OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 32. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Contents	187
Contents	159
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning	110
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	87
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	85
Editorial Board	81
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	78
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	67
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	59
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	58
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	58
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	57
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	57
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	50
Editorial Board	47
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	45
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	44
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	42
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	42
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	40
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	37
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	37
Editorial Board	37
Contents	37
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	37

Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	36
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	36
From peril to promise? Local mitigation and adaptation policy decisions after extreme weather	36
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?	35
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations	34
Editorial Board	34
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	33