OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Urban Water Journal 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Enhancing stormwater control measures using real-time control technology: a review	36
A new mixed integer non-linear programming model for optimal PAT and PRV location in water distribution networks	30
Urban evapotranspiration of green spaces in arid regions through two established approaches: a review of key drivers, advancements, limitations, and potential opportunities	29
Evaluation of stormwater runoff quantity integral management via sponge city construction: A pilot case study of Jinan	27
Green infrastructure performance in arid and semi-arid urban environments	24
Assessment of the growing threat of urban flooding: a case study of a national survey	20
Optimal size, type and location of low impact developments (LIDs) for urban stormwater control	20
Assessment of low impact development stormwater management alternatives in the city of Bojnord, Iran	20
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the urban groundwater – preliminary monitoring (case study: Kraków, Southern Poland)	17
Predictive analytics for water main breaks using spatiotemporal data	17
Adsorptive removal of Pb²⁺ and Cu²⁺ from stormwater by using water treatment residuals	17
Controlling peak runoff from plots by coupling street storage with distributed real time control	15
How much green roofs and rainwater harvesting systems can contribute to urban flood mitigation?	15
Which factors determine students’ water-saving behaviors? Evidence from China colleges	15
An integrated socio-environmental framework for mapping hazard-specific vulnerability and exposure in urban areas	14
Simulation and vulnerability assessment of water distribution networks under deliberate contamination attacks	14
Urban flood hazard analysis in present and future climate after statistical downscaling: a case study in Ha Tinh city, Vietnam	13
Hydraulic optimisation of multiple flow control locations for the design of local real time control systems	13
Occurrence and seasonality of pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewaters in two Portuguese regions	13
Water scarcity and alternative water sources in South Africa: can information provision shift perceptions?	12
Are digital twins improving urban-water systems efficiency and sustainable development goals?	12
Energy recovery strategies in water distribution networks: literature review and future directions in the net-zero transition	12
Resilience of Hydrologic Similarity Areas to extreme climate change scenarios in an urban watershed	11
Quantifying the true potential of Real Time Control in urban drainage systems	11
A scoping review on Water Sensitive Urban Design aims and achievements	11

Strategies to promote the adoption of sustainable drainage by private developers: a case study from Singapore	11
Multi-criteria decision analysis in urban water asset management	10
On the in-series and branching dual-technique - based water-hammer control strategy	10
Stormwater hydrographs simulated for different structures of urban drainage network: dendritic and looped sewer networks	10
3D CFD simulations of air-water interaction in T-junction pipes of urban stormwater drainage system	10
Evaluating effects of urban imperviousness connectivity on runoff with consideration of receiving pervious area properties	9
Stress-testing water distribution networks for cyber-physical attacks on water quality	9
The role of rainwater harvesting in urban stormwater runoff in the semiarid region of Brazil	9
Evaluation of an urban drainage system using functional and structural resilience approach	9
Improved modularity-based approach for partition of Water Distribution Networks	9
Analyzing Twitter communication about heavy precipitation events to improve future risk communication and disaster reduction in Germany	9
Organochlorine pesticides in the drinking water of Merida and its Metropolitan Zone, a Karst Region	9
An insight on the advancements of biological technologies in the bioremediation of textile effluents	9
Targeted path search algorithm for optimization of water distribution networks	8
A model-based estimate of the groundwater budget and associated uncertainties in Bengaluru, India	8
Long-term experiments for the evaluation of the potential for storm water control of modular blue roofs in Mediterranean climate	8
Interception efficiency of grate inlets for sustainable urban drainage systems design under different road slopes and approaching discharges	8
A multi-criteria risk-based approach for optimal planning of SuDS solutions in urban flood management	8
Predicting unregulated disinfection by-products in water distribution networks using generalized regression neural networks	8
Prediction of Hydraulic Blockage at Culverts using Lab Scale Simulated Hydraulic Data	8
An assessment of adoption of rainwater harvesting system in residential buildings in Lahore, Pakistan	8
Surge predictions in a large stormwater tunnel system using SWMM	8
Towards understanding the anticipated customer benefits of digital water metering	8
‘How would an extreme flood have behaved if flood protection works were built?’ the case of the disastrous flash flood of November 2017 in Mandra, Attica, Greece	8
Urban climate resilience and water insecurity: future scenarios of water supply and demand in Istanbul	8
On the complex causal relationship of barriers to sustainable urban water management: a fuzzy multi-criteria analysis	7
Experimental characterization of a self-powered control system for a real-time management of water distribution networks	7
Improvements in hotel water consumption: case study of a five-star hotel (Canary Islands, Spain)	7
Grey water footprint as a tool for wastewater treatment plant assessment– Hostivice case study	7
Impacts of changing drainage indicators on urban flood volumes in historical urbanization in the case of Northern China	7
Modelling accuracy for urban design flood estimation	7
An investigation of domestic water consumption in Sirte, Libya	7
Short-term impacts of the filling transition across elevations in intermittent water supply systems	7
A trade-off balance among urban water infrastructure improvements and financial management to achieve water sustainability	7
Bulk and pipe wall chlorine degradation kinetics in three water distribution systems	7
Assessment of water quality using water quality index: A case study of the River Gomti, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India	7
Research on establishment of the region flood protection standard - a case of watershed of Dajiaxi, Taiwan	7
Modelling the effects of stormwater control measures on runoff volume and particulate load in urban catchments	6
Enhancing resilience of urban stormwater systems: cost-effectiveness analysis of structural characteristics	6
Evaluation of the tabulated, NEH4, least squares and asymptotic fitting methods for the CN estimation of urban watersheds	6
Sand filtration for greywater treatment: long-term performance evaluation and optimization by response surface methodology	6
Snow pollution management in urban areas: an idea whose time has come?	6
Economic feasibility analysis of rainwater harvesting: a case study in Imbituba, Brazil	6
Quantification of visual blockage at culverts using deep learning based computer vision models	6
CFD modeling of stagnation reduction in drinking water storage tanks through internal piping	6
Unsteady flow modelling of hydraulic and electrical RTC of PATs for hydropower generation and service pressure regulation in WDN	6
Evaluating the uncertainty of urban flood model using glue approach	6
Modeling water consumption in multifamily buildings: a case study in Southern Brazil	6
Multi-objective optimization tool for PATs operation in water pressurized systems	6
A novel energy balance tailored for wastewater systems	5

Management of water supply systems from interbasin transfers: case study in the Brazilian semiarid region	5
Multi-scale analysis of sustainable service performance for porous asphalt pavement in Sponge City under freeze-thaw environment	5
Sustainable urban stormwater management in developing countries: integrating strategies to overcome Brazilian barriers	5
Downsizing water quality monitoring programs in river basins in Brazil	5
Monitoring and characterising the solids loading dynamics to drainage systems via gully pots	5
Leak detection method of liquid-filled pipeline based on VMD and SVM	5
Developing meta-heuristic optimization based ensemble machine learning algorithms for hydraulic efficiency assessment of storm water grate inlets	5
Numerical modelling for analysing drainage in irregular profile pipes using OpenFOAM	5
Parameter determination and performance evaluation of time-series-based leakage detection method	5
Improving near real-time anomaly event detection and classification with trend change detection for smart water grid operation management	5
Enabling low-cost automatic water leakage detection: a semi-supervised, autoML-based approach	5
Experimental study of the flow patterns in a street during drainage or overflow to or from drains	5
Urban wastewater treatment by microalgae, bacteria and microalgae–bacteria system (Laboratory-scale study)	5
The impacts of poor water quality on the residential areas of Emfuleni local municipality: a case study of perceptions in the Rietspruit River catchment in South Africa	5
Integrating spatial clustering with predictive modeling of pipe failures in water distribution systems	5
Examining the implementation of potable water reuse in sewersheds of Southeastern Spain	4
Uncertainty inherent to a conceptual model StormTac Web simulating urban runoff quantity, quality and control	4
A review on the presence and removal of phthalates from wastewater	4
Coping with and adapting to urban floods: experiences of flood community-dwelling households in Aboabo, Ghana	4
Multi-outlet storage tanks to improve water distribution networks in India	4
Extrapolating performance indicators for annual overflow volume reduction of system-wide real time control strategies	4
Assessment of the impact of the rise in Lake Victoria water levels on urban flooding using a GIS-based spatial flood modelling approach	4
Assessing the resilience of circularity in water management: a modeling framework to redesign and stress-test regional systems under uncertainty	4
Characterizing the relationship between urban sprawl and water demand in Dodoma Urban District, Tanzania: 1992–2029	4
A novel cyber-physical resilience-based strategy for water quality sensor placement in water distribution networks	4
Experiential approaches to sanitation-goal assessment: Sanitation practices in selected informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa	4
Uncertainties in different leak localization methods for water distribution networks: a review	4
Development of scenarios for evaluating conversion from intermittent to continuous water supply strategies’ sustainability implications	4
Sediment transport prediction in sewer pipes during flushing operation	4
Stationary leakage from a gravity sewer into horizontal unsaturated-saturated soil – a numerical benchmark for the verification of pipe leakage models	4
Analysis of reliability and belief degree for water distribution system based on fuzzy set theory	4
Pioneer attempt of incorporating four variables in generalised equations for predicting water savings through rainwater tanks	4
Innovative Polygonal Trend Analysis (IPTA) in detecting the seasonal trend behavior of statistically downscaled precipitation for the Eastern Black Sea Basin of Turkey	4
Influencing factors analysis for drinking water steel pipe pitting corrosion using artificial neural network	4
Urban Water Security: Geospatial Assessment For Water Supply Services In Pune, India	4
Urban water quality and COVID-19 during the lockdown periods: a case study of Ghaggar river, Punjab, India	4
Drivers of urban water consumption in Brazil: a countrywide, cross-sectional study	4
Evaluating the impact of LID-BMPs on urban runoff reduction in an urban sub-catchment	4
Urban water security: water supply and demand management strategies in the face of climate change	4
Reducing uncertainties in urban drainage models by explicitly accounting for timing errors in objective functions	4
Treatment of saline domestic wastewater using nanofiltration membrane coupled with activated carbon adsorption	4
Performance of rainwater tanks for runoff reduction under climate change scenarios: a case study in Brazil	4
Intelligent sewage discharge control in a wastewater treatment plant during rainfall periods	4
Assessing major drivers of runoff water quality using principal component analysis: a case study from a Colombian and a Brazilian catchments	4
The effects of unplanned land use and heavy seasonal rainfall on the storm-water drainage in Dhaka metropolitan city of Bangladesh	4
Source apportionment and risk assessment of trace element pollution in Yamuna river water in Delhi: a probability based approach	4