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Transboundary Water Resource Management

Transboundary Water Resource Management is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex relationship between climate change, water resources, and conflict, particularly in arid regions. It delves into the impact of environmental degradation, drought, and transboundary water issues on human security and violent conflict. The papers also discuss international cooperation, resource scarcity, and the potential for climate-informed conflicts in the future.

  • Climate Change
  • Conflict
  • Water Resources
  • Transboundary Water
  • Security
  • Drought
  • Arid Regions
  • International Cooperation
  • Environmental Impact
  • Resource Scarcity
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+33%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Transboundary Water Resource Management

Which countries lead Transboundary Water Resource Management research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (451 and 268 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 451 works
  2. 2 India 268 works
  3. 3 China 256 works
  4. 4 Uzbekistan 234 works
  5. 5 Iraq 181 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 179 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 163 works
  8. 8 Germany 146 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 140 works
  10. 10 Iran 135 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.

United States: 21.0%India: 12.4%China: 11.9%Uzbekistan: 10.8%6 others listed: 43.9%21%largest
United States451 · 21.0%India268 · 12.4%China256 · 11.9%Uzbekistan234 · 10.8%6 others listed945 · 43.9%

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

Which institutions lead Transboundary Water Resource Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Transboundary Water Resource Management research, followed by Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 43 works
  2. 2 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 42 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 39 works
  4. 4 University of BaghdadIraq 30 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  6. 6 Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization EngineersUzbekistan 26 works
  7. 7 University of BasrahIraq 25 works
  8. 8 National University of UzbekistanUzbekistan 20 works
  9. 9 University of TehranIran 20 works
  10. 10 University of AnbarIraq 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Transboundary Water Resource Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Transboundary Water Resource Management include Paul M. Thompson and Carl Folke.

  1. 1 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations
  2. 2 Carl Folke Sweden 182k 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 Transboundary Water Resource Management?

The most cited paper in Transboundary Water Resource Management is "Global Water Resources: Vulnerability from Climate Change and Population Growth" (Charles J Vörösmarty, Pamela Green, Joseph E. Salisbury et al., 2000), with 5,143 citations. Next come "Reassessing the projections of the World Water Development Report" (2,575) and "Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers" (2,486).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global Water Resources: Vulnerability from Climate Change and Population Growth Charles J Vörösmarty, Pamela Green, Joseph E. Salisbury et al. · Science 14 Jul 2000 5,143
2 Reassessing the projections of the World Water Development Report Alberto A. Boretti, Lorenzo Rosa · npj Clean Water Open access 31 Jul 2019 2,575
3 Mapping the world’s free-flowing rivers Günther Grill et al. · Nature Open access 8 May 2019 2,486
4 A global boom in hydropower dam construction Christiane Zarfl, Alexander E. Lumsdon, Jürgen Berlekamp et al. · Aquatic Sciences 24 Oct 2014 2,197
5 Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict Solomon Hsiang, Marshall Burke, Edward A. Miguel · Science Open access 2 Aug 2013 1,860
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Transboundary Water Resource Management research done?

The largest centres of Transboundary Water Resource Management research in 2022-now are Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Beijing (China), Tehran (Iran) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kigali, Basra and Tashkent.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 TashkentUzbekistan 132 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 83 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 71 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 69 works
  5. 5 BaghdadIraq 58 works
  6. 6 HamburgGermany 53 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 48 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 43 works
  9. 9 AlmatyKazakhstan 42 works
  10. 10 IslamabadPakistan 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KigaliRW · 23.7 works41×
  2. BasraIQ · 27.1 works23×
  3. TashkentUZ · 131.6 works21×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Transboundary Water Resource Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Transboundary Water Resource Management?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers and IHE Delft Institute for Water Education 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 17.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Wageningen Universit…IHE Delft Institute …Tashkent Institute o…University of Baghdad
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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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 68.731.5%8.6×11 +77.5%
2Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization EngineersUzbekistan 59.59.6%96.7×26 +16.7%
3IHE Delft Institute for Water EducationNetherlands 55.213.1%91.0×13 +45.3%
4University of BaghdadIraq 54.23.9%11.6×30 +62.1%
5University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 52.122.4%2.2×11 +13.0%
6University of TehranIran 51.218.9%9.4×20 -32.3%
7Tarbiat Modares UniversityIran 50.920.0%11.5×12 +10.6%
8University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 50.738.6%1.4×8 +10.3%
9Addis Ababa UniversityEthiopia 50.410.3%16.4×14 +64.8%
10University of BasrahIraq 50.11.8%30.9×25 +100.3%

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 Transboundary Water Resource Management, country by country

Is Transboundary Water Resource Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Transboundary Water Resource 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 Transboundary Water Resource Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Transboundary Water Resource Management0.019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Transboundary Water Resource 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%Transboundary Water Resource Management10.4% 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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