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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Recycling water, but at what price? The political economy of wastewater reuse	21
Seeing beyond negotiations: the impacts of the Belt and Road on Sino-Kazakh transboundary water management	19
Comparing China and India’s transboundary water governance: insights from international law	19
Net positive and its application to water management	18
Mechanization in land preparation and irrigation water productivity: insights from rice production	17
Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam	17
Through the water glass darkly: global cities as problematic exemplars in the sustainability discourse	12
Why does technological empowerment fail? Mechanisms of public acceptance of technology for water governance	12
What does valuing water mean in practice? A case study from the Ewaso Ng’iro River Basin, Kenya	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)	10
Improving connectivity in water governance: the implementation of water cooperation mechanisms in disparate political and social contexts	9
Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey	8
Water or mirage? Nightmare over dams and hydropower across Iran	8
Water security, climate change and COP26	8
Structural and institutional arrangements impacting collective actions in WUAs of West Bengal, India	8
United Nations water conferences: reflections and expectations	8
The impact of COVID-19 and capacities of farmers in small-scale irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa	7
Water management practices in Euro-Mediterranean hotels and resorts	7
Does financial inclusion improve sanitation access? Empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries	7
Bandung Principles: a path to equitable global water governance?	7
Digital twin technology and its application in water governance: China’s practices and achievements	7
Legal frameworks and mechanisms for resolving transboundary water disputes in Malaysia: insights from the Kedah-Penang Muda River dispute	6
Exploring the challenges of people’s resettlement in China’s reservoirs: a historical perspective	6
Water governance for water security: analysing institutional strengths and challenges in Finland	6

Is policy convergence required to improve women’s empowerment in agriculture? Evidence from West Bengal	6
Basin closure and water circularity: a pathway analysis from Oum Er Rbia river basin, Morocco	6
Water right society – a history review from Three-Valley of Hejin County, 1389–1947	6
China’s water security under a changing environment	6
The evolution of the EU drinking water policy towards a source-to-mouth approach	6
Water infrastructure in Asia: financing and policy options	6
Tap water consumption choices in out-of-home settings: insights from a survey of German adults	5
Tanker trucks in Chile: from the normalization of an emergency to the commodification of water	5
Cooperative water-sharing agreements between highlands and drylands: the Tambo-Santiago-Ica river basin in Peru	5
A perspective on sustainability and environmental challenges in the Caspian Sea	5
Public perceptions of water scarcity in China: insights from an online survey of 3262 responses	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
A system approach to water, sanitation, and hygiene resilience and sustainability in refugee communities	5
China–India hydropolitics on the Brahmaputra: why do hard data need to dominate over existing rhetoric?	4
Water’s role in MDB regional development	4
International capacity building to achieve SDG6: insights from longitudinal analysis of five water operator partnerships	4
Climate change adaptation benefits from rejuvenated irrigation farming systems in Mozambique	4
Water safety management during the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic: challenges, responses and guidance	4
Agroecology and circular food systems: decoupling natural resource use from rural development in sub-Saharan Africa?	4
Challenges in reintroducing fair market value to US public water/wastewater systems	4
Satellite-based phenology analysis of the Hyrcanian forest in the Alborz mountains and Caspian Sea shores, Iran	4
Effect of terrestrial water storage deficit on economic growth for China	4
Investigating factors attracting the participation of the private sector in rural water supply in Vietnam	4