OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Research & Social Science is 59. 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
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	451
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	263
Riding the wave of acceptance: Understanding factors in support for marine energy in the United States	249
Can renewable energy communities enable a just energy transition? Exploring alignment between stakeholder motivations and needs and EU policy in Latvia, Norway, Portugal and Spain	220
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	167
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review	154
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	152
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing	150
When beyond compliance is the expectation: the realities of environmental planning and permitting for renewable energy projects in the great plains of the United States	145
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	126
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	124
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	119
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	116
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids	113
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi	112
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	110
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	108
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	103
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	98
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	88
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	87
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	86
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	86
Rethinking collaborative action and citizen empowerment: Characterising a Whole-of-Society approach to the energy transition	83
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	81

Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia	81
Editorial Board	80
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	80
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	79
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	77
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications	76
Editorial Board	75
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	75
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	75
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	74
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	73
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	73
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	72
Turning a coal state to a green state: Identifying themes of support and opposition to decarbonize the energy system in the United States	71
Power dynamics, shifting roles, and learning: Exploring key actors in participation processes in the German energy transformation (Energiewende)	70
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom	70
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	69
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	69
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	68
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	66
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	66
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	66
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa	65
What is nuclear cultural heritage? Developing an analytical framework	65
Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms	64
Rarely pure and never simple: Exploring perceptions of truth and objectivity in energy modelling and scenarios	64
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries	64
A stakeholder-centred narrative exploration on carbon capture, utilisation and storage: A systems thinking and participatory approach	62
Making the difficult easy: Reducing carbon footprint while preserving quality of life through effective behavior change	62
Towards an intersectional justice approach to carbon taxation: Energy poverty, vulnerable households, and revenue recycling in Ireland	62
Modeling stakeholder interactions for post-disaster electric power restoration: A multi-agent and game-theoretic approach	62
Measuring success: Evaluating the business model of rural mini-grid ecosystems	62
Unjust or just unfortunate? Examining claims of procedural (in)justice in the pursuit of universal electricity access in Rwanda	60
How do policies drive China's hydrogen energy industrialization? A comparative analysis of policy across central and regional governments (2016–2024)	60
Community benefit agreements for solar energy: Examining values, preferences and perceived benefits in the United States using a discrete choice experiment	59
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland	59
Solar aporias: On precarity and praxis in interdisciplinary research on solar energy	59