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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Contents	160
Contents	148
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	115
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	92
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning	82
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	81
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	79
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	76
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	72
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	65
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	59
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	55
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	54
Editorial Board	53
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	53
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	51
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	46
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	42
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	42
Editorial Board	39
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	39
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	38
Contents	37
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	37
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	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
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	34
The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors	34
Editorial Board	34
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability	34
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	34
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events	33
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
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace	30
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations	30
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet	30
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context	29
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region	28
Towards just sustainability through government-led housing: conceptual and practical considerations	28
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process	28
Editorial Board	28
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods	28
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions	27
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?	27
Governing natural climate solutions: prospects and pitfalls	26
Contents	23
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic	23
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda	23
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances	23
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion	23
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach	22
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems	21
Deconstructing the Doughnut	21
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas	21
Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems: impacts, vulnerability and decision-making	21
Climate stress testing in the financial industry	20
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities	20
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches	20
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation	20
Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice	20
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	19
Contents	19
Expertise and exclusivity in adaptation decision-making	19
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks	19
Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing?	18
Editorial Board	18
Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature	18
Contents	18
Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting	18
Editorial Board	18
Decision-making and scalar biases in solar photovoltaics roll-out	17
Editorial overview: Values and decisions: How can development trajectories transform	17
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines	17

Climate-resilient development in developing countries	17
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	17
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states	17
Insurance and climate change	16
Entry points for addressing justice and politics in urban flood adaptation decision making	16
A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice	16
Artistic activism promotes three major forms of sustainability transformation	16
Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research	16