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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning	202
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	169
Editorial Board	116
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	94
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	88
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	84
Contents	73
Contents	63
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	62
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	60
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	51
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	48
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	47
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	44
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	44
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	43
Editorial Board	41
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	38
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	38
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	37
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?	37
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	37
Contents	36
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	35
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	35

Editorial Board	35
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	35
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	34
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	34
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations	33
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events	31
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace	31
Gaps between demand and supply of biodiversity impact finance in the Global South	31
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations	31
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods	30
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?	29
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet	29
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability	29
Editorial Board	26
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context	26
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions	25
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region	25
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?	24
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic	23
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process	23
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion	23
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda	23
Towards just sustainability through government-led housing: conceptual and practical considerations	23
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach	22
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances	22
Contents	22
Deconstructing the Doughnut	22
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems	21
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities	21
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation	21
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks	20
Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice	20
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas	20
Climate stress testing in the financial industry	19
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches	19
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	19
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
Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing?	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	18
Editorial Board	18
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states	18
Editorial Board	18
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	17
Insurance and climate change	17
Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting	17
Intercultural networks deepen learning for transformative sustainability education: lessons from co-designing transdisciplinary international learning labs	17