, gaps, and opportunities	1
État des connaissances de la gestion des eaux de lavage maraîchères: caractéristiques et traitements	1
Climate change impacts on snow and streamflow drought regimes in four ecoregions of British Columbia	1
Commentary: Towards a new era of environmental prediction in Canada	1
Hydrological behaviour of an unregulated eastern slope river under changing historical climate	1
Predicting water quality in Canada: mind the (data) gap	1
Drivers of hydrologic budgets in small terminal lakes in the Alberta prairies	1
Combining large-scale and regional hydrological forecasts using simple methods	1
Stream thermalscape scenarios for British Columbia, Canada	1
Water quality advisory impacts on recreation behaviour and associated economic costs	1
Introduction to the Special Issue on the 75th anniversary of the Canadian Water Resources Association	1