OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 33. 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
Editorial Board	163
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	85
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition	77
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems	71
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	67
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia	66
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy	63
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	60
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research	53
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)	52
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion	51
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales	51
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries	49
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	48
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	46
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	44
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	44
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	42
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	39
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions	39
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions must embrace system dynamics	38
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy	38
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart	37
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	36
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	34

Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’	34
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities	34
Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system	34
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework	33
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	33
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	33
Editorial Board	33
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	33