OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Water Journal 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Building and exploiting a Digital Twin for the management of drinking water distribution networks	81
Enhancing stormwater control measures using real-time control technology: a review	28
Urban evapotranspiration of green spaces in arid regions through two established approaches: a review of key drivers, advancements, limitations, and potential opportunities	27
A new mixed integer non-linear programming model for optimal PAT and PRV location in water distribution networks	26
Modelling chlorine wall decay in a full-scale water supply system	24
Evaluation of stormwater runoff quantity integral management via sponge city construction: A pilot case study of Jinan	23
Water shortage risk mapping: a GIS-MCDA approach for a medium-sized city in the Brazilian semi-arid region	22
Comparative analysis of residual organic pollutants from bleached and unbleached paper mill wastewater and their toxicity on Phaseolus aureus and Tubifex tubifex	21
A methodology for leak detection in water distribution networks using graph theory and artificial neural network	21
A comparative study of statistical and machine learning methods to infer causes of pipe breaks in water supply networks	21
Applying deep convolutional neural network with 3D reality mesh model for water tank crack detection and evaluation	20
Green infrastructure performance in arid and semi-arid urban environments	19
Discharge coefficients for specific grated inlets. Influence of the Froude number	18
Flood risk management in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region	17
Assessment of low impact development stormwater management alternatives in the city of Bojnord, Iran	16
Modelling runoff reduction through implementation of green and grey roofs in urban catchments using PCSWMM	16
Comparison of SWMM evaporation and discharge to in-field observations from lined permeable pavements	16
Adsorptive removal of Pb²⁺ and Cu²⁺ from stormwater by using water treatment residuals	16
Impact of isolation valves location on resilience of water distribution systems	15
Environmental assessment of construction and renovation of water distribution networks considering uncertainty analysis	15
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the urban groundwater – preliminary monitoring (case study: Kraków, Southern Poland)	15
Assessment of the growing threat of urban flooding: a case study of a national survey	15
Monitoring and statistical modelling of the solids accumulation rate in gully pots	14
Simulation and vulnerability assessment of water distribution networks under deliberate contamination attacks	14
The role of green stormwater infrastructure in flood mitigation (Detroit, MI USA) – case study	14

Solids dynamics in gully pots	13
Optimal size, type and location of low impact developments (LIDs) for urban stormwater control	13
Urban flood hazard analysis in present and future climate after statistical downscaling: a case study in Ha Tinh city, Vietnam	13
Predictive analytics for water main breaks using spatiotemporal data	12
Pipe crack early warning for burst prevention by permanent acoustic noise level monitoring in smart water networks	12
Hydraulic optimisation of multiple flow control locations for the design of local real time control systems	12
Controlling peak runoff from plots by coupling street storage with distributed real time control	12
Which factors determine students’ water-saving behaviors? Evidence from China colleges	12
Occurrence and seasonality of pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewaters in two Portuguese regions	11
Simulation and assessment of long-term stormwater basin performance under real-time control retrofits	11
Are digital twins improving urban-water systems efficiency and sustainable development goals?	11
Strategies to promote the adoption of sustainable drainage by private developers: a case study from Singapore	10
A scoping review on Water Sensitive Urban Design aims and achievements	10
Water scarcity and alternative water sources in South Africa: can information provision shift perceptions?	10
Multi-criteria decision analysis in urban water asset management	10
Quantifying the true potential of Real Time Control in urban drainage systems	10
An integrated socio-environmental framework for mapping hazard-specific vulnerability and exposure in urban areas	10
How much green roofs and rainwater harvesting systems can contribute to urban flood mitigation?	10
Analysis of hydraulic transients during pipeline filling processes with air valves in large-scale installations	9
3D CFD simulations of air-water interaction in T-junction pipes of urban stormwater drainage system	9
Analyzing Twitter communication about heavy precipitation events to improve future risk communication and disaster reduction in Germany	9
Stress-testing water distribution networks for cyber-physical attacks on water quality	9
The role of rainwater harvesting in urban stormwater runoff in the semiarid region of Brazil	9
Resilience of Hydrologic Similarity Areas to extreme climate change scenarios in an urban watershed	9
Applied systems analysis in water access for emerging human settlements: a case study of Hopley Farm, Harare, Zimbabwe	8
On the in-series and branching dual-technique - based water-hammer control strategy	8
Improved modularity-based approach for partition of Water Distribution Networks	8
A model-based estimate of the groundwater budget and associated uncertainties in Bengaluru, India	8
Evaluating effects of urban imperviousness connectivity on runoff with consideration of receiving pervious area properties	8
Interception efficiency of grate inlets for sustainable urban drainage systems design under different road slopes and approaching discharges	8
Predicting unregulated disinfection by-products in water distribution networks using generalized regression neural networks	8
Leak management in district metered areas with internal-pressure reducing valves	8
Derivation and performance evaluation of optimal operating policies for a reservoir using a novel PSO with elitism and variational parameters	7
Towards understanding the anticipated customer benefits of digital water metering	7
Long-term experiments for the evaluation of the potential for storm water control of modular blue roofs in Mediterranean climate	7
Research on establishment of the region flood protection standard - a case of watershed of Dajiaxi, Taiwan	7
Surge predictions in a large stormwater tunnel system using SWMM	7
Targeted path search algorithm for optimization of water distribution networks	7
Modelling accuracy for urban design flood estimation	7
Prediction of Hydraulic Blockage at Culverts using Lab Scale Simulated Hydraulic Data	7
An assessment of adoption of rainwater harvesting system in residential buildings in Lahore, Pakistan	7
An insight on the advancements of biological technologies in the bioremediation of textile effluents	7
A trade-off balance among urban water infrastructure improvements and financial management to achieve water sustainability	7
‘How would an extreme flood have behaved if flood protection works were built?’ the case of the disastrous flash flood of November 2017 in Mandra, Attica, Greece	7
Assessment of water quality using water quality index: A case study of the River Gomti, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India	7
Urban climate resilience and water insecurity: future scenarios of water supply and demand in Istanbul	7
A multi-criteria risk-based approach for optimal planning of SuDS solutions in urban flood management	6
Stormwater hydrographs simulated for different structures of urban drainage network: dendritic and looped sewer networks	6
Bulk and pipe wall chlorine degradation kinetics in three water distribution systems	6
Modelling the effects of stormwater control measures on runoff volume and particulate load in urban catchments	6

Evaluating the uncertainty of urban flood model using glue approach	6
Evaluation of change factor-based statistical downscaling methods for impact analysis in urban hydrology	6
CFD modeling of stagnation reduction in drinking water storage tanks through internal piping	6
Sustainable urban stormwater management in developing countries: integrating strategies to overcome Brazilian barriers	6
Organochlorine pesticides in the drinking water of Merida and its Metropolitan Zone, a Karst Region	6
Dynamics of material detachment from drinking water pipes under flushing conditions in a full-scale drinking water laboratory system	6
On the complex causal relationship of barriers to sustainable urban water management: a fuzzy multi-criteria analysis	6
Energy recovery strategies in water distribution networks: literature review and future directions in the net-zero transition	6
Modeling the uncertainty of potential impacts on Robust Stormwater Management from neighborhood-scale impervious cover change: a case study of population-based scenarios in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	6
An investigation of domestic water consumption in Sirte, Libya	6
Economic feasibility analysis of rainwater harvesting: a case study in Imbituba, Brazil	6
Modeling water consumption in multifamily buildings: a case study in Southern Brazil	5
Improving near real-time anomaly event detection and classification with trend change detection for smart water grid operation management	5
Experimental characterization of a self-powered control system for a real-time management of water distribution networks	5
Improvements in hotel water consumption: case study of a five-star hotel (Canary Islands, Spain)	5
Enhancing resilience of urban stormwater systems: cost-effectiveness analysis of structural characteristics	5
Impacts of changing drainage indicators on urban flood volumes in historical urbanization in the case of Northern China	5
Enabling low-cost automatic water leakage detection: a semi-supervised, autoML-based approach	5
The impacts of poor water quality on the residential areas of Emfuleni local municipality: a case study of perceptions in the Rietspruit River catchment in South Africa	5
Snow pollution management in urban areas: an idea whose time has come?	5
Downsizing water quality monitoring programs in river basins in Brazil	5
Hydrologic performance assessment of regulated and alternative strategies for flood mitigation: a case study in São Paulo, Brazil	5
Quantification of visual blockage at culverts using deep learning based computer vision models	5
Evaluation of the tabulated, NEH4, least squares and asymptotic fitting methods for the CN estimation of urban watersheds	5
Multi-objective optimization tool for PATs operation in water pressurized systems	5
Parameter determination and performance evaluation of time-series-based leakage detection method	5
Short-term impacts of the filling transition across elevations in intermittent water supply systems	5
Grey water footprint as a tool for wastewater treatment plant assessment– Hostivice case study	5