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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”	97
Recognizing our authors	93
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research	90
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review	87
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process	75
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems	58
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study	55
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals	54
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes	49
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city	47
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts	46
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool	46
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions	44
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland	44
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution	43
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints	43
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea	42
Pathway narratives towards a nature-positive European Union land system: operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for policy objectives	42
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice	42
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums	42
Using a systems thinking approach to assess the complex interplay between sustainable development goals, climate change, and humanitarian operations	41
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis	40
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system	39
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders	39
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES	38

Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations	38
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services	37
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach	37
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland	36
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study	36
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat	34
Limiting money: redesigning the artifact that shapes modern people	33
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: the case of Mozambique’s natural gas project	33