OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 15. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	211
Editorial Board	112
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	75
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia	74
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems	71
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition	69
Time on hold: Justice, governance, and the politics of transitions in critical mineral frontiers	67
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	65
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	56
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion	55
Pathways towards successful urban community waste management: Insight from 26 experiments in China	54
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	53
Towards multi-scalar transition management? Insights from four transition arenas in Norway’s port sector	51
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	50
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries	50
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	44
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales	41
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions	41
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	39
Reframing Green Prosperity: integrating sustainability and just transitions into Community Wealth Building	38
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	38
Editorial Board	37
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	37
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	37
Configurations of leverage points for the deliberate acceleration of ideal-type transition pathways in the EU food system	36

How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities	36
Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system	36
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	35
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	35
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’	35
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	34
Building local sustainability: Identifying critical transformative capacities	34
Economic development, environmental challenges & the interests of future generations: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s advice revisited	34
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures	33
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?	32
The potential of international institutions to foster transitions. The example of the Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement	32
How public policy and public salience interact with the energy transition: The case of commercial-scale battery storage adoption	32
Synchronizers, amplifiers, integrators – three strategic roles of co-creating low-carbon aviation value chains	31
A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems	31
Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Hybrid technologies' multifaceted role in the transition from incumbent to emerging technologies	30
Enacting neutrality or enabling change? The contested role of city administration in socio-ecological transformation	30
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen	30
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels	29
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism	29
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions	29
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework	29
Blurred powers, multiple agencies, and discontinuous temporalities. A multi-level perspective on bottom-up innovation in agri-food policies	29
Chasing the sun: How does policy-induced local demand promote the spatio-temporal evolution of China’s solar photovoltaic industry	29
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions	28
Towards transformative leapfrogging	28
More of the same? The structural dimension of incumbency in the formation of hydrogen expectations in Chile and the UK	28
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector	28
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households	27
A theoretical and systematic examination of finance in strategic niche management	27
Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts	26
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe	26
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study	26
Tracing actors in policy mixes for transitions: A systematic literature review and insights from policy process theories	26
Distribution of forest-based innovations across Europe	25
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways	25
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms	25
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies	25
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities	24
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies	24
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy	24
Editorial Board	24
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?	23
Integrating spatial planning and energy policy in The Netherlands: challenges and lessons for societal energy transitions	23
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors	23
Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance	23
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation	22
Energising the Polis? Analysing transition challenges to energy communities in Greece	22
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition	22
Experimenting to remain the same: The politics of smart grid pilot projects in the Swedish energy transition	22
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging	21

A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level	21
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts	21
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?	21
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany	21
Technological trajectories in the circular economy: Evidence from patent networks and patent portfolios	21
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia	20
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach	20
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector	20
Accelerating sustainable housing transitions: A case study of the window industry in Australia	19
Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy	19
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale	19
Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks	18
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation	18
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability	18
Editorial Board	18
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective	18
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting	18
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway	18
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo	18
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit	17
Academic Institutions as Innovation Intermediaries; Co-creating knowledge and building the Gujarat agroecology learning alliance (GALA)	17
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions	17
How do multi-purpose technological innovation systems expand? Insights from carbon capture technology	17
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK	17
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive	17
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open	17
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China	17
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway	17
‘Kicking the shin and extending a hand’: Which strategies do civil society actors use to affect transitions to sustainable finance?	16
Earth observation and sustainable development: A systematic literature review and content analysis about the New Space Economy	16
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor	16
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks	15
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security	15
Editorial Board	15
Three perspectives on regime destabilisation governance: A metatheoretical analysis of German pesticide policy	15
The role of households in sustainability transitions: An infrastructural inversion	15
From lab to fork: Directionality in the European innovation system for precision fermentation-derived food ingredients	15
Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy	15
A technological innovation system in revival: Nuclear energy in Sweden	15
Between the ‘Other’ and the ‘Same’: The alterity of the alternative economies in sustainability transitions	15
Citizen participation in food systems transitions: How inclusive should it be?	15
The anatomy of failed historical transitions: An approach to expand the study of socio-technical change	15
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	15