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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals	156
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland	111
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints	99
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution	98
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions	93
Operationalizing vulnerability and resilience interdependencies in drought risk management	72
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review	69
The need for a systems approach to better understand the linkages between natural resources and human (im)mobility	68
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool	65
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city	61
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice	59
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”	57
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study	57
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea	54
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes	53
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems	50
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system	48
Pathway narratives towards a nature-positive European Union land system: operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for policy objectives	47
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums	46
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES	44
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services	43
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland	41
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis	41
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations	41
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study	41

Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach	41
Using a systems thinking approach to assess the complex interplay between sustainable development goals, climate change, and humanitarian operations	38
Has research on health co-benefits influenced urban climate and transport planning in the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, and France?	37
Spanning the boundaries between policy, politics and science to solve wicked problems: policy pilots, deliberation fora and policy labs	36
Can market-based social and environmental due diligence drive development? Examining local development challenges and responsible sourcing among agri-food businesses in low-and-middle-income economies	35
The promise and pitfalls of energy commons: the paradox of municipality-led civic solar programs in Taipei	35
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico	34
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative	34
Limiting money: redesigning the artifact that shapes modern people	33
Sunrise at the Salton Sea: environmental justice, land use change, and hydrosocial dynamics of solar energy transitions in the Imperial Valley, California	33
Heterogeneous infrastructure and governance of low-carbon transition in Qingdao, China	33