Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Papers
(The TQCC of Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Participatory ex-ante impact assessment for interactive research and development in agriculture and food systems38
Climate impact assessment procedures: time to look beyond compliance?24
Chekhov’s Gun and Occam’s Razor: improving impact assessment efficiency for renewable energy developments16
Tools for Indigenous-led impact assessment: insights from five case studies16
Territorial Impact Assessment as a tool to assess urban tourism growth15
Impact assessment publishing – observations and reflections after 7 years of being editor of impact assessment and project appraisal14
Simplification of environmental assessment – the case of Sweden14
A gender equity and new masculinities approach to development: examining results from a Colombian case study14
Territorial Impact Assessment – 20 Years on12
Rising mercury levels12
Stakeholder perspectives and challenges to the institutionalization of strategic environmental assessment in Botswana12
Gaining a deeper understanding of the psychology underpinning significance judgements in environmental impact assessment (EIA)11
Facilitating public scrutiny of EIA reports with open data and artificial intelligence: insights from a Mexican case study11
AI and SIA: some reflections11
Pathways to pluralism in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): the Multi-Author Team and integrated governance model11
What would environmental impact assessment look like if we started from scratch today? Designing better EIA for developed neoliberal nations10
Moving to next generation community-based environmental assessment10
Response to: Environmental assessments and sustainable finance frameworks: will the EU taxonomy change the mindset over the contribution of EIA to sustainable development?10
Transformation towards a sustainable world – the pivotal role of impact assessments9
Reflections on Ireland’s 2025 EIA conference: enhancing environmental assessment practice for renewable energy projects9
Capacity needs for assessing the cumulative social effects of projects9
Strategic environmental assessment implementation: variation across regions in China8
AI in strategic planning and assessment – a game changer in decision-making or a risk for reproduction of hidden biases?8
Response to environmental assessments and sustainable finance frameworks8
Taxonomies of sustainable investment and existing decision support approaches of EIA, SEA and CBA – a silver bullet for sustainable development? A response to Dusík and Bond8
Using strategic environmental assessment and project environmental impact assessment to assess ecological connectivity at multiple scales in a national park context8
Environmental assessments and sustainable finance frameworks: will the EU Taxonomy change the mindset over the contribution of EIA to sustainable development?8
Impact assessment for renewable energy development: analysis of impacts and mitigation practices for wind energy in western Canada8
Deriving best practice principles and evaluation criteria for EIA follow-up governance7
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: public-developer information exchange dynamics during public participation processes in urban and rural projects in Malawi7
“An essential corner piece in the puzzle”: a review of “Handbook on Strategic Environmental Assessment”6
Testing the Social Framework for Projects: the social impacts of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg6
Does local planning culture influence the effectiveness of impact assessments?: reflecting on infrastructure projects in a Dutch UNESCO World Heritage site6
Sustainable finance taxonomies: filling the gaps of EIA systems for developing countries6
Pluralism in EIA practice: A Q-method analysis of the economic growth-environment nexus6
The future of impact assessment in Austria and Germany – streamlining impact assessment to save the planet?6
Environmental assessments and sustainable finance taxonomies – a riposte6
Reflections on the role of [meta]data in strategic environmental assessment6
Collective impacts: using systems thinking in project-level assessment6
Editorial5
Consideration of risks to people and the environment related to accidents on natural gas transmission pipelines in LUP and SEA processes in Poland5
Understanding impact assessment from other perspectives: what might nature have to say?5
Contextual challenges for implementing strategic environmental assessment in the Global South: insights from a case study in Mexico5
Between control and independence: computational modelling within EC’s trade sustainability impact assessments5
Reversing the gaze: understanding how community members are negatively affected by impact assessment5
Editorial: meeting metrics-based performance targets is important, but not everything – on the necessity for journals to keep focusing on the needs of the community they are serving and on quality5
Innovation in the territorial impact assessment: an application to large infrastructure projects of the Italian recovery and resilience facility5
How do principles determine the effectiveness of public participation in public infrastructure megaprojects?5
Simplification and potential replacement of EA in the UK – is it fit for purpose?5
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