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. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

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?	67
The marketization of water: environmental movements’ narratives and common experiences on water transfer projects in Colorado and western Iran	27
Housing inadequacy and income in Brazil: water supply and sewage in metropolitan areas	27
The international and historical dimensions of Chilean water bureaucracy	22
Institutional challenges to efficient governance: water, sanitation and wastewater in Egypt	17
Tony Allan: a magic toolbox of theoretical frameworks, a never-ending story	13
Water governance indicators in theory and practice: applying the OECD’s water governance indicators in the North American Great Lakes region	12
Enhancing water security in a changing world: experiences and perspectives in China and implications for the world	10
Water International Best Paper 2021 Awards	9
A new water management model and the role of IWRA in water disputes	9
Editors’ introduction	9
Editors’ introduction	9
Towards effective cooperation dynamics in transboundary river basins: a case study of the Nile and Orontes rivers	9
Between development and banking: the KfW Development Bank in Latin America’s water sector	8
Recent advances in smart water technology of drainage systems in China	8
A life exploring blind corners, part two	8
Egypt’s water balancing act	8
Editors’ introduction	8
Scalar politics in international water law	7
Correction	7
Looking back, gazing forward – 50 years of international water law	7
Advances in the application of smartphones in hydrology	7
White water footprint: valuable subdivision in water footprint	7
Open access and the evolving academic publishing landscape of the water sector	6
Understanding institutional changes in irrigation management: a comparative case study of two communities in the Venezuelan Andes	6

Faecal contamination on lettuce irrigated with different water sources in Maputo, Mozambique	6
The effect of policy incoherence on the emergence of groundwater-related subsidence phenomena: a case study from Iran	6
Mismatches between policy planning and implementation on the actively living with flood approach in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	6
Does data lead to cooperation? Lessons from Water Accounting Plus in the Cauvery basin, India	6
Editors’ introduction	6
Editors’ introduction	5
Participatory analysis of water-related conflict risks in complex adaptive systems – the case of the Inner Niger Delta in Mali	5
Water environment governance under the Central Environmental Protection Inspection mechanism: a collaborative governance strategy from a multi-agent perspective	5
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure in public water enterprises in Andalusia, Spain	5
Assessing water management through decentralization: state–region issues in the Ebro Basin (Spain)	5
The Ven Te Chow Memorial Lecture: Environment and Development: Urgent Need for a Water Perspective	5
Critical success factors for sustainably establishing localized groundwater supply systems	5
‘We were displaced several times since 1956’: the Tonga– Goba involuntary resettlement experiences at the Kariba Dam	5
So near, yet so far: an Egyptian perspective on the US-facilitated negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam	5
Water International Best Paper 2023 Awards	5
Basin-wide knowledge exchange for the sustainable management of the Colorado River	5
Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis	5
Water reuse blueprint: from waste to resource	5
The current legal framework for pollution control in the Niger River Basin relative to SDG 6.3	4
Governance and management of large US river basins in diverse regions under a federal government model	4
Editors’ introduction	4
Africa’s water security in the twenty-first century	4
Toward global water security and resilience: a call for improved cooperation for coherent responses	4
Editors’ introduction	4
Virtual water, international relations and the new geopolitics of food	4
How does a master plan contribute to strengthening transboundary water management? A case study in West Africa	4
Climate change is increasing global salt pollution	4
Managed aquifer recharge in Mexico: proposals for an improved legal framework and public policies	4
Fifty years of water research: has it made a difference?	4
Water: A biography	4
Community water governance for climate-resilient water security in Fiji	4
Sanctioned discourse and the power of hegemonic imaginings	4
Building bridges to achieve SDG 6 and integrated water resources management: an assessment of stakeholder integration in the Saiss region, Morocco	4
Letter from the IWRA President	4
Water research and nationalism in the post-truth era	4
Model application for monitoring and locating leakages in rural area water pipeline networks	4
Editors’ introduction	4
Irrigated urban agriculture: a mixture of farming scales, water flows and actors in Nairobi, Kenya	4
A complex balance: assessing perspectives on decommissioning large dams to restore river ecosystems	3
Water and complex problemsheds in Karamoja, Uganda	3
International water law and hydropolitics: an enquiry into the water conflict between India and Nepal	3
Mixing waters: stakeholder influence in transboundary water conflict and cooperation	3
Transition of Vietnam’s water governance towards sustainability	3
Different regulatory approaches to enhanced water protection in selected European jurisdictions	3
Challenges and prospects of reclaimed water reuse in Spanish agriculture	3
Governance attributes for building water resilience: a literature review	3
Beijing Declaration	3
Prospects for restoration of Ukraine’s irrigation system	3
Does bilateral trade in cereals within SADC reflect virtual trade in water between countries with different water endowments?	3
The governance of water innovation: To quench a thirst	3

Gender and social inclusion in community water resource management: lessons from two districts in the Himalayan foothills and the Terai in Nepal	3
What is the role for multistakeholder platforms in transboundary basin governance? Distilling lessons from three cases and applying them in the Incomati Basin	3
Performance analysis of Chilean water companies after the privatization of the industry: the influence of ownership	3
Water security through community-directed monitoring in the Canadian Columbia Basin: democratizing watershed data	3
The role of the private sector in sustainable development	3
Addendum	3
Governance failures and knowledge asymmetries in the state river basin committees and their impacts on water resource management in Brazil	3
The future of piped water	3
Editors’ introduction	3
Institutionalizing groundwater management and transboundary aquifer cooperation in sub-Saharan lake and river basin organizations	3
Identifying and estimating the social values of irrigation: a plea for being explicit	3
Water International Best Paper 2024 Awards	3
The extraordinary drought provision and the future of the Rio Grande water deliveries under the 1944 US–Mexico water treaty: an exploratory policy analysis	3
The IWRA Executive Board, 2025–2027	3