OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 50. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental conflicts and defenders: A global overview	218
Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario	209
When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions	194
The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change	168
Country-specific dietary shifts to mitigate climate and water crises	138
What makes climate change adaptation effective? A systematic review of the literature	128
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015	115
Multiple cropping systems of the world and the potential for increasing cropping intensity	106
Plural valuation of nature for equity and sustainability: Insights from the Global South	101
Anticipating futures through models: the rise of Integrated Assessment Modelling in the climate science-policy interface since 1970	95
The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities	90
Growing stocks of buildings, infrastructures and machinery as key challenge for compliance with climate targets	89
Contextualizing climate justice activism: Knowledge, emotions, motivations, and actions among climate strikers in six cities	88
Multi-method evidence for when and how climate-related disasters contribute to armed conflict risk	84
Spatially-explicit footprints of agricultural commodities: Mapping carbon emissions embodied in Brazil's soy exports	84
Hard or soft flood adaptation? Advantages of a hybrid strategy for Shanghai	82
Meeting the food security challenge for nine billion people in 2050: What impact on forests?	82
Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning	81
Global inequalities in food consumption, cropland demand and land-use efficiency: A decomposition analysis	77
The influence of political ideology on greenhouse gas emissions	76
The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale	76
Provisioning systems for a good life within planetary boundaries	75
Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems	73
The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality	71
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations	70

Sustainability transformations: socio-political shocks as opportunities for governance transitions	69
Global-scale impact analysis of mine tailings dam failures: 1915–2020	69
A national approach to greenhouse gas abatement through blue carbon management	68
Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: Transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making	65
“Youth is not a political position”: Exploring justice claims-making in the UN Climate Change Negotiations	64
Nature-dependent people: Mapping human direct use of nature for basic needs across the tropics	64
Climate change in news media across the globe: An automated analysis of issue attention and themes in climate change coverage in 10 countries (2006–2018)	64
Explaining Growing Glyphosate Use: The Political Economy of Herbicide-Dependent Agriculture	63
Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action: Towards a new research and policy agenda	63
Exploratory modeling for analyzing coupled human-natural systems under uncertainty	63
Economic costs of heat-induced reductions in worker productivity due to global warming	61
Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision	59
(Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism	58
Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways	58
Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work	56
Toward a climate mobilities research agenda: Intersectionality, immobility, and policy responses	55
Exploring future copper demand, recycling and associated greenhouse gas emissions in the EU-28	55
Improving the evidence base: A methodological review of the quantitative climate migration literature	55
Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture and food systems: The Eur-Agri-SSPs	54
Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to global warming, 1971–2021	54
Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure	54
Negative-emissions technology portfolios to meet the 1.5 °C target	53
Mapping feasibilities of greenhouse gas removal: Key issues, gaps and opening up assessments	53
Scaling up zero-deforestation initiatives through public-private partnerships: A look inside post-conflict Colombia	52
Income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand	51
Quantifying interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services – A case study for Germany	50
The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world	50