OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Energy Sustainability and Society is 8. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Sustainable forest biomass: a review of current residue harvesting guidelines	60
Renewable energy consumption in Africa: the role of economic well-being and economic freedom	42
Multilevel governance energy planning and policy: a view on local energy initiatives	34
Climate change in the Western Balkans and EU Green Deal: status, mitigation and challenges	34
Transitioning to a sustainable development framework for bioenergy in Malaysia: policy suggestions to catalyse the utilisation of palm oil mill residues	33
The impact of climate change awareness on behavioral changes in Germany: changing minds or changing behavior?	29
Assessing the social acceptance of key technologies for the German energy transition	29
Cultivation of microalgae for biofuel production: coupling with sugarcane-processing factories	26
Renewable energy and population growth for sustainable development in the Southeast Asian countries	26
Indicators for the optimization of sustainable urban energy systems based on energy system modeling	23
Assessing the wood sourcing practices of the U.S. industrial wood pellet industry supplying European energy demand	21
Stakeholders’ satisfaction as a key determinant of critical success factors in renewable energy projects	19
Green BIM-based study on the green performance of university buildings in northern China	19
Central versus wellhead power plants in geothermal grid electricity generation	18
Embedding the United Nations sustainable development goals into energy systems analysis: expanding the food–energy–water nexus	18
Combining the worlds of energy systems and material flow analysis: a review	18
Conceptual framework for increasing legitimacy and trust of sustainability governance	17
Decarbonisation of eastern European economies: monitoring, economic, social and security concerns	16
The governance of energy transition: lessons from the Nigerian electricity sector	16
Innovative financing of the sustainable development goals in the countries of the Western Balkans	15
The cultivation of five microalgae species and their potential for biodiesel production	15
How to avoid unjust energy transitions: insights from the Ruhr region	15
Health concerns and use of biomass energy in households: voices of women from rural communities in Western Uganda	14
Digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions in Africa: assessing the impact of policy and regulatory environments on the energy sector in Nigeria and South Africa	14
Analyzing German consumers’ willingness to pay for green electricity tariff attributes: a discrete choice experiment	14

Transnational sustainability certification for the bioeconomy? Patterns and discourse coalitions of resistance and alternatives in biomass exporting regions	14
Assessment of a decentralized grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) / wind / biogas hybrid power system in northern Nigeria	13
Fossil fuel dependence and energy insecurity	13
Sustainable energy transition in Central Asia: status and challenges	13
Sustainable development economy and the development of green economy in the European Union	13
Mapping emergent public engagement in societal transitions: a scoping review	13
Perceptions of participation and the role of gender for the engagement in solar energy communities in Sweden	13
Designing a sustainable biofuel supply chain by considering carbon policies: a case study in Iran	12
Thailand’s mid-century greenhouse gas emission pathways to achieve the 2 degrees Celsius target	12
Effects of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act and environmental, social and economic factors on biogas plant adoption and agricultural land use change	12
Electric vehicle charging and end-user motivation for flexibility: a case study from Norway	12
Social life-cycle assessment (S-LCA) of residential rooftop solar panels using challenge-derived framework	11
Climate change and agriculture management: Western Balkan region analysis	11
Policy-relevant insights for regional renewable energy deployment	11
Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique	10
Strengths and gaps of the EU frameworks for the sustainability assessment of bio-based products and bioenergy	10
Sustainable energy recovery from thermal processes: a review	10
Prices of conventional and renewable energy as determinants of sustainable and secure energy development: regression model analysis	10
The development of social science research on smart grids: a semi-structured literature review	9
Decision-making in sustainable energy transition in Southeastern Europe: probabilistic network-based model	9
Financing renewable energy: policy insights from Brazil and Nigeria	9
Muon-catalyzed fusion and annihilation energy generation will supersede non-sustainable T + D nuclear fusion	9
Temporal and spatial availability of cereal straw in Germany—Case study: Biomethane for the transport sector	9
Linking qualitative scenarios with quantitative energy models: knowledge integration in different methodological designs	8
Optimal design for a hybrid microgrid-hydrogen storage facility in Saudi Arabia	8
Revisiting the energy-growth-environment nexus in the OECD countries: An application of the CS-ARDL approach	8
Toward energy saving and food safety in Central Mozambique: the role of improved cook stoves and heat retention boxes	8
Trade-offs in German wind energy expansion: building bridges between different interests, values and priorities	8
Prospective assessment of energy technologies: a comprehensive approach for sustainability assessment	8