OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 17. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	301
Editorial Board	151
Contents	121
Contents	104
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning	101
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	87
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	85
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	71
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	62
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	58
Participatory governance for people and nature in multifunctional landscapes — insights from Biosphere Reserves	58
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	56
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	53
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	53
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	49
Editorial overview: Leveraging the power of collective learning through networks to amplify sustainability transformation	47
Editorial Board	47
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	47
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	46
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	45
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	44
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	42
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	41
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?	41
Contents	40

Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	39
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	39
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	37
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations	36
Editorial overview: Resilience and peace	36
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events	35
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet	35
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods	34
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	34
The salinization of the Mekong Delta: major drivers, coping strategies, and new hopes from ecosystem-based approaches	33
Gaps between demand and supply of biodiversity impact finance in the Global South	32
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context	31
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace	31
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?	31
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations	30
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability	30
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process	29
Editorial Board	29
The position of women in decision-making processes on environmental issues	29
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda	28
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions	28
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region	28
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion	28
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?	27
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic	27
Reviewing regulatory settings and their impacts on managed aquifer recharge implementation: evidence from six countries	25
Contents	24
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances	23
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation	23
Editorial overview: Biodiversity finance	23
Deconstructing the Doughnut	23
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas	23
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems	22
Climate stress testing in the financial industry	22
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach	22
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities	22
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks	21
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches	21
Editorial Board	20
Wastewater reuse for agriculture in Europe: regulatory frameworks, treatment technologies, and socio-economic perspectives	20
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	20
Editorial Board	20
Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice	20
Editorial overview: Social limits to climate change adaptation revisited	19
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states	19
Contents	18
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	18
Defining and operationalizing ‘nature-positive’ — a question of power	18
Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting	18
Intercultural networks deepen learning for transformative sustainability education: lessons from co-designing transdisciplinary international learning labs	18

Climate-resilient development in developing countries	18
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines	17
What do we (not) know about biodiversity finance governance?	17
Beyond the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural–urban sustainability	17
Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature	17
Editorial overview: Values and decisions: How can development trajectories transform	17
A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice	17
Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research	17
Insurance and climate change	17