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Environmental Science and Water Management

Environmental Science and Water Management is a research topic within Water Science and Technology. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the integrated management of water resources under diverse hydrological, climatic, and socio-economic conditions. It addresses challenges such as water quality monitoring, climate change impact, and the implementation of environmental policies. The cluster also explores the global distribution and demand for water resources and emphasizes the importance of geospatial public health research in this context.

  • Water Resources Management
  • Integrated Management
  • Hydrological Analysis
  • Water Quality Monitoring
  • Environmental Policy
  • Climate Change Impact
  • Socio-economic Factors
  • Global Water Resources
  • Community Action Framework
  • Geospatial Public Health Research
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Croatia
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Environmental Science and Water Management

Which countries lead Environmental Science and Water Management research?

By volume, Croatia and Ukraine publish the most (517 and 392 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Croatia 517 works
  2. 2 Ukraine 392 works
  3. 3 Russia 167 works
  4. 4 United States 135 works
  5. 5 Serbia 132 works
  6. 6 Bosnia and Herzegovina 119 works
  7. 7 Germany 78 works
  8. 8 China 75 works
  9. 9 Slovenia 67 works
  10. 10 Poland 37 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Croatia: 30.1%Ukraine: 22.8%Russia: 9.7%United States: 7.9%6 others listed: 29.5%30%largest
Croatia517 · 30.1%Ukraine392 · 22.8%Russia167 · 9.7%United States135 · 7.9%6 others listed507 · 29.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Environmental Science and Water Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Zagreb publishes the most Environmental Science and Water Management research, followed by National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Institut za filozofiju.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of ZagrebCroatia 110 works
  2. 2 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 74 works
  3. 3 Institut za filozofijuCroatia 55 works
  4. 4 University of OsijekCroatia 46 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 45 works
  6. 6 University of SplitCroatia 38 works
  7. 7 University of Novi SadSerbia 35 works
  8. 8 University of RijekaCroatia 32 works
  9. 9 University of BelgradeSerbia 28 works
  10. 10 University of SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental Science and Water Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental Science and Water Management include ‪Damià Barceló.

  1. 1 ‪Damià Barceló Spain 132k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Environmental Science and Water Management?

The most cited paper in Environmental Science and Water Management is "Eutrophication of Lake Waters in China: Cost, Causes, and Control" (C. Le, Yong Zha, Yufeng Li et al., 2010), with 660 citations. Next come "The Ecological Significance of the Submarine Discharge of Groundwater" (561) and "The EU Water Framework Directive: From great expectations to problems with implementation" (559).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Eutrophication of Lake Waters in China: Cost, Causes, and Control C. Le, Yong Zha, Yufeng Li et al. · Environmental Management 22 Feb 2010 660
2 The Ecological Significance of the Submarine Discharge of Groundwater RE Johannes · Marine Ecology Progress Series Open access 1980 561
3 The EU Water Framework Directive: From great expectations to problems with implementation Nikolaos Voulvoulis, Karl Dominic Arpon, Theodoros Giakoumis · The Science of The Total Environment Open access 14 Oct 2016 559
4 Rotifers as indicators of water quality V. Sládeček · Hydrobiologia 1983 533
5 The Cumulative Effects of Climate Warming and Other Human Stresses on Canadian Freshwaters in the New Millennium D. W. Schindler Book chapter 2001 524
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Environmental Science and Water Management research done?

The largest centres of Environmental Science and Water Management research in 2022-now are Zagreb (Croatia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Osijek (Croatia) and Belgrade (Serbia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zadar, Osijek and Donji grad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ZagrebCroatia 248 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 143 works
  3. 3 OsijekCroatia 53 works
  4. 4 BelgradeSerbia 52 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 51 works
  6. 6 SplitCroatia 40 works
  7. 7 Novi SadSerbia 40 works
  8. 8 SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina 40 works
  9. 9 ZadarCroatia 36 works
  10. 10 Donji gradCroatia 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZadarHR · 36.4 works265×
  2. OsijekHR · 52.8 works156×
  3. Donji gradHR · 34.4 works143×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Environmental Science and Water Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Environmental Science and Water Management?

Among universities, judged by research, National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, University of Belgrade and University of Zagreb score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 8.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National University …Weatherford CollegeUniversity of BelgradeUniversity of Zagreb
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1National University of Water and Environmental EngineeringUkraine 50.833.1%121.9×11 +12.0%
2University of BelgradeSerbia 37.14.1%21.3×28 +22.0%
3University of ZagrebCroatia 36.81.8%82.5×110 -17.4%
4Weatherford CollegeUnited States 35.49.3%10.3×27 +133.3%
5University of OsijekCroatia 34.54.0%175.9×46 +9.5%
6University of Banja LukaBosnia and Herzegovina 33.82.3%182.0×26 +99.5%
7University of Novi SadSerbia 32.63.9%55.4×35 -0.3%
8University of KragujevacSerbia 29.38.2%43.9×10 +23.2%
9V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National UniversityUkraine 29.215.6%27.6×11 +166.6%
10University of PrishtinaKosovo 27.66.7%55.7×10 +50.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Environmental Science and Water Management, country by country

Is Environmental Science and Water Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Environmental Science and Water Management.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Environmental Science and Water Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0085% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Environmental Science and Water Management0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental Science and Water Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Environmental Science and Water Management9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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