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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing our authors	92
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”	85
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution	82
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions	79
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland	65
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool	58
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints	56
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice	55
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea	52
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research	52
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review	49
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals	45
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process	44
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes	40
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study	40
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts	39
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city	39
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems	39
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis	38
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland	38
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach	38
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums	37
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study	37
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES	37
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders	37

Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations	36
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system	35
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services	35
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat	34
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative	34
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: the case of Mozambique’s natural gas project	34
Spanning the boundaries between policy, politics and science to solve wicked problems: policy pilots, deliberation fora and policy labs	34
Behavioral adaptation to climate change: new insights on psychosocial frameworks from the context of managed forests	33
Stakeholder perceptions about the drivers, impacts and barriers of certification in the Ghanaian cocoa and oil palm sectors	33