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Water Resources and Management

Water Resources and Management is a research topic within Ecology. Science Explorer counts 5.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the environmental impact, ecological changes, and water quality issues in the Lake Baikal ecosystem, particularly in relation to climate change, sediment transport, nutrient emissions, and land-use changes in the Selenga River Basin. The research also addresses the biodiversity and unique freshwater ecosystem of Lake Baikal.

  • Lake Baikal
  • ecological change
  • water quality
  • climate change
  • Selenga River Basin
  • biodiversity
  • sediment transport
  • nutrient emissions
  • land-use change
  • freshwater ecosystem
Research works
5.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
532
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Water Resources and Management

Which countries lead Water Resources and Management research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (863 and 342 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 863 works
  2. 2 China 342 works
  3. 3 United States 125 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 74 works
  5. 5 Uzbekistan 70 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 46 works
  7. 7 Mongolia 31 works
  8. 8 Azerbaijan 21 works
  9. 9 India 19 works
  10. 10 Tajikistan 19 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.

Russia: 53.6%China: 21.2%United States: 7.8%Ukraine: 4.6%6 others listed: 12.8%54%largest
Russia863 · 53.6%China342 · 21.2%United States125 · 7.8%Ukraine74 · 4.6%6 others listed206 · 12.8%

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

Which institutions lead Water Resources and Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Water Resources and Management research, followed by Lomonosov Moscow State University and Weatherford College.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 341 works
  2. 2 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 39 works
  3. 3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 35 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 35 works
  5. 5 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 15 works
  6. 6 Mongolian Academy of SciencesMongolia 14 works
  7. 7 Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization EngineersUzbekistan 13 works
  8. 8 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 13 works
  9. 9 Irkutsk State UniversityRussia 12 works
  10. 10 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 11 works

What are the most cited papers in Water Resources and Management?

The most cited paper in Water Resources and Management is "THE COMPARISON OF DENDROGRAMS BY OBJECTIVE METHODS" (Robert R. Sokal, F. James Rohlf, 1962), with 1,751 citations. Next come "Appraisal and Assessment of World Water Resources" (1,081) and "DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF WATER AVAILABILITY TO PLANTS" (884).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 THE COMPARISON OF DENDROGRAMS BY OBJECTIVE METHODS Robert R. Sokal, F. James Rohlf · Taxon Feb 1962 1,751
2 Appraisal and Assessment of World Water Resources I. A. Shiklomanov · Water International Mar 2000 1,081
3 DYNAMIC ASPECTS OF WATER AVAILABILITY TO PLANTS W. R. Gardner · Soil Science Feb 1960 884
4 Desiccation of the Aral Sea: A Water Management Disaster in the Soviet Union Philip Micklin · Science 2 Sep 1988 523
5 SOME GENERALIZED THEOREMS OF NATURAL SELECTION Robert H. MacArthur · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access Nov 1962 457
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Water Resources and Management research done?

The largest centres of Water Resources and Management research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Irkutsk (Russia), Beijing (China) and Novosibirsk (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk and Ulaanbaatar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 238 works
  2. 2 IrkutskRussia 104 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 88 works
  4. 4 NovosibirskRussia 61 works
  5. 5 Saint PetersburgRussia 57 works
  6. 6 TashkentUzbekistan 35 works
  7. 7 WeatherfordUnited States 35 works
  8. 8 UlaanbaatarMongolia 31 works
  9. 9 KyivUkraine 27 works
  10. 10 AlmatyKazakhstan 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Ulan-UdeRU · 22.2 works221×
  2. IrkutskRU · 103.7 works162×
  3. UlaanbaatarMN · 30.8 works54×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers and Weatherford College 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 7.45556%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Kazan Federal Univer…Tashkent Institute o…Lomonosov Moscow Sta…Weatherford College
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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
1Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 60.010.3%28.9×39 +7.2%
2Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization EngineersUzbekistan 57.513.4%114.6×13 +13.4%
3Weatherford CollegeUnited States 54.99.4%16.5×35 +254.2%
4Kazan Federal UniversityRussia 42.215.8%20.0×9 -52.0%
5Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 31.32.0%34.3×14 +56.5%
6Irkutsk State UniversityRussia 20.86.1%187.9×12 -33.0%
7Irkutsk National Research Technical UniversityRussia 16.62.8%99.4×8 +23.5%
8St Petersburg UniversityRussia 15.53.7%12.5×9 +51.1%
9Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 6.93.6%49.5×11 -47.9%

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 Management, country by country

Is Water Resources and Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Water Resources and 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 Water Resources and Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0058% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Water Resources and Management0.0082% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Water Resources and 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%Water Resources and Management11.1% 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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