OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Water Resources Development is 5. 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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the factors causing the poor performance of most irrigation schemes in post-independence sub-Saharan Africa	37
The role of hydropower in South Asia’s energy future	33
Impacts of climate change on the flow of the transboundary Koshi River, with implications for local irrigation	29
Transforming failing smallholder irrigation schemes in Africa: a theory of change	18
Psychological barriers to urban recycled water acceptance: a review of relevant principles in decision psychology	18
The selective centralization in decentralization: China’s environmental vertical management reform with a case study in Hebei province	15
Water management in post-2020 world	15
Practicality of integrated water resources management (IWRM) in different contexts	15
Water colonialism and Indigenous water justice in south-eastern Australia	14
Thayer Scudder’s Four Stage Framework, water resources dispossession and appropriation: the Kariba case	13
Informality and water justice: community perspectives on water issues in Cape Town’s low-income neighbourhoods	12
A system dynamics simulation model for water conflicts in the Zhanghe River Basin, China	11
Water management practices in Euro-Mediterranean hotels and resorts	11
Acceptance of direct potable water reuse for domestic purposes: evidence from southern Spain	10
Irrigation subsidy policy in Chile: lessons from the allocation, uneven distribution and water resources implications	10
Rethinking livelihood resilience after development-induced displacement and resettlement: a case study of Qianping Reservoir	9
COVID-19 and clean water, sanitation and wastewater management	9
Reviewing the causes of Mekong drought before and during 2019–20	9
Large-scale water development in the United States: TVA and the California State Water Project	8
Institutional dynamics and water resource management: the case of traditional water bodies in West Bengal, India	8
Water reuse to address water security	8
Exploring discursive hydropolitics: a conceptual framework and research agenda	7
From ‘merchants and ministers’ to ‘neutral brokers’? Water diplomacy aspirations by the Netherlands – a discourse analysis of the 2011 commissioned advisory report	7
Alternative solutions for long missing streamflow data for sustainable water resources management	7
Water and land justice for Indigenous communities in the Lowbidgee Floodplain of the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia	7

Water demand management strategies in fast-growing cities. The case of Arequipa, Perú	7
Flood risk policies in Italy: a longitudinal institutional analysis of continuity and change	7
Projecting conflict risk in transboundary river basins by 2050 following different ambition scenarios	7
Water justice and Europe’s Right2Water movement	7
Flood protection by embankments in the Brahmani–Baitarani river basin, India: a risk-based approach	6
Desalinated drinking-water provision in water-stressed regions: challenges of consumer-perception and environmental impact lessons from Antofagasta, Chile	6
Direct delivery of electricity subsidy to farmers in Punjab: will it help conserve groundwater?	6
Growth and inequality at the micro scale: an empirical analysis of farm incomes within smallholder irrigation systems in Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Mozambique	6
Territory in conflict: land dispossession, water grabbing and mobilization for environmental justice in southern Spain	6
Environmental benefits from water reuse combined with managed aquifer recharge in the Flemish dunes (Belgium)	6
Climate change and water-related threats in the Indian Sundarbans: food security and management implications	6
Irrigation development and equity implications: the case of India	5
Making a water market intermediary: the China Water Exchange	5
Scenario simulation of water resources development and utilization based on a system dynamics model	5
President Biden′s Infrastructure Plan: Does it address needs of water systems in the United States?	5
Reforming for resilience: delivering ‘multipurpose hydropower’ under water and energy risks	5
Water–tourism nexus research in the Mediterranean in the past two decades: a systematic literature review	5
Understanding the decision-making structures, roles and actions of village-level water committees in Fiji	5
Willingness of farmers to use treated wastewater for irrigation in the West Bank, Palestine	5
Conventional and makeshift rainwater harvesting in rural South Africa: exploring determinants for rainwater harvesting mode	5
Approaching obsolescence? A multi-criteria analysis of high-risk dams in the United States Pacific Northwest	5
Impounded rivers, compounded injustice: contesting the social impacts of hydraulic development in Laos	5
Polycentric governance and agroecological practices in the MENA region: insights from Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia	5