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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing our authors	79
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”	75
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution	73
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice	70
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes	60
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints	55
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions	53
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals	52
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland	52
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea	52
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts	49
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study	47
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review	46
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems	46
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city	44
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research	42
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool	42
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process	42
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES	41
Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems	40
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders	40
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study	39
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations	37
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums	37
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis	37

Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services	35
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat	34
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach	34
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system	34
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland	34
The effect of financial crises on deforestation: a global and regional panel data analysis	33
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: the case of Mozambique’s natural gas project	33
Correction to: Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations	32
Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research	32
Regenerating soil, regenerating soul: an integral approach to understanding agricultural transformation	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
Spanning the boundaries between policy, politics and science to solve wicked problems: policy pilots, deliberation fora and policy labs	32