OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Water International is 2. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Water International Best Paper 2022 Awards	45
From zero-sum to variable-sum on the Nile	26
A life exploring blind corners	26
Locating the channel and other tales from the river bank: constants and change in river boundary delimitation	23
Model application for monitoring and locating leakages in rural area water pipeline networks	19
A note from the editors	18
Editors’ introduction	18
Water International Best Paper 2019 Awards	16
Toward global water security and resilience: a call for improved cooperation for coherent responses	13
Editors' introduction	11
Does financial inclusion improve household drinking water source? An application to the case of Togo	11
Transparency, regional diversity, and capacity building: cornerstones for trust and engagement in good water governance	9
Performance analysis of Chilean water companies after the privatization of the industry: the influence of ownership	9
Agri-vector water: boosting rainfed agriculture with urban water allocation to support urban–rural linkages	9
Institutional challenges to efficient governance: water, sanitation and wastewater in Egypt	8
Governance attributes for building water resilience: a literature review	8
Economic analysis of public investment in alternative agricultural water management schemes: a case study from northern Ghana	8
Data-sharing and decision support system to improve governance in transboundary waters in the La Plata River basin	8
Tony Allan: a magic toolbox of theoretical frameworks, a never-ending story	7
Professor Tony Allan and Libya	7
Enhancing water security in a changing world: experiences and perspectives in China and implications for the world	7
Urban potable reuse: contrasting perspectives of water industry professionals and elected politicians in Sydney, Australia	7
Spatial heterogeneity of household water insecurity in rural Uganda: implications for development	7
Assessing the soundness of water governance: lessons learned from applying the 10 Building Blocks Approach	6
Editors’ introduction	6

Editors’ introduction	6
Water: A biography	6
What is the state of water infrastructure governance research in Nigeria? A review	6
Fifty years of water research: has it made a difference?	5
Introduction to section 1	5
International water law in 2070	5
The implications of social and economic barriers to safe drinking water for municipal level policy in Ghana	5
The international and historical dimensions of Chilean water bureaucracy	5
The marketization of water: environmental movements’ narratives and common experiences on water transfer projects in Colorado and western Iran	5
Patterns in transboundary aquifer governance: comparative analysis of eight case studies from the perspective of efficacy	5
Provisioning of water ecosystem services in the Kapingazi River Basin in Kenya: can prospects of willingness to pay improve water quality and quantity?	4
Remembering Michael Campana (1948–2024)	4
Diffusion of small-scale pumped irrigation technologies and their association with farmer-led irrigation development in Malawi	4
Introduction to section 2	4
Recent advances in smart water technology of drainage systems in China	4
Water demand and usage trends among group water schemes: implication for water conservation in Ireland	4
Housing inadequacy and income in Brazil: water supply and sewage in metropolitan areas	4
White or blue water footprint? Components of water footprint model of crops	4
Water governance indicators in theory and practice: applying the OECD’s water governance indicators in the North American Great Lakes region	4
Community water governance for climate-resilient water security in Fiji	4
Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data	4
Social cost–benefit analysis of natural treatment systems in India: implications for benefits model and governance	4
Beyond barriers: the fluid roles young people adopt in water conflict and cooperation	4
Water International Best Paper 2021 Awards	4
Promoting water conservation habits in shower use: review of water utility websites in OECD cities	4
Testing an open app-based water management information system and its uptake among stakeholders in the Upper-Comoé river basin (Burkina Faso)	3
Egypt’s water balancing act	3
The European Investment Bank and its role in financing public water	3
A new water management model and the role of IWRA in water disputes	3
Reversing deforestation in a time of changing climate: implications for water management	3
Irrigation and its wider regional impacts in Australia	3
Editors’ introduction	3
Gender and social inclusion in community water resource management: lessons from two districts in the Himalayan foothills and the Terai in Nepal	3
Different regulatory approaches to enhanced water protection in selected European jurisdictions	3
‘Tony here!’ Reflections on Professor Tony Allan	3
A role for the IWRA in international water disputes?	3
Supply chain water-reporting practices in the food, beverage and tobacco sector: a comparative study	3
Can measuring the impact of water governance turn the tide?	3
A life exploring blind corners, part two	3
Editors’ introduction	3
Identifying and estimating the social values of irrigation: a plea for being explicit	3
I remember Tony	3
Editors’ introduction	3
Can sponge city construction in mainland China restore the river basin hydrology to an undeveloped state?	3
The optics of ‘Day Zero’ and the role of the state in water security for a township in Cape Town (South Africa)	3
Exploring the use of data and models in transboundary water governance	3
‘No one can compete since no one dares to lend more cheaply!’: Turkey’s Ilbank and public water finance	3
Institutions for reoperating reservoirs in semi-arid regions facing climate change and competing societal water demands: insights from Colorado	3
Water International Best Paper 2020 Awards	3
A semi-qualitative approach to the operationalization of the Food–Environment–Energy–Water (FE²W) Nexus concept for infrastructure planning: a case study of the Niger Basin	2

Land reclamation projects in the Egyptian Western Desert: management of 1.5 million acres of groundwater irrigation	2
Economies of water in Delhi: a neo-Polanyian analysis	2
Anticipating elite capture: the social devaluation of municipal tap water users in the Phoenix metropolitan area	2
A tale of service regimes in irrigated urban agriculture: evidence from two cities in the Global South	2
Towards effective cooperation dynamics in transboundary river basins: a case study of the Nile and Orontes rivers	2
International Meuse Commission: 20 years of cooperation	2
An evaluation framework for localized groundwater supply systems at critical facilities	2
Correction	2
A comparative analysis of urban and rural household water insecurity experiences during the 2011–17 drought in Ceará, Brazil	2
Scalar politics in international water law	2
The future of piped water	2
Economy-wide assessment of potential long-term impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Sudan	2
The Information Strategy Model: a framework for developing a monitoring strategy for national policy making and SDG6 reporting	2
Scalable Water Balances from Earth Observations (SWEO): results from 50 years of remote sensing in hydrology	2
Water International Best Paper 2018 Awards	2
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector	2
How virtual water saved the Middle East from water wars	2
Institutionalizing groundwater management and transboundary aquifer cooperation in sub-Saharan lake and river basin organizations	2
Groundwater use for urban water security in tropical Africa – operational situation and institutional perspectives	2
Governance in the La Plata River Basin and OECD principles: an opinion survey of transboundary water professionals	2
Critical analysis of the river basin management system in South Korea since 2018	2
Resolving the problems of commensurability in valuing water	2
Analysing water provision in the critical interface of formal and informal urban water regimes	2
Water insecurity, water borrowing and psychosocial stress among Daasanach pastoralists in northern Kenya	2
Assessment of the failure to implement a much-needed rural water and sanitation project in Brazil	2
Editors’ introduction	2
Rural water provision at the state-society interface in Latin America	2
Farming and the city: the changing imaginary of the city and Maputo’s irrigated urban agriculture from 1960 to 2020	2
Water governance in the Mekong region: the role and impact of civil society organizations	2
Benefit-sharing dialogue to promote and guide investment decisions in the Sio-Malaba-Malakisi (SMM) transboundary basin, shared between Kenya and Uganda	2
Access to water and COVID-19: a regression discontinuity analysis for the peri-urban areas of metropolitan Lima, Peru	2
The role of science in international water law	2
The role of the private sector in sustainable development	2
Lessons from the last 30 years for future water resource management in national and transboundary basins	2
Editors’ introduction	2
International water law and hydropolitics: an enquiry into the water conflict between India and Nepal	2