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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management	31
The impact of agricultural water pricing institution on the water rebound effect in western China – based on the policy of comprehensive agricultural water price reform	28
Recycling water, but at what price? The political economy of wastewater reuse	25
Comparing China and India’s transboundary water governance: insights from international law	25
Harmonizing nature-based solutions with grey infrastructure toward coastal resilience: an experience from Wonokerto, Indonesia	25
Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam	23
Mechanization in land preparation and irrigation water productivity: insights from rice production	16
Through the water glass darkly: global cities as problematic exemplars in the sustainability discourse	14
Net positive and its application to water management	14
Water justice: evolving perspectives and dilemmas	13
What does valuing water mean in practice? A case study from the Ewaso Ng’iro River Basin, Kenya	13
Why does technological empowerment fail? Mechanisms of public acceptance of technology for water governance	13
A tool for optimizing the water, energy, food and ecosystem service nexus amidst diverse stakeholder interests	11
Water or mirage? Nightmare over dams and hydropower across Iran	11
Polycentric governance and agroecological practices in the MENA region: insights from Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia	11
The spatiotemporal variability of phytoplankton phenology in the Caspian Sea (an ecoregion-based approach)	11
Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey	10
United Nations water conferences: reflections and expectations	9
Correction	9
Does financial inclusion improve sanitation access? Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries	9
The impact of COVID-19 and capacities of farmers in small-scale irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa	9
Digital twin technology and its application in water governance: China’s practices and achievements	9
Compliance clusters: theory-based audience insights for water conservation through irrigation restriction adherence	9
Bandung Principles: a path to equitable global water governance?	9
Using smart water technologies to support community water governance: a systematic review of global literature and implications for South Africa	8

‘It’s our water now’: why informal institutions and tribalism matter in the success of water user associations in Jordan Valley	8
Legal frameworks and mechanisms for resolving transboundary water disputes in Malaysia: insights from the Kedah-Penang Muda River dispute	8
China’s water security under a changing environment	8
Is policy convergence required to improve women’s empowerment in agriculture? Evidence from West Bengal	8
Water right society – a history review from Three-Valley of Hejin County, 1389–1947	7
Exploring the challenges of people’s resettlement in China’s reservoirs: a historical perspective	7
How traditional rural communities persist: hydrosocial territories, cultural meaning, and the making of robustness	7
The evolution of the EU drinking water policy towards a source-to-mouth approach	7
Basin closure and water circularity: a pathway analysis from Oum Er Rbia river basin, Morocco	7
Tanker trucks in Chile: from the normalization of an emergency to the commodification of water	6
Tap water consumption choices in out-of-home settings: insights from a survey of German adults	6
Water governance for water security: analysing institutional strengths and challenges in Finland	6
A system approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene resilience and sustainability in refugee communities	6
Psychological and background determinants of individuals’ intentions to conserve household water: evidence from Spain	6
Cooperative water-sharing agreements between highlands and drylands: the Tambo-Santiago-Ica river basin in Peru	6
Public perceptions of water scarcity in China: insights from an online survey of 3262 responses	6
Who owns saved water? Exploring psychological ownership of efficiency gains in irrigation	5
International capacity building to achieve SDG6: insights from longitudinal analysis of five water operator partnerships	5
Challenges in reintroducing fair market value to US public water/wastewater systems	5
A perspective on sustainability and environmental challenges in the Caspian Sea	5
Satellite-based phenology analysis of the Hyrcanian forest in the Alborz mountains and Caspian Sea shores, Iran	5
Effect of terrestrial water storage deficit on economic growth for China	5
Water circularity and water scarcity: recycling an old story of losses and efficiency?	5
Scarcity is not about droughts: evidence of asymmetric responsiveness under institutional constraints in groundwater markets	5
Climate change adaptation benefits from rejuvenated irrigation farming systems in Mozambique	4
Climate change impacts on temperature and precipitation over the Caspian Sea	4
China–India hydropolitics on the Brahmaputra: why do hard data need to dominate over existing rhetoric?	4
Navigating risk in Caspian sturgeon conservation: mapping manager risk perceptions with species conservation measures	4
Water resource management in agriculture for achieving food and water security in Asia	4
Agroecology and circular food systems: decoupling natural resource use from rural development in sub-Saharan Africa?	4
Application of social network analysis in determining innovation information exchange at irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe	4
Decoding China’s water rights revolution in the new century: transitioning from a centralized to a hybrid system	4
How to manage regime shifts: insights from a dryland social–ecological system	3
Projecting conflict risk in transboundary river basins by 2050 following different ambition scenarios	3
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions of and adaptations to water scarcity in an irrigated system in Chiapas, Mexico	3
In praise of floods: the untamed river and the life it brings	3
Waterways transformation and green stormwater infrastructure: enabling governance for Adelaide’s River Torrens Catchment, Australia	3
Supporting justice in cities with nature-based solutions: a spatial decision-making framework applied to Cape Town	3
Water–tourism nexus research in the Mediterranean in the past two decades: a systematic literature review	3
Managing risks associated with environmental water delivery: a case study of the Goulburn River, Australia	3
Institutional bricolage in community-based water management: some insights from non-representational theory	3
Groundwater governance under climate change in India: lessons based on evaluation of World Bank interventions	3
Community-based to centralized provision: the transformation of aflaj beyond Oman’s national drinking water strategy	3
Salience-based stakeholder analysis for the success of public-private partnership water projects in Indonesia	3
Modelling extreme precipitation projections under the effects of climate change: case study of the Caspian Sea	3
Cultivation and use of alternative fibre crops: examples from Central Asia	3
Hydraulic bureaucracy and irrigation management transfer: analysing the efficacy of two models in South-India	3
Mahakumbh: tracing the transformation of the elixir of immortality to tainted water	3
Correction	3
Climate change and water-related threats in the Indian Sundarbans: food security and management implications	3

Technological and policy challenges in implementing water-saving irrigation technologies: a case study from Uzbekistan	3
Measuring and decomposing profit efficiency changes of water utilities: a case study for Chile	3
Different destinations, different outcomes: a comprehensive analysis of hotel water management in Madeira and Tenerife	3
Sustainable finance, water governance, and water policy objectives in Ontario municipalities	2
Special issue on: Contextualized and dynamic sovereignty in transboundary water governance	2
From development aid to geopolitical leverage: the Aswan High Dam in global hydropolitics	2
Constructed wetlands to treat polluted waters in Latin America and the Caribbean	2
Post-water political-economics	2
Heterogeneous climate effect on crop yield and associated risks to water security in India	2
The role of knowledge in the decision of Granada University students to drink bottled water	2
Small-scale desalination and atmospheric water provisioning systems in water-scarce vulnerable communities: status and perspectives	2
Fighting for water: resisting privatization in Europe	2
Sharing benefits, sustaining peace: resolving the Teesta River dispute for bilateral accord	2
Quantifying the runoff reduction benefits of the ‘Grain for Green’ Programme using the VIC model	2
Household water source choices in peri-urban areas: a discrete choice analysis of use-differentiated strategies	2
Building collaborative capacity for flood response: a workshop-based simulation approach in Thailand	2
Climate variability, rainwater-harvesting structures and groundwater levels in Odisha, India: an empirical analysis	2
Agricultural innovation platforms for scaling innovations – insights from the Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa project	2
Making collaborative water governance accountable? The River Chief System in China	2
Managing climate risks: new evidence from integrated analysis at the basin scale	2
Governing desalination in Spain and Israel (1990–2020): lessons on institutional coherence and infrastructure performance	2
Towards multi-modal oil spill detection and coverage in the Caspian Sea: a comprehensive approach	2
Assessing the importance of gender transformative WASH: evidence from a gender-mainstreamed WASH programme in Bangladesh	2
Understanding household attitudes to water conservation in Saudi Arabia: towards sustainable communities	2
A story of hope and frustration: a wastewater-based agricultural frontier in the Algerian Sahara	2