OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Water Resources Development is 4. 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
Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam	15
Mechanization in land preparation and irrigation water productivity: insights from rice production	15
Comparing China and India’s transboundary water governance: insights from international law	14
Net positive and its application to water management	14
What does valuing water mean in practice? A case study from the Ewaso Ng’iro River Basin, Kenya	12
Reviewing the causes of Mekong drought before and during 2019–20	10
Polycentric governance and agroecological practices in the MENA region: insights from Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia	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
Is policy convergence required to improve women’s empowerment in agriculture? Evidence from West Bengal	6
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
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
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
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
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