OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Water Resources Development 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Recycling water, but at what price? The political economy of wastewater reuse	22
Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management	21
Net positive and its application to water management	19
Comparing China and India’s transboundary water governance: insights from international law	19
Mechanization in land preparation and irrigation water productivity: insights from rice production	19
Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam	17
Through the water glass darkly: global cities as problematic exemplars in the sustainability discourse	15
What does valuing water mean in practice? A case study from the Ewaso Ng’iro River Basin, Kenya	12
Why does technological empowerment fail? Mechanisms of public acceptance of technology for water governance	11
Polycentric governance and agroecological practices in the MENA region: insights from Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia	11
Structural and institutional arrangements impacting collective actions in WUAs of West Bengal, India	11
The spatiotemporal variability of phytoplankton phenology in the Caspian Sea (an ecoregion-based approach)	10
Improving connectivity in water governance: the implementation of water cooperation mechanisms in disparate political and social contexts	9
Water security, climate change and COP26	8
Does financial inclusion improve sanitation access? Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries	8
Water management practices in Euro-Mediterranean hotels and resorts	8
United Nations water conferences: reflections and expectations	8
Water or mirage? Nightmare over dams and hydropower across Iran	8
Digital twin technology and its application in water governance: China’s practices and achievements	8
Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey	8
Exploring the challenges of people’s resettlement in China’s reservoirs: a historical perspective	7
Legal frameworks and mechanisms for resolving transboundary water disputes in Malaysia: insights from the Kedah-Penang Muda River dispute	7
China’s water security under a changing environment	7
Bandung Principles: a path to equitable global water governance?	7
The impact of COVID-19 and capacities of farmers in small-scale irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa	7

Is policy convergence required to improve women’s empowerment in agriculture? Evidence from West Bengal	7
Basin closure and water circularity: a pathway analysis from Oum Er Rbia river basin, Morocco	6
The evolution of the EU drinking water policy towards a source-to-mouth approach	6
Water governance for water security: analysing institutional strengths and challenges in Finland	6
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’	6
Water infrastructure in Asia: financing and policy options	6
Water right society – a history review from Three-Valley of Hejin County, 1389–1947	6
Tanker trucks in Chile: from the normalization of an emergency to the commodification of water	5
Psychological and background determinants of individuals’ intentions to conserve household water: evidence from Spain	5
Cooperative water-sharing agreements between highlands and drylands: the Tambo-Santiago-Ica river basin in Peru	5
A system approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene resilience and sustainability in refugee communities	5
Tap water consumption choices in out-of-home settings: insights from a survey of German adults	5
Public perceptions of water scarcity in China: insights from an online survey of 3262 responses	5
Agroecology and circular food systems: decoupling natural resource use from rural development in sub-Saharan Africa?	4
Challenges in reintroducing fair market value to US public water/wastewater systems	4
Climate change adaptation benefits from rejuvenated irrigation farming systems in Mozambique	4
China–India hydropolitics on the Brahmaputra: why do hard data need to dominate over existing rhetoric?	4
Effect of terrestrial water storage deficit on economic growth for China	4
A perspective on sustainability and environmental challenges in the Caspian Sea	4
Decoding China’s water rights revolution in the new century: transitioning from a centralized to a hybrid system	4
Satellite-based phenology analysis of the Hyrcanian forest in the Alborz mountains and Caspian Sea shores, Iran	4
International capacity building to achieve SDG6: insights from longitudinal analysis of five water operator partnerships	4
Investigating factors attracting the participation of the private sector in rural water supply in Vietnam	4
Water–tourism nexus research in the Mediterranean in the past two decades: a systematic literature review	4
Water safety management during the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: challenges, responses and guidance	4
Climate change impacts on temperature and precipitation over the Caspian Sea	3
How to manage regime shifts: insights from a dryland social–ecological system	3
Causes and consequences of the Macta basin closure, Algeria	3
Correction	3
Climate change and water-related threats in the Indian Sundarbans: food security and management implications	3
Institutional bricolage in community-based water management: some insights from non-representational theory	3
Application of social network analysis in determining innovation information exchange at irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe	3
Hydraulic bureaucracy and irrigation management transfer: analysing the efficacy of two models in South-India	3
Correction	3
Projecting conflict risk in transboundary river basins by 2050 following different ambition scenarios	3
In praise of floods: the untamed river and the life it brings	3
Navigating risk in Caspian sturgeon conservation: mapping manager risk perceptions with species conservation measures	3
Water resource management in agriculture for achieving food and water security in Asia	3
Different destinations, different outcomes: a comprehensive analysis of hotel water management in Madeira and Tenerife	3
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions of and adaptations to water scarcity in an irrigated system in Chiapas, Mexico	3
Groundwater governance under climate change in India: lessons based on evaluation of World Bank interventions	3
Managing risks associated with environmental water delivery: a case study of the Goulburn River, Australia	3
Post-water political-economics	2
Small-scale desalination and atmospheric water provisioning systems in water-scarce vulnerable communities: status and perspectives	2
Assessing the importance of gender transformative WASH: evidence from a gender-mainstreamed WASH programme in Bangladesh	2
Heterogeneous climate effect on crop yield and associated risks to water security in India	2
Modelling extreme precipitation projections under the effects of climate change: case study of the Caspian Sea	2
Fighting for water: resisting privatization in Europe	2
Climate variability, rainwater-harvesting structures and groundwater levels in Odisha, India: an empirical analysis	2
The role of knowledge in the decision of Granada University students to drink bottled water	2

Factors influencing groundwater behaviour and performance of groundwater-based water supply schemes in rural India	2
Making collaborative water governance accountable? The River Chief System in China	2
Understanding household attitudes to water conservation in Saudi Arabia: towards sustainable communities	2
Measuring and decomposing profit efficiency changes of water utilities: a case study for Chile	2
Managing climate risks: new evidence from integrated analysis at the basin scale	2
Towards multi-modal oil spill detection and coverage in the Caspian Sea: a comprehensive approach	2
A story of hope and frustration: a wastewater-based agricultural frontier in the Algerian Sahara	2
Agricultural innovation platforms for scaling innovations – insights from the Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa project	2
Sustainable finance, water governance, and water policy objectives in Ontario municipalities	2
Waterways transformation and green stormwater infrastructure: enabling governance for Adelaide’s River Torrens Catchment, Australia	2
Handwashing behaviour among adults in rural Vietnam: a cross-sectional mixed methods study	2
Storm water systems’ performance: assessment framework application to Portuguese water utilities	2