OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 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
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
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
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	34
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	33
Editorial Board	33
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	33
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework	33
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	33
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures	32
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism	32
Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Hybrid technologies' multifaceted role in the transition from incumbent to emerging technologies	32
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions	32
Synchronizers, amplifiers, integrators – three strategic roles of co-creating low-carbon aviation value chains	32
A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems	31
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels	31
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?	30
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions	29
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector	28
Tracing actors in policy mixes for transitions: A systematic literature review and insights from policy process theories	28
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen	28
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms	28
Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts	27
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities	27
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies	27
A theoretical and systematic examination of finance in strategic niche management	27
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways	26
Towards transformative leapfrogging	26
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe	25
Remaking political institutions in sustainability transitions	24
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households	24
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study	24
Ontological struggle over new product category: Transition potential of meat alternatives	24
Editorial Board	24
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy	24
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale	23
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging	23
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation	23
Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems	23
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia	23
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies	23
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany	22
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors	22
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts	22
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?	22
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level	22
Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy	21
Editorial Board	21
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector	21
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?	21
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway	21

Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance	21
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition	21
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach	21
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability	20
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation	20
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open	20
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit	20
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions	19
Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks	19
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective	19
The role of households in sustainability transitions: An infrastructural inversion	19
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts	19
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo	19
Examining the vehicle-to-grid niche in Australia through the lens of a trial project	19
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting	19
Citizen participation in food systems transitions: How inclusive should it be?	18
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway	18
Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability	18
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks	18
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China	18
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor	18
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive	18
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security	18
Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection	17
Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy	17
Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector	17
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK	17
Policy entrepreneurs in green building transitions: The role of interurban coalitions	17
‘Fit-to-transform’: An institutional perspective on the empowerment of clothing product-service systems	17
Science for sale? Why academic marketization is a problem and what sustainability research can do about it	17
Editorial Board	17
Three perspectives on regime destabilisation governance: A metatheoretical analysis of German pesticide policy	17
Incumbent entry modes and entry timing in sustainable niches: The plant-based protein transition in the United States, Netherlands, and United Kingdom	17