OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Water Resources Development 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Why agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa remains low compared to the rest of the world – a historical perspective	100
The role of hydropower in South Asia’s energy future	30
Exploring the factors causing the poor performance of most irrigation schemes in post-independence sub-Saharan Africa	26
The importance of learning processes in transitioning small-scale irrigation schemes	26
Impacts of climate change on the flow of the transboundary Koshi River, with implications for local irrigation	26
The role of soil water monitoring tools and agricultural innovation platforms in improving food security and income of farmers in smallholder irrigation schemes in Tanzania	23
Differentiated vulnerabilities and capacities for adaptation to water shortage in Gaborone, Botswana	21
The dynamics between irrigation frequency and soil nutrient management: transitioning smallholder irrigation towards more profitable and sustainable systems in Zimbabwe	19
Identifying leverage points to transition dysfunctional irrigation schemes towards complex adaptive systems	19
Forecast-informed reservoir operations to guide hydropower and agriculture allocations in the Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia	17
Psychological barriers to urban recycled water acceptance: a review of relevant principles in decision psychology	16
Transforming failing smallholder irrigation schemes in Africa: a theory of change	16
Emerging citizen contributions, roles and interactions with public authorities in Dutch pluvial flood risk management	16
An understanding of water governance systems in responding to extreme droughts in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta	15
Do agricultural innovation platforms and soil moisture and nutrient monitoring tools improve the production and livelihood of smallholder irrigators in Mozambique?	14
The selective centralization in decentralization: China’s environmental vertical management reform with a case study in Hebei province	14
Irrigators’ willingness to pay for the adoption of soil moisture monitoring tools in South-Eastern Africa	13
Water management in post-2020 world	13
Practicality of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in different contexts	12
Informality and water justice: community perspectives on water issues in Cape Town’s low-income neighbourhoods	12
Acceptance of direct potable water reuse for domestic purposes: evidence from southern Spain	10
Water colonialism and Indigenous water justice in south-eastern Australia	10
Rethinking livelihood resilience after development-induced displacement and resettlement: a case study of Qianping Reservoir	10
Modelling water resources for planning irrigation development in drought-prone southern Chile	10
COVID-19 and clean water, sanitation and wastewater management	9

A system dynamics simulation model for water conflicts in the Zhanghe River Basin, China	9
Thayer Scudder’s Four Stage Framework, water resources dispossession and appropriation: the Kariba case	9
Irrigation subsidy policy in Chile: lessons from the allocation, uneven distribution and water resources implications	9
Water management practices in Euro-Mediterranean hotels and resorts	8
Governance conditions to overcome the challenges of realizing safe urban bathing water sites	8
Water reuse to address water security	8
A statistical and spatial analysis of water poverty using a modified Water Poverty Index	8
Exploring discursive hydropolitics: a conceptual framework and research agenda	7
Improved water management is central to solving the water-energy-food trilemma in Lao PDR	7
How does the Chinese government improve connectivity in water governance? A qualitative systematic review	7
Water allocation strategies for meeting dry-season water requirements for Ganges Kobadak Irrigation Project in Bangladesh	7
Institutional dynamics and water resource management: the case of traditional water bodies in West Bengal, India	7
Alternative solutions for long missing streamflow data for sustainable water resources management	6
Large-scale water development in the United States: TVA and the California State Water Project	6
From ‘merchants and ministers’ to ‘neutral brokers’? Water diplomacy aspirations by the Netherlands – a discourse analysis of the 2011 commissioned advisory report	6
Flood risk policies in Italy: a longitudinal institutional analysis of continuity and change	6
Territory in conflict: land dispossession, water grabbing and mobilization for environmental justice in southern Spain	6
Water demand management strategies in fast-growing cities. The case of Arequipa, Perú	6
Innovative and transformative water policy and management in China	6
Transaqua: power, political change and the transnational politics of a water megaproject	6
Environmental benefits from water reuse combined with managed aquifer recharge in the Flemish dunes (Belgium)	6
Impounded rivers, compounded injustice: contesting the social impacts of hydraulic development in Laos	5
President Biden′s Infrastructure Plan: Does it address needs of water systems in the United States?	5
Water justice and Europe’s Right2Water movement	5
Growth and inequality at the micro scale: an empirical analysis of farm incomes within smallholder irrigation systems in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Mozambique	5
Desalinated drinking-water provision in water-stressed regions: challenges of consumer-perception and environmental impact lessons from Antofagasta, Chile	5
Nestlé caring for water	5
Water and land justice for Indigenous communities in the Lowbidgee Floodplain of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	5
Direct delivery of electricity subsidy to farmers in Punjab: will it help conserve groundwater?	5
Making a water market intermediary: the China Water Exchange	4
Scenario simulation of water resources development and utilization based on a system dynamics model	4
Reviewing the causes of Mekong drought before and during 2019–20	4
Explaining the sustained public participation of ENGOs in China’s water governance: a case study of the ‘civilian river chiefs’ under the theoretical framework of ‘double embeddedness’	4
Approaching obsolescence? A multi-criteria analysis of high-risk dams in the United States Pacific Northwest	4
Storm water systems’ performance: assessment framework application to Portuguese water utilities	4
Promoting multiple-use water services by leveraging existing rural water supply and smallholder farmer groups, Malawi	4
Reforming for resilience: delivering ‘multipurpose hydropower’ under water and energy risks	4
Flood protection by embankments in the Brahmani–Baitarani river basin, India: a risk-based approach	4
Scalar configuration, power strategies and water governance: insights from the politics of the Yangtze-to-Huai Water Transfer Project	4
Irrigation development and equity implications: the case of India	4
Understanding the decision-making structures, roles and actions of village-level water committees in Fiji	3
Water futures along China's Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia	3
Drivers of profitability and productivity growth in the English and Welsh water industry since privatization	3
Service differentiation as an improvement strategy for access to water in urban low-income areas: evidence from three Kenyan cities	3
Water as an engine for regional development	3
Politicization of science in the Lancang–Mekong Basin: the Eyes on Earth Study	3
Murky waters: the impact of privatizing water use on environmental degradation and the exclusion of local communities in the Caribbean	3
Water safety management during the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: challenges, responses and guidance	3
Exploring the role and decision-making behaviour of irrigation water supply authorities in Australia	3
Climate change and water-related threats in the Indian Sundarbans: food security and management implications	3

Conventional and makeshift rainwater harvesting in rural South Africa: exploring determinants for rainwater harvesting mode	3
Water–tourism nexus research in the Mediterranean in the past two decades: a systematic literature review	3
Small-scale irrigation expansion along the dam-regulated Tekeze River in Northern Ethiopia	3
High impact water conservation: factors explaining residents’ intent to reduce irrigated area in the yard	3
Willingness to pay for fluoride-free water in Tanzania: disentangling the importance of behavioural factors	3
Waterways transformation and green stormwater infrastructure: enabling governance for Adelaide’s River Torrens Catchment, Australia	3
Mechanization in land preparation and irrigation water productivity: insights from rice production	3
Willingness of farmers to use treated wastewater for irrigation in the West Bank, Palestine	3
How OCWD made potable reuse palatable and avoided public opposition to its project	3
License to drill: Typology of groundwater use regulations in agriculture of Uzbekistan	3
Understanding household attitudes to water conservation in Saudi Arabia: towards sustainable communities	3
On dynamic naturalness, static regulation and human influence in the Ems-Dollard estuary	3
Structural and institutional arrangements impacting collective actions in WUAs of West Bengal, India	2
Projecting conflict risk in transboundary river basins by 2050 following different ambition scenarios	2
Local empowerment and irrigation devolution in Ethiopia	2
Effectiveness of hydropower development finance: evidence from Bhutan and Nepal	2
Success and failure factors for increasing Sub-Saharan African smallholders’ resilience to drought through water management	2
The dying oasis: a macro analysis of tank irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India	2
Law versus justice: the Strategic Aboriginal Water Reserve in the Northern Territory, Australia	2
Water or mirage? Nightmare over dams and hydropower across Iran	2
Reassessing the Draft Articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers through the lens of reciprocity	2
Rethinking collaborative governance to enhance legitimacy co-production: a multipurpose rural–urban water transfer in Nepal	2
Polycentric governance and agroecological practices in the MENA region: insights from Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia	2
Water use efficiency: box ticking or a valid approach?	2
Role of knowledge in the management of groundwater-use for irrigation in micro-watersheds of semi-arid India	2
Addressing aquifer overexploitation with desalinated seawater: an economic assessment of alternatives in south-eastern Spain	2
Hydropower as a catalyst for regional cooperation in South Asia	2
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 associated with wastewater treatment: a seroprevalence study	2
Resettlement delays in the Dasu Hydropower Project: assessing impacts on the affected people and communities	2
Improving connectivity in water governance: the implementation of water cooperation mechanisms in disparate political and social contexts	2
Which farms drill during drought? The influence of farm size and crop type	2
Perceived vs measured water supply service: evidence from New Zealand	2
Technological enablers and confidence building in end-users for effective non-domestic water demand management	2
Foreword	2
Getting the irrigation statistics right	2
Developing a best-practice model for water and wastewater services in informal urban settlements in Tanzania	2
Small Basin Governance scheme: linking water sector reforms and governance in the Aral Sea Basin	2
International capacity building to achieve SDG6: insights from longitudinal analysis of five water operator partnerships	2