OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Water SAnitation and Hygiene for 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
WASH and Gender: a critical review of the literature and implications for gender-transformative WASH research	29
Is household water insecurity a link between water governance and well-being? A multi-site analysis	27
Assessment of groundwater quality and human health risk associated with chromium exposure in the industrial area of Ranipet, Tamil Nadu, India	20
Removal of metronidazole antibiotic from aqueous solution by ammonia-modified activated carbon: adsorption isotherm and kinetic study	18
Models for forecasting water demand using time series analysis: a case study in Southern Brazil	17
Human health risk assessment through the comparative analysis of diverse irrigation regimes for Luffa (Luffa cylindrica (L.) Roem.)	17
Review of frameworks and tools for urban strategic sanitation planning: considering technology innovations and sustainability	15
A review of sanitation technologies for flood-prone areas	14
Community engagement in water, sanitation and hygiene in sub-Saharan Africa: does it WASH?	13
Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in water and sanitation sectors in India	13
Determinants of drinking water quality and sanitary risk levels of water storage in food establishments of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	13
The Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: comparison scores from 27 sites in 22 countries	13
Reaching those left behind: knowledge gaps, challenges, and approaches to achieving SDG 6 in high-income countries	12
Factors and impacts of informal settlements residents' sanitation practices on access and sustainability of sanitation services in the policy context of Free Basic Sanitation	12
Drinking water quality and health risk assessment of intake and point-of-use water sources in Tano North Municipality, Ghana	12
An assessment of availability of handwashing facilities in households from four East African countries	12
Impact of cyclone Amphan on the water, sanitation, hygiene, and health (WASH2) facilities of coastal Bangladesh	11
Status of sustainable sanitation chain in rural, semi-urban, and urban regions: a case study of Maharashtra, India	11
Inactivation of Ascaris for thermal treatment and drying applications in faecal sludge	11
Expanding safe fecal sludge management in Kisumu, Kenya: an experimental comparison of latrine pit-emptying services	11
Sanitation dynamics: toilet acquisition and its economic and social implications in rural and urban contexts	11
The clean plan: analysing sanitation planning in India using the CWIS planning framework	11
A socio-ecological perspective of the facilitators and barriers to uptake of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in a slum setting in Kampala, Uganda: a qualitative study	11
On-site sanitation density and groundwater quality: evidence from remote sensing and in situ observations in the Thiaroye aquifer, Senegal	11
Implementation of point-of-use water treatment methods in a rural Tanzanian community: a case study	11

Treatment of drinking water for rural households using Moringa seed and solar disinfection	10
Households' access to safely managed sanitation facility and its determinant factors in Jimma town, Ethiopia	10
Exploring behavioral determinants of handwashing with soap after defecation in an urban setting in Bangladesh: findings from a barrier analysis	10
Evaluation of willingness to pay toward improving water supply services in Sebeta town, Ethiopia	10
Multiple and complex links between babyWASH and stunting: an evidence synthesis	10
Assessing water service performances in rural sub-Saharan Africa environment: The case studies of two councils of the southern and eastern regions of the Republic of Cameroon (Central Africa)	10
Status of drinking water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene in West Bengal: evidence from the National Family Health Survey of India (NFHS), 2019–2021	9
Longitudinal study of microbial load of drinking water and seasonal variation of water quality at the point of use in food establishments of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	9
Drinking water status in Nepal: an overview in the context of climate change	9
Evaluation of water, sanitation and hygiene status of COVID-19 healthcare facilities in Ghana using the WASH FIT approach	9
Phosphorus recovery by struvite precipitation: a review of the impact of calcium on struvite quality	9
Factors influencing physicochemical characteristics of faecal sludge in Phnom Penh, Cambodia	9
Water quality status of groundwater and municipal water supply (tap water) from Bagmati river basin in Kathmandu valley, Nepal	9
Social outcomes of a community-based water, sanitation and hygiene intervention	9
Closing the cycle? Potential and limitations of Water and Sanitation Safety Plans (WSSPs) for Latin American metropolitan areas	9
Improved and promising fecal sludge sanitizing methods: treatment of fecal sludge using resource recovery technologies	9
Hand hygiene and safety behaviours at shopping centres in COVID-19: an observation in Wa township in Ghana	9
Understanding the role of informal pit emptiers in sanitation in Nairobi through case studies in Mukuru and Kibera settlements	8
Temporal analysis of water, sanitation, and hygiene data from knowledge, attitudes, and practices surveys in the protracted humanitarian crisis in Myanmar	8
COVID-19: urgent actions, critical reflections and future relevance of ‘WaSH’: lessons for the current and future pandemics	8
Determinants of household water demand: a cross-sectional study in South West Nigeria	8
Drinking water quality, exposure and health risk assessment for the school-going children at school time in the southwest coastal of Bangladesh	8
Legacy 1,2,3-trichloropropane contamination: a systematic review of treatments	8
Participatory analysis of sustainable land and water management practices for integrated rural development in Myanmar	8
Spatial arrangement of well and latrine and their influence on water quality in clayey soil – a study in low-income peri-urban neighborhoods in Lichinga, Mozambique	8
Bacteriological and physicochemical quality of drinking water in Kobo town, Northern Ethiopia	8
Users are willing to pay for sanitation, but not as much as they say: empirical results and methodological comparisons of willingness to pay for peri-urban sanitation in Lusaka, Zambia using contingen	8
Association between water, sanitation, and hygiene practices (WASH) and anthropometric nutritional status among selected under-five children in rural Noakhali, Bangladesh: a cross-sectional analysis	7
In situ treatment technologies for pit latrines to mitigate groundwater contamination by fecal pathogens: a review of recent technical advances	7
Benefits and costs of rural sanitation interventions in Ghana	7
Improved chlorination and rapid water quality assessment in response to an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea in Somali Region, Ethiopia	7
Drivers of unhygienic desludging practices in unplanned settlements of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	7
Rainwater harvesting and primary uses among rural communities in Ghana	7
Water insecurity and sexual and gender-based violence among refugee youth: qualitative insights from a humanitarian setting in Uganda	6
Going to scale with rural water supply: a reflection on experiences from sustaining community managed piped water schemes in rural Zimbabwe	6
Water, sanitation, and hygiene for schistosomiasis prevention: a qualitative analysis of experiences of stakeholders in rural KwaZulu-Natal	6
Private emptiers' perspectives on the regulation of faecal sludge emptying services in Sub-Saharan Africa	6
Household stored water quality in an intermittent water supply network in Panama	6
Potential of ceramic and biosand water filters as low-cost point-of-use water treatment options for household use in Nigeria	6
Effectiveness of solar disinfection for household water treatment: an experimental and modeling study	6
When is shared sanitation acceptable in low-income urban settlements? A user perspective on shared sanitation quality in Kumasi, Kisumu and Dhaka	6
Life-cycle costs approach for private piped water service delivery: a study in rural Viet Nam	6
Estimating averting expenditure in domestic water use: evidence from Ghana	6
Predictors of hand hygiene behaviours among primary and secondary school children in a rural district setting in Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional epidemiologic study	6
Decision support system for selection of appropriate water supply and sanitation technologies in developing countries	6
Does poor mental health change the influence of interventions on handwashing in a vulnerable population of rural Malawi? The key role of emotions	6
Infrastructure for water security: coping with risks in rural Kenya	6
Effect of human urine application on cabbage production and soil characteristics	6
Linkages between environmental factors (WASH and energy) and Infant and Young Child Feeding practices in rural India: implications for cross-sectoral interventions for child health	5
Unpacking piped water consumption subsidies: Who benefits? New evidence from 10 countries	5

Application of the Water Service Sustainability Index to water services in sub-Saharan Africa: the case studies of eight councils in the Southern region of Cameroon (Central Africa)	5
Fertilizer effect of composted sewage sludge and cattle manure onPelargoniumgrowth	5
Reconfiguring urban waterscape: water kiosks in Delhi as a new governance model	5
The reality of water quality monitoring for SDG 6: a report from a small town in India	5
The hidden WASH needs of perimenopausal women	5
Effect of single and combined exposures to UV-C and UV-A LEDs on the inactivation of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli in water disinfection	5
Inconvenient truth: unsafely managed fecal sludge after achieving MDG for decades in Thailand	5
Methods for estimating quantities and qualities (Q&Q) of faecal sludge: field evaluation in Sircilla, India	5
Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) conditions and prevalence of office visits due to anemia: a regional-level analysis from Peru	5
Household levels of deprivation to WaSH and residential conditions in slum settlements of Lagos, Nigeria	5
Physical properties of menstrual hygiene waste as feedstock for onsite disposal technologies	5
Understanding the costs of urban sanitation: towards a standard costing model	5
Fecal sludge treatment in a pilot-scale vertical-flow constructed wetland for the removal of helminth eggs	5
Chlorine disinfection against Legionella pneumophila biofilms	5
Validity of an abbreviated Individual Water Insecurity Experiences (IWISE-4) Scale for measuring the prevalence of water insecurity in low- and middle-income countries	4
Inclusion of water quality testing in the Afghanistan Living Conditions Survey and status of bacteriological contamination of drinking water in 10 provinces of Afghanistan	4
Does payment by results work? Lessons from a multi-country WASH programme	4
Community management does not equate to participation: fostering community participation in rural water supplies	4
Research progress on the contamination status and control policy of Giardia and Cryptosporidium in drinking water	4
Microbiological analysis of domestic water sources in Banda slum of Kampala, Uganda	4
Does self-reported water collection time differ from observed water collection time? Evidence from the Upper West Region of Ghana	4
The complex nature of household water supply: an evidence-based assessment of urban water access in Southwest Nigeria	4
Electrochemical defluorination of water: an experimental and morphological study	4
WASH, vulnerability, severity, and the response of urban slum dwellers to the COVID-19 pandemic	4
‘When you preach water and you drink wine’: WASH in healthcare facilities in Kenya	4
Reusable rainwater quality at the Ikorodu area of Lagos, Nigeria: impact of first-flush and household treatment techniques	4
Performance assessment of sewage treatment plants using compliance index	4
‘Solar septic tank’: evaluation of innovative decentralized treatment of blackwater in developing countries	4
Limited water access is associated with food insecurity and diarrheal episodes among children suffering from moderate acute malnutrition in Far-North Cameroon	4
Understanding the adoption of urine-diverting dry toilets (UDDTs) in low- and lower-middle-income countries using the Diffusion of Innovation framework	4
Adapting a safe water storage container to improve household stored water quality in rural Burkina Faso: a cluster randomized trial	4
Predominance of blaTEM and tetA genes in antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli isolates from Laguna Lake, Philippines	4
Influence of multiple uses of water on the sustainability of communally-managed rural water supply systems in Zimbabwe	4
Solar energy-based water treatment system applicable to the remote areas: Case of Indonesia	4
Water treatment in rural Guatemala: factors associated with the use of biosand water filters	4
An evidence-based approach towards identifying household emerging pollutants in rural areas in Southern Karnataka	4
Understanding water demand and usage in Mandalay city, Myanmar as a basis for resetting tariffs†	4
The multiple uses of water derived from managed aquifer recharge systems in Kenya and India	4
Rainwater as an alternative drinking water source for the Chronic Kidney Disease Of Uncertain etiology (CKDu) prone areas: a case study for Girandurukotte, Sri Lanka	4