OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of the Commons is 1. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Path Dependence, Community Resilience, and Social Responses to the Implementation of Collaborative Forest Management in Ghana	18
The Food-as-a-Commons Discourse: Analyzing the Journey to Policy Impact	14
Towards Democratisation of Public Administration: Public-Commons Partnerships in Barcelona	12
Crafting Collective Management Institutions in Messy Real-World Settings: A Call for Action Research	11
The Image Fallacy: Rethinking the Tragedy of the Commons	11
From a Challenge to an Opportunity: Sustainability and the “Dark Side” of Social Capital in Paros, Greece	10
Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures	9
Commons-Oriented, but Embodied Enough? De-Constructing Knowledge, Experiences, and Institutions in Naples’ Water Commons Project	9
Restoring the Commons: A Gendered Analysis of Customary Water Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa	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
Leadership in Urban Commoning: Why Bridging Social Capital Matters?	7
Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain	7
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
Integrating Institutions with Local Contexts in Community-Based Irrigation Governance: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Variables, Combinations, and Effects	6
Towards a Theory of Value as a Commons	6
Energy Community Surplus Sharing: Solidarity Strategies for Energy Commons 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
Four Alternative Scenarios of Commons in Space: Prospects and Challenges	6
An Analysis of the Channels for Accessing Economic Benefits in the Commons Governance Regime of Space Resources	6
Understanding the Governing of Urban Commons: Reflecting on Five Key Features of Collaborative Governance in Zero Waste Lab, Amsterdam	5
Combining Approaches for Systemic Behaviour Change in Groundwater Governance	5
Technical teams as commoning gatekeepers: The case of IATS in Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives in Uruguay	5
Adapting Common Resource Management to Under-Use Contexts: The Case of Common Pasture Organizations in the Black Forest Biosphere Reserve	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
The Use of the Institutional Grammar 1.0 for Institutional Analysis: A Literature Review	4
Migration and Gender Dynamics of Irrigation Governance in Nepal	4
Nested Institutions for Nested Problems: Commoning for Rural Revitalisation in the Peri-Urban Setting	4
What is “Political” in Commons-Public Partnership? The Italian Cases of Bologna and Naples	4
Managing Groundwater from the Ground Up: An Ex Ante Assessment of the Potential for Collective Action	3
A Perspective on the Future of Studying the Commons	3
The Drivers of Farmers’ Participation in Collaborative Water Management: A French Perspective	3
More-than-Human Commoning through Women’s Kokorozashi Business for Collective Well-being: A Case from Aging and Depopulating Rural Japan	3
Together Strong or Falling Apart? Coping with COVID-19 in Smallholder Irrigated Agriculture	3
Socio-institutional Considerations of Fishway Implementation at the Community-level in Southeast Asia	3
Polycentric Groundwater Governance: Insights from the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area	3
Institutional Change of Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems: Experience from Nepal	3
Decentralizing the Governance of Inland Fisheries in the Pacific Region of Colombia	3
Autonomous Change Processes in Traditional Institutions: Lessons from Innovations in Village Governance in Vanuatu	3
The Uncommonness of Urban Commons in Central and Eastern European Countries	3
Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves: A Comparative Study of Three Sacred Groves in Southwest Nigeria	3
A Synthesis of Rational Choice and Critical Urban Commons Debates	3
Introduction: Advancing the Commonsverse: The Political Economy of The Commons	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
Cui Bono: Do Open Source Software Incubator Policies and Procedures Benefit the Projects or the Incubator?	2
Collective Subjectivation in Socially Innovative Commoning	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
No Commons Without Micropolitics. Learning with Feminist and Municipalist Movements in Spain	2
Policy Over Practice: A Review of Groundwater Governance Research in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
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	2
Relational Ecosystems: Sustaining Prefigurative Change by Creating Conditions for Mutual Learning and Change	2
Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science: A Review of Computational Modeling of Institutions and Institutional Dynamics	2
Learning Together for Groundwater Management: A Case of the Devnadi Basin, Nashik, Maharashtra, India	2
Actor Resistance Influences Effectiveness of Ostrom’s Design Principles for Governing Contested Landscapes	2
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
Becoming a Care-Tizen: Contributing to Democracy Through Forest Commoning	1
Governing Outer Space as a Commons is Critical for Addressing Commons on Earth	1
Averting Evolutionary Suicide from the Tragedy of the Commons	1
Making Informal Water Distribution Work: Collective Agency and Self-Organization in Informal Areas of Xochimilco, Mexico City	1
Caring for Groundwater: How Care Can Expand and Transform Groundwater Governance	1
High-Efficiency Irrigation: Local Water Users’ Responses to the Modernization of Village Irrigation Technology and Government Control in China	1
Prosuming Alone or Together: A Bisectoral Approach to Conceptualizing the Commons Prosumer	1
Can Restoration of the Commons Reduce Rural Vulnerability? A Quasi-Experimental Comparison of COVID-19 Livelihood-based Coping Strategies among Rural Households in Three Indian States	1
The Governance of the ReFi Ecosystem: Integrity in Voluntary Carbon Markets as a Common Resource	1
Community Forestry Management Implementation in Burkina Faso: Gendered Dynamics and Customary Complexity	1
Communities as Global Actors in Counterhegemonic Policy Mobilities: Lessons from the Community Land Trust Movement	1
Development of Tribes’ Commons in New Caledonia. Negotiation Over Kanak Land for Urbanization	1
Westphalian Sovereignty and the Free-Rider Conundrum in the Atmospheric Commons: Examining Global Governance Regimes for Addressing Climate Change Adaptation	1
Dynamics of the Legal Environment and the Development of Communal Irrigation Systems	1
Linking Institutions for Collective Action to Agrarian Change: Insights from Transformations in an Irrigation Community, Central Mexico	1
Just Commons: Governance of Irrigation Water in World Heritage Rice Terraces, Southwest China	1

Participatory Video on Groundwater Governance with Youth in the M’zab Valley, Algeria	1
The Incompatibility of the Commons and the Public	1