OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of the Commons is 5. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Food-as-a-Commons Discourse: Analyzing the Journey to Policy Impact	20
Towards Democratisation of Public Administration: Public-Commons Partnerships in Barcelona	15
Crafting Collective Management Institutions in Messy Real-World Settings: A Call for Action Research	13
Path Dependence, Community Resilience, and Social Responses to the Implementation of Collaborative Forest Management in Ghana	13
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	11
Commons-Oriented, but Embodied Enough? De-Constructing Knowledge, Experiences, and Institutions in Naples’ Water Commons Project	10
An Uncommon Commons: Government’s Role in Constituting an Unusual Credit Union Deposit Insurance Scheme	10
Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures	10
Restoring the Commons: A Gendered Analysis of Customary Water Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa	10
Space Resources and the Politics of International Regime Formation	9
Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain	9
Leadership in Urban Commoning: Why Bridging Social Capital Matters?	8
Towards a Theory of Value as a Commons	8
Self-Governance and Adaptation: Rethinking Indigenous Arctic Histories	8
An Analysis of the Channels for Accessing Economic Benefits in the Commons Governance Regime of Space Resources	8
Energy Community Surplus Sharing: Solidarity Strategies for Energy Commons Governance	8
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	8
Accessibility to Space Infrastructures and Outer Space: Anthropological Insights from Europe’s Spaceport	7
Four Alternative Scenarios of Commons in Space: Prospects and Challenges	7
Adapting Common Resource Management to Under-Use Contexts: The Case of Common Pasture Organizations in the Black Forest Biosphere Reserve	7
Combining Approaches for Systemic Behaviour Change in Groundwater Governance	7
Analysing Groundwater Governance in Uzbekistan through the Lenses of Social-Ecological Systems and Informational Governance	6
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	6
What is “Political” in Commons-Public Partnership? The Italian Cases of Bologna and Naples	6

The Use of the Institutional Grammar 1.0 for Institutional Analysis: A Literature Review	6
Understanding the Governing of Urban Commons: Reflecting on Five Key Features of Collaborative Governance in Zero Waste Lab, Amsterdam	6
Nested Institutions for Nested Problems: Commoning for Rural Revitalisation in the Peri-Urban Setting	5
Migration and Gender Dynamics of Irrigation Governance in Nepal	5
Managing Groundwater from the Ground Up: An Ex Ante Assessment of the Potential for Collective Action	5
Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves: A Comparative Study of Three Sacred Groves in Southwest Nigeria	5
Technical teams as commoning gatekeepers: The case of IATS in Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives in Uruguay	5
Introduction: Advancing the Commonsverse: The Political Economy of The Commons	5