OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Climate Policy is 32. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A real options approach to assessing the cost savings potential of renewable energy adoption among SMEs in Ghana	126
Closing the ambition gap: Germany's energy transition in line with a 1.5°C carbon budget	120
Do CO₂ emissions trading schemes deliver co-benefits? Evidence from Shanghai	118
Optimizing climate risk management practices: a hierarchical classification of TCFD risks in Taiwan’s electronics industry	83
The ‘national turn’ in climate change loss and damage governance research: constructing the L&D policy landscape in Tuvalu	73
Capacity building as the cornerstone of the climate change regime: evolution of the agenda through a policy-practitioner view from Brazil	72
Implementing nationally determined contributions under the Paris agreement: an assessment of climate finance in Caribbean small island developing states	72
Access and meaningful participation of non-state actors in the UNFCCC process: path-dependencies in the era of ‘mega-COPs’	68
Policy support in promoting green bonds in Asia: empirical evidence	65
Deliberative design choices and their implications – dilemmas unveiled from the first Danish Citizens’ Assembly on Climate	62
The Triple Challenge: synergies, trade-offs and integrated responses for climate, biodiversity, and human wellbeing goals	59
Farmer extension facilitators as a pathway for climate smart agriculture: evidence from southern Malawi	56
Assessment of agricultural emissions, climate change mitigation and adaptation practices in Ethiopia	51
Impacts of the CBAM on EU trade partners: consequences for developing countries	50
Reconsidering National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) as a Policy Framework under the UNFCCC	50
Quantifying climate finance needs in the nationally determined contributions of developing countries	45
Transparency is what states make of it: whose climate priorities are reflected in the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework?	42
Unlocking the flow of finance for climate adaptation: estimates of ‘Fiscal Space’ in climate-vulnerable developing countries	42
Evolution of blue carbon management policies in China: review, performance and prospects	41
Are the rights and knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities being attended to by climate framework laws?	41
Quality of life and carbon emissions reduction: does digital economy play an influential role?	40
Assessment of existing datasets for tracking progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation (and beyond)	39
Factors affecting the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in municipal policy and practice: a systematic review	39
Bargaining powers in cooperative Carbon Dioxide Removal deployment	38
Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund	38

Critical policies for China's carbon neutrality: ‘dual control’ on energy consumption versus carbon emissions	37
Green finance in Asia: challenges, policies and avenues for research	36
Oil and gas just transitions: an introduction to the special issue	35
Reevaluating fair carbon emissions for households in Japan: basic energy needs and subsistence CO ₂ emissions	34
Digital technologies – the missing link between climate action transparency and accountability?	33
Conflict sensitive climate finance: lessons from the Green Climate Fund	33
Unions, fossil fuel workers, and the energy transition: learning from plant closures in Finland and the U.S.	32