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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management	19
Recycling water, but at what price? The political economy of wastewater reuse	17
Adequate, resilient and sustainable: how to run a water utility in a pandemic	16
Irrigation subsidy policy in Chile: lessons from the allocation, uneven distribution and water resources implications	16
Mechanization in land preparation and irrigation water productivity: insights from rice production	15
Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam	15
Net positive and its application to water management	14
Comparing China and India’s transboundary water governance: insights from international law	14
What does valuing water mean in practice? A case study from the Ewaso Ng’iro River Basin, Kenya	12
Polycentric governance and agroecological practices in the MENA region: insights from Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia	10
Reviewing the causes of Mekong drought before and during 2019–20	10
Structural and institutional arrangements impacting collective actions in WUAs of West Bengal, India	9
The spatiotemporal variability of phytoplankton phenology in the Caspian Sea (an ecoregion-based approach)	9
Improving connectivity in water governance: the implementation of water cooperation mechanisms in disparate political and social contexts	9
Does financial inclusion improve sanitation access? Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries	8
Water security, climate change and COP26	7
United Nations water conferences: reflections and expectations	7
Comparative assessment of alternative water supply contributions across five data-scarce cities	7
Exploring the challenges of people’s resettlement in China’s reservoirs: a historical perspective	6
The impact of COVID-19 and capacities of farmers in small-scale irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa	6
Water management practices in Euro-Mediterranean hotels and resorts	6
The effect of information on preferences for improved household water supply in Indonesia and Nepal	6
Scenarios for public systems transition using learning alliances: the case of water supply in Uganda	6
Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey	6
The dying oasis: a macro analysis of tank irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India	6

Bandung Principles: a path to equitable global water governance?	6
Water or mirage? Nightmare over dams and hydropower across Iran	6
Is policy convergence required to improve women’s empowerment in agriculture? Evidence from West Bengal	6
Water right society – a history review from Three-Valley of Hejin County, 1389–1947	5
Public perceptions of water scarcity in China: insights from an online survey of 3262 responses	5
Tap water consumption choices in out-of-home settings: insights from a survey of German adults	5
Legal frameworks and mechanisms for resolving transboundary water disputes in Malaysia: insights from the Kedah-Penang Muda River dispute	5
Socio-spatial and seasonal dynamics of small, private water service providers in Khulna district, Bangladesh	5
Hedging the risk of hydrological drought in irrigated agriculture: the role of precautionary savings	5
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’	5
The evolution of the EU drinking water policy towards a source-to-mouth approach	5
Water governance for water security: analysing institutional strengths and challenges in Finland	5
Water infrastructure in Asia: financing and policy options	5
Cooperative water-sharing agreements between highlands and drylands: the Tambo-Santiago-Ica river basin in Peru	4
Water’s role in MDB regional development	4
Cybercrime, cybersecurity and water utilities	4
A perspective on sustainability and environmental challenges in the Caspian Sea	4
Tanker trucks in Chile: from the normalization of an emergency to the commodification of water	4
Water safety management during the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: challenges, responses and guidance	4
A system approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene resilience and sustainability in refugee communities	4
Unsettling bureaucratic designs: inter-bureaucratic competition and patrimonialism in the pursuit of Thailand’s hydraulic mission	4
Satellite-based phenology analysis of the Hyrcanian forest in the Alborz mountains and Caspian Sea shores, Iran	4
Investigating factors attracting the participation of the private sector in rural water supply in Vietnam	3
Navigating risk in Caspian sturgeon conservation: mapping manager risk perceptions with species conservation measures	3
Water resource management in agriculture for achieving food and water security in Asia	3
Causes and consequences of the Macta basin closure, Algeria	3
Challenges in reintroducing fair market value to US public water/wastewater systems	3
Agroecology and circular food systems: decoupling natural resource use from rural development in sub-Saharan Africa?	3
China–India hydropolitics on the Brahmaputra: why do hard data need to dominate over existing rhetoric?	3
Application of social network analysis in determining innovation information exchange at irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe	3
Climate change impacts on temperature and precipitation over the Caspian Sea	3
International capacity building to achieve SDG6: insights from longitudinal analysis of five water operator partnerships	3
Politicization of science in the Lancang–Mekong Basin: the Eyes on Earth Study	3
Willingness to pay for fluoride-free water in Tanzania: disentangling the importance of behavioural factors	3
Decoding China’s water rights revolution in the new century: transitioning from a centralized to a hybrid system	3
Water–tourism nexus research in the Mediterranean in the past two decades: a systematic literature review	3
Climate change adaptation benefits from rejuvenated irrigation farming systems in Mozambique	3
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions of and adaptations to water scarcity in an irrigated system in Chiapas, Mexico	2
Different destinations, different outcomes: a comprehensive analysis of hotel water management in Madeira and Tenerife	2
Hydraulic bureaucracy and irrigation management transfer: analysing the efficacy of two models in South-India	2
Waterways transformation and green stormwater infrastructure: enabling governance for Adelaide’s River Torrens Catchment, Australia	2
Agricultural innovation platforms for scaling innovations – insights from the Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa project	2
Post-water political-economics	2
Understanding household attitudes to water conservation in Saudi Arabia: towards sustainable communities	2
Climate change and water-related threats in the Indian Sundarbans: food security and management implications	2
Flood risk policies in Italy: a longitudinal institutional analysis of continuity and change	2
Groundwater governance under climate change in India: lessons based on evaluation of World Bank interventions	2
Correction	2
Success and failure factors for increasing Sub-Saharan African smallholders’ resilience to drought through water management	2
How to manage regime shifts: insights from a dryland social–ecological system	2

Towards multi-modal oil spill detection and coverage in the Caspian Sea: a comprehensive approach	2
Sustainable finance, water governance, and water policy objectives in Ontario municipalities	2
Climate variability, rainwater-harvesting structures and groundwater levels in Odisha, India: an empirical analysis	2
Managing climate risks: new evidence from integrated analysis at the basin scale	2
Measuring and decomposing profit efficiency changes of water utilities: a case study for Chile	2
Exploring the role and decision-making behaviour of irrigation water supply authorities in Australia	2
Projecting conflict risk in transboundary river basins by 2050 following different ambition scenarios	2
Managing risks associated with environmental water delivery: a case study of the Goulburn River, Australia	2
Institutional bricolage in community-based water management: some insights from non-representational theory	2
Handwashing behaviour among adults in rural Vietnam: a cross-sectional mixed methods study	2
The role of knowledge in the decision of Granada University students to drink bottled water	2
Storm water systems’ performance: assessment framework application to Portuguese water utilities	2
Correction	2
Fighting for water: resisting privatization in Europe	2
Modelling extreme precipitation projections under the effects of climate change: case study of the Caspian Sea	2