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 2022-05-01 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
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