OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of the Commons is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The Food-as-a-Commons Discourse: Analyzing the Journey to Policy Impact	17
Towards Democratisation of Public Administration: Public-Commons Partnerships in Barcelona	12
Path Dependence, Community Resilience, and Social Responses to the Implementation of Collaborative Forest Management in Ghana	11
Crafting Collective Management Institutions in Messy Real-World Settings: A Call for Action Research	10
The Image Fallacy: Rethinking the Tragedy of the Commons	10
Commons-Oriented, but Embodied Enough? De-Constructing Knowledge, Experiences, and Institutions in Naples’ Water Commons Project	9
From a Challenge to an Opportunity: Sustainability and the “Dark Side” of Social Capital in Paros, Greece	9
Restoring the Commons: A Gendered Analysis of Customary Water Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa	9
Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures	9
Space Resources and the Politics of International Regime Formation	8
An Uncommon Commons: Government’s Role in Constituting an Unusual Credit Union Deposit Insurance Scheme	8
Integrating Institutions with Local Contexts in Community-Based Irrigation Governance: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Variables, Combinations, and Effects	7
Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain	7
An Analysis of the Channels for Accessing Economic Benefits in the Commons Governance Regime of Space Resources	7
Leadership in Urban Commoning: Why Bridging Social Capital Matters?	7
Combining Approaches for Systemic Behaviour Change in Groundwater Governance	6
Commoning for Land Tenure Regularization: The Case of the Collective Urban Special Adverse Possession of Chácara do Catumbi in the City of Rio de Janeiro	6
Towards a Theory of Value as a Commons	6
Adapting Common Resource Management to Under-Use Contexts: The Case of Common Pasture Organizations in the Black Forest Biosphere Reserve	6
Accessibility to Space Infrastructures and Outer Space: Anthropological Insights from Europe’s Spaceport	6
Analysing Groundwater Governance in Uzbekistan through the Lenses of Social-Ecological Systems and Informational Governance	6
The Use of the Institutional Grammar 1.0 for Institutional Analysis: A Literature Review	5
Four Alternative Scenarios of Commons in Space: Prospects and Challenges	5
Understanding the Governing of Urban Commons: Reflecting on Five Key Features of Collaborative Governance in Zero Waste Lab, Amsterdam	5
Nested Institutions for Nested Problems: Commoning for Rural Revitalisation in the Peri-Urban Setting	5

Technical teams as commoning gatekeepers: The case of IATS in Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives in Uruguay	5
Analysis of the Institutional Framework for the Management of Community Areas Through the Prism of Institutional Bricolage: The Case of Benin’s Bouche du Roy	4
Polycentric Groundwater Governance: Insights from the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area	4
Migration and Gender Dynamics of Irrigation Governance in Nepal	4
Managing Groundwater from the Ground Up: An Ex Ante Assessment of the Potential for Collective Action	4
Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves: A Comparative Study of Three Sacred Groves in Southwest Nigeria	4
What is “Political” in Commons-Public Partnership? The Italian Cases of Bologna and Naples	4
Decentralizing the Governance of Inland Fisheries in the Pacific Region of Colombia	3
Unshaping Model Forests in the Global South: Trans-local Politics and Community Forestry Knowledge Circulation in Ecuador and Cameroon	3
What Grows During a Crisis? Cultivating the Food Commons in Oxfordshire	3
Indigenous and Local Knowledge’s Role in Social Movement’s Struggles Against Threats to Community-Based Natural Resource Management Systems: Insights from a Qualitative Meta-analysis	3
Introduction: Advancing the Commonsverse: The Political Economy of The Commons	3
Institutional Change of Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems: Experience from Nepal	3
Socio-institutional Considerations of Fishway Implementation at the Community-level in Southeast Asia	3
Together Strong or Falling Apart? Coping with COVID-19 in Smallholder Irrigated Agriculture	3
Policy Over Practice: A Review of Groundwater Governance Research in Sub-Saharan Africa	3
Autonomous Change Processes in Traditional Institutions: Lessons from Innovations in Village Governance in Vanuatu	3
The Drivers of Farmers’ Participation in Collaborative Water Management: A French Perspective	3
A Synthesis of Rational Choice and Critical Urban Commons Debates	3
More-than-Human Commoning through Women’s Kokorozashi Business for Collective Well-being: A Case from Aging and Depopulating Rural Japan	3
The Uncommonness of Urban Commons in Central and Eastern European Countries	3
Actor Resistance Influences Effectiveness of Ostrom’s Design Principles for Governing Contested Landscapes	3
A Perspective on the Future of Studying the Commons	3
Caution as a Response to Scientific Uncertainty: A Groundwater Game Experiment	2
Magical Realism for Water Governance Under Power Asymmetries in the Aracataca River Basin, Colombia	2
Community Forestry Management Implementation in Burkina Faso: Gendered Dynamics and Customary Complexity	2
Linking Institutions for Collective Action to Agrarian Change: Insights from Transformations in an Irrigation Community, Central Mexico	2
Knowledge for the Commons: What is Needed Now?	2
Designing NGO Interventions in Forest Commons of the Western Ghats, India: Is it Possible to Avoid Institutional Panaceas While Using Design Principles?	2
Learning Together for Groundwater Management: A Case of the Devnadi Basin, Nashik, Maharashtra, India	2
No Commons Without Micropolitics. Learning with Feminist and Municipalist Movements in Spain	2
Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science: A Review of Computational Modeling of Institutions and Institutional Dynamics	2
Relational Ecosystems: Sustaining Prefigurative Change by Creating Conditions for Mutual Learning and Change	2
Cui Bono: Do Open Source Software Incubator Policies and Procedures Benefit the Projects or the Incubator?	2
Dynamics of the Legal Environment and the Development of Communal Irrigation Systems	2
Governing Outer Space as a Commons is Critical for Addressing Commons on Earth	2