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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management	19
Recycling water, but at what price? The political economy of wastewater reuse	17
Adequate, resilient and sustainable: how to run a water utility in a pandemic	16
Irrigation subsidy policy in Chile: lessons from the allocation, uneven distribution and water resources implications	16
Net positive and its application to water management	15
Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam	15
Comparing China and India’s transboundary water governance: insights from international law	14
What does valuing water mean in practice? A case study from the Ewaso Ng’iro River Basin, Kenya	14
Mechanization in land preparation and irrigation water productivity: insights from rice production	14
Reviewing the causes of Mekong drought before and during 2019–20	10
The spatiotemporal variability of phytoplankton phenology in the Caspian Sea (an ecoregion-based approach)	10
Polycentric governance and agroecological practices in the MENA region: insights from Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia	10
Structural and institutional arrangements impacting collective actions in WUAs of West Bengal, India	9
Improving connectivity in water governance: the implementation of water cooperation mechanisms in disparate political and social contexts	9
Water or mirage? Nightmare over dams and hydropower across Iran	8
Water management practices in Euro-Mediterranean hotels and resorts	8
Does financial inclusion improve sanitation access? Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries	8
United Nations water conferences: reflections and expectations	7
Scenarios for public systems transition using learning alliances: the case of water supply in Uganda	6
Is policy convergence required to improve women’s empowerment in agriculture? Evidence from West Bengal	6
The effect of information on preferences for improved household water supply in Indonesia and Nepal	6
Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey	6
Bandung Principles: a path to equitable global water governance?	6
Legal frameworks and mechanisms for resolving transboundary water disputes in Malaysia: insights from the Kedah-Penang Muda River dispute	6
Comparative assessment of alternative water supply contributions across five data-scarce cities	6

The impact of COVID-19 and capacities of farmers in small-scale irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa	6
Exploring the challenges of people’s resettlement in China’s reservoirs: a historical perspective	6
The evolution of the EU drinking water policy towards a source-to-mouth approach	6
Water security, climate change and COP26	6
Water governance for water security: analysing institutional strengths and challenges in Finland	5
Water infrastructure in Asia: financing and policy options	5
Public perceptions of water scarcity in China: insights from an online survey of 3262 responses	5
Tap water consumption choices in out-of-home settings: insights from a survey of German adults	5
Water right society – a history review from Three-Valley of Hejin County, 1389–1947	5
Basin closure and water circularity: a pathway analysis from Oum Er Rbia river basin, Morocco	5
A perspective on sustainability and environmental challenges in the Caspian Sea	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
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
Tanker trucks in Chile: from the normalization of an emergency to the commodification of water	4
Satellite-based phenology analysis of the Hyrcanian forest in the Alborz mountains and Caspian Sea shores, Iran	4
Willingness to pay for fluoride-free water in Tanzania: disentangling the importance of behavioural factors	4
Water’s role in MDB regional development	4
International capacity building to achieve SDG6: insights from longitudinal analysis of five water operator partnerships	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
Water safety management during the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: challenges, responses and guidance	4
Politicization of science in the Lancang–Mekong Basin: the Eyes on Earth Study	4
Agroecology and circular food systems: decoupling natural resource use from rural development in sub-Saharan Africa?	4