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Water Resources and Management

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Aybеk Arifjanov
Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers
2
Shuli Xue
Ocean University of China
3
Yangyan Lin
Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology
4
Yang Ren
Chinese Academy of Sciences
5
Shier Huang
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control
6
Yizhou Peng
Lomonosov Moscow State University
7
Diego Grados
Aarhus University
8
Nantao Liu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
9
Kamolakhon Khakimova
Ferghana Polytechnical Institute
10
Hao Su
Xi'an Jiaotong University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Multi-scalar assessment of ecosystem-services supply and demand for establishing ecological management zoning
Applied Geography|2024
48 cit.
2
Prediction of the impact of ecological restoration technology on the restoration of heavy metal pollution in agricultural soil
Geology Ecology and Landscapes|2024
43 cit.
3
Assessing ecological vulnerability and resilience-sensitivity under rapid urbanization in China’s Jiangsu province
Ecological Indicators|2024
40 cit.
4
Climate and vegetation controlling accumulation and translocation of heavy metals in water tower regions of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Journal of Hazardous Materials|2024
30 cit.
5
Assessment of regional Ecosystem Service Bundles coupling climate and land use changes
Ecological Indicators|2024
28 cit.
6
Common agronomic adaptation strategies to climate change may increase soil greenhouse gas emission in Northern Europe
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology|2024
21 cit.
7
Integrating ecosystem service spillovers and environmental justice in ecological compensation: A pathway to effective ecological protection in China
Ecological Indicators|2025
17 cit.
8
Mercury Transport, Transformation and Accumulation Recorded by Stable Isotopes during Retreated Glacier Chronosequence of 250 Years
Environmental Science & Technology|2025
8 cit.
9
Identifying ecosystem supply–demand response thresholds for land use optimization: A case study of the Taihu Lake Basin, China
Ecological Indicators|2025
8 cit.
10
RETRACTED: Assessment of the productivity of river sediments
E3S Web of Conferences|2024
6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
N. A. Bukshuk
Limnological Institute
2
Josefin Thorslund
Stockholm University
3
T.J. Brown
University of Virginia's College at Wise
4
E.M. Timoshkina
Limnological Institute
5
Jinlei Kai
Chinese Academy of Sciences
6
Jia Pu
Southwest Jiaotong University
7
А И Петелько
307th Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army
8
N. G. Dobrovol’skaya
Lomonosov Moscow State University
9
P. A. Belyakova
Institute of Water Problems
10
А. Г. Шарифуллин
Kazan Federal University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Distribution, potential sources, and response to water depth of archaeal tetraethers in Tibetan Plateau lake sediments
Chemical Geology|2022
24 cit.
2
Salinity impacts on irrigation water-scarcity in food bowl regions of the US and Australia
Environmental Research Letters|2022
18 cit.
3
Forecasting Water Levels in Krasnodar Krai Rivers with the Use of Machine Learning
Water Resources|2022
13 cit.
4
Channel Gradient as a Factor in the Distribution of Beaver Dams and Ponds on Small Rivers: A Case Study in the Northern Extremity of the Volga Upland, the East European Plain
Water|2023
9 cit.
5
FACTORS OF SLOPE SPRING RUNOFF ON GRAY FOREST SOILS IN THE CENTRAL FOREST-STEPPE
Lomonosov Geography Journal|2023
6 cit.
6
High thermodynamical sensitivity of CO2 emissions from a large oligotrophic-hardwater lake (Nam Co) on the Tibetan Plateau
The Science of The Total Environment|2024
5 cit.
7
Quantitative assessment of erosional soil loss in various areas of the arable slope (Upper Oka Basin)
InterCarto InterGIS|2023
3 cit.
8
Contemporary Erosion and Sedimentation on Gray Forest Soils in Hollows of Small Catchments of the Republic of Tatarstan, European Russia
Eurasian Soil Science|2022
2 cit.
9
Application of caesium-137 of Chernobyl origin for calculating erosional losses of soil in plowed soil areas in the upper Oka Basin
InterCarto InterGIS|2022
2 cit.
10
Surface flow of melted snow water on the central Russian upland
IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science|2022
1 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Eugene A. Silow
Irkutsk State University
2
Kenneth Strzepek
IIT@MIT
3
Dietrich Borchardt
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
4
Jerker Jarsjö
Stockholm University
5
M. N. Shimaraev
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
6
Maggie Rogers
American Cancer Society
7
Michael Sturm
Robert Bosch (United States)
8
Rolf D. Vogt
Norwegian Institute for Water Research
9
Mika Sillanpää
University of Johannesburg
10
Xianhu Wei
Key Laboratory of Guangdong Province

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Occurrence, identification and removal of microplastic particles and fibers in conventional activated sludge process and advanced MBR technology
Water Research|2018
1.3k cit.
2
Utilization of agro-industrial and municipal waste materials as potential adsorbents for water treatment—A review
Chemical Engineering Journal|2010
1.3k cit.
3
An overview of the modification methods of activated carbon for its water treatment applications
Chemical Engineering Journal|2012
1.2k cit.
4
Fluoride removal from water by adsorption—A review
Chemical Engineering Journal|2011
1.1k cit.
5
Tansy fruit mediated greener synthesis of silver and gold nanoparticles
Process Biochemistry|2010
680 cit.
6
Evidence of Lateglacial and Holocene climatic change and human impact in eastern Anatolia: high-resolution pollen, charcoal, isotopic and geochemical records from the laminated sediments of Lake Van, Turkey
The Holocene|2003
596 cit.
7
Preparation and characterization of a novel chitosan/Al2O3/magnetite nanoparticles composite adsorbent for kinetic, thermodynamic and isotherm studies of Methyl Orange adsorption
Chemical Engineering Journal|2014
519 cit.
8
In Inland China, Rice, Rather than Fish, Is the Major Pathway for Methylmercury Exposure
Environmental Health Perspectives|2010
512 cit.
9
EDTA-Cross-Linked β-Cyclodextrin: An Environmentally Friendly Bifunctional Adsorbent for Simultaneous Adsorption of Metals and Cationic Dyes
Environmental Science & Technology|2015
504 cit.
10
Comprehensive Assessment of the Freshwater Resources of the World
Managing Water: Coping with Scarcity and Abundance|1997
491 cit.

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