| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Water footprints of nations: Water use by people as a function of their consumption pattern | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 982 |
| 2 | The Mann-Kendall Test Modified by Effective Sample Size to Detect Trend in Serially Correlated Hydrological Series | Water Resources Management | 2004 | 883 |
| 3 | Transitions towards adaptive management of water facing climate and global change | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 800 |
| 4 | Regional Drought Assessment Based on the Reconnaissance Drought Index (RDI) | Water Resources Management | 2007 | 584 |
| 5 | Assessment of Hydrological Drought Revisited | Water Resources Management | 2009 | 578 |
| 6 | A Review of Multiple Criteria Analysis for Water Resource Planning and Management | Water Resources Management | 2007 | 536 |
| 7 | Fitting Drought Duration and Severity with Two-Dimensional Copulas | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 531 |
| 8 | Understanding the complex impacts of drought: A key to enhancing drought mitigation and preparedness | Water Resources Management | 2007 | 513 |
| 9 | Improving Forecasting Accuracy of Annual Runoff Time Series Using ARIMA Based on EEMD Decomposition | Water Resources Management | 2015 | 440 |
| 10 | Assessment of Groundwater Potential in a Semi-Arid Region of India Using Remote Sensing, GIS and MCDM Techniques | Water Resources Management | 2011 | 390 |
| 11 | Groundwater management and development by integrated remote sensing and geographic information systems: prospects and constraints | Water Resources Management | 2007 | 384 |
| 12 | Challenges to Manage the Risk of Water Scarcity and Climate Change in the Mediterranean | Water Resources Management | 2007 | 377 |
| 13 | Simulation–Optimization Modeling: A Survey and Potential Application in Reservoir Systems Operation | Water Resources Management | 2010 | 362 |
| 14 | The Use of System Dynamics Simulation in Water Resources Management | Water Resources Management | 2009 | 333 |
| 15 | Differences in Spatial Patterns of Drought on Different Time Scales: An Analysis of the Iberian Peninsula | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 324 |
| 16 | Application of Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, and Genetic Algorithm Optimized Random Forest Models in Groundwater Potential Mapping | Water Resources Management | 2017 | 316 |
| 17 | Honey-Bees Mating Optimization (HBMO) Algorithm: A New Heuristic Approach for Water Resources Optimization | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 310 |
| 18 | Determining the Main Factors in Declining the Urmia Lake Level by Using System Dynamics Modeling | Water Resources Management | 2012 | 308 |
| 19 | A Multivariate ANN-Wavelet Approach for Rainfall–Runoff Modeling | Water Resources Management | 2009 | 302 |
| 20 | Spatial Variability of Drought: An Analysis of the SPI in Sicily | Water Resources Management | 2003 | 293 |
| 21 | Trend Analysis in Reference Evapotranspiration Using Mann-Kendall and Spearman’s Rho Tests in Arid Regions of Iran | Water Resources Management | 2012 | 288 |
| 22 | Pressure Control for Leakage Minimisation in Water Distribution Systems Management | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 286 |
| 23 | Identification of critical erosion prone areas in the small agricultural watershed using USLE, GIS and remote sensing | Water Resources Management | 2007 | 278 |
| 24 | (null) | Water Resources Management | 2002 | 277 |
| 25 | Groundwater Level Forecasting in a Shallow Aquifer Using Artificial Neural Network Approach | Water Resources Management | 2006 | 277 |
| 26 | Soil Erosion Assessment in a Hilly Catchment of North Eastern India Using USLE, GIS and Remote Sensing | Water Resources Management | 2008 | 264 |
| 27 | A GIS-Based Spatial Multi-Criteria Approach for Flood Risk Assessment in the Dongting Lake Region, Hunan, Central China | Water Resources Management | 2011 | 262 |
| 28 | Drought Analysis in the Awash River Basin, Ethiopia | Water Resources Management | 2010 | 260 |
| 29 | Synthesis of System Dynamics Tools for Holistic Conceptualization of Water Resources Problems | Water Resources Management | 2012 | 255 |
| 30 | Drought forecasting using the Standardized Precipitation Index | Water Resources Management | 2007 | 242 |
| 31 | Spatial Patterns and Temporal Variability of Drought in Western Iran | Water Resources Management | 2009 | 241 |
| 32 | Machine Learning Techniques for Downscaling SMOS Satellite Soil Moisture Using MODIS Land Surface Temperature for Hydrological Application | Water Resources Management | 2013 | 237 |
| 33 | Assessing groundwater quality using GIS | Water Resources Management | 2007 | 235 |
| 34 | Optimizing Hydropower Reservoir Operation Using Hybrid Genetic Algorithm and Chaos | Water Resources Management | 2008 | 235 |
| 35 | Towards a Drought Watch System based on Spatial SPI | Water Resources Management | 2004 | 232 |
| 36 | Reservoir Optimization in Water Resources: a Review | Water Resources Management | 2014 | 222 |
| 37 | Climate Change and Hydrologic Models: A Review of Existing Gaps and Recent Research Developments | Water Resources Management | 1999 | 221 |
| 38 | Short-Term Water Demand Forecast Modelling at IIT Kanpur Using Artificial Neural Networks | Water Resources Management | 2001 | 220 |
| 39 | Maturing the New Water Management Paradigm: Progressing from Aspiration to Practice | Water Resources Management | 2011 | 220 |
| 40 | An Integrated Indicator Based on Basin Hydrology, Environment, Life, and Policy: The Watershed Sustainability Index | Water Resources Management | 2007 | 219 |
| 41 | Groundwater and Surface Water Interaction at the Regional-scale – A Review with Focus on Regional Integrated Models | Water Resources Management | 2016 | 214 |
| 42 | 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 | 213 |
| 43 | Multi-Criteria Analysis Framework for Potential Flood Prone Areas Mapping | Water Resources Management | 2015 | 213 |
| 44 | Lake-Level Change and Water Balance Analysis at Lake Qinghai, West China during Recent Decades | Water Resources Management | 2007 | 211 |
| 45 | Remote Sensing and GIS Based Groundwater Potential & Recharge Zones Mapping Using Multi-Criteria Decision Making Technique | Water Resources Management | 2016 | 207 |
| 46 | Estimation of Soil Erosion for a Himalayan Watershed Using GIS Technique | Water Resources Management | 2001 | 206 |
| 47 | Delineation of Flood-Prone Areas Using Remote Sensing Techniques | Water Resources Management | 2005 | 205 |
| 48 | Groundwater Recharge Zone Mapping Using GIS-Based Multi-criteria Analysis: A Case Study in Central Tunisia (Maknassy Basin) | Water Resources Management | 2010 | 203 |
| 49 | Challenges and Prospects of Sustainable Groundwater Management in the Indus Basin, Pakistan | Water Resources Management | 2010 | 203 |
| 50 | Review on Regional Water Resources Assessment Models under Stationary and Changing Climate | Water Resources Management | 2004 | 202 |
