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 2022-05-01 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
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	65
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
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
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	52
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	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
Reframing Green Prosperity: integrating sustainability and just transitions into Community Wealth Building	38
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	38
Editorial Board	36
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
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
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures	31
Synchronizers, amplifiers, integrators – three strategic roles of co-creating low-carbon aviation value chains	31
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?	31
The potential of international institutions to foster transitions. The example of the Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement	31
How public policy and public salience interact with the energy transition: The case of commercial-scale battery storage adoption	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
A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems	30
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen	29
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework	28
Blurred powers, multiple agencies, and discontinuous temporalities. A multi-level perspective on bottom-up innovation in agri-food policies	28
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions	28
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism	28
Chasing the sun: How does policy-induced local demand promote the spatio-temporal evolution of China’s solar photovoltaic industry	28
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels	28
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector	28
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies	27
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions	27
Towards transformative leapfrogging	27
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities	26
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study	26
A theoretical and systematic examination of finance in strategic niche management	26
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households	26
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe	25
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy	25
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms	25
Tracing actors in policy mixes for transitions: A systematic literature review and insights from policy process theories	24
Integrating spatial planning and energy policy in The Netherlands: challenges and lessons for societal energy transitions	24
Distribution of forest-based innovations across Europe	24
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways	24
Editorial Board	24
Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts	24
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies	24
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector	22
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts	22
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach	22
Technological trajectories in the circular economy: Evidence from patent networks and patent portfolios	22
Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance	22
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors	21
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition	21
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging	21
Energising the Polis? Analysing transition challenges to energy communities in Greece	21
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?	21

Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy	21
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany	20
Experimenting to remain the same: The politics of smart grid pilot projects in the Swedish energy transition	20
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?	20
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation	20
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale	20
Editorial Board	19
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level	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
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia	19
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit	19
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability	18
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting	18
Citizen participation in food systems transitions: How inclusive should it be?	17
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open	17
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway	17
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security	17
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective	17
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation	17
The role of households in sustainability transitions: An infrastructural inversion	17
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive	17
Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks	17
Between the ‘Other’ and the ‘Same’: The alterity of the alternative economies in sustainability transitions	16
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor	16
Earth observation and sustainable development: A systematic literature review and content analysis about the New Space Economy	16
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks	16
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions	15
Academic Institutions as Innovation Intermediaries; Co-creating knowledge and building the Gujarat agroecology learning alliance (GALA)	15
‘Fit-to-transform’: An institutional perspective on the empowerment of clothing product-service systems	15
‘Kicking the shin and extending a hand’: Which strategies do civil society actors use to affect transitions to sustainable finance?	15
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China	15
Editorial Board	15
Organising the subjects of responsible consumption: Analysing the locus of responsibility for transitions in the UK food sector (2007-2021)	15
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK	15
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway	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
Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy	15