OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Water Resources Development is 5. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Why agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa remains low compared to the rest of the world – a historical perspective	110
The role of hydropower in South Asia’s energy future	31
Exploring the factors causing the poor performance of most irrigation schemes in post-independence sub-Saharan Africa	29
The importance of learning processes in transitioning small-scale irrigation schemes	27
Impacts of climate change on the flow of the transboundary Koshi River, with implications for local irrigation	26
The role of soil water monitoring tools and agricultural innovation platforms in improving food security and income of farmers in smallholder irrigation schemes in Tanzania	25
Differentiated vulnerabilities and capacities for adaptation to water shortage in Gaborone, Botswana	22
The dynamics between irrigation frequency and soil nutrient management: transitioning smallholder irrigation towards more profitable and sustainable systems in Zimbabwe	20
Identifying leverage points to transition dysfunctional irrigation schemes towards complex adaptive systems	19
Forecast-informed reservoir operations to guide hydropower and agriculture allocations in the Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia	17
Transforming failing smallholder irrigation schemes in Africa: a theory of change	16
An understanding of water governance systems in responding to extreme droughts in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	16
Psychological barriers to urban recycled water acceptance: a review of relevant principles in decision psychology	16
Do agricultural innovation platforms and soil moisture and nutrient monitoring tools improve the production and livelihood of smallholder irrigators in Mozambique?	16
The selective centralization in decentralization: China’s environmental vertical management reform with a case study in Hebei province	16
Water management in post-2020 world	15
Water colonialism and Indigenous water justice in south-eastern Australia	14
Irrigators’ willingness to pay for the adoption of soil moisture monitoring tools in South-Eastern Africa	13
Practicality of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in different contexts	12
Informality and water justice: community perspectives on water issues in Cape Town’s low-income neighbourhoods	12
Water management practices in Euro-Mediterranean hotels and resorts	10
A system dynamics simulation model for water conflicts in the Zhanghe River Basin, China	10
Rethinking livelihood resilience after development-induced displacement and resettlement: a case study of Qianping Reservoir	10
Irrigation subsidy policy in Chile: lessons from the allocation, uneven distribution and water resources implications	10
Acceptance of direct potable water reuse for domestic purposes: evidence from southern Spain	10

Modelling water resources for planning irrigation development in drought-prone southern Chile	10
COVID-19 and clean water, sanitation and wastewater management	9
Thayer Scudder’s Four Stage Framework, water resources dispossession and appropriation: the Kariba case	9
How does the Chinese government improve connectivity in water governance? A qualitative systematic review	9
A statistical and spatial analysis of water poverty using a modified Water Poverty Index	9
Water allocation strategies for meeting dry-season water requirements for Ganges Kobadak Irrigation Project in Bangladesh	8
Water reuse to address water security	8
Exploring discursive hydropolitics: a conceptual framework and research agenda	8
Governance conditions to overcome the challenges of realizing safe urban bathing water sites	8
Institutional dynamics and water resource management: the case of traditional water bodies in West Bengal, India	8
Flood risk policies in Italy: a longitudinal institutional analysis of continuity and change	7
Improved water management is central to solving the water-energy-food trilemma in Lao PDR	7
Alternative solutions for long missing streamflow data for sustainable water resources management	7
Environmental benefits from water reuse combined with managed aquifer recharge in the Flemish dunes (Belgium)	6
From ‘merchants and ministers’ to ‘neutral brokers’? Water diplomacy aspirations by the Netherlands – a discourse analysis of the 2011 commissioned advisory report	6
Growth and inequality at the micro scale: an empirical analysis of farm incomes within smallholder irrigation systems in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Mozambique	6
Large-scale water development in the United States: TVA and the California State Water Project	6
Climate change and water-related threats in the Indian Sundarbans: food security and management implications	6
Water demand management strategies in fast-growing cities. The case of Arequipa, Perú	6
Water and land justice for Indigenous communities in the Lowbidgee Floodplain of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	6
Territory in conflict: land dispossession, water grabbing and mobilization for environmental justice in southern Spain	6
Direct delivery of electricity subsidy to farmers in Punjab: will it help conserve groundwater?	6
Flood protection by embankments in the Brahmani–Baitarani river basin, India: a risk-based approach	6
Transaqua: power, political change and the transnational politics of a water megaproject	6
President Biden′s Infrastructure Plan: Does it address needs of water systems in the United States?	5
Willingness of farmers to use treated wastewater for irrigation in the West Bank, Palestine	5
Impounded rivers, compounded injustice: contesting the social impacts of hydraulic development in Laos	5
Desalinated drinking-water provision in water-stressed regions: challenges of consumer-perception and environmental impact lessons from Antofagasta, Chile	5
Water justice and Europe’s Right2Water movement	5
Water–tourism nexus research in the Mediterranean in the past two decades: a systematic literature review	5
Irrigation development and equity implications: the case of India	5