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Integrated Water Resources Management

Integrated Water Resources Management is a research topic within Water Science and Technology. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to integrated water resources management, including water quality assessment, catchment management, eutrophication, groundwater hydrology, surface water assessment, small water retention, agricultural impact on water resources, environmental improvement options, flood hazards, and hydrological transformations. The papers provide insights into the challenges and strategies for sustainable water management in various environmental and land use contexts.

  • Water Quality
  • Catchment Management
  • Eutrophication
  • Groundwater Hydrology
  • Surface Water Assessment
  • Small Water Retention
  • Agricultural Impact
  • Environmental Improvement
  • Flood Hazards
  • Hydrological Transformations
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-39%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
69% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Integrated Water Resources Management

Which countries lead Integrated Water Resources Management research?

By volume, Poland and the United States publish the most (404 and 31 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 404 works
  2. 2 United States 31 works
  3. 3 Russia 31 works
  4. 4 Czechia 29 works
  5. 5 Ukraine 28 works
  6. 6 China 20 works
  7. 7 Slovakia 14 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 9 works
  9. 9 Romania 9 works
  10. 10 Lithuania 8 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.

Poland: 69.3%United States: 5.4%Russia: 5.3%Czechia: 4.9%6 others listed: 15.1%69%largest
Poland404 · 69.3%United States31 · 5.4%Russia31 · 5.3%Czechia29 · 4.9%6 others listed88 · 15.1%

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

Which institutions lead Integrated Water Resources Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Polish Academy of Sciences publishes the most Integrated Water Resources Management research, followed by University of Life Sciences in Poznań and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Who are the leading researchers in Integrated Water Resources Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Integrated Water Resources Management include Maciej Banach, Carl Folke and ‪Damià Barceló.

  1. 1 Maciej Banach Poland 204k citations
  2. 2 Carl Folke Sweden 182k citations
  3. 3 ‪Damià Barceló Spain 132k citations
  4. 4 Marten Scheffer Netherlands 122k 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 Integrated Water Resources Management?

The most cited paper in Integrated Water Resources Management is "Polish journal of environmental studies" (J. Ryczkowski, 1993), with 3,985 citations. Next come "A method for assessing changes in the abundance of butterflies" (971) and "The role of wetlands in the hydrological cycle" (682).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Polish journal of environmental studies J. Ryczkowski · Applied Catalysis A General Open access Nov 1993 3,985
2 A method for assessing changes in the abundance of butterflies E. Pollard · Biological Conservation Sep 1977 971
3 The role of wetlands in the hydrological cycle Andrew D. Bullock, Mike Acreman · Hydrology and earth system sciences Open access 30 Jun 2003 682
4 Physico-geographical mesoregions of Poland: Verification and adjustment of boundaries on the basis of contemporary spatial data Jerzy Solon et al. · Geographia Polonica Open access 2018 574
5 Sediment and nutrient retention by freshwater wetlands: Effects on surface water quality Carol Ann Johnston · Critical Reviews in Environmental Control 1991 563
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Integrated Water Resources Management research done?

The largest centres of Integrated Water Resources Management research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Poznań (Poland), Krakow (Poland) and Lublin (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Poznań, Wrocław and Lublin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 87 works
  2. 2 PoznańPoland 50 works
  3. 3 KrakowPoland 47 works
  4. 4 LublinPoland 25 works
  5. 5 WrocławPoland 24 works
  6. 6 KatowicePoland 19 works
  7. 7 GdańskPoland 18 works
  8. 8 ŁódźPoland 16 works
  9. 9 SzczecinPoland 15 works
  10. 10 PragueCzechia 13 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PoznańPL · 50.0 works75×
  2. WrocławPL · 24.3 works48×
  3. LublinPL · 24.7 works48×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Integrated Water Resources Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Integrated Water Resources Management?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Silesia in Katowice, Nicolaus Copernicus University and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań 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%10%20%mean 12.08%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Silesi…Nicolaus Copernicus …University of Life S…Adam Mickiewicz Univ…
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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
1University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 59.515.3%117.1×15 -14.0%
2Nicolaus Copernicus UniversityPoland 50.814.7%71.3×10 -36.5%
3Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 49.67.9%92.0×23 -33.5%
4University of Life Sciences in PoznańPoland 46.412.7%381.1×24 -46.6%
5University of Warmia and Mazury in OlsztynPoland 45.614.6%94.4×10 -53.6%
6University of Agriculture in KrakowPoland 37.311.6%272.0×14 -61.5%
7AGH University of KrakowPoland 37.09.5%44.7×10 -60.6%
8Wrocław University of Environmental and Life SciencesPoland 31.918.1%200.8×9 -64.0%
9University of GdańskPoland 31.38.0%83.0×11 -34.3%
10University of WarsawPoland 28.68.4%37.1×12 -37.4%

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 Integrated Water Resources Management, country by country

Is Integrated Water Resources Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 39% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2013.

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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 Integrated Water Resources Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0041% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Integrated Water Resources Management0.0025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Integrated Water Resources 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%Integrated Water Resources Management10.7% 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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