| 1 | Advancing human capabilities for water security: A relational approach | Water Security | 2017 | 180 |
| 2 | The need to integrate flood and drought disaster risk reduction strategies | Water Security | 2020 | 165 |
| 3 | A dynamic framework for water security | Water Security | 2017 | 119 |
| 4 | A review of recent advances in urban flood research | Water Security | 2023 | 98 |
| 5 | Advancing methods for research on household water insecurity: Studying entitlements and capabilities, socio-cultural dynamics, and political processes, institutions and governance | Water Security | 2017 | 87 |
| 6 | Socio-economic impacts of flooding: A review of the empirical literature | Water Security | 2018 | 83 |
| 7 | Salinization in large river deltas: Drivers, impacts and socio-hydrological feedbacks | Water Security | 2019 | 65 |
| 8 | Recent advances in paleoflood hydrology: From new archives to data compilation and analysis | Water Security | 2018 | 56 |
| 9 | Exploring the relation between flood risk management and flood resilience | Water Security | 2020 | 53 |
| 10 | On the need of ensemble flood forecast in India | Water Security | 2021 | 53 |
| 11 | A dynamic framework for flood risk | Water Security | 2017 | 48 |
| 12 | Drivers and barriers to urban water reuse: A systematic review | Water Security | 2020 | 48 |
| 13 | Stochastic watershed models for hydrologic risk management | Water Security | 2017 | 45 |
| 14 | Water is a master variable: Solving for resilience in the modern era | Water Security | 2019 | 45 |
| 15 | Are intra- and inter-basin water transfers a sustainable policy intervention for addressing water scarcity? | Water Security | 2020 | 45 |
| 16 | Four dimensions of water security with a case of the indirect role of water in global food security | Water Security | 2017 | 44 |
| 17 | Shifting currents: Managing freshwater systems for ecological resilience in a changing climate | Water Security | 2019 | 41 |
| 18 | Water pollution in India – Current scenario | Water Security | 2022 | 41 |
| 19 | Water security in practice: The quantity-quality-society nexus | Water Security | 2019 | 40 |
| 20 | State of Himalayan cryosphere and implications for water security | Water Security | 2021 | 40 |
| 21 | The state and future of the cryosphere in Central Asia | Water Security | 2020 | 34 |
| 22 | Climate change, water, and human health research in the Arctic | Water Security | 2020 | 33 |
| 23 | Remote sensing-based assessments of land use, soil and vegetation status, crop production and water use in irrigation systems of the Aral Sea Basin. A review | Water Security | 2020 | 32 |
| 24 | Governing a shared hidden resource: A review of governance mechanisms for transboundary groundwater security | Water Security | 2017 | 31 |
| 25 | Reservoirs: New challenges for ecosystem studies and environmental management | Water Security | 2018 | 31 |
| 26 | Invisible water security: Moisture recycling and water resilience | Water Security | 2019 | 31 |
| 27 | Resilience by design: A deep uncertainty approach for water systems in a changing world | Water Security | 2020 | 31 |
| 28 | Scalable solutions to freshwater scarcity: Advancing theories of change to incentivise sustainable water use | Water Security | 2020 | 31 |
| 29 | The impact of water quality on GDP growth: Evidence from around the world | Water Security | 2022 | 31 |
| 30 | Water-use efficiency and productivity improvements towards a sustainable pathway for meeting future water demand | Water Security | 2017 | 30 |
| 31 | Characterizing gender-based violence in the context of water, sanitation, and hygiene: A scoping review of evidence in low- and middle-income countries | Water Security | 2022 | 30 |
| 32 | Inequalities in water, sanitation and hygiene: Challenges and opportunities for measurement and monitoring | Water Security | 2023 | 30 |
| 33 | The impact of climate change on water resources and associated health risks in Bangladesh: A review | Water Security | 2023 | 27 |
| 34 | The role of prices in managing water scarcity | Water Security | 2021 | 25 |
| 35 | Scarcity of fresh water resources in the Ganges Delta of Bangladesh | Water Security | 2018 | 24 |
| 36 | Water availability on the Third Pole: A review | Water Security | 2019 | 24 |
| 37 | Integrating agent-based approaches with flood risk models: A review and perspective | Water Security | 2020 | 23 |
| 38 | How can we plan resilient systems of nature-based mitigation measures in larger catchments for flood risk reduction now and in the future? | Water Security | 2021 | 22 |
| 39 | In full transition: Key impacts of vanishing mountain ice on water-security at local to global scales | Water Security | 2020 | 21 |
| 40 | Water security consequences of the Russia-Ukraine war and the post-war outlook | Water Security | 2024 | 21 |
| 41 | A systematic literature review and content analysis combination to “shed some light” on stream daylighting (Deculverting) | Water Security | 2020 | 19 |
| 42 | Weathering water extremes and cognitive biases in a changing climate | Water Security | 2022 | 19 |
| 43 | Beyond the basin: Water security in transboundary environments | Water Security | 2022 | 19 |
| 44 | Water security in high mountain cities of the Andes under a growing population and climate change: A case study of La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia | Water Security | 2019 | 18 |
| 45 | Decision-making and integrated assessment models of the water-energy-food nexus | Water Security | 2020 | 18 |
| 46 | Socio-hydrological assessment of water security in canal irrigation systems: A conjoint quantitative analysis of equity and reliability | Water Security | 2018 | 17 |
| 47 | Unequal distribution: Academic knowledge production on water governance in Central Asia | Water Security | 2020 | 17 |
| 48 | The potential of the private sector in combating water scarcity: The economics | Water Security | 2021 | 17 |
| 49 | Planning for sustained water-electricity resilience over the U.S.: Persistence of current water-electricity operations and long-term transformative plans | Water Security | 2019 | 16 |
| 50 | Resilience of Water Resource Systems: Lessons from England | Water Security | 2019 | 16 |
