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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management	27
Harmonizing nature-based solutions with grey infrastructure toward coastal resilience: an experience from Wonokerto, Indonesia	25
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	24
Mechanization in land preparation and irrigation water productivity: insights from rice production	23
Net positive and its application to water management	21
Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam	15
Through the water glass darkly: global cities as problematic exemplars in the sustainability discourse	14
Water justice: evolving perspectives and dilemmas	13
Why does technological empowerment fail? Mechanisms of public acceptance of technology for water governance	13
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	11
A tool for optimizing the water, energy, food and ecosystem service nexus amidst diverse stakeholder interests	11
The spatiotemporal variability of phytoplankton phenology in the Caspian Sea (an ecoregion-based approach)	11
Water or mirage? Nightmare over dams and hydropower across Iran	10
United Nations water conferences: reflections and expectations	9
Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey	9
Does financial inclusion improve sanitation access? Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries	8
Bandung Principles: a path to equitable global water governance?	8
Digital twin technology and its application in water governance: China’s practices and achievements	8
Compliance clusters: theory-based audience insights for water conservation through irrigation restriction adherence	8
China’s water security under a changing environment	8
‘It’s our water now’: why informal institutions and tribalism matter in the success of water user associations in Jordan Valley	8
The impact of COVID-19 and capacities of farmers in small-scale irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa	7
Legal frameworks and mechanisms for resolving transboundary water disputes in Malaysia: insights from the Kedah-Penang Muda River dispute	7

Basin closure and water circularity: a pathway analysis from Oum Er Rbia river basin, Morocco	7
Exploring the challenges of people’s resettlement in China’s reservoirs: a historical perspective	7
Water governance for water security: analysing institutional strengths and challenges in Finland	7
Psychological and background determinants of individuals’ intentions to conserve household water: evidence from Spain	7
Correction	7
Is policy convergence required to improve women’s empowerment in agriculture? Evidence from West Bengal	7
Water right society – a history review from Three-Valley of Hejin County, 1389–1947	7
The evolution of the EU drinking water policy towards a source-to-mouth approach	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
A perspective on sustainability and environmental challenges in the Caspian Sea	6
Public perceptions of water scarcity in China: insights from an online survey of 3262 responses	6
Cooperative water-sharing agreements between highlands and drylands: the Tambo-Santiago-Ica river basin in Peru	6
Satellite-based phenology analysis of the Hyrcanian forest in the Alborz mountains and Caspian Sea shores, Iran	5
International capacity building to achieve SDG6: insights from longitudinal analysis of five water operator partnerships	5
Climate change adaptation benefits from rejuvenated irrigation farming systems in Mozambique	5
A system approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene resilience and sustainability in refugee communities	5
Effect of terrestrial water storage deficit on economic growth for China	5
Investigating factors attracting the participation of the private sector in rural water supply in Vietnam	5
Who owns saved water? Exploring psychological ownership of efficiency gains in irrigation	5
Challenges in reintroducing fair market value to US public water/wastewater systems	5
Agroecology and circular food systems: decoupling natural resource use from rural development in sub-Saharan Africa?	5
China–India hydropolitics on the Brahmaputra: why do hard data need to dominate over existing rhetoric?	4
Application of social network analysis in determining innovation information exchange at irrigation schemes in Zimbabwe	4
Different destinations, different outcomes: a comprehensive analysis of hotel water management in Madeira and Tenerife	4
Decoding China’s water rights revolution in the new century: transitioning from a centralized to a hybrid system	4
Navigating risk in Caspian sturgeon conservation: mapping manager risk perceptions with species conservation measures	4
Climate change impacts on temperature and precipitation over the Caspian Sea	4
Water resource management in agriculture for achieving food and water security in Asia	4
Water–tourism nexus research in the Mediterranean in the past two decades: a systematic literature review	4
Correction	3
Managing risks associated with environmental water delivery: a case study of the Goulburn River, Australia	3
Groundwater governance under climate change in India: lessons based on evaluation of World Bank interventions	3
Projecting conflict risk in transboundary river basins by 2050 following different ambition scenarios	3
Waterways transformation and green stormwater infrastructure: enabling governance for Adelaide’s River Torrens Catchment, Australia	3
How to manage regime shifts: insights from a dryland social–ecological system	3
Causes and consequences of the Macta basin closure, Algeria	3
Supporting justice in cities with nature-based solutions: a spatial decision-making framework applied to Cape Town	3
Community-based to centralized provision: the transformation of aflaj beyond Oman’s national drinking water strategy	3
In praise of floods: the untamed river and the life it brings	3
Hydraulic bureaucracy and irrigation management transfer: analysing the efficacy of two models in South-India	3
Institutional bricolage in community-based water management: some insights from non-representational theory	3
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions of and adaptations to water scarcity in an irrigated system in Chiapas, Mexico	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
Governing desalination in Spain and Israel (1990–2020): lessons on institutional coherence and infrastructure performance	2
Constructed wetlands to treat polluted waters in Latin America and the Caribbean	2
Making collaborative water governance accountable? The River Chief System in China	2
From development aid to geopolitical leverage: the Aswan High Dam in global hydropolitics	2
Special issue on: Contextualized and dynamic sovereignty in transboundary water governance	2

Sharing benefits, sustaining peace: resolving the Teesta River dispute for bilateral accord	2
Heterogeneous climate effect on crop yield and associated risks to water security in India	2
Hydraulic pressure in the Middle East and South/Southeast Asia: comparing Israeli and Chinese ‘Melian Dialogue’	2
Assessing the importance of gender transformative WASH: evidence from a gender-mainstreamed WASH programme in Bangladesh	2
Agricultural innovation platforms for scaling innovations – insights from the Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa project	2
Sustainable finance, water governance, and water policy objectives in Ontario municipalities	2
Towards multi-modal oil spill detection and coverage in the Caspian Sea: a comprehensive approach	2
Understanding household attitudes to water conservation in Saudi Arabia: towards sustainable communities	2
Salience-based stakeholder analysis for the success of public-private partnership water projects in Indonesia	2
Modelling extreme precipitation projections under the effects of climate change: case study of the Caspian Sea	2
Post-water political-economics	2
Small-scale desalination and atmospheric water provisioning systems in water-scarce vulnerable communities: status and perspectives	2
Quantifying the runoff reduction benefits of the ‘Grain for Green’ Programme using the VIC model	2
Building collaborative capacity for flood response: a workshop-based simulation approach in Thailand	2
A story of hope and frustration: a wastewater-based agricultural frontier in the Algerian Sahara	2
Climate variability, rainwater-harvesting structures and groundwater levels in Odisha, India: an empirical analysis	2
Measuring and decomposing profit efficiency changes of water utilities: a case study for Chile	2
Managing climate risks: new evidence from integrated analysis at the basin scale	2
Fighting for water: resisting privatization in Europe	2
The role of knowledge in the decision of Granada University students to drink bottled water	2