OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainability Science is 33. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing our authors	89
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”	83
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study	76
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts	75
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions	62
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland	59
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool	56
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints	55
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems	54
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea	54
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution	49
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals	48
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research	46
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes	44
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review	44
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city	42
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process	40
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice	39
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland	38
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
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations	37
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach	36
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums	36
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study	36

Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems	35
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders	35
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES	35
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services	34
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat	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
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative	33