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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	146
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	80
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition	71
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems	70
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	66
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research	63
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia	63
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy	62
Sustainable futures of agro-food? İzmir's sustainable agro-food transitions in the making	62
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)	59
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	57
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion	56
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions must embrace system dynamics	55
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	55
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	50
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	49
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	49
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy	47
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	46
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	43
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart	43
Households in sustainability transitions: a systematic review and new research avenues	42
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions	41
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	41

Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	39
Editorial Board	38
Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system	38
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	38
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’	37
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	37
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	36
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	35
The space, the time, and the money. Wind energy politics in East Germany	35
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities	35
A discourse analysis of yellow-vest resistance against carbon taxes	34
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?	33
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions	33
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework	33
Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Hybrid technologies' multifaceted role in the transition from incumbent to emerging technologies	33
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures	33
A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems	33
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism	32
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen	32
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions	32
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels	31
Synchronizers, amplifiers, integrators – three strategic roles of co-creating low-carbon aviation value chains	31
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities	30
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector	30
Towards transformative leapfrogging	30
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy	29
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms	29
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households	29
Remaking political institutions in sustainability transitions	29
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies	28
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe	28
A theoretical and systematic examination of finance in strategic niche management	27
Tracing actors in policy mixes for transitions: A systematic literature review and insights from policy process theories	27
Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts	27
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study	26
Ontological struggle over new product category: Transition potential of meat alternatives	26
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways	26
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector	25
Editorial Board	25
Influences of technological and sectoral contexts on technological innovation systems	25
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?	24
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale	24
Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems	24
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach	24
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts	23
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation	23
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany	23
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies	23
Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy	23
Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance	23

Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?	23
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging	22
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors	22
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level	22
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia	22
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition	22
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo	21
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective	21
Editorial Board	21
Understanding the limits to forming policy-driven markets in the electricity sector	20
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open	20
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway	20
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting	20
Examining the vehicle-to-grid niche in Australia through the lens of a trial project	20
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit	20
Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks	20
Modelling the macroeconomics of a ‘closing the green finance gap’ scenario for an energy transition	20
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation	19
Justice in transitions: Widening considerations of justice in dietary transition	19
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability	18
The role of households in sustainability transitions: An infrastructural inversion	18
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive	18
Citizen participation in food systems transitions: How inclusive should it be?	18
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts	18
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions	18
Alteration spaces: Charting the sustainability potential of large organizations	17
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK	17
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway	17
Policy entrepreneurs in green building transitions: The role of interurban coalitions	17
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks	17
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security	17
Editorial Board	17
Analyzing transitions through the lens of discourse networks: Coal phase-out in Germany	17
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China	17
Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability	17
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor	17
Editorial Board	17