OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Water International is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-11-01 to 2023-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Water insecurity compounds the global coronavirus crisis	35
COVID-19 and water resources management: reframing our priorities as a water sector	30
The potential impact of water quality on the spread and control of COVID-19 in Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon	29
Governing water insecurity: navigating indigenous water rights and regulatory politics in settler colonial states	28
COVID-19 heightens water problems around the world	25
Mercury pollution in Colombia: challenges to reduce the use of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the light of the Minamata Convention	21
Water and sanitation in Dhaka slums: access, quality, and informality in service provision	17
The moral hazards of smart water management	16
A review on implementing managed aquifer recharge in the Middle East and North Africa region: methods, progress and challenges	15
COVID-19 ‘free water’ initiatives in the Global South: what does the Ghanaian case mean for equitable and sustainable water services?	15
The impact of COVID-19 on water and food systems: flattening the much bigger curve ahead	14
Exploring challenges in safe water availability and accessibility in preventing COVID-19 in refugee settlements	14
Informal water vendors and the urban poor: evidence from a Nairobi slum	14
Drivers of groundwater utilization in water-limited rice production systems in Nepal	14
China’s water diplomacy in the Mekong: a paradigm shift and the role of Yunnan provincial government	13
The challenges of reverse osmosis desalination: solutions in Jordan	13
Transboundary waters, conflicts and international cooperation - examples of the La Plata basin	13
Water: consumption, usage patterns, and residential infrastructure. A comparative analysis of three regions in the Lima metropolitan area	12
Reconceptualization of the Transboundary Water Interaction Nexus (TWINS): approaches, opportunities and challenges	11
Transboundary water diplomacy among small states: a giant dilemma for Central American regionalism	11
Exploring water access in rural Kenya: narratives of social capital, gender inequalities and household water security in Kitui county	11
Economy-wide assessment of potential long-term impacts of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on Sudan	11
Autogestión and water sharing networks in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María	10
Power in water diplomacy	10
Unpacking wastewater reuse arrangements through a new framework: insights from the analysis of Egypt	10

Water use characteristics and impact factors in the Yellow River basin, China	9
Women and WASH in Nepal: a scoping review of existing literature	9
A source-to-sea approach to emerging pollutants in freshwater and oceans: pharmaceuticals in the Baltic Sea region	9
Exploring the future impacts of urbanization and climate change on groundwater in Arusha, Tanzania	9
The devil’s in the details: data exchange in transboundary waters	9
The role of irrigation associations and privatization policies in irrigation management in Turkey	9
Knowledge, context and problemsheds: a critical realist method for interdisciplinary water studies	9
Water research and nationalism in the post-truth era	8
Institutional innovation and smart water management technologies in small-scale irrigation schemes in southern Africa	8
Irrigation management transfer in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of policy implementation across scales	8
Lesson learning in the Colorado River Basin	8
A comparative analysis of urban and rural household water insecurity experiences during the 2011–17 drought in Ceará, Brazil	7
Integrating spatial and social characteristics in the DPSIR framework for the sustainable management of river basins: case study of the Katari River Basin, Bolivia	7
Measuring transboundary water cooperation within the framework of Agenda 2030: a proposal for a revision of SDG Indicator 6.5.2	7
A methodology to identify vulnerable transboundary aquifer hotspots for multi-scale groundwater management	7
Energizing Mid–East water diplomacy: The potential for regional water–energy exchanges	7
Rural water provision at the state-society interface in Latin America	6
Preferences for water treatment provision in rural India: comparing communal, pay-per-use, and labour-for-water schemes	6
Advancing urban water security: The urbanization of water–society relations and entry–points for political engagement	6
Anticipating elite capture: the social devaluation of municipal tap water users in the Phoenix metropolitan area	6
Land reclamation projects in the Egyptian Western Desert: management of 1.5 million acres of groundwater irrigation	6
A multifaceted quantitative index for sustainability assessment of groundwater management: application for aquifers around Iran	6
Integrated Smart Water Management of the sanitation system of the Greater Paris region	6
Livelihood security enhancement though innovative water management in dryland India	6
An adaptation pathways approach to water management and governance of tourist islands: the example of the Southern Aegean Region in Greece	6
Achieving drinking water and sanitation related targets of SDG 6 at Shahidbug slum, Dhaka	6
Water law and the response to COVID-19	5
A GIS-based solution for urban water management	5
Drip irrigation as a socio-technical configuration: policy design and technological choice in Western India	5
Success and sustainability of nutrient pollution reduction in the Danube River Basin: recovery and future protection of the Black Sea Northwest shelf	5
When the river does not naturally flow: a case study of unsustainable management in the Tagus River (Spain)	5
Community response to the provision of alternative water supplies: A focus on chronic kidney disease of unknown aetiology (CKDu) in rural Sri Lanka	5
Evaluating the effectiveness of land and water integrative practices for achieving water sustainability within the Colorado River Basin: perceptions and indicators	5
The effect of policy incoherence on the emergence of groundwater-related subsidence phenomena: a case study from Iran	5
The practical challenges of achieving sustainable wetland agriculture in Nigeria’s Cross River basin	5
Smart water management: can it improve accessibility and affordability of water for everyone?	4
Building foundations for source-to-sea management: the case of sediment management in the Lake Hawassa sub-basin of the Ethiopian Rift Valley	4
The implications of social and economic barriers to safe drinking water for municipal level policy in Ghana	4
‘We were displaced several times since 1956’: the Tonga– Goba involuntary resettlement experiences at the Kariba Dam	4
Contested baselines and transboundary water resources management, with illustrations from the Nile	4
Fifty years of water research: has it made a difference?	4
Non-conventional resources for the coming drought: the development of rainwater harvesting systems in a Mediterranean suburban area	4
Ozymandias in the desert: irrigation in Saudi Arabia	4
Water governance indicators in theory and practice: applying the OECD’s water governance indicators in the North American Great Lakes region	4
A visualization tool for citizen-science marine debris big data	3
Using innovative smart water management technologies to monitor water provision to refugees	3
Promoting water conservation habits in shower use: review of water utility websites in OECD cities	3
Persisting narratives undermine potential water scarcity solutions for informal areas of Mexico City: the case of two settlements in Xochimilco	3
Untapping the sustainable water bank’s public financing for Dutch drinking water companies	3
Smart Water Management: the way to (artificially) intelligent water management, or just another pretty name?	3

SWM and urban water: Smart management for an absurd system?	3
Binational reflections on pathways to groundwater security in the Mexico–United States borderlands	3
Changing the development paradigm in African agricultural water management to resolve water and food challenges	3
Community-of-interests across source-to-sea systems: an international law perspective	3
Transparency, regional diversity, and capacity building: cornerstones for trust and engagement in good water governance	3
When the virtual water runs out: local and global responses to addressing unsustainable groundwater consumption	3
Climate change is increasing global salt pollution	3
Mapping and navigating ontologies in water governance: the case of the Ganges	3
Editors’ introduction to the IWRA Mentored Articles section	3
Water wars, conflict and cooperation – how the virtual water concept helped change the discourse	3
Environmental management in the Bohai and Baltic seas from a source-to-sea perspective: challenges and opportunities	3
Agri-vector water: boosting rainfed agriculture with urban water allocation to support urban–rural linkages	3
Power plus: Tony Allan’s contributions to understanding transboundary water arrangements	3
The water–man eristic dialectics for sustainable hydro-governance	3
Strategies for climate change adaptation: lessons learnt from long-term planning in the Netherlands and Bangladesh	3
When the water runs dry: supporting adaptive governance in transboundary river basins	3