| 1 | The Mann-Kendall Test Modified by Effective Sample Size to Detect Trend in Serially Correlated Hydrological Series | Water Resources Management | 2004 | 1,195 |
| 2 | Water footprints of nations: Water use by people as a function of their consumption pattern | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 766 |
| 3 | Assessment of Hydrological Drought Revisited | Water Resources Management | 2008 | 708 |
| 4 | Transitions towards adaptive management of water facing climate and global change | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 692 |
| 5 | Regional Drought Assessment Based on the Reconnaissance Drought Index (RDI) | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 623 |
| 6 | Fitting Drought Duration and Severity with Two-Dimensional Copulas | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 568 |
| 7 | Understanding the complex impacts of drought: A key to enhancing drought mitigation and preparedness | Water Resources Management | 2007 | 531 |
| 8 | A Review of Multiple Criteria Analysis for Water Resource Planning and Management | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 500 |
| 9 | Improving Forecasting Accuracy of Annual Runoff Time Series Using ARIMA Based on EEMD Decomposition | Water Resources Management | 2015 | 449 |
| 10 | Assessment of Groundwater Potential in a Semi-Arid Region of India Using Remote Sensing, GIS and MCDM Techniques | Water Resources Management | 2010 | 422 |
| 11 | Application of Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, and Genetic Algorithm Optimized Random Forest Models in Groundwater Potential Mapping | Water Resources Management | 2017 | 381 |
| 12 | Groundwater management and development by integrated remote sensing and geographic information systems: prospects and constraints | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 376 |
| 13 | Challenges to Manage the Risk of Water Scarcity and Climate Change in the Mediterranean | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 355 |
| 14 | The Use of System Dynamics Simulation in Water Resources Management | Water Resources Management | 2008 | 330 |
| 15 | Simulation–Optimization Modeling: A Survey and Potential Application in Reservoir Systems Operation | Water Resources Management | 2009 | 324 |
| 16 | Determining the Main Factors in Declining the Urmia Lake Level by Using System Dynamics Modeling | Water Resources Management | 2011 | 305 |
| 17 | Differences in Spatial Patterns of Drought on Different Time Scales: An Analysis of the Iberian Peninsula | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 304 |
| 18 | Trend Analysis in Reference Evapotranspiration Using Mann-Kendall and Spearman’s Rho Tests in Arid Regions of Iran | Water Resources Management | 2011 | 304 |
| 19 | Drought Analysis in the Awash River Basin, Ethiopia | Water Resources Management | 2009 | 295 |
| 20 | A Multivariate ANN-Wavelet Approach for Rainfall–Runoff Modeling | Water Resources Management | 2009 | 287 |
| 21 | A GIS-Based Spatial Multi-Criteria Approach for Flood Risk Assessment in the Dongting Lake Region, Hunan, Central China | Water Resources Management | 2011 | 285 |
| 24 | Groundwater and Surface Water Interaction at the Regional-scale – A Review with Focus on Regional Integrated Models | Water Resources Management | 2015 | 268 |
| 25 | Synthesis of System Dynamics Tools for Holistic Conceptualization of Water Resources Problems | Water Resources Management | 2012 | 260 |
| 26 | Identification of critical erosion prone areas in the small agricultural watershed using USLE, GIS and remote sensing | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 257 |
| 27 | Groundwater Level Forecasting in a Shallow Aquifer Using Artificial Neural Network Approach | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 255 |
| 28 | Pressure Control for Leakage Minimisation in Water Distribution Systems Management | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 253 |
| 29 | Water Footprint Assessment: Evolvement of a New Research Field | Water Resources Management | 2017 | 249 |
| 30 | Multi-Criteria Analysis Framework for Potential Flood Prone Areas Mapping | Water Resources Management | 2014 | 247 |
| 31 | Remote Sensing and GIS Based Groundwater Potential & Recharge Zones Mapping Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Technique | Water Resources Management | 2015 | 241 |
| 32 | Assessing groundwater quality using GIS | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 240 |
| 33 | Drought forecasting using the Standardized Precipitation Index | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 239 |
| 34 | Machine Learning Techniques for Downscaling SMOS Satellite Soil Moisture Using MODIS Land Surface Temperature for Hydrological Application | Water Resources Management | 2013 | 237 |
| 35 | Towards a Drought Watch System based on Spatial SPI | Water Resources Management | 2004 | 235 |
| 36 | A Comparative Assessment Between Three Machine Learning Models and Their Performance Comparison by Bivariate and Multivariate Statistical Methods in Groundwater Potential Mapping | Water Resources Management | 2015 | 233 |
| 37 | Spatial Patterns and Temporal Variability of Drought in Western Iran | Water Resources Management | 2008 | 224 |
| 38 | Lake-Level Change and Water Balance Analysis at Lake Qinghai, West China during Recent Decades | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 216 |
| 39 | Assessments of Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on Runoff with SWAT for the Huifa River Basin, Northeast China | Water Resources Management | 2012 | 216 |
| 40 | Performance Comparison of an LSTM-based Deep Learning Model versus Conventional Machine Learning Algorithms for Streamflow Forecasting | Water Resources Management | 2021 | 212 |
| 41 | Reservoir Optimization in Water Resources: a Review | Water Resources Management | 2014 | 208 |
| 42 | An Integrated Indicator Based on Basin Hydrology, Environment, Life, and Policy: The Watershed Sustainability Index | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 207 |
| 43 | Honey-Bees Mating Optimization (HBMO) Algorithm: A New Heuristic Approach for Water Resources Optimization | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 206 |
| 44 | Optimal Reservoir Operation Using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 205 |
| 45 | Groundwater Recharge Zone Mapping Using GIS-Based Multi-criteria Analysis: A Case Study in Central Tunisia (Maknassy Basin) | Water Resources Management | 2009 | 202 |
| 46 | Computation of Drought Index SPI with Alternative Distribution Functions | Water Resources Management | 2012 | 200 |
| 47 | Challenges and Prospects of Sustainable Groundwater Management in the Indus Basin, Pakistan | Water Resources Management | 2009 | 199 |
| 48 | Ensemble Boosting and Bagging Based Machine Learning Models for Groundwater Potential Prediction | Water Resources Management | 2020 | 195 |
| 49 | Optimizing Hydropower Reservoir Operation Using Hybrid Genetic Algorithm and Chaos | Water Resources Management | 2007 | 194 |
| 50 | A Wavelet-ANFIS Hybrid Model for Groundwater Level Forecasting for Different Prediction Periods | Water Resources Management | 2013 | 194 |
