Most cited papers in Water Resources and Sustainability
What are the most cited papers in Water Resources and Sustainability?
The most cited paper in Water Resources and Sustainability is "Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out" (William E. Rees, 1992), with 2,414 citations. Next come "Water footprints of nations: Water use by people as a function of their consumption pattern" (1,471) and "Water scarcity: Fact or fiction?" (1,349).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 196 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ecological footprints and appropriated carrying capacity: what urban economics leaves out William E. Rees · Environment and Urbanization | Oct 1992 | 2,414 |
| 2 | Water footprints of nations: Water use by people as a function of their consumption pattern Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Ashok Kumar Chapagain · Water Resources Management | 26 Jun 2006 | 1,471 |
| 3 | Water scarcity: Fact or fiction? Frank Rijsberman · Agricultural Water Management | 9 Aug 2005 | 1,349 |
| 4 | Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future Junguo Liu, Hong Yang, Simon Newland Gosling et al. · Earth s Future | 22 Mar 2017 | 1,156 |
| 5 | Economic growth, carrying capacity, and the environment Kenneth Joseph Arrow, Bert Bolin, Robert Costanza et al. · Ecological Economics | Nov 1995 | 861 |
| 6 | Calculating a Water Poverty Index Caroline A Sullivan · World Development | Jul 2002 | 852 |
| 7 | Introduction to land use and rural sustainability in China Yansui Liu · Land Use Policy | 9 Apr 2018 | 729 |
| 8 | China's water scarcity Yong Jiang · Journal of Environmental Management | 18 Jun 2009 | 724 |
| 9 | Globalisation of water resources: international virtual water flows in relation to crop trade Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Pei-Yu Hung · Global Environmental Change | 19 Dec 2004 | 718 |
| 10 | Review and challenges of policies of environmental protection and sustainable development in China Kunmin Zhang, Zongguo Wen · Journal of Environmental Management | 5 Sep 2007 | 716 |
| 11 | Pollution exacerbates China’s water scarcity and its regional inequality Ting Ma, Siao Sun, Guangtao Fu et al. · Nature Communications | 31 Jan 2020 | 700 |
| 12 | Industrial water pollution, water environment treatment, and health risks in China Qīng Wáng, Zhiming Yang · Environmental Pollution | 19 Jul 2016 | 699 |
| 13 | Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in China: Causes and Mitigation Measures Bo Sun, Linxiu Zhang, Linzhang Yang et al. · AMBIO | 4 Feb 2012 | 585 |
| 14 | Global monthly water stress: 2. Water demand and severity of water stress Yoshihide Wada, Rens van Beek, Daniel Viviroli et al. · Water Resources Research | Jul 2011 | 572 |
| 15 | Authoritarian environmentalism and China's response to climate change Bruce Gilley · Environmental Politics | Mar 2012 | 562 |
| 16 | Physical and virtual water transfers for regional water stress alleviation in China Xu Zhao, Junguo Liu, Qingying Liu et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 12 Jan 2015 | 552 |
| 17 | Water Sustainability for China and Beyond Jianguo Liu, Wu Yang · Science | 9 Aug 2012 | 514 |
| 18 | The Water Poverty Index: Development and application at the community scale Caroline A Sullivan, Jeremy Meigh, Anna Marie Giacomello · Natural Resources Forum | Aug 2003 | 501 |
| 19 | Revisiting carrying capacity: Area-based indicators of sustainability William E. Rees · Population and Environment | 1996 | 494 |
| 20 | A multi-regional input–output analysis of domestic virtual water trade and provincial water footprint in China Chao Zhang, Laura Díaz Anadón · Ecological Economics | 3 Mar 2014 | 449 |
| 21 | International trade of scarce water Manfred Lenzen, Daniel Dean Moran, Anik Bhaduri et al. · Ecological Economics | 8 Aug 2013 | 438 |
| 22 | Assessment of regional trade and virtual water flows in China Dabo Guan, Klaus Hubacek · Ecological Economics | 8 Mar 2006 | 402 |
| 23 | Environmental implications of urbanization and lifestyle change in China: Ecological and Water Footprints Klaus Hubacek, Dabo Guan, John Barrett et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production | 9 May 2009 | 363 |
| 24 | COMPARISON OF BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN APPROACHES TO CALCULATING THE WATER FOOTPRINTS OF NATIONS Kuishuang Feng, Ashok Kumar Chapagain, Sangwon Suh et al. · Economic Systems Research | Dec 2011 | 360 |
| 25 | A comprehensive review of constraints to improved management of fertilizers in China and mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture Laurence Smith, Giuseppina Siciliano · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment | 6 Apr 2015 | 348 |
| 26 | Review of methods addressing freshwater use in life cycle inventory and impact assessment Anna Kounina, Manuele D. Margni, Jean-Baptiste Bayart et al. · The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment | 26 Oct 2012 | 337 |
| 27 | Coupling coordination analysis and spatiotemporal heterogeneity between urbanization and ecosystem health in Chongqing municipality, China Weijie Li, Yong Wang, Shiyou Xie et al. · The Science of The Total Environment | 5 Jun 2021 | 334 |
| 28 | Ecological vulnerability assessment for ecological conservation and environmental management Li He, Jing Shuang Shen, Yang Zhang · Journal of Environmental Management | 15 Dec 2017 | 332 |
| 29 | Assessing regional virtual water flows and water footprints in the Yellow River Basin, China: A consumption based approach Kuishuang Feng, Yim Ling Siu, Dabo Guan et al. · Applied Geography | 31 Aug 2011 | 327 |
| 30 | Assessing freshwater use impacts in LCA: Part I—inventory modelling and characterisation factors for the main impact pathways Llorenç Milà i Canals, Jonathan Chenoweth, Ashok Kumar Chapagain et al. · The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment | 8 Sep 2008 | 324 |
| 31 | Virtual water accounting for the globalized world economy: National water footprint and international virtual water trade Zhanming Chen, G.Q. Chen · Ecological Indicators | 14 Aug 2012 | 323 |
| 32 | Carrying capacity reconsidered: from Malthus’ population theory to cultural carrying capacity Irmi Seidl, Clem Tisdell · Ecological Economics | Dec 1999 | 320 |
| 33 | Structural change and growth accelerations in Asia and Latin America: a new sectoral data set Marcel P. Timmer, Gaaitzen J. de Vries · Cliometrica | 12 Jun 2008 | 317 |
| 34 | Environmental vulnerability assessment for mainland China based on entropy method Jincai Zhao, Guangxing Ji, Yuan Tian et al. · Ecological Indicators | 24 Apr 2018 | 312 |
| 35 | Spatial variation and source apportionment of water pollution in Qiantang River (China) using statistical techniques Fang Huang, Xiaoquan Wang, Liping Lou et al. · Water Research | 12 Nov 2009 | 310 |
| 36 | Virtual Scarce Water in China Kuishuang Feng, Klaus Hubacek, Stephan Pfister et al. · Environmental Science & Technology | 12 Jun 2014 | 306 |
| 37 | A system dynamics approach for regional environmental planning and management: A study for the Lake Erhai Basin Hua‐Qiu Guo, Lei Liu, Guohe Huang et al. · Journal of Environmental Management | 2001 | 304 |
| 38 | Combining AHP with GIS in synthetic evaluation of eco-environment quality—A case study of Hunan Province, China Xiong Ying, Guangming Zeng, Guiqiu Chen et al. · Ecological Modelling | 21 Jul 2007 | 299 |
| 39 | An Integrated Indicator Based on Basin Hydrology, Environment, Life, and Policy: The Watershed Sustainability Index Henrique Marinho Leite Chaves, Suzana Alipaz · Water Resources Management | 24 Nov 2006 | 298 |
| 40 | Assessment of city sustainability—Coupling coordinated development among economy, society and environment Weiwei Li, Pingtao Yi · Journal of Cleaner Production | 8 Feb 2020 | 296 |
| 41 | Comprehensive evaluation and scenario simulation for the water resources carrying capacity in Xi'an city, China Zhaoyang Yang, Jinxi Song, Dandong Cheng et al. · Journal of Environmental Management | 2 Oct 2018 | 296 |
| 42 | Measuring global water security towards sustainable development goals Animesh Kumar Gain, Carlo Giupponi, Yoshihide Wada · Environmental Research Letters | Dec 2016 | 289 |
| 43 | National water footprint in an input–output framework—A case study of China 2002 Xu Zhao, Bin Chen, Z.F. Yang · Ecological Modelling | 20 Nov 2008 | 288 |
| 44 | Analysis of ecological carrying capacity using a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method Xueling Wu, Fang Hu · Ecological Indicators | 3 Mar 2020 | 287 |
| 45 | China's water security: Current status, emerging challenges and future prospects Yong Jiang · Environmental Science & Policy | 10 Jul 2015 | 277 |
| 46 | Water resources transfers through Chinese interprovincial and foreign food trade Carole Dalin, Naota Hanasaki, Huanguang Qiu et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 23 Jun 2014 | 266 |
| 47 | A critique on the water-scarcity weighted water footprint in LCA Arjen Y. Hoekstra · Ecological Indicators | 26 Feb 2016 | 265 |
| 48 | Indicator-based water sustainability assessment — A review Iwan Juwana, Nitin Muttil, B. J. C. Perera · The Science of The Total Environment | 28 Sep 2012 | 264 |
| 49 | Urbanization, land use, and water quality in Shanghai Wenwei Ren, Yang Zhong, John F. Meligrana et al. · Environment International | 12 May 2003 | 264 |
| 50 | The key drivers for the changes in global water scarcity: Water withdrawal versus water availability Zhongwei Huang, Xing Yuan, Xingcai Liu · Journal of Hydrology | 9 Jul 2021 | 263 |
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