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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing our authors	135
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals	91
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland	83
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”	82
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems	80
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city	68
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice	67
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints	67
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review	65
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution	63
The need for a systems approach to better understand the linkages between natural resources and human (im)mobility	63
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea	59
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study	56
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions	54
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes	52
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool	49
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums	47
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations	46
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis	46
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services	45
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study	45
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland	44
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system	40
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach	40
Pathway narratives towards a nature-positive European Union land system: operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for policy objectives	40

Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES	39
Using a systems thinking approach to assess the complex interplay between sustainable development goals, climate change, and humanitarian operations	39
Sunrise at the Salton Sea: environmental justice, land use change, and hydrosocial dynamics of solar energy transitions in the Imperial Valley, California	37
Has research on health co-benefits influenced urban climate and transport planning in the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, and France?	37
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative	36
Non-monetary narratives motivate businesses to engage with climate change	34
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico	34
Futures for invasive alien species management: using bottom-up innovations to envision positive systemic change	33
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat	33