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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Key competencies in sustainability in higher education—toward an agreed-upon reference framework	257
Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN sustainable development goals	195
The Sustainable Development Goals prioritize economic growth over sustainable resource use: a critical reflection on the SDGs from a socio-ecological perspective	161
Environmental justice and the SDGs: from synergies to gaps and contradictions	155
Towards understanding interactions between Sustainable Development Goals: the role of environment–human linkages	115
Transdisciplinary sustainability research in real-world labs: success factors and methods for change	88
Inner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: fostering new avenues for change through dialogue and reflection	86
Current practice of assessing students’ sustainability competencies: a review of tools	84
The costs and benefits of environmental sustainability	75
Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy	74
Creating a space for place and multidimensional well-being: lessons learned from localizing the SDGs	63
Three decades of research on climate change and peace: a bibliometrics analysis	59
Leverage points for sustainability transformations: nine guiding questions for sustainability science and practice	54
Agroforestry for sustainable landscape management	53
Analysing interactions among the sustainable development goals: findings and emerging issues from local and global studies	53
A systems model of SDG target influence on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	47
Environmental sustainable value in agriculture revisited: How does Common Agricultural Policy contribute to eco-efficiency?	46
COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research	44
Transformation for sustainability: a deep leverage points approach	41
Carbon neutrality commitment for China: from vision to action	41
Drivers of sustainability transformations: leverage points, contexts and conjunctures	40
The ‘end of the world’ vs. the ‘end of the month’: understanding social resistance to sustainability transition agendas, a lesson from the Yellow Vests in France	38
Conflicting roles of researchers in sustainability transitions: balancing action and reflection	37
An actionable understanding of societal transitions: the X-curve framework	37
Philosophy of science for sustainability science	36

Scale-related governance challenges in the water–energy–food nexus: toward a diagnostic approach	36
Co-creating local socioeconomic pathways for achieving the sustainable development goals	35
Urban–rural linkages: effective solutions for achieving sustainable development in Ghana from an SDG interlinkage perspective	35
A path forward for qualitative research on sustainability in the COVID-19 pandemic	34
Agroforestry governance for operationalising the landscape approach: connecting conservation and farming actors	34
SDGs mainstreaming at the local level: case studies from Japan	33
Problematic blue growth: a thematic synthesis of social sustainability problems related to growth in the marine and coastal tourism	32
Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut	32