Leaderboards/Water Resource Management and Quality

Water Resource Management and Quality

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Pedro M. Ruíz-Carranza
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2
Fernando García-Ávila
University of Cuenca
3
Freddy Fernández C.
Unknown
4
Angie Katherin Salamanca-Cano
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
5
Márcia Sostmeyer Jung
Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul
6
Paulina Alejandra Vergara Buitrago
University of Minnesota
7
Camilo C. Castro-Jiménez
Universidad de Antioquia
8
Mario Fernando Castro Fernández
Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
9
Rubén Gutiérrez Campo
Ciena (United States)
10
Pompeyo Ferro
Universidad Nacional Intercultural de la Amazonía

Rising Stars Papers

1
Determinación De Erodabilidad En Áreas De Influencia Cuenca Poopo Región Andina De Bolivia
Revista horizonte académico|2024
275 cit.
2
Effectiveness of membrane technologies in removing emerging contaminants from wastewater: Reverse Osmosis and Nanofiltration
Water Cycle|2024
57 cit.
3
LISTA ACTUALIZADA DE LA FAUNA DE AMPHIBIA DE COLOMBIA
Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales|2024
38 cit.
4
RANAS CENTROLENIDAE DE COLOMBIA XI. NUEVAS ESPECIES DE RANAS CRISTAL DEL GÉNEROHYALINOBATRACHIUM
Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales|2024
20 cit.
5
Human health risk assessment of aluminium in water treated with aluminium-based coagulants in a rural area
Results in Engineering|2025
18 cit.
6
Physical-chemical characterisation of an alum-based water treatment sludge in different raw water turbidity scenarios
Heliyon|2024
13 cit.
7
Influence of nutrients on aquatic vegetation and trophic status of lakes: analysis of eutrophication and mitigation
Results in Engineering|2025
9 cit.
8
Azithromycin removal from water via adsorption on drinking water sludge-derived materials: Kinetics and isotherms studies
PLoS ONE|2025
7 cit.
9
Water age in drinking water distribution systems: A case study comparing tracers and EPANET
Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering|2024
6 cit.
10
Influence of climate change on precipitation extremes in Ecuador
Climatic Change|2024
6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Lady Bravo-Montero
Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral
2
Helena Durán Crane
Unknown
3
Organización de las Naciones Unidas
Universidad de las Naciones
4
Édgar Ricardo Oviedo-Ocaña
Industrial University of Santander
5
Liz Johanna Díaz
Unknown
6
José Luis Almario Charry
University of the Amazon
7
María Elena Febres Cordero-Briceño
Unknown
8
María Jaya-Montalvo
Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral
9
Elwi Guillermo Machado Sierra
Universidad Simón Bolívar
10
F. Sales Dávila
Unknown

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Environmental performance of a hybrid rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse system: A case study on a high water consumption household in Colombia
Journal of Cleaner Production|2022
49 cit.
2
Effect of agricultural activities on surface water quality from páramo ecosystems
Environmental Science and Pollution Research|2022
48 cit.
3
Effect of the addition of the Bacillus sp., Paenibacillus sp. bacterial strains on the co-composting of green and food waste
Journal of environmental chemical engineering|2022
37 cit.
4
Aquifers and Groundwater: Challenges and Opportunities in Water Resource Management in Colombia
Water|2024
37 cit.
5
Evaluation of Biochar as an Additive in the Co-Composting of Green Waste and Food Waste
Sustainability|2023
16 cit.
6
Effects of rainfall seasonality and land use change on soil hydrophysical properties of high-Andean dry páramo grasslands
CATENA|2024
12 cit.
7
Evaluation of Co-Composting as an Alternative for the Use of Agricultural Waste of Spring Onions, Chicken Manure and Bio-Waste Produced in Moorland Ecosystems
Sustainability|2022
10 cit.
8
Phycoremediation as a Strategy for the Recovery of Marsh and Wetland with Potential in Colombia
Resources|2022
9 cit.
9
Effect of Biochar Addition in Two Different Phases of the Co-Composting of Green Waste and Food Waste: An Analysis of the Process, Product Quality and Microbial Community
Waste and Biomass Valorization|2025
8 cit.
10
Incorporation of Substrates and Inoculums as Operational Strategies to Promote Lignocellulose Degradation in Composting of Green Waste—A Pilot-Scale Study
Processes|2023
6 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Willem van Wyngaarden
California Polytechnic State University
2
Francisco Bautista
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
3
Aurora Elizabeth Rojas‐García
Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit
4
Steven C. Hand
Louisiana State University
5
José Joel Carrillo-Rivera
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
6
Pablo Ángel Meira Cartea
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
7
Néstor Jaime Aguirre Ramírez
Universidad de Antioquia
8
Flora V. Romeo
Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops
9
Gerardo M. E. Perillo
Centro Científico Tecnológico - Bahía Blanca
10
Dolors Armenteras
Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Andean forest fragmentation and the representativeness of protected natural areas in the eastern Andes, Colombia
Biological Conservation|2003
311 cit.
2
Patterns and causes of deforestation in the Colombian Amazon
Ecological Indicators|2005
271 cit.
3
Use of abstraction regime and knowledge of hydrogeological conditions to control high-fluoride concentration in abstracted groundwater: San Luis Potosı basin, Mexico
Journal of Hydrology|2002
206 cit.
4
Deforestation dynamics and drivers in different forest types in Latin America: Three decades of studies (1980–2010)
Global Environmental Change|2017
204 cit.
5
Understanding deforestation in montane and lowland forests of the Colombian Andes
Regional Environmental Change|2010
197 cit.
6
Patterns of Landscape Transformation in Colombia, with Emphasis in the Andean Region
AMBIO|2000
191 cit.
7
Survival of water stress in annual fish embryos: dehydration avoidance and egg envelope amyloid fibers
American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology|2001
185 cit.
8
National and regional determinants of tropical deforestation in Colombia
Regional Environmental Change|2013
171 cit.
9
Forest fragmentation and edge influence on fire occurrence and intensity under different management types in Amazon forests
Biological Conservation|2013
165 cit.
10
Patterns of Landscape Transformation in Colombia, with Emphasis in the Andean Region
AMBIO|2000
161 cit.

Indexing Water Resource Management and Quality Reagents

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