OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Water Policy 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploratory assessment of challenges and issues with private water operators in rural water supply and service delivery: a case study of the Karamoja region, Uganda	56
Social perception and challenges of light greywater reuse at the household level in developing countries: A case study of Bucaramanga, Colombia	24
Development of a dynamics-based model for analyzing strategic water–environmental conflicts: systems thinking instead of linear thinking	19
Current and future transboundary water cooperation over the YarlungZangbo/Brahmaputra River basin: from an interdisciplinary perspective	19
Retrospecting the Indus Mediation through Waltz's levels of analysis	19
Adoption behavior of water efficiency labeling: origin, research progress and theoretical framework – evidence from China	17
What determines the success of rural water supply schemes? Insights from an assessment in Maharashtra	16
A review of the design and implementation of Ghana's National Water Policy (2007)	16
Study on the ecosystem service value and inter-basin ecological compensation between provinces in China	16
Assessing the potential of domestic reclaimed water for agricultural irrigation in Taiwan	16
Midterm impacts of a water drought experience: evaluation of consumption changes in São Paulo, Brazil	15
Groundwater market in water-abundant regions: determinants of farmers’ decision to buy irrigation water in Assam in North-East India	15
Decolonising water diplomacy and conflict transformation: from security-peace to equity-identity	13
Corrigendum: Water Policy 1 June 2023; 25 (6): 597–621. Defining sustainability in agricultural water management using a Delphi survey technique. Bishal Dahal, Tamara Avellán, Ali Torabi Haghig	13
Resolving complaints about the quality of drinking water among water supply operators in the Czech Republic	13
Economic size and water use efficiency: an empirical analysis of trends across China	13
Diving deep into legal layers: institutional grammar's insight into Iran's groundwater laws	13
Contextualizing institutional capacity in water governance framework: a literature review	12
The impact of the water commonweal propaganda on citizens' water-saving behavior: the intermediary role of propaganda channels and forms – evidence from China	12
Efficacy of influencing factors in the decision-making of irrigation water pricing: a review	12
Climate risk-informed decision analysis (CRIDA): ‘top-down’ vs ‘bottom-up’ decision making for planning water resources infrastructure	12
An optimal design method for low-impact development (LID) facilities based on the hydrodynamic model and genetic algorithm-assisted decision-making	12
The influence of technology perceptions on farmers' water-saving irrigation technology adoption behavior in the North China Plain	12
Withdrawn: Estimating the economic impact of large hydropower projects: a dynamic multi-regional computable general equilibrium analysis	11
‘Overuse-charge’ agricultural water price mechanism in groundwater overdraft areas	10

A framework to assess urban water resilience in developing countries like India: Looking beyond water utilities and networked cities	10
Disparities in drinking water quality: evidence from California	10
Optimization of urban resources efficiency in the domain of water–energy–food nexus through integrated modeling: a case study of Addis Ababa city	10
Geographic and occupational mobility of small-scale fishers of Lake Malawi: an exploratory study of water, sanitation, and hygiene access, Malawi	10
Bottom-up capping (BUC) policy under bargaining techniques for inter-sectoral groundwater trading: a case study from Iran	10
A field assessment of residential laundry to landscape greywater quality in the San Francisco Bay area	10
Can water rights trading pilot policy ensure food security in China? Based on the difference-in-differences method	9
Aligning financial and technical procedures for the determination of urban drainage assets’ current and replacement values	9
Adoption of modern irrigation technologies in the presence of water theft and corruption: evidence from public irrigated areas in Medjez-el-Bab	9
Review of policies for building climate resilience in urban sanitation systems and services in Nepal	9
How Hurricane Katrina influenced the design of hurricane protection and risk reduction systems and national approaches to risk and resilience: Part 1. Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans: A forensic ass	9
Estimating the impact of climate change on water levels in a data-poor river basin in southeastern Brazil	9
Collaboration and coordination in the United Nations 2023 Water Conference commitments	9
Remunicipalisation of water services in Europe. Comparative study of the Neapolitan and Parisian cases	9
Inequality of virtual water consumption and economic benefits embodied in trade: a case study of the Yellow River Basin, China	8
How can we adapt together? Assessing how legal frameworks address collaboration between the urban water sector and spatial planning	8
Evaluation of vulnerable zones to water pollution in the lower Soummam alluvial aquifer, Bejaia, Algeria	8
An analytical review on the integrated management of river resources throughNamami Gange	8
Prioritization of strategies for urban water circular economy using water circularity indicator	8
Multi-dimensional dynamic spatio-temporal evolution of the green development efficiency of water-energy-food in China	8
Performance of community-based water-saving technology under land fragmentation: evidence from groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain	8
Water resource optimization bi-level coupling model and carrying capacity of a typical plateau basin based on interval uncertainty stochastic programming	8
Monitoring of water resources and vegetation in the Helmand Basin using satellite image time-series and border hydro-political challenges	8
Assessing the spatial variation of water poverty determinants in Maharashtra, India	8
Special Issue for UN HELP: ‘Water infrastructure planning, management and design under climate uncertainty’	8
Behavior of household water consumption in Mexico during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Rehabilitation of canal irrigation schemes in India: a qualitative analysis	8
River basin change index for integrated river basin management of Langat River, Malaysia	7
Need to adopt scaled decentralized systems in the water infrastructure to achieve sustainability and build resilience	7
Acceptability of reclaimed municipal wastewater in cities: evidence from India's National Capital Region	7
Navigating India's groundwater crisis: legal and institutional perspectives on regulation and conservation	7
Impact of institutional overlapping on water governance of Himalayan City, Nainital, India	7
Exploring the socioeconomic determinants of water security in developing regions	7
Rural water project planning and evaluation in Ghana: a new methodological perspective	7
Assessing design principles for climate services training courses: educational design principles assessment of six C3S Blended Training courses within the Copernicus Climate Change Service	7
Causes and effects of contamination of water sources due to excessive use of agrochemicals and pesticides: bibliometric analysis	7
Water as a common good? Academic differences and their impact on the 2023 United Nations Water Conference	7
The effectiveness of a water resource tax policy in improving water-use efficiency: a quasi-natural experiment-based approach	7
Non-stationarity of extreme rainfalls and its impact assessment in the northeastern part of India	7
Does aquatic products trade waste or save water resources? An analysis of virtual water trade	7
Does agricultural water-saving policy improve food security? Evidence from the Yellow River Basin in China	6
Operationalizing irrigation water charges in sub-Saharan Africa: a case study from the Central Rift Valley, Ethiopia	6
Irrigation water pricing based on the ELES-WPTI model in the Yinda-Jihuang project of China	6
Analysis of the influence of the water balance process on the change of landscape patterns in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River	6
Participatory water institutions and sustainable irrigation management: evidence and lessons from West Bengal, India	6
The impact of water scarcity on energy poverty and its mechanism: evidence from a rural household analysis in northern China	6
A socio-ecological evaluation of the conservation efforts in the Nevado de Toluca protected area, Mexico: Governmental performance and local community perception from a rural context	6
Securitising and de-securitising water scarcity in Pakistan: a case study of the Diamer Basha Dam	6
Risk assessment of Cretaceous water inrush in the Ordos Basin based on the FAHP-EM	6
Development of a framework for assessing climate risk in water supply and its computation for the Districts of Maharashtra, India	6

Mainstreaming integrated approaches to sustain lake and reservoir basin benefits in a changing climate	6
Talking about my generation: exploratory insights from water policy makers in British Columbia	6
A new look at the distributive incidence of Chile’s means-tested water subsidy scheme	6
Understanding factors that contribute to farmers' water conflict behavior	6
A quantitative evaluation of water resource management policies in China based on the PMC index model	5
Assessment of water-use efficiency for enhancing urban wastewater reuse – a case of Bhopal, India	5
How is water security conceptualized and practiced for rural livelihoods in the global South? A systematic scoping review	5
Research on the construction of a human-water harmony model in the Yellow River Basin	5
Progression of flood risk assessment in India at a decadal scale: a critical review	5
Facilitators/barriers to the implementation of public policies and strategies towards water security, Lao PDR	5
Bioethical issues related to the principle of utility in the residential consumption of drinking water in Colombia	5
Social change innovations, citizen science, miniSASS and the SDGs	5
Infrastructure capacity planning for reducing risks of future hydrologic extremes	5
Water and sanitation services in India and Ghana: an assessment of implications for rural health and related SDGs	5
How can we adapt together? Exploring barriers, drivers, and tools for collaboration between water and urban experts	5
Climate change and adaptive capacity in the community of Diaguitas, Chile: A descriptive-comparative vision in two time periods	5
Anticipated maximum scale precipitation for calculating the worst-case floods	5
Addressing foundational issues for effective flood risk governance in Pakistan	5
The degradation of spring water resources in Nepal: some policy gaps	5
Adaptive water governance research in social sciences journals: a bibliometric analysis	5
Public policies on human rights to water in informal settlements: a bibliometric analysis	5