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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing our authors	94
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”	91
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution	86
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions	85
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland	71
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints	59
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice	57
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea	55
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review	51
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals	46
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process	45
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems	43
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes	43
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study	42
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research	41
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts	41
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis	40
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city	40
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach	40
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool	40
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland	39
Using a systems thinking approach to assess the complex interplay between sustainable development goals, climate change, and humanitarian operations	39
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES	39
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums	39
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study	38

Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services	37
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders	36
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system	36
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations	36
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat	35
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative	35
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: the case of Mozambique’s natural gas project	34
Non-monetary narratives motivate businesses to engage with climate change	33