OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Water Resources Development 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
Institutional bricolage in community-based water management: some insights from non-representational theory	27
Funding dam safety regulation: an international comparative analysis and example application in Australia	24
Is policy convergence required to improve women’s empowerment in agriculture? Evidence from West Bengal	15
The politics of practical implementation: reloading of information by competing coalitions in EU water governance	15
How to manage regime shifts: insights from a dryland social–ecological system	14
China’s eight water risks	14
Legal frameworks and mechanisms for resolving transboundary water disputes in Malaysia: insights from the Kedah-Penang Muda River dispute	13
Determining factors for changes in the ice regime of the Caspian Sea	13
The effect of information on preferences for improved household water supply in Indonesia and Nepal	11
Conventional and makeshift rainwater harvesting in rural South Africa: exploring determinants for rainwater harvesting mode	9
Different destinations, different outcomes: a comprehensive analysis of hotel water management in Madeira and Tenerife	9
Farmers’ perceptions, adoption and impacts of integrated water management technology under changing climate	8
The evolution of the EU drinking water policy towards a source-to-mouth approach	8
Water reuse to address water security	7
Quantifying the runoff reduction benefits of the ‘Grain for Green’ Programme using the VIC model	7
Constructed wetlands to treat polluted waters in Latin America and the Caribbean	7
Water justice and Europe’s Right2Water movement	7
Governing groundwater excess: insights from a failed collaborative process in Delft, the Netherlands	7
Political participation and small-scale fishery management in the Tonlé Sap, Cambodia	7
Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management	7
Assessment of the economic and water leakage efficiency in Chilean urban water utilities	7
Reforming for resilience: delivering ‘multipurpose hydropower’ under water and energy risks	6
Can domestic wheat farming meet the climate change-induced challenges of national food security in Uzbekistan?	6
Exploring the challenges of people’s resettlement in China’s reservoirs: a historical perspective	6
Hydraulic bureaucracy and irrigation management transfer: analysing the efficacy of two models in South-India	6

A story of hope and frustration: a wastewater-based agricultural frontier in the Algerian Sahara	5
Irrigation subsidy policy in Chile: lessons from the allocation, uneven distribution and water resources implications	5
Water balance and benefit sharing approach to reduce water deficit in an Indian river Basin	5
From ‘merchants and ministers’ to ‘neutral brokers’? Water diplomacy aspirations by the Netherlands – a discourse analysis of the 2011 commissioned advisory report	5
Dead in the water: a very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe … the death of the Murray–Darling Basin Dead in the water: a very angry book about our greatest environ	5
Success and failure factors for increasing Sub-Saharan African smallholders’ resilience to drought through water management	5
The dying oasis: a macro analysis of tank irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India	5
Small-scale desalination and atmospheric water provisioning systems in water-scarce vulnerable communities: status and perspectives	5
Unsustainable use of surface water due to water balance miscalculation: the Culiacán River basin, Mexico	5
Managing risks associated with environmental water delivery: a case study of the Goulburn River, Australia	5
Water demand management strategies in fast-growing cities. The case of Arequipa, Perú	5
Water retention for agricultural resilience in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: towards integrated ‘grey–green’ solutions	5
Causes and consequences of the Macta basin closure, Algeria	5
Hedging the risk of hydrological drought in irrigated agriculture: the role of precautionary savings	5
Socio-spatial and seasonal dynamics of small, private water service providers in Khulna district, Bangladesh	4
Local empowerment and irrigation devolution in Ethiopia	4
Media reporting on conflicts and cooperation: what does it mean for the Brahmaputra basin?	4
Water right society – a history review from Three-Valley of Hejin County, 1389–1947	4
Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam	4
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions of and adaptations to water scarcity in an irrigated system in Chiapas, Mexico	4
Service differentiation as an improvement strategy for access to water in urban low-income areas: evidence from three Kenyan cities	4
Adequate, resilient and sustainable: how to run a water utility in a pandemic	4
Groundwater governance under climate change in India: lessons based on evaluation of World Bank interventions	4
Perceived vs measured water supply service: evidence from New Zealand	4
Unfolding the complexity in water reallocation decision-making in the Heihe River Basin, China	4
Mechanization in land preparation and irrigation water productivity: insights from rice production	4
Water resources of Italy: protection, use and control	4
Explaining the sustained public participation of ENGOs in China’s water governance: a case study of the ‘civilian river chiefs’ under the theoretical framework of ‘double embeddedness’	4
Comparing China and India’s transboundary water governance: insights from international law	3
Net positive and its application to water management	3
Irrigation development and equity implications: the case of India	3
Role of knowledge in the management of groundwater-use for irrigation in micro-watersheds of semi-arid India	3
Water infrastructure in Asia: financing and policy options	3
Hydraulic pressure in the Middle East and South/Southeast Asia: comparing Israeli and Chinese ‘Melian Dialogue’	3
Water policy and legislative responses to climate change in the Czech Republic	3
Projecting conflict risk in transboundary river basins by 2050 following different ambition scenarios	3
Exploring the role and decision-making behaviour of irrigation water supply authorities in Australia	3
Willingness of farmers to use treated wastewater for irrigation in the West Bank, Palestine	3
Correction	3
Women, youth, and tail-end users: improving the livelihoods of disadvantaged irrigators in southern Africa	3
Domestic practices for accessing water and rural-urban transformations: example of emerging urban centres in Tanzania	3
Recentralizing state power in decentralized small drinking water system governance in New Mexico, USA	3
Groundwater: an unseen, overused and unappreciated resource	3
Direct delivery of electricity subsidy to farmers in Punjab: will it help conserve groundwater?	3
Correction	3
The regulation, governance and performance of the water and sewerage industry in England and Wales	3
Tanker trucks in Chile: from the normalization of an emergency to the commodification of water	2
Addressing the housing crisis in Irish towns: an exploration of water infrastructure capacity challenges	2
Adapting smallholder irrigation systems to extreme events: a case of the Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa (TISA) project in Zimbabwe	2
Water governance for water security: analysing institutional strengths and challenges in Finland	2

Waterways transformation and green stormwater infrastructure: enabling governance for Adelaide’s River Torrens Catchment, Australia	2
Displacement-induced inequalities in Koto Panjang resettlement villages of Indonesia	2
A system approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene resilience and sustainability in refugee communities	2
Depoliticizing disasters: the need to break down water bureaucracy with the changing climate in South Asia	2
State-centric water governance and ineffective coordination: developing a context-sensitive assessment in Iran’s rentier state	2
Reasonable water management shift via Sefficiency in Sequity	2
Institutional dynamics and water resource management: the case of traditional water bodies in West Bengal, India	2
Climate change adaptation benefits from rejuvenated irrigation systems at Kiwere and Magozi schemes in Tanzania	2
Cooperative water-sharing agreements between highlands and drylands: the Tambo-Santiago-Ica river basin in Peru	2
A perspective on sustainability and environmental challenges in the Caspian Sea	2
President Biden′s Infrastructure Plan: Does it address needs of water systems in the United States?	2
Tap water consumption choices in out-of-home settings: insights from a survey of German adults	2
Transformative change of Jordan’s water system: reconfiguring competitive water users into mutual service providers	2
Climate change and water-related threats in the Indian Sundarbans: food security and management implications	2
Desalinated drinking-water provision in water-stressed regions: challenges of consumer-perception and environmental impact lessons from Antofagasta, Chile	2
Assessing the tourism efficiency in the Caspian Sea region	2
Polycentric governance and agroecological practices in the MENA region: insights from Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia	2
Solving water: multi-stakeholder collaboration will accelerate a water-secure future	2
What does valuing water mean in practice? A case study from the Ewaso Ng’iro River Basin, Kenya	2
Measuring and decomposing profit efficiency changes of water utilities: a case study for Chile	1
Individuals’ resistance to saving water: the cases of Argentina and Spain	1
The selective centralization in decentralization: China’s environmental vertical management reform with a case study in Hebei province	1
Unsettling bureaucratic designs: inter-bureaucratic competition and patrimonialism in the pursuit of Thailand’s hydraulic mission	1
Structural and institutional arrangements impacting collective actions in WUAs of West Bengal, India	1
International capacity building to achieve SDG6: insights from longitudinal analysis of five water operator partnerships	1
Handwashing behaviour among adults in rural Vietnam: a cross-sectional mixed methods study	1
Water or mirage? Nightmare over dams and hydropower across Iran	1
The spatiotemporal variability of phytoplankton phenology in the Caspian Sea (an ecoregion-based approach)	1
Water safety management during the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: challenges, responses and guidance	1
Urban water governance in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
‘Water is politics everywhere’: the use of emphasis frames to communicate multilateral water development project	1
Understanding the decision-making structures, roles and actions of village-level water committees in Fiji	1
Cybercrime, cybersecurity and water utilities	1
Large-scale water development in the United States: TVA and the California State Water Project	1
Flood risk policies in Italy: a longitudinal institutional analysis of continuity and change	1
Water security, climate change and COP26	1
Reimagining water management	1
Exploring discursive hydropolitics: a conceptual framework and research agenda	1
Resettlement delays in the Dasu Hydropower Project: assessing impacts on the affected people and communities	1
Satellite-based phenology analysis of the Hyrcanian forest in the Alborz mountains and Caspian Sea shores, Iran	1
Scalar configuration, power strategies and water governance: insights from the politics of the Yangtze-to-Huai Water Transfer Project	1
Water access and household economic insecurity: conceptual framework and econometric analysis applied to rural Nepal	1
Youth living around irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe: their livelihoods and role in the local economy	1
Reviewing the causes of Mekong drought before and during 2019–20	1
Critical reflections on transforming smallholder irrigation systems from dysfunctional to functional climate smart agricultural systems	1
Modelling extreme precipitation projections under the effects of climate change: case study of the Caspian Sea	1
Carrot or stick: what motivates urban water consumption? Evidence from Southern California	1
Climate variability, rainwater-harvesting structures and groundwater levels in Odisha, India: an empirical analysis	1
Value of groundwater to public supply in west-central Florida	1
Retrospective climate resilience assessment of semi-arid farming systems in India	1
Media discourse on drinking water before and after a major campylobacteriosis outbreak in New Zealand	1
Rethinking collaborative governance to enhance legitimacy co-production: a multipurpose rural–urban water transfer in Nepal	1
Improving connectivity in water governance: the implementation of water cooperation mechanisms in disparate political and social contexts	1
Water’s role in MDB regional development	1