Leaderboards/Water Governance and Infrastructure

Water Governance and Infrastructure

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Gediminas Lesutis
University of Cambridge
2
Nick Fitzpatrick
Aarhus University
3
N. Bucky Stanton
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
4
Anna Jackman
University of Exeter
5
Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
6
Lena Hommes
Universitat de Girona
7
Sy Taffel
Massey University
8
Zhe Huang
Southeast University
9
Diop Cheikh
Unknown
10
Sarah Vaughn
Yale University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Infrastructured bodies: Between violence and fugitivity
Progress in Human Geography|2024
28 cit.
2
Foundations of Social Ecological Economics: The Fight for Revolutionary Change in Economic Thought
Capitalism Nature Socialism|2024
11 cit.
3
AI urbanism and feminist geopolitics: making space for diverse practices, actors and agencies
Urban Geography|2024
9 cit.
4
Exploring the degrowth movement: A survey of conceptualisations, strategies, and tactics
Energy Research & Social Science|2025
5 cit.
5
Where are the pandemic drones? On the ‘failure’ of automated aerial solutionism
New Media & Society|2024
4 cit.
6
Ambivalent temporalities of mega-infrastructures in Lamu, Kenya
Geoforum|2025
4 cit.
7
From 5G to drones: For a feminist geopolitics of the electromagnetic spectrum
Progress in Human Geography|2025
4 cit.
8
Everyday understandings of drone incidents and misuse in the Mass Observation Archive
Geographical Journal|2025
2 cit.
9
The Making of Caribbean Approaches to Climate Adaptation
Current History|2024
1 cit.
10
Unavoidable Slips: Settler Colonialism and Terra Nullius in the Wake of Climate Adaptation
Critical Inquiry|2024
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Jack Layton
University College London
2
Arnim Scheidel
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
3
Maria Rusca
Center for Global Development
4
Martin Danyluk
University of British Columbia
5
Claudia Strambo
Stockholm Environment Institute
6
Julia Talbot-Jones
University of Canterbury
7
Christopher Sneddon
Dartmouth College
8
Nicole J. Wilson
University of Manitoba
9
Vanesa Rodríguez Osuna
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
10
Martina Angela Caretta
Lund University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Urban water crises driven by elites’ unsustainable consumption
Nature Sustainability|2023
151 cit.
2
Social infrastructure: why it matters and how urban geographers might study it
Urban Geography|2022
129 cit.
3
Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights
Science Advances|2023
127 cit.
4
Unprecedented droughts are expected to exacerbate urban inequalities in Southern Africa
Nature Climate Change|2022
74 cit.
5
From “trust” to “trustworthiness”: Retheorizing dynamics of trust, distrust, and water security in North America
Environment and Planning E Nature and Space|2022
51 cit.
6
Examining water and gender narratives and realities
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water|2022
32 cit.
7
Unpacking everyday urbanism: Practices and the making of (un)even urban waterscapes
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water|2022
29 cit.
8
Seizing the Means of Circulation: Choke Points and Logistical Resistance in Coco Solo, Panama
Antipode|2022
25 cit.
9
Implementing bottom-up governance through granting legal rights to rivers: a case study of the Whanganui River, Aotearoa New Zealand
Australasian Journal of Environmental Management|2022
21 cit.
10
Towards a future-oriented political ecology of climate change
Geoforum|2023
18 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Clark C. Gibson
University of California San Diego
2
Nancy Lee Peluso
University of California System
3
Rutgerd Boelens
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
4
P. Wester
Oldham Council
5
Christian Schmid
Schmid (Germany)
6
Margreet Zwarteveen
University of Amsterdam
7
Christian Lund
University of Copenhagen
8
Jessica Budds
University of Bonn
9
Bernhard Truffer
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
10
Annemarie Mol
University of Amsterdam

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Sustainability transitions: An emerging field of research and its prospects
Research Policy|2012
3.5k cit.
2
Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource Conservation
World Development|1999
2.9k cit.
3
A Theory of Access*
Rural Sociology|2003
2.2k cit.
4
The logic of care: health and the problem of patient choice
Choice Reviews Online|2009
1.6k cit.
5
Ontological Politics. A Word and Some Questions
The Sociological Review|1999
1.6k cit.
6
Towards a new epistemology of the urban?
City|2015
1.5k cit.
7
Toward a spatial perspective on sustainability transitions
Research Policy|2012
1.2k cit.
8
Technological innovation systems and the multi-level perspective: Towards an integrated framework
Research Policy|2008
1.2k cit.
9
New frontiers of land control: Introduction
The Journal of Peasant Studies|2011
1.1k cit.
10
The concept of scale and the human dimensions of global change: a survey
Ecological Economics|2000
1.1k cit.

Reagents for Water Governance and Infrastructure

Citation-validated products used in this field

🔥 Trending

Gaining adoption fast

⭐ Top Rated

Best all-around

🌟 All-Time

Most validated

Cell Signaling TechnologyEvidence 67

Myc-Tag (9B11) Mouse Monoclonal Antibody (Alexa Fluor® 532 Conjugate)

#95241$465
View Evidence →