OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the American Water Resources Association is 3. 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
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Hydraulic Properties of the Riffle Crest and Applications for Stream Ecosystem Management	96
Standardizing No Net Loss Stream Mitigation Assessment Methods: Tradeoffs between Expediency and River Science	36
Illinois State Water Survey Bulletin 75: New Precipitation Frequency Study for Illinois	33
Quantifying Replacement Rates From Indoor and Outdoor Urban Water Conservation Incentives in California	32
Tidal–hydrological dynamics of water temperature across freshwater forested wetlands on the northeastern Pacific coast	32
Effects of Future Land Use Variability on Nutrient Loads in a Fast‐Urbanizing Landscape	30
Evaluation of Select Velocity Measurement Techniques for Estimating Discharge in Small Streams across the United States	30
Application of a Large‐Scale Terrain‐Analysis‐Based Flood Mapping System to Hurricane Harvey	25
Operationalizing equity for integrated water resources management	25
Improved annual temperature cycle function for stream seasonal thermal regimes	24
Water balance characterization of the early 21st century drought in the western United States	22
Spatial pattern and driving forces of regional water use efficiency: From spatial spillover and heterogeneity perspective	20
Water supply, waste assimilation, and low‐flow issues facing the Southeast Piedmont Interstate‐85 urban archipelago	20
Comparison of surface resistance‐based models for estimating maize evapotranspiration in a humid region of China	19
Nutrients across Time: Relationships with Climate, Hydrology, and Land Use in Four Rivers of the Pacific Northwest	16
Analyzing the impact of polder‐type flood control pattern on river system's regulation and storage capacity under urbanization	15
Introduction to the Featured Collection: Water Security — New Technologies, Strategies, Policies, and Institutions	14
Leveraging High‐Frequency Sensor Data and U.S. National Water Model Output to Forecast Turbidity in a Drinking Water Supply Basin	14
Function and watershed‐based stream mitigation: Lessons from a program development and implementation odyssey in the Western United States	14
Champions and Traditional Technocrats: The Role of Environmental Value Orientation in Stormwater Management	14
Rethinking Water Scarcity, Energy, and Agriculture: Coupling Agrivoltaics With Addressing Groundwater Depletion	13
Evaluation of Water‐Energy‐Food (WEF) Nexus Research: Perspectives, Challenges, and Directions for Future Research	13
Using a Multi‐Institutional Ensemble of Watershed Models to Assess Agricultural Conservation Effectiveness in a Future Climate	13
Comprehensive evaluation of water quality grades based on improved CRITIC and multidimensional connection cloud combination	13

The geography and socioeconomic characteristics of U.S. households reliant on private wells and septic systems	13
Machine Learning for a Heterogeneous Water Modeling Framework	12
SNOTEL, the Soil Climate Analysis Network, and water supply forecasting at the Natural Resources Conservation Service: Past, present, and future	12
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Process‐based calibration of WRF‐Hydro in a mountainous basin in southwestern U.S.	11
The long iron line: Water resources development at the United States Military Academy, West Point (1802–1943)	11
Quantifying the Response of Nitrogen Speciation to Hydrology in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Using a Multilevel Modeling Approach	10
Predictability and behavior of water transfers across basin boundaries	10
Multi‐Scale Hydrologic Evaluation of the National Water Model Streamflow Data Assimilation	10
Reviewer Index—2023	10
Considerations for using alternative technologies in nutrient management on Cape Cod: Beyond cost and performance	10
The Hydrological Urban Heat Island: Determinants of Acute and Chronic Heat Stress in Urban Streams	10
Enhancing hydrologic LiDAR digital elevation models: Bridging hydrographic gaps at fine scales	9
Expanding the applications of the standardized streamflow index through regionalization	9
Periodic Variability in Baseflow in Headwater Streams of the Upper Colorado River: Implications for Runoff Efficiency	9
Streamflow response to drought in a managed coast redwood catchment	9
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Post‐Processing the National Water Model with Long Short‐Term Memory Networks for Streamflow Predictions and Model Diagnostics	8
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Predicting nitrate exposure from groundwater wells using machine learning and meteorological conditions	7
A survey of non‐USGS continuous streamflow gaging networks in the Pacific Northwest	6
Effects of Reservoir Levels on Arizona National Recreation Area Visitation, Visitor Spending, and Local Economies	6
Nutrient Retention and Release in Eroding Chesapeake Bay Tidal Wetlands	6
Drivers of enhanced evaporative demand in U.S. croplands: Determining relative contribution using constrained input scenarios	6
Irrigation rates and turfgrass evapotranspiration in cities with contrasting water availability	6
Impacts of a nutrient trading plan on stream water quality in Sugar Creek, Ohio	6
Co‐production of a vulnerability assessment for aquatic and riparian ecosystems in the southwestern United States	6
Ephemeral Stream Network Extraction from Lidar‐Derived Elevation and Topographic Attributes in Urban and Forested Landscapes	6
Change of stream network connectivity under polder‐type flood control measure	6
Sewage Transport Volumes and Physical Degradation Rates of Personal Care Wipes	6
Confronting our Agricultural Nonpoint Source Control Policy Problem	6
Assessing flood mitigation, management, and enforcement using insurance data, California and the USA	6
Near‐term forecasts of stream temperature using deep learning and data assimilation in support of management decisions	5
Colloid‐Pollutant Migration through Saturated Vegetative Filter Strips with Various Hydrodynamics Condition under Rainfall	5
The Effects of Unpaved Roads on Instream Sediment: Patterns and Challenges for Monitoring	5
Joint operation rules considering the uncertainty of energy available for multiple cascaded hydropower system	5
Mapping stream and floodplain geomorphometry with the Floodplain and Channel Evaluation Tool	5
Simplifying the Groundwater Model Interface to Provide Enhanced Decision Support	5
Evaluating California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: The First Five Years of Governance and Planning	5
Irrigation response to drought in the Western United States, 1987–2021	5
Featured Collection Introduction: National Water Model IV	5
Streamflow and Groundwater Response to Stream Restoration Using Beaver Dam Analogues in a Semi‐Arid Perennial Stream	5
Household willingness to pay for stream restoration on private and public land: Evidence from the Baltimore metropolitan region	5
Impacts and sensitivity analysis of imperviousness area and connectivity on surface runoff under a plot‐scale rainfall simulation experiment	5
Case study of continental‐scale hydrologic modeling's ability to predict daily streamflow percentiles for regulatory application	4
Assessing the Impacts of Water Diversion Project on Water Resource System Sustainability	4
Transforming Institutions to Connect Land and Water for Healthy Communities	4
Integrating channel design and assessment methods based on sediment transport capacity in gravel bed streams	4

Streamflow simulation improvements enabled by a state‐of‐the‐art algorithm for reservoir routing in the U.S. National Water Model	4
From single to multi‐purpose reservoir: A framework for optimizing reservoir efficiency	4
Integrated water resources trend assessments: State of the science, challenges, and opportunities for advancement	4
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Resilient and Sustainable Water Resources Management in the United States: The Role of Water‐Use Data and Interagency Knowledge Exchange	4
Flooding and the interannual variability of hydrologic quantities in the Missouri River basin	4
Depressional runoff cascade networks of the Des Moines Lobe of Iowa	4
Hydrogeologic and hydrochemical inputs to emerging wetlands on the shores of the receding Salton Sea, California	4
The NRCS Peak Rate Factor for Severe Storms	4
Simulating socio‐hydrological responses to climatic conditions in Phoenix, Arizona	4
Featured Collection introduction: Climate change in Chesapeake Bay	4
Issue Information	4
Interactions of warming and altered nutrient load timing on the phenology of oxygen dynamics in Chesapeake Bay	4
Development of web‐based hydrograph analysis tool considering seasonality and flow condition	4
Strengthening Cybersecurity of Water Infrastructure through Legislative Actions	4
The Accumulating Interest in Water Banks: Assessing Their Role in Mitigating Water Insecurities	3
Predicting lake chlorophyll from stream phosphorus concentrations	3
Using Google Earth Engine to Assess Temporal and Spatial Changes in River Geomorphology and Riparian Vegetation	3
The usability gap in water resources open data and actionable science initiatives	3
Impact of Real‐Time Satellite‐Derived Green Vegetation Fraction on National Water Model Fluxes in Humid Alabama Watersheds	3
Predicted uranium and radon concentrations in New Hampshire (USA) groundwater—Using Multi Order Hydrologic Position as predictors	3
Characterization of Hydraulic Properties of the Memphis Aquifer by Conducting Pumping Tests in Active Well Fields in Shelby County, Tennessee	3
Modeling compound hydrologic disturbances in the Rio Grande Headwaters	3
Building resilience to extreme weather and climate events in the rural water and wastewater sectors	3
Can we rely on drought‐ending “miracles” in the Colorado River Basin?	3
NOAA's National Water Model: Advancing operational hydrology through continental‐scale modeling	3
Historical patterns of well drilling and groundwater depth in Arizona considering groundwater regulation and surface water access	3
Introduction to Featured Collection on Use of NASA and Other Earth Observations Data, Assets, and Tools to Support Water Management — Part 1	3
Distinguishing climate change impacts from development impacts on summer low flows in Puget Sound streams	3
Assessing Evidence of Phosphorus Concentration Trends in North American Freshwaters	3
Assessing Long‐Term Changes in Regional Groundwater Recharge Using a Water Balance Model for New Mexico	3
A “WEST” Theory in the East: Decoupling and synergistic evolution of water utilization, economy, and society in China	3
Re‐examining the water affordability: A comparison of alternative measures	3
Issue Information	3
Novel dimensionless index for physically based assessment of thermal refugia characterizes off‐channel habitat on gravel bed river	3
Drivers of future streamflow changes in watersheds across the Northeastern United States	3
A data‐oriented strategy to support water resource managers and researchers	3
Machine Learning Assisted Reservoir Operation Model for Long‐Term Water Management Simulation	3
Impact of Climate and Land Use Change on Economic Development in the Baoxing River Watershed in Giant Panda National Park	3
The Impacts of Drought on Southwest Tribal Economies	3
Remotely sensed imagery reveals animal feeding operations increase downstream dissolved reactive phosphorus	3
Contiguous United States hydrologic modeling using the Hillslope Link Model TETIS	3