OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 31. 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
Contents	151
Contents	142
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	111
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	86
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	80
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	78
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	78
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	73
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	71
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	65
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	58
Editorial Board	53
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	53
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	52
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	49
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	49
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	45
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	41
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?	37
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	37
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	37
Editorial Board	36
Contents	35
From peril to promise? Local mitigation and adaptation policy decisions after extreme weather	35
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	35

Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	34
Editorial Board	34
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	34
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	33
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events	32
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations	32
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?	31