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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Participatory ex-ante impact assessment for interactive research and development in agriculture and food systems32
Climate impact assessment procedures: time to look beyond compliance?24
Tools for Indigenous-led impact assessment: insights from five case studies19
Chekhov’s Gun and Occam’s Razor: improving impact assessment efficiency for renewable energy developments18
Simplification of environmental assessment – the case of Sweden17
Territorial Impact Assessment as a tool to assess urban tourism growth17
Impact assessment publishing – observations and reflections after 7 years of being editor of impact assessment and project appraisal17
Rising mercury levels16
Availability and accessibility of Environmental Impact Assessment documents of the offshore wind sector in public repositories16
Moving to next generation community-based environmental assessment16
Pathways to pluralism in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): the Multi-Author Team and integrated governance model14
The environmental impact assessment midlife crisis?12
AI and SIA: some reflections11
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
Territorial Impact Assessment – 20 Years on11
Stakeholder perspectives and challenges to the institutionalization of strategic environmental assessment in Botswana10
What would environmental impact assessment look like if we started from scratch today? Designing better EIA for developed neoliberal nations10
Capacity needs for assessing the cumulative social effects of projects10
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
Questioning the origin of the expression ‘social licence to operate’: challenging current beliefs9
AI in strategic planning and assessment – a game changer in decision-making or a risk for reproduction of hidden biases?8
Impact assessment for renewable energy development: analysis of impacts and mitigation practices for wind energy in western Canada8
Environmental impact assessment follow-up in offshore wind energy development: strengths and gaps from regulatory frameworks in the international context8
Deriving best practice principles and evaluation criteria for EIA follow-up governance7
Contextual challenges for implementing strategic environmental assessment in the Global South: insights from a case study in Mexico7
Reflections on the role of [meta]data in strategic environmental assessment7
Editorial7
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: public-developer information exchange dynamics during public participation processes in urban and rural projects in Malawi7
The future of impact assessment in Austria and Germany – streamlining impact assessment to save the planet?7
Sustainability assessment: the state of the art in 20267
Pluralism in EIA practice: A Q-method analysis of the economic growth-environment nexus7
Testing the Social Framework for Projects: the social impacts of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg7
Silent Spring to Woeful Winter6
How do principles determine the effectiveness of public participation in public infrastructure megaprojects?6
Consideration of risks to people and the environment related to accidents on natural gas transmission pipelines in LUP and SEA processes in Poland6
Impact assessment in the age of artificial intelligence: reflections from IAIA256
Reversing the gaze: understanding how community members are negatively affected by impact assessment6
Understanding impact assessment from other perspectives: what might nature have to say?6
Between control and independence: computational modelling within EC’s trade sustainability impact assessments6
Innovation in the territorial impact assessment: an application to large infrastructure projects of the Italian recovery and resilience facility6
Simplification and potential replacement of EA in the UK – is it fit for purpose?6
Identifying and promoting qualitative methods for impact assessment5
Environmental assessment simplification in Spain: streamlining or weakening procedures?5
Gaps in impact assessment teaching and research in Pakistan5
Benchmarking biodiversity integration in environmental assessments5
Enhancing ecological connectivity through biodiversity offsets to mitigate impacts on habitats of large mammals in tropical forest environments5
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
Institutionalisation of health impact assessment. A systematic scoping review and development of a descriptive conceptual framework5
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