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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	208
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	111
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	72
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	72
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition	69
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems	65
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia	65
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	65
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions	54
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	53
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	52
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	52
Pathways towards successful urban community waste management: Insight from 26 experiments in China	51
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion	49
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	46
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	43
Towards multi-scalar transition management? Insights from four transition arenas in Norway’s port sector	41
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales	39
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	38
Reframing Green Prosperity: integrating sustainability and just transitions into Community Wealth Building	38
Economic development, environmental challenges & the interests of future generations: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s advice revisited	36
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries	36
Editorial Board	36
Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system	35
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’	35

Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	35
Configurations of leverage points for the deliberate acceleration of ideal-type transition pathways in the EU food system	34
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities	34
Building local sustainability: Identifying critical transformative capacities	34
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	33
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	33
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	32