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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management	17
Irrigation subsidy policy in Chile: lessons from the allocation, uneven distribution and water resources implications	16
Reforming for resilience: delivering ‘multipurpose hydropower’ under water and energy risks	16
Adequate, resilient and sustainable: how to run a water utility in a pandemic	15
Water resources of Italy: protection, use and control	15
Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam	14
Mechanization in land preparation and irrigation water productivity: insights from rice production	14
Net positive and its application to water management	13
Comparing China and India’s transboundary water governance: insights from international law	11
Polycentric governance and agroecological practices in the MENA region: insights from Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia	10
What does valuing water mean in practice? A case study from the Ewaso Ng’iro River Basin, Kenya	10
Reviewing the causes of Mekong drought before and during 2019–20	10
Structural and institutional arrangements impacting collective actions in WUAs of West Bengal, India	9
The spatiotemporal variability of phytoplankton phenology in the Caspian Sea (an ecoregion-based approach)	9
United Nations water conferences: reflections and expectations	8
Does financial inclusion improve sanitation access? Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries	8
Improving connectivity in water governance: the implementation of water cooperation mechanisms in disparate political and social contexts	8
Water security, climate change and COP26	7
Comparative assessment of alternative water supply contributions across five data-scarce cities	7
Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey	7
Is policy convergence required to improve women’s empowerment in agriculture? Evidence from West Bengal	6
Exploring the challenges of people’s resettlement in China’s reservoirs: a historical perspective	6
The impact of COVID-19 and capacities of farmers in small-scale irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa	6
The effect of information on preferences for improved household water supply in Indonesia and Nepal	6
Scenarios for public systems transition using learning alliances: the case of water supply in Uganda	6

Water management practices in Euro-Mediterranean hotels and resorts	6
The dying oasis: a macro analysis of tank irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India	6
Bandung Principles: a path to equitable global water governance?	6
Water or mirage? Nightmare over dams and hydropower across Iran	6
The evolution of the EU drinking water policy towards a source-to-mouth approach	5
Socio-spatial and seasonal dynamics of small, private water service providers in Khulna district, Bangladesh	5
Cooperative water-sharing agreements between highlands and drylands: the Tambo-Santiago-Ica river basin in Peru	5
A perspective on sustainability and environmental challenges in the Caspian Sea	5
Legal frameworks and mechanisms for resolving transboundary water disputes in Malaysia: insights from the Kedah-Penang Muda River dispute	5
Water governance for water security: analysing institutional strengths and challenges in Finland	5
Tanker trucks in Chile: from the normalization of an emergency to the commodification of water	5
Public perceptions of water scarcity in China: insights from an online survey of 3262 responses	5
Hedging the risk of hydrological drought in irrigated agriculture: the role of precautionary savings	5
Water right society – a history review from Three-Valley of Hejin County, 1389–1947	5
Water infrastructure in Asia: financing and policy options	5
Tap water consumption choices in out-of-home settings: insights from a survey of German adults	5
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’	5
Unsettling bureaucratic designs: inter-bureaucratic competition and patrimonialism in the pursuit of Thailand’s hydraulic mission	4
Satellite-based phenology analysis of the Hyrcanian forest in the Alborz mountains and Caspian Sea shores, Iran	4
Agroecology and circular food systems: decoupling natural resource use from rural development in sub-Saharan Africa?	4
International capacity building to achieve SDG6: insights from longitudinal analysis of five water operator partnerships	4
Water’s role in MDB regional development	4
Cybercrime, cybersecurity and water utilities	4
China–India hydropolitics on the Brahmaputra: why do hard data need to dominate over existing rhetoric?	4
A system approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene resilience and sustainability in refugee communities	4
Water safety management during the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: challenges, responses and guidance	4
Climate change adaptation benefits from rejuvenated irrigation farming systems in Mozambique	4
Politicization of science in the Lancang–Mekong Basin: the Eyes on Earth Study	4