OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Science & Policy is 44. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Surging seas, rising sea levels, and sinking communities: The urgent need for climate adaptation in small island states	237
Harvesting “development minerals” for local needs in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Malawi	197
Wildfire narratives: Identifying and characterizing multiple understandings of western wildfire challenges	157
Gender inequalities, water research and knowledge production in Ghana	140
A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects	136
Principles, barriers, and challenges of Indigenous water governance around the world	135
Transformative change from below? Linking biodiversity governance with the diversity of bottom-up action	111
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach	96
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review	83
Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming	78
The governance of marine and coral reef restoration, lessons and paths forward for novel interventions	76
Effective participation in a sustainability transition that leaves no one behind	73
Early European experience with tradable green certificates neglected by EU ETS architects	73
Enhancing climate change-induced flood co-adaptation in the Johor river basin, Malaysia: A dotmocracy mapping approach with key technical stakeholders	66
Climate change inequalities: A systematic review of disparities in access to mitigation and adaptation measures	65
Can the Paris Agreement deliver ambitious climate cooperation? An experimental investigation of the effectiveness of pledge-and-review and targeting short-lived climate pollutants	64
International donors as agents of policy transfer in influencing water legislation: The adoption of the river basin principle by transition economies in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia	63
Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through development corridors in East Africa: A Q-Methodology approach to imagining development futures	62
Coal, power and coal-powered politics in Indonesia	62
ICT-based environmental participation in China: Same, same but digital?	60
Social capital and environmentally friendly behaviors	59
Does the scientific knowledge reflect the chemical diversity of environmental pollution? – A twenty-year perspective	58
Analyzing changes to U.S. municipal heat response plans during the COVID-19 pandemic	57
Planetary health values and their implications for sustainability governance: Case study in the City of Blue Mountains, Australia	56
Global intercomparison of polyurethane foam passive air samplers evaluating sources of variability in SVOC measurements	56

Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy: A review of knowledge and research needs	56
Raising standards for stakeholder engagement in Nature-based Solutions: Navigating the why, when, who and how	56
Editorial Board	56
An integrated policy framework and plan of action to prevent and control plant invasions in India	56
Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)	55
Mainstreaming climate change mitigation actions in Nepal: Influencing factors and processes	50
Experiences of inequality in international collaborative research – Perspectives from environmental and sustainability scholars from Ghana, West Africa	50
Influence of methodological choices in farm sustainability assessments: A word of caution from a case study analysis of European dairy farms	49
Design experimentation for Nature‐based Solutions: Towards a definition and taxonomy	48
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation	48
Policy mixes for mainstreaming urban nature-based solutions: An analysis of six European countries and the European Union	47
A case study unpacking the collaborative research process: Eight essential components	47
Imagining circular carbon: A mitigation (deterrence) strategy for the petrochemical industry	47
Cities facing the European green deal: Urban policy and locals’ perspective in the post-socialist area	47
Networks at the science-policy-interface: Challenges, opportunities and the viability of the ‘network-of-networks’ approach	46
Rethinking blue economy governance – A blue economy equity model as an approach to operationalise equity	46
Towards a classification of vulnerability of small-scale fisheries	46
Decolonizing wildfire risk management: indigenous responses to fire criminalization policies and increasingly flammable forest landscapes in Lomerío, Bolivia	45
Evaluating the governance of a European program by identifying the types of overages based on the example of LEADER programs in France, Spain and Hungary: A problematic role for local institutional ar	44
A new meta-coupling framework to diagnose the inequity hidden in China’s cultivated land use	44
A systematic review of emerging contaminants in the Greater Bay Area (GBA), China: Current baselines, knowledge gaps, and research and management priorities	44