OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 32. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	179
Editorial Board	95
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	68
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems	59
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition	56
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	55
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy	55
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia	54
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)	52
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research	52
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	47
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion	46
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	44
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart	43
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	42
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales	42
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	37
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	37
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	36
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	36
Pathways towards successful urban community waste management: Insight from 26 experiments in China	36
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries	35
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions	35
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy	35
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	35

Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’	34
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities	33
Editorial Board	33
Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system	33
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	33
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	33
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	32