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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. 5.3% 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%
273
per year above
Top-10% rate
5.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+204%
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Which countries lead Water Resources and Management research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (720 and 302 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Russia 720 works
  2. 2 China 302 works
  3. 3 United States 100 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 58 works
  5. 5 Uzbekistan 52 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 37 works
  7. 7 Mongolia 26 works
  8. 8 Azerbaijan 15 works
  9. 9 India 15 works
  10. 10 Tajikistan 15 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: 53.7%China: 22.5%United States: 7.5%Ukraine: 4.3%6 others listed: 12.0%54%largest
Russia720 · 53.7%China302 · 22.5%United States100 · 7.5%Ukraine58 · 4.3%6 others listed161 · 12.0%

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

Which institutions lead Water Resources and Management research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Water Resources and Management research, followed by Lomonosov Moscow State University and Weatherford College.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 33 works
  2. 2 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 32 works
  3. 3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 29 works
  4. 4 Institute of Water ProblemsRussia 26 works
  5. 5 Limnological InstituteRussia 26 works
  6. 6 V. B. Sochava Institute of GeographyRussia 20 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 19 works
  8. 8 Mongolian Academy of SciencesMongolia 13 works
  9. 9 Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization EngineersUzbekistan 12 works
  10. 10 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 12 works

Where is Water Resources and Management research done?

The largest centres of Water Resources and Management research in 2022–2025 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 Irkutsk and Ulaanbaatar.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Moscow Russia 197 works
  2. 2 Irkutsk Russia 89 works
  3. 3 Beijing China 76 works
  4. 4 Novosibirsk Russia 52 works
  5. 5 Saint Petersburg Russia 48 works
  6. 6 Weatherford United States 29 works
  7. 7 Ulaanbaatar Mongolia 26 works
  8. 8 Tashkent Uzbekistan 26 works
  9. 9 Kyiv Ukraine 21 works
  10. 10 Nanjing China 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IrkutskRU · 88.8 works161×
  2. UlaanbaatarMN · 26.5 works57×
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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%5%10%mean 2.98333%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Lomonosov Moscow State University: 32, 6.6%Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers: 12, 8.5%Weatherford College: 29, 0.0%Moscow State University: 12, 2.8%Irkutsk State University: 10, 0.0%Moscow State University of Civil Engineering: 9, 0.0%Tashkent Institute o…Lomonosov Moscow Sta…Moscow State Univers…Weatherford College
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 70.56.6%25.1×32 +159.9%
2 Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization EngineersUzbekistan 51.28.5%113.3×12 —
3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 49.90.0%14.7×29 —
4 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 49.92.8%29.7×12 +65.0%
5 Irkutsk State UniversityRussia 42.30.0%168.5×10 +250.7%
6 Moscow State University of Civil EngineeringRussia 31.20.0%44.1×9 —

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Water Resources and Management research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 204% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.