OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainability Science 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing our authors	85
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”	75
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland	75
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions	75
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts	61
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool	55
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review	55
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints	54
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems	53
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea	52
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals	48
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice	48
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city	47
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes	47
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution	46
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study	43
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process	43
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research	40
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES	39
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system	38
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis	38
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums	38
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services	37
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders	36
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach	35

ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study	35
Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems	34
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat	34
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland	34
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations	34
Spanning the boundaries between policy, politics and science to solve wicked problems: policy pilots, deliberation fora and policy labs	33
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: the case of Mozambique’s natural gas project	33
Land systems’ asymmetries across transnational ecoregions in South America	32
Stakeholder perceptions about the drivers, impacts and barriers of certification in the Ghanaian cocoa and oil palm sectors	32
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico	32
Heterogeneous infrastructure and governance of low-carbon transition in Qingdao, China	32
Correction to: Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations	32