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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Comprehensive assessment instruments for place-based sustainable agriculture: a scoping review	78
Nothing about us without us: harnessing local voices in shaping community-based adaptation in the Pacific	76
Thou shalt not take the name of bioeconomy in vain	74
Ecological footprint of your denim jeans: production knowledge and green consumerism	71
Carbon, cash, cattle and the climate crisis	69
How public catering accelerates sustainability: a German case study	59
Transforming local governance: using system leverage points to conceptualize sustainability transformations	57
Process ownership in science–practice collaborations: the special role of transdisciplinary processes in sustainable transitioning	53
Revisiting the sustainability science research agenda	51
Lessons from a Climate Citizens’ Assembly Kawasaki, Japan	50
Recognizing our authors	50
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool	46
Exploring the local nexus between human development and environmental sustainability: a case study from Colombia	46
Farming the sun: the political economy of agrivoltaics in the European Union	46
Exploring “big picture” scenarios for resilience in social–ecological systems: transdisciplinary cross-impact balances modeling in the Red River Basin	45
Using the three horizons approach to explore pathways towards positive futures for agricultural landscapes with rich biodiversity	44
Tree diversity and social–ecological resilience of agroforestry after volcanic ash deposition in Indonesia	44
Connotations of institutions: implications for governing natural resources	42
Flexible institutionalisation in Auroville: a prefigurative alternative to development	40
Beyond synergies: understanding SDG trade-offs, equity and implementation challenges of sectoral climate change mitigation options	40
Sub-Saharan Africa’s international migration constrains its sustainable development under climate change	39
Poverty and inequality implications of carbon pricing under the long-term climate target	39
Participatory interventions for collective action and sustainable resource management: linking actors, situations and contexts through the IAD, NAS and SES frameworks	38
Developing methods of knowledge co-production across varying contexts to shape Sustainability Science theory and practice	37
Degrowing alternative agriculture: institutions and aspirations as sustainability metrics for small farmers in Bosnia and India	36

Critical change agent characteristics and competencies for ensuring systemic climate adaptation interventions	36
Disagreeing well in an unparadigmatic field: a response to Bodin (2021)	34
Science under pressure: how research is being challenged by the 2030 Agenda	34
How can diverse national food and land-use priorities be reconciled with global sustainability targets? Lessons from the FABLE initiative	34
The impact of weather changes on the supply and demand of electric power and wholesale prices of electricity in Germany	34
Correction to: Reforming China’s fertilizer policies: implications for nitrogen pollution reduction and food security	33
Correction: Regenerative agriculture: a potentially transformative storyline shared by nine discourses	33
A multi-model approach to explore sustainable food and land use pathways for Argentina	33