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Water Resource Management and Quality

Water Resource Management and Quality is a research topic within Water Science and Technology. Science Explorer counts 9.2k research works in it since 1953. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on water governance, sustainability management, and environmental health, with an emphasis on community participation, ecosystem conservation, and public policy in the context of rural water systems. It also addresses human rights issues related to access to clean water. The research spans across Latin American countries, highlighting challenges and strategies for effective water resource management.

  • Water Governance
  • Sustainability
  • Resource Management
  • Environmental Health
  • Community Participation
  • Ecosystem Conservation
  • Public Policy
  • Rural Water Systems
  • Human Rights
  • Latin America
Research works
9.2k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
917
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Colombia
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Water Resource Management and Quality

Which countries lead Water Resource Management and Quality research?

By volume, Colombia and Mexico publish the most (510 and 399 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Colombia 510 works
  2. 2 Mexico 399 works
  3. 3 Peru 279 works
  4. 4 Ecuador 231 works
  5. 5 Argentina 171 works
  6. 6 Spain 137 works
  7. 7 Brazil 61 works
  8. 8 Chile 45 works
  9. 9 United States 45 works
  10. 10 Bolivia 44 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.

Colombia: 26.5%Mexico: 20.7%Peru: 14.5%Ecuador: 12.0%6 others listed: 26.2%27%largest
Colombia510 · 26.5%Mexico399 · 20.7%Peru279 · 14.5%Ecuador231 · 12.0%6 others listed503 · 26.2%

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

Which institutions lead Water Resource Management and Quality research?

By volume in 2022-now, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas publishes the most Water Resource Management and Quality research, followed by Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Popular University of Cesar.

Who are the leading researchers in Water Resource Management and Quality?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Water Resource Management and Quality include Edward O. Wilson.

  1. 1 Edward O. Wilson United States 74k 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 Water Resource Management and Quality?

The most cited paper in Water Resource Management and Quality is "Facies Models Revisited" (Roger G. Walker, 2006), with 208 citations. Next come "Interdisciplinariedad y sistemas complejos" (198) and "A review of recent advances and future challenges in freshwater salinization" (177).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Facies Models Revisited Roger G. Walker · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks Book chapterOpen access 2006 208
2 Interdisciplinariedad y sistemas complejos Rolando García · Americanae (AECID Library) Open access 1994 198
3 A review of recent advances and future challenges in freshwater salinization Miguel Cañedo‐Argüelles · Limnetica Open access 15 Jan 2020 177
4 LA HIDROCLIMATOLOGÍA DE COLOMBIA: UNA SÍNTESIS DESDE LA ESCALA INTER-DECADAL HASTA LA ESCALA DIURNA Germán Poveda · Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales Open access 15 Sep 2023 143
5 LOS RIESGOS DE LOS METALES PESADOS EN LA SALUD HUMANA Y ANIMAL Luis Fernando Londoño Franco, PAULA TATIANA LONDOÑO MUÑOZ, Fabián Gerardo Muñoz García · Biotecnología en el Sector Agropecuario y Agroindustrial Open access 2016 142
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Where is Water Resource Management and Quality research done?

The largest centres of Water Resource Management and Quality research in 2022-now are Bogotá (Colombia), Mexico City (Mexico), Lima (Peru) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Valledupar and Puno.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BogotáColombia 196 works
  2. 2 Mexico CityMexico 90 works
  3. 3 LimaPeru 82 works
  4. 4 Buenos AiresArgentina 66 works
  5. 5 MedellínColombia 52 works
  6. 6 TrujilloPeru 48 works
  7. 7 Panama CityPanama 40 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 37 works
  9. 9 ValleduparColombia 33 works
  10. 10 Santiago de CaliColombia 30 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ValleduparCO · 33.4 works548×
  2. PunoPE · 22.1 works164×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Water Resource Management and Quality?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Universidad César Vallejo and Popular University of Cesar 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 14.38%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Nacional…Universidad César Va…Popular University o…Colegio de Postgradu…
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia 77.519.8%61.7×41 -20.4%
2Universidad César VallejoPeru 71.418.0%52.9×28 +145.3%
3Popular University of CesarColombia 68.210.1%627.3×33 +233.2%
4Colegio de PostgraduadosMexico 61.69.3%89.2×23 +24.6%
5Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 59.514.2%12.3×24 -36.3%
6Universidad de GranadaSpain 57.020.7%8.0×9 +437.4%
7Pedagogical and Technological University of ColombiaColombia 55.117.5%127.1×17 -26.2%
8Universidad Nacional del AltiplanoPeru 55.011.1%167.1×20 +79.3%
9Universidad de GuadalajaraMexico 54.99.5%35.8×21 +6.7%
10Instituto Politécnico NacionalMexico 54.613.6%20.1×13 +60.7%

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 Water Resource Management and Quality, country by country

Is Water Resource Management and Quality research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Water Resource Management and Quality.

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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 Water Resource Management and Quality as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Water Resource Management and Quality0.0090% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Water Resource Management and Quality 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%Water Resource Management and Quality9.6% 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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