Most cited papers in Water resources management and optimization
What are the most cited papers in Water resources management and optimization?
The most cited paper in Water resources management and optimization is "The use of the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) in the delineation of open water features" (Stuart K. McFeeters, 1996), with 7,778 citations. Next come "Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity" (7,637) and "Long-Term Storage Capacity of Reservoirs" (6,327).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 862 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The use of the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) in the delineation of open water features Stuart K. McFeeters · International Journal of Remote Sensing | May 1996 | 7,778 |
| 2 | Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity Charles J. Vörösmarty, Peter B. McIntyre, Mark O. Gessner et al. · Nature | 28 Sep 2010 | 7,637 |
| 3 | Long-Term Storage Capacity of Reservoirs H. E. Hurst · Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers | 1951 | 6,327 |
| 4 | Risk Aversion and Incentive Effects Charles A. Holt, Susan K. Laury · American Economic Review | Nov 2002 | 5,826 |
| 5 | Four billion people facing severe water scarcity Mesfin Mergia Mekonnen, Arjen Y. Hoekstra · Science Advances | 5 Feb 2016 | 5,528 |
| 6 | Global Water Resources: Vulnerability from Climate Change and Population Growth Charles J Vörösmarty, Pamela Green, Joseph E. Salisbury et al. · Science | 14 Jul 2000 | 5,143 |
| 7 | Stationarity Is Dead: Whither Water Management? Paul C. D. Milly, Julio L. Betancourt, Malin Falkenmark et al. · Science | Feb 2008 | 4,645 |
| 8 | The Price of Robustness Dimitris Bertsimas, Melvyn Sim · Operations Research | Feb 2004 | 4,567 |
| 9 | Global Hydrological Cycles and World Water Resources Taikan Oki, Shinjiro Kanae · Science | 24 Aug 2006 | 4,472 |
| 10 | Understanding: the Drought Phenomenon: The Role of Definitions Donald A. Wilhite, Michael H. Glantz · Water International | 1985 | 3,202 |
| 11 | A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas Элинор Остром · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 19 Sep 2007 | 2,735 |
| 12 | Reassessing the projections of the World Water Development Report Alberto A. Boretti, Lorenzo Rosa · npj Clean Water | 31 Jul 2019 | 2,575 |
| 13 | A niched Pareto genetic algorithm for multiobjective optimization Jeffrey D. Horn, N. Nafpliotis, David E. Goldberg | 17 Dec 2002 | 2,438 |
| 14 | The water footprint of humanity Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Mesfin Mergia Mekonnen · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 13 Feb 2012 | 2,289 |
| 15 | A conceptual framework for analysing adaptive capacity and multi-level learning processes in resource governance regimes Claudia Pahl‐Wostl · Global Environmental Change | 16 Jul 2009 | 2,251 |
| 16 | A global boom in hydropower dam construction Christiane Zarfl, Alexander E. Lumsdon, Jürgen Berlekamp et al. · Aquatic Sciences | 24 Oct 2014 | 2,197 |
| 17 | Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers Walter Willem Immerzeel et al. · Nature | 9 Dec 2019 | 2,145 |
| 18 | Groundwater use for irrigation – a global inventory Stefan Siebert, Jacob J. Burke, J.M. Faurès et al. · Hydrology and earth system sciences | 12 Oct 2010 | 1,958 |
| 19 | The global groundwater crisis J. S. Famiglietti · Nature Climate Change | 28 Oct 2014 | 1,934 |
| 20 | Multimodel assessment of water scarcity under climate change Jacob Schewe et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 16 Dec 2013 | 1,906 |
| 21 | Future global urban water scarcity and potential solutions Chunyang He, Zhifeng Liu, Jianguo Wu et al. · Nature Communications | 3 Aug 2021 | 1,864 |
| 22 | A continental-scale hydrology and water quality model for Europe: Calibration and uncertainty of a high-resolution large-scale SWAT model Karim C. Abbaspour, Elham Rouholahnejad, Saeid Ashraf Vaghefi et al. · Journal of Hydrology | 26 Mar 2015 | 1,814 |
| 23 | Markets in licenses and efficient pollution control programs W. David Montgomery · Journal of Economic Theory | Dec 1972 | 1,809 |
| 24 | The Water Footprint Assessment Manual. Setting the Global Standard Matthew S. Egan · Social and Environmental Accountability Journal | 30 Aug 2011 | 1,777 |
| 25 | Dynamic adaptive policy pathways: A method for crafting robust decisions for a deeply uncertain world Marjolijn Haasnoot, Jan H. Kwakkel, Warren E. Walker et al. · Global Environmental Change | 8 Feb 2013 | 1,776 |
| 26 | Shuffled complex evolution approach for effective and efficient global minimization Qingyun Duan, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Soroosh Sorooshian · Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications | Mar 1993 | 1,759 |
| 27 | Reliability, resiliency, and vulnerability criteria for water resource system performance evaluation Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Jery R. Stedinger, Daniel Peter Loucks · Water Resources Research | Feb 1982 | 1,715 |
| 28 | Water cycle algorithm – A novel metaheuristic optimization method for solving constrained engineering optimization problems Hadi Eskandar, Ali Sadollah, Ardeshir Bahreininejad et al. · Computers & Structures | 27 Aug 2012 | 1,672 |
| 29 | Optimal Operation of Multireservoir Systems: State-of-the-Art Review John W. Labadie · Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management | 20 Feb 2004 | 1,594 |
| 30 | Characterising performance of environmental models Neil Bennett, Barry Croke, Giorgio Guariso et al. · Environmental Modelling & Software | 6 Nov 2012 | 1,579 |
| 31 | Optimal use of the SCE-UA global optimization method for calibrating watershed models Qingyun Duan, Soroosh Sorooshian, Vijai Kumar Gupta · Journal of Hydrology | Jun 1994 | 1,565 |
| 32 | Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change Ingjerd Haddeland, Jens Heinke, Hester Biemans et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 16 Dec 2013 | 1,488 |
| 33 | Human Appropriation of Renewable Fresh Water Sandra L. Postel, Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R. Ehrlich · Science | 9 Feb 1996 | 1,473 |
| 34 | Technical note: Inherent benchmark or not? Comparing Nash–Sutcliffe and Kling–Gupta efficiency scores Wouter Johannes Maria Knoben, Jim E. Freer, Ross A. Woods · Hydrology and earth system sciences | 25 Oct 2019 | 1,401 |
| 35 | Global water crisis and future food security in an era of climate change Munir A. Hanjra, Muhammad Ejaz Qureshi · Food Policy | 17 Jun 2010 | 1,400 |
| 36 | Optimization of Water Distribution Network Design Using the Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm Muzaffar M. Eusuff, Kevin Lansey · Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management | 21 Apr 2003 | 1,397 |
| 37 | The Palmer Drought Severity Index: Limitations and Assumptions William M. Alley · Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology | Jul 1984 | 1,389 |
| 38 | Global Freshwater Resources: Soft-Path Solutions for the 21st Century Peter H. Gleick · Science | 28 Nov 2003 | 1,386 |
| 39 | Multi-stage stochastic optimization applied to energy planning Mario V. F. Pereira, Leontina M. V. G. Pinto · Mathematical Programming | May 1991 | 1,382 |
| 40 | Water management: Current and future challenges and research directions William J. Cosgrove, Daniel Peter Loucks · Water Resources Research | Jun 2015 | 1,364 |
| 41 | Scenarios and Policy Aggregation in Optimization Under Uncertainty R. TYRRELL ROCKAFELLAR, Roger J.‐B. Wets · Mathematics of Operations Research | Feb 1991 | 1,357 |
| 42 | Strategies to adapt to an uncertain climate change Stéphane Hallegatte · Global Environmental Change | 22 Feb 2009 | 1,352 |
| 43 | Water scarcity: Fact or fiction? Frank Rijsberman · Agricultural Water Management | 9 Aug 2005 | 1,349 |
| 44 | Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Freshwater Consumption in LCA Stephan Pfister, Annette Koehler, Stefanie Hellweg · Environmental Science & Technology | 23 Apr 2009 | 1,324 |
| 45 | Money for Nothing? A Call for Empirical Evaluation of Biodiversity Conservation Investments Paul J. Ferraro, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak · PLoS Biology | 7 Apr 2006 | 1,314 |
| 46 | Social Learning and Water Resources Management Claudia Pahl‐Wostl, Marc Craps, Art Dewulf et al. · Ecology and Society | 2007 | 1,314 |
| 47 | Considering the energy, water and food nexus: Towards an integrated modelling approach Morgan Bazilian, Holger Rogner, Mark Howells et al. · Energy Policy | 25 Oct 2011 | 1,302 |
| 48 | Socio‐hydrology: A new science of people and water Murugesu Sivapalan, Hubert H. G. Savenije, Günter Blöschl · Hydrological Processes | 12 Dec 2011 | 1,289 |
| 49 | A global hydrological model for deriving water availability indicators: model tuning and validation Petra Döll, Frank Kaspar, Bernhard Lehner · Journal of Hydrology | 30 Dec 2002 | 1,262 |
| 50 | The United Nations World Water Development Report 2015: Water for a Sustainable World Jessica Lucinda Amprako · Future of food: journal on food, agriculture and society | 31 Aug 2016 | 1,232 |
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