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Water Resources and Governance

Water Resources and Governance is a research topic within Law. Science Explorer counts 860 research works in it since 1958. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on human rights, legal frameworks, and international law, addressing issues such as social justice, equality, civil liberties, ethical challenges, global governance, racial discrimination, and economic justice. It encompasses a wide range of topics related to human rights and legal principles in various contexts and regions.

  • Human Rights
  • Legal Frameworks
  • International Law
  • Social Justice
  • Equality
  • Civil Liberties
  • Ethical Challenges
  • Global Governance
  • Racial Discrimination
  • Economic Justice
Research works
860
fractional, since 1958
In the world top 10%
90
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Romania
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Water Resources and Governance

Which countries lead Water Resources and Governance research?

By volume, Romania and the United States publish the most (41 and 34 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Romania 41 works
  2. 2 United States 34 works
  3. 3 Moldova 30 works
  4. 4 India 20 works
  5. 5 Iraq 12 works
  6. 6 Albania 10 works
  7. 7 Canada 10 works
  8. 8 Poland 8 works
  9. 9 Iran 6 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 6 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.

Romania: 23.3%United States: 19.1%Moldova: 17.1%India: 11.0%6 others listed: 29.5%23%largest
Romania41 · 23.3%United States34 · 19.1%Moldova30 · 17.1%India20 · 11.0%6 others listed52 · 29.5%

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

Which institutions lead Water Resources and Governance research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ştefan cel Mare Police Academy publishes the most Water Resources and Governance research, followed by Moldova State University and Babeș-Bolyai University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ştefan cel Mare Police AcademyMoldova 16 works
  2. 2 Moldova State UniversityMoldova 10 works
  3. 3 Babeș-Bolyai UniversityRomania 7 works
  4. 4 Alexandru Ioan Cuza UniversityRomania 6 works
  5. 5 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 3 works
  6. 6 College of LawLatvia 3 works
  7. 7 University of TiranaAlbania 3 works
  8. 8 Transylvania University of BrașovRomania 2 works
  9. 9 Bioterra University BucharestRomania 2 works
  10. 10 Ştefan cel Mare University of SuceavaRomania 2 works

Who are the leading researchers in Water Resources and Governance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Water Resources and Governance include Martin McKee.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k 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 Resources and Governance?

The most cited paper in Water Resources and Governance is "Creating legal rights for rivers: lessons from Australia, New Zealand, and India" (Erin L. O’Donnell, Julia Talbot-Jones, 2018), with 320 citations. Next come "Sequences of appearance of ossification centers in the human skeleton during the first five prenatal months" (172) and "Un/Free mobility: Roma migrants in the European Union" (159).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Creating legal rights for rivers: lessons from Australia, New Zealand, and India Erin L. O’Donnell, Julia Talbot-Jones · Ecology and Society Open access 2018 320
2 Sequences of appearance of ossification centers in the human skeleton during the first five prenatal months Charles R. Noback, G. Gordon Robertson · American Journal of Anatomy Jul 1951 172
3 Un/Free mobility: Roma migrants in the European Union Can Yıldız, Nicholas De Genova · Social Identities Open access 8 Jun 2017 159
4 Traditional Knowledge and Water Governance: The ethic of responsibility Deborah McGregor · AlterNative An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples Nov 2014 148
5 Thirty-five years of restoring Great Lakes Areas of Concern: Gradual progress, hopeful future John H. Hartig, Gail Krantzberg, Peter J. Alsip · Journal of Great Lakes Research Open access 17 Apr 2020 116
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Where is Water Resources and Governance research done?

The largest centres of Water Resources and Governance research in 2022-now are Chisinau (Moldova), Bucharest (Romania), Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Iași (Romania). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chisinau.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ChisinauMoldova 29 works
  2. 2 BucharestRomania 13 works
  3. 3 Cluj-NapocaRomania 7 works
  4. 4 IașiRomania 7 works
  5. 5 TiranaAlbania 6 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 3 works
  7. 7 SofiaBulgaria 3 works
  8. 8 RigaLatvia 3 works
  9. 9 Ann ArborUnited States 2 works
  10. 10 BudapestHungary 2 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ChisinauMD · 29.4 works328×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Water Resources and Governance than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Water Resources and Governance?

Among universities, judged by research, Moldova State University 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.

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
1Moldova State UniversityMoldova 0.03.4%584.8×10 -44.9%

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 Resources and Governance, country by country

Is Water Resources and Governance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Water Resources and Governance.

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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 Resources and Governance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00044% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%Water Resources and Governance0.0014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Water Resources and Governance 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 counting10%20%Water Resources and Governance10.1% in 202520102020

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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