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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	139
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	76
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	67
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	65
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)	61
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy	59
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research	58
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	58
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion	56
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries	55
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	55
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart	52
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	50
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions	48
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	47
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	46
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	46
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales	44
Households in sustainability transitions: a systematic review and new research avenues	42
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions must embrace system dynamics	42
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	41
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy	40
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities	38

Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system	38
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	38
Editorial Board	38
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’	37
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	36
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	35
The space, the time, and the money. Wind energy politics in East Germany	35
A discourse analysis of yellow-vest resistance against carbon taxes	34
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	33
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
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	32
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?	32
A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems	32
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework	32
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures	32
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions	31
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels	31
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism	30
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities	30
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector	30
Ontological struggle over new product category: Transition potential of meat alternatives	29
Towards transformative leapfrogging	29
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms	29
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy	29
Remaking political institutions in sustainability transitions	29
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households	28
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies	27
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe	27
Influences of technological and sectoral contexts on technological innovation systems	27
Editorial Board	27
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study	27
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways	27
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector	26
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level	26
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?	25
Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance	25
Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems	25
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors	24
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany	23
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts	23
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging	23
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach	23
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale	23
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition	23
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies	23
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation	23
Editorial Board	22
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?	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	22

Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective	22
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia	22
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting	21
Justice in transitions: Widening considerations of justice in dietary transition	21
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway	21
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
Understanding the limits to forming policy-driven markets in the electricity sector	20
Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks	20
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open	20
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts	20
Modelling the macroeconomics of a ‘closing the green finance gap’ scenario for an energy transition	20
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability	20
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions	19
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK	19
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive	19
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China	19
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation	19
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway	19
Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability	18
Alteration spaces: Charting the sustainability potential of large organizations	18
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks	18
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security	18
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor	18
Science for sale? Why academic marketization is a problem and what sustainability research can do about it	17
‘Fit-to-transform’: An institutional perspective on the empowerment of clothing product-service systems	17
Editorial Board	17
Editorial Board	17
Three perspectives on regime destabilisation governance: A metatheoretical analysis of German pesticide policy	17
Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy	17
Policy entrepreneurs in green building transitions: The role of interurban coalitions	17
Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector	17
Corrigendum to “Does Religious Difference Have an Impact on the Diffusion of Sustainable Innovations? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Ecovillages Worldwide” [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transiti	17
Analyzing transitions through the lens of discourse networks: Coal phase-out in Germany	17