OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 16. 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
Technology innovations and environmental sustainability in the Anthropocene	144
Transforming matters: sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining	128
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Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice	116
Algorithmic conservation in a changing climate	97
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Transformative finance for climate-resilient development	71
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Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches	67
Editorial Overview: Open Issue 2023: Sustainability Science, Digitization, and Artificial Intelligence	64
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Reorienting climate decision making research for smallholder farming systems through decision science	59
Expertise and exclusivity in adaptation decision-making	54
Transformation for inclusive conservation: evidence on values, decisions, and impacts in protected areas	47
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	47
Promoting land tenure security for sustainable peace — lessons on the politics of transformation	46
Five levels of internalizing environmental externalities: decision-making based on instrumental and relational values of nature	46
Upscaling climate change adaptation in small- and medium-sized municipalities: current barriers and future potentials	45
Embodied rationality: a framework of human action in water infrastructure governance	45
Transformative potential of managed retreat as climate adaptation	43
Soil salinisation in Vojvodina - the Republic of Serbia	43

The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	42
The influence of indigenous peoples in global climate governance	42
Old problem, the Millennial solution: using mobile technology to inform decision making for sustainable fertilizer management	41
Patch-scale to hillslope-scale geodiversity alleviates susceptibility of dryland ecosystems to climate change: insights from the Israeli Negev	40
Transformational adaptation in drylands	37
Triangulating agent-based models, role-playing games, and a stakeholder-centric approach to change scenarios	37
Urban climate resilience through hybrid infrastructure	35
Climate stress testing in the financial industry	35
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	35
Farmer land-use decision-making from an instrumental and relational perspective	34
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	34
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	34
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	33
Fostering bottom-up actor coalitions for transforming complex rural territorial pathways	32
Finance for Loss and Damage: a comprehensive risk analytical approach	32
Rethinking community hubs: community facilities as critical infrastructure	32
Psychological resilience for climate change transformation: relational, differentiated and situated perspectives	32
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	31
Assuring the unknowable: a reflection on the evolving landscape of sustainability assurance for financial auditors	31
Embedding local values in Payments for Ecosystem Services for transformative change	30
Inclusive engagement for environmental sustainability in small island states	30
The ethical foundations of biodiversity metrics	30
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks	28
Innovation through Green Finance: a thematic review	27
Leveraging SETS resilience capabilities for safe-to-fail infrastructure under climate change	27
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	26
An inclusive typology of values for navigating transformations towards a just and sustainable future	26
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	26
Improving rangeland climate services for ranchers and pastoralists with social science	26
Collective adaptation to climate change	25
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	24
An inclusive future: disabled populations in the context of climate and environmental change	24
Transformation as praxis: responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia	23
Melting of Himalayan glaciers and planetary health	23
Reaching the poorest and most vulnerable: addressing loss and damage through social protection	23
Equity, inclusion, and justice as criteria for decision-making on climate adaptation in cities	22
Mixed farming systems: potentials and barriers for climate change adaptation in food systems	21
How politics shapes the outcomes of forest carbon finance	20
‘Footbridges’: pedestrian infrastructure or urban barrier?	20
Greenwashing and sustainable finance: an approach anchored in the philosophy of science	20
The transformative potential of eDNA-based biodiversity impact assessment	20
Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing?	19
Editorial Board	19
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Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature	18
The European deforestation-free trade regulation: collateral damage to agroforesters?	18
Climate-resilient development in developing countries	18
Strategic planning of hydropower development: balancing benefits and socioenvironmental costs	18
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	18
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	18
Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach	18
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	17
Relational and instrumental values of tropical peat landscapes: morality and political ecology in Indonesia	17
Value articulation in environmental appraisal: which values, whose values, and how valued?	17
Energy transition to decarbonize the energy system in Mauritius	17
Navigating slow-onset risks through foresight and flexibility in Fiji: emerging recommendations for the planned relocation of climate-vulnerable communities	17
Addressing marine plastic pollution: a systematic literature review	16
Governance of emerging pests and pathogens in production landscapes: pesticide resistance and collaborative governance	16
The need to include wild foods in climate change adaptation strategies	16
Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting	16
Essential ecosystem service variables for monitoring progress towards sustainability	16