OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Water International 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Provisioning of water ecosystem services in the Kapingazi River Basin in Kenya: can prospects of willingness to pay improve water quality and quantity?	99
Housing inadequacy and income in Brazil: water supply and sewage in metropolitan areas	27
Tony Allan: a magic toolbox of theoretical frameworks, a never-ending story	26
The marketization of water: environmental movements’ narratives and common experiences on water transfer projects in Colorado and western Iran	22
The international and historical dimensions of Chilean water bureaucracy	21
Enhancing water security in a changing world: experiences and perspectives in China and implications for the world	17
Editors’ introduction	17
Water International Best Paper 2021 Awards	17
Egypt’s water balancing act	15
A life exploring blind corners, part two	12
Editors’ introduction	12
Towards effective cooperation dynamics in transboundary river basins: a case study of the Nile and Orontes rivers	12
Editors’ introduction to the IWRA mentored articles section	11
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector	11
Recent advances in smart water technology of drainage systems in China	10
Scalar politics in international water law	10
White water footprint: valuable subdivision in water footprint	10
Advances in the application of smartphones in hydrology	9
Open access and the evolving academic publishing landscape of the water sector	9
Sudan’s internal hesitance over the GERD: policy, polarization, and national strategy	9
Correction	9
Editors’ introduction	9
Water International Best Paper 2023 Awards	8
Faecal contamination on lettuce irrigated with different water sources in Maputo, Mozambique	8
Assessing water management through decentralization: state–region issues in the Ebro Basin (Spain)	8

Does data lead to cooperation? Lessons from Water Accounting Plus in the Cauvery basin, India	8
How does a master plan contribute to strengthening transboundary water management? A case study in West Africa	7
Participatory analysis of water-related conflict risks in complex adaptive systems – the case of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali	7
The current legal framework for pollution control in the Niger River Basin relative to SDG 6.3	7
Editors’ introduction	7
Critical success factors for sustainably establishing localized groundwater supply systems	7
Governance and management of large US river basins in diverse regions under a federal government model	7
The Ven Te Chow Memorial Lecture: Environment and Development: Urgent Need for a Water Perspective	7
So near, yet so far: an Egyptian perspective on the US-facilitated negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam	7
Basin-wide knowledge exchange for the sustainable management of the Colorado River	6
Sanctioned discourse and the power of hegemonic imaginings	6
Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis	6
‘We were displaced several times since 1956’: the Tonga– Goba involuntary resettlement experiences at the Kariba Dam	6
Africa’s water security in the twenty-first century	6
Virtual water, international relations and the new geopolitics of food	6
Groundwater exploitation, sustainability, and nature-based engineering: a socioenvironmental analysis of hydraulic closures in water galleries on the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain)	6
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure in public water enterprises in Andalusia, Spain	6
Water reuse blueprint: from waste to resource	6
Water environment governance under the Central Environmental Protection Inspection mechanism: a collaborative governance strategy from a multi-agent perspective	6
Editors’ introduction	6
Irrigated urban agriculture: a mixture of farming scales, water flows and actors in Nairobi, Kenya	6
The sanitation triangle: socio-culture, health and materials	6
Building bridges to achieve SDG 6 and integrated water resources management: an assessment of stakeholder integration in the Saiss region, Morocco	6
Climate change is increasing global salt pollution	6
A thriving Murray–Darling Basin in 50 years: actions in the face of climate change	6
Climate change impacts on water resources and adaptive water policy: case studies in the east monsoon area of China	6
Managed aquifer recharge in Mexico: proposals for an improved legal framework and public policies	6
Clearing the waters: a review of transboundary water quality governance	6
What is the role for multistakeholder platforms in transboundary basin governance? Distilling lessons from three cases and applying them in the Incomati Basin	5
Model application for monitoring and locating leakages in rural area water pipeline networks	5
Editors’ introduction	5
Water International Best Paper 2024 Awards	5
Challenges and prospects of reclaimed water reuse in Spanish agriculture	5
Governance attributes for building water resilience: a literature review	5
Mainstreaming climate adaptation in transboundary water governance: key success factors and lessons from global case studies	5
Community water governance for climate-resilient water security in Fiji	5
Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data	5
Special issues of Water International	5
The extraordinary drought provision and the future of the Rio Grande water deliveries under the 1944 US–Mexico water treaty: an exploratory policy analysis	5
Halfway to 2075 continued: introduction to part 2 of the Water International 50th anniversary special issue	5
Editors’ introduction	5
Water, conflict, and peace: a decade of developments	5
Institutionalizing groundwater management and transboundary aquifer cooperation in sub-Saharan lake and river basin organizations	4
Beijing Declaration	4
Identifying and estimating the social values of irrigation: a plea for being explicit	4
International water law and hydropolitics: an enquiry into the water conflict between India and Nepal	4
A complex balance: assessing perspectives on decommissioning large dams to restore river ecosystems	4
Irrigated agriculture: more than ‘big water’ and ‘accountants will [not] save the world’	4
Transition of Vietnam’s water governance towards sustainability	4
Different regulatory approaches to enhanced water protection in selected European jurisdictions	4

Gender and social inclusion in community water resource management: lessons from two districts in the Himalayan foothills and the Terai in Nepal	4
Water and complex problemsheds in Karamoja, Uganda	4
The 1992 UN Water Convention within an African context: a symbiotic relationship?	4
Multistakeholder regional dialogues as catalysers for transboundary water cooperation	4
The governance of water innovation: To quench a thirst	4
The role of the private sector in sustainable development	4
Addendum	4
The IWRA Executive Board, 2025–2027	4
Prospects for restoration of Ukraine’s irrigation system	4
Ozymandias in the desert: irrigation in Saudi Arabia	4
Does bilateral trade in cereals within SADC reflect virtual trade in water between countries with different water endowments?	4