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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Analysing Informal Governance Arrangements in Small-Scale Fisheries: A Case Study of Norton, Zimbabwe	45
Towards a Theory of Value as a Commons	14
Becoming a Care-Tizen: Contributing to Democracy Through Forest Commoning	10
Adapting Common Resource Management to Under-Use Contexts: The Case of Common Pasture Organizations in the Black Forest Biosphere Reserve	10
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	10
Actor Resistance Influences Effectiveness of Ostrom’s Design Principles for Governing Contested Landscapes	9
Diagnosing Participation and Inclusion in Collective Decision-Making in the Commons: Lessons from Ecuador	8
Accessibility to Space Infrastructures and Outer Space: Anthropological Insights from Europe’s Spaceport	7
Combining Approaches for Systemic Behaviour Change in Groundwater Governance	7
Path Dependence, Community Resilience, and Social Responses to the Implementation of Collaborative Forest Management in Ghana	6
Four Alternative Scenarios of Commons in Space: Prospects and Challenges	6
The Food-as-a-Commons Discourse: Analyzing the Journey to Policy Impact	6
Governing Landscape Simplification in Rapid Commercialization Contexts – the Case of the Dike-Pond System in the Pearl River Delta, China	6
Dire Necessity or Mere Opportunity? Recurrent Peat Commercialisation from Raised Bog Commons in the Early Modern Low Countries	6
Analysing Groundwater Governance in Uzbekistan through the Lenses of Social-Ecological Systems and Informational Governance	5
Prosuming Alone or Together: A Bisectoral Approach to Conceptualizing the Commons Prosumer	5
Caution as a Response to Scientific Uncertainty: A Groundwater Game Experiment	5
Towards Democratisation of Public Administration: Public-Commons Partnerships in Barcelona	5
Challenges in Expanding the Commonsverse	5
Nested Institutions for Nested Problems: Commoning for Rural Revitalisation in the Peri-Urban Setting	4
Coping with Dismantling Forces: Traditional Management and Transformations of Székely-Hungarian Village Commons of Transylvania, in the 16–21th Centuries	4
Socio-Economic and Ecological Factors Influencing Rulemaking for Community-Based Forest Management: A Study on Aguaje (Mauritia Flexuosa) in the Peatlands of the Pastaza Marañon Foreland Basin, Peru	4
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	4
Westphalian Sovereignty and the Free-Rider Conundrum in the Atmospheric Commons: Examining Global Governance Regimes for Addressing Climate Change Adaptation	4
The Image Fallacy: Rethinking the Tragedy of the Commons	4

Outer Space as a Global Commons: An Empirical Study of Space Arrangements	4
Crafting Collective Management Institutions in Messy Real-World Settings: A Call for Action Research	3
From a Challenge to an Opportunity: Sustainability and the “Dark Side” of Social Capital in Paros, Greece	3
Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures	3
Rethink of Individual Transferable Quota Fishery Management System in China: A Case Study in Zhejiang Province, China	3
The Use of the Institutional Grammar 1.0 for Institutional Analysis: A Literature Review	3
Commons-Oriented, but Embodied Enough? De-Constructing Knowledge, Experiences, and Institutions in Naples’ Water Commons Project	3
Contested Socio-Material Transformations in Irrigation Communities: Exploring New Entry Points for the Analysis of Commons and Collectives	3
Relational Ecosystems: Sustaining Prefigurative Change by Creating Conditions for Mutual Learning and Change	3
Understanding the Governing of Urban Commons: Reflecting on Five Key Features of Collaborative Governance in Zero Waste Lab, Amsterdam	3
Knowledge for the Commons: What is Needed Now?	3
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	3
Technical teams as commoning gatekeepers: The case of IATS in Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives in Uruguay	3
What is “Political” in Commons-Public Partnership? The Italian Cases of Bologna and Naples	3
Restoring the Commons: A Gendered Analysis of Customary Water Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Managing African Commons in the Context of Covid-19 Challenges	2
Designing NGO Interventions in Forest Commons of the Western Ghats, India: Is it Possible to Avoid Institutional Panaceas While Using Design Principles?	2
Just Commons: Governance of Irrigation Water in World Heritage Rice Terraces, Southwest China	2
The Incompatibility of the Commons and the Public	2
Averting Evolutionary Suicide from the Tragedy of the Commons	2
Managing Groundwater from the Ground Up: An Ex Ante Assessment of the Potential for Collective Action	2
Polycentric Groundwater Governance: Insights from the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area	2
The Overexploitation of Natural Resources in Arid Central Asia. The Case of Hungry Steppe: Can a Collapse be a Solution?	2
An Uncommon Commons: Government’s Role in Constituting an Unusual Credit Union Deposit Insurance Scheme	2
In Common or Enclosed: A Comparison of Farmers’ Market Development in Poland and the United States	2
The Governance of the ReFi Ecosystem: Integrity in Voluntary Carbon Markets as a Common Resource	1
Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves: A Comparative Study of Three Sacred Groves in Southwest Nigeria	1
How Do Game Design, Gender, and Players’ Backgrounds Affect Behavior in Framed Field Experiments? Evidence from Community Forestry in India	1
Understanding Institutional Compliance in Floor Risk Management: A Network Analysis Approach Highlighting the Significance of Institutional Linkages and Context	1
A Synthesis of Rational Choice and Critical Urban Commons Debates	1
A Philosophical Examination of the Ethical Foundations of the Commons	1
How Polycentric Governance Affects Nature Conservation in Practice: The Case of Two Coastal Protected Areas in Suriname	1
Introduction: Advancing the Commonsverse: The Political Economy of The Commons	1
Crafting Combinations to Govern Groundwater: Knowledge, Motivation, and Agency	1
Magical Realism for Water Governance Under Power Asymmetries in the Aracataca River Basin, Colombia	1
Governance Interactions Concerning Peri-Urban Lake Ecosystems: A Systematic Literature Review	1
Communities as Global Actors in Counterhegemonic Policy Mobilities: Lessons from the Community Land Trust Movement	1
Conviviality Under Pressure of Market-Modernist Expertocracy: The Case of Water Commons in Rural Switzerland	1
Institutional Change of Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems: Experience from Nepal	1
Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science: A Review of Computational Modeling of Institutions and Institutional Dynamics	1
Diversity and Challenges of the Urban Commons: A Comprehensive Review	1
The Social-Ecological System Framework of Urban Wetlands: The Role of Collective Management at Local Level	1
Migration and Gender Dynamics of Irrigation Governance in Nepal	1
Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain	1
Space Resources and the Politics of International Regime Formation	1
Understanding Collective Action from Mexican Fishers’ Discourses: How Fishers Articulate the Need for the State Support and Self-Governance Capabilities	1
Tipping Points of Space Debris in Low Earth Orbit	1