Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Papers
(The median citation count of Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Participatory ex-ante impact assessment for interactive research and development in agriculture and food systems31
Climate impact assessment procedures: time to look beyond compliance?24
Simplification of environmental assessment – the case of Sweden18
Availability and accessibility of Environmental Impact Assessment documents of the offshore wind sector in public repositories18
Impact assessment publishing – observations and reflections after 7 years of being editor of impact assessment and project appraisal17
Tools for Indigenous-led impact assessment: insights from five case studies17
Territorial Impact Assessment as a tool to assess urban tourism growth16
Territorial Impact Assessment – 20 Years on15
Chekhov’s Gun and Occam’s Razor: improving impact assessment efficiency for renewable energy developments15
Stakeholder perspectives and challenges to the institutionalization of strategic environmental assessment in Botswana15
Rising mercury levels14
Moving to next generation community-based environmental assessment13
Pathways to pluralism in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): the Multi-Author Team and integrated governance model11
The environmental impact assessment midlife crisis?11
What would environmental impact assessment look like if we started from scratch today? Designing better EIA for developed neoliberal nations11
Gaining a deeper understanding of the psychology underpinning significance judgements in environmental impact assessment (EIA)10
Capacity needs for assessing the cumulative social effects of projects10
AI and SIA: some reflections10
Reflections on Ireland’s 2025 EIA conference: enhancing environmental assessment practice for renewable energy projects10
Facilitating public scrutiny of EIA reports with open data and artificial intelligence: insights from a Mexican case study10
Transformation towards a sustainable world – the pivotal role of impact assessments9
Questioning the origin of the expression ‘social licence to operate’: challenging current beliefs8
Impact assessment for renewable energy development: analysis of impacts and mitigation practices for wind energy in western Canada8
AI in strategic planning and assessment – a game changer in decision-making or a risk for reproduction of hidden biases?8
The future of impact assessment in Austria and Germany – streamlining impact assessment to save the planet?7
Reflections on the role of [meta]data in strategic environmental assessment7
Deriving best practice principles and evaluation criteria for EIA follow-up governance7
Pluralism in EIA practice: A Q-method analysis of the economic growth-environment nexus7
Sustainability assessment: the state of the art in 20267
Testing the Social Framework for Projects: the social impacts of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg7
Contextual challenges for implementing strategic environmental assessment in the Global South: insights from a case study in Mexico7
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: public-developer information exchange dynamics during public participation processes in urban and rural projects in Malawi7
Innovation in the territorial impact assessment: an application to large infrastructure projects of the Italian recovery and resilience facility6
Silent Spring to Woeful Winter6
Consideration of risks to people and the environment related to accidents on natural gas transmission pipelines in LUP and SEA processes in Poland6
Editorial6
Reversing the gaze: understanding how community members are negatively affected by impact assessment6
Simplification and potential replacement of EA in the UK – is it fit for purpose?6
Between control and independence: computational modelling within EC’s trade sustainability impact assessments6
How do principles determine the effectiveness of public participation in public infrastructure megaprojects?6
Current social impact assessment practices for transport projects and plans in Chinese cities5
A saliency mapping approach to understanding the visual impact of wind and solar infrastructure in amenity landscapes5
Beyond compliance: evaluating and auditing biodiversity inclusion and mitigation practices in Ugandan environmental impact assessments5
South Africa’s EIA Screening Tool: A preliminary study of how users perceive its accuracy and utility5
Environmental assessment simplification in Spain: streamlining or weakening procedures?5
Impact assessment in the age of artificial intelligence: reflections from IAIA255
Identifying and promoting qualitative methods for impact assessment5
Institutionalisation of health impact assessment. A systematic scoping review and development of a descriptive conceptual framework5
Understanding impact assessment from other perspectives: what might nature have to say?5
Benchmarking biodiversity integration in environmental assessments5
Enhancing ecological connectivity through biodiversity offsets to mitigate impacts on habitats of large mammals in tropical forest environments5
Gaps in impact assessment teaching and research in Pakistan5
Analysis of EA as an instrument for wetland protection: insights from the mining sector in western and northern Canada4
Advancing the consideration of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment – Part 2 of the special issue4
What can law offer the challenge of cumulative effects? A Review of Rebecca Nelson, Regulating a thousand cuts: Global law and policy solutions to cumulative environmental problems4
Change-making in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): piloting changeology approach using England as a case study4
Is there any EIA simplification?: reflections on procedural aspects of the Polish system4
Pathways for improving the consideration of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment: lessons from five case studies4
“It is the scale of issues that is important”: a review of “Handbook on cumulative impact assessment”4
Potential benefits, opportunities, risks and challenges of population suppression gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control described in the scholarly literature: a rapid scoping review4
Editorial3
Insight into impact: territorial impact assessment, the key to tackling complex challenges?3
How do the implementations of regulatory impact analysis perform on sustainable development? Investigating the OECD countries through data envelopment analysis3
Impact assessment as planning (not permitting): factors affecting its potential to influence project design3
Including climate change in airport EIAs3
Educating on the importance of strategic environmental assessment: an experience from Brazil3
Editorial3
Environment-related underlying dynamics of project adaptability: a case study of sponge-city PPPs in China3
Towards an attitude-inclusive understanding of environmental assessment competence in higher education3
The contribution of resilience assessment to impact assessment3
Reviewing the quality of Environmental Impact Statements of Brazilian landfills: insights for promoting efficiency in final disposal3
Exploring environmental assessment competence in higher education3
‘Simplification’ of environmental and other impact assessments – an international trend?3
The future of Impact assessment in Pakistan: reflections from two decades of practice, teaching and research3
AI will change EA practice – but are we ready for it? A call for discussion based on developments in collecting and processing biodiversity data3
Replacing EIA and SEA with Environmental Outcome Reports (EORs) - the 2022 levelling up and regeneration bill in the UK3
For sustainable development, impact assessment must build trust. Artificial intelligence could support and undermine that2
Improving cumulative effects assessment: alternative approaches based upon an expert survey and literature review2
Towards glint and glare impact assessment best practice2
On the underestimation of the significance of environmental impacts in Peru: an approach using homogeneous units2
Environmental impact assessment teaching through the eyes of Brazilian practitioners2
Integrating climate change into environmental impact assessments of dams: insights from three case studies using an analytical model2
Integrating heritage impact assessment into environmental impact assessment procedures: a case study of the historic city of Ayutthaya, Thailand2
A framework of stakeholder analysis for public participation in EIA process: a case study of Thailand2
Undermining Assessment: EIA follow-up, stake-holder advisory groups, and extractive industries in Nunavut, Canada2
Unfolding simplification beyond drawbacks: types and reasoning for simplifying environmental assessment2
Your leadership in impact assessment2
Lack of consideration of ecological connectivity in Canadian environmental impact assessment: Current practice and need for improvement2
Social impacts arising from road infrastructure projects in Sub-Saharan Africa: better management of social issues is needed in road construction, upgrading and rehabilitation2
Who is involved in environmental and social impact assessment public participation? Observations on urban and rural practices in Malawi2
How much can highway stormwater ponds contribute to amphibian ecological network connectivity?2
Public participation in impact assessment: the state of the art in 20252
A review of the quality of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) reports in Botswana2
Moving on since IAIA 20252
Addressing climate change in the environmental impact assessment: a study of thermal power plants in Brazil2
Retrospective reflection: IAPA 20242
Accelerating climate change mitigation and conserving biodiversity – the role of advanced digitalization for a fast and environmentally sound energy transition linking SEA and EIA2
Explaining variability in cultural impact assessment outcomes: insights from Aotearoa New Zealand2
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