OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Water Resources Development is 4. 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
China’s eight water risks	14
How to manage regime shifts: insights from a dryland social–ecological system	14
Determining factors for changes in the ice regime of the Caspian Sea	13
Legal frameworks and mechanisms for resolving transboundary water disputes in Malaysia: insights from the Kedah-Penang Muda River dispute	13
The effect of information on preferences for improved household water supply in Indonesia and Nepal	11
Different destinations, different outcomes: a comprehensive analysis of hotel water management in Madeira and Tenerife	9
Conventional and makeshift rainwater harvesting in rural South Africa: exploring determinants for rainwater harvesting mode	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 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
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
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
Reforming for resilience: delivering ‘multipurpose hydropower’ under water and energy risks	6

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
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
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
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