OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Research & Social Science is 65. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas	279
The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach	246
Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions	223
An outlook on the global development of renewable and sustainable energy at the time of COVID-19	217
When pandemics impact economies and climate change: Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on oil and electricity demand in China	214
Analysis of the electricity demand trends amidst the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic	201
Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation	200
Of renewable energy, energy democracy, and sustainable development: A roadmap to accelerate the energy transition in developing countries	188
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options	187
Just transition: A conceptual review	179
Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies	171
The impact of different COVID-19 containment measures on electricity consumption in Europe	162
Analysis of mobility trends during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic: Exploring the impacts on global aviation and travel in selected cities	161
What opportunities could the COVID-19 outbreak offer for sustainability transitions research on electricity and mobility?	161
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research	157
Heat pumps and our low-carbon future: A comprehensive review	153
The limits of energy sufficiency: A review of the evidence for rebound effects and negative spillovers from behavioural change	152
Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future	146
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology	134
Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there	129
The new oil? The geopolitics and international governance of hydrogen	129
Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics	121
The role of energy democracy and energy citizenship for participatory energy transitions: A comprehensive review	119
Coronavirus comes home? Energy use, home energy management, and the social-psychological factors of COVID-19	117
The Green New Deal in the United States: What it is and how to pay for it	115

Sociotechnical matters: Reviewing and integrating science and technology studies with energy social science	113
People in transitions: Energy citizenship, prosumerism and social movements in Europe	103
A historical turning point? Early evidence on how the Russia-Ukraine war changes public support for clean energy policies	102
Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review	100
European energy politics after Ukraine: The road ahead	99
Emergency measures to protect energy consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic: A global review and critical analysis	98
Russia's war on Ukraine, European energy policy responses & implications for sustainable transformations	96
The interaction between humans and buildings for energy efficiency: A critical review	96
Decarbonizing the iron and steel industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	94
Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework	93
COVID-19 energy sector responses in Africa: A review of preliminary government interventions	90
The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health	89
Do renewable energy communities deliver energy justice? Exploring insights from 71 European cases	89
What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions	87
Just energy transitions to low carbon economies: A review of the concept and its effects on labour and income	83
Grand Narratives for sustainable mobility: A conceptual review	81
Intersectionality and energy transitions: A review of gender, social equity and low-carbon energy	81
Community energy meets smart grids: Reviewing goals, structure, and roles in Virtual Power Plants in Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands	80
Is peer-to-peer electricity trading empowering users? Evidence on motivations and roles in a prosumer business model trial in Australia	78
Unpacking the right-populist threat to climate action: Poland's pro-governmental media on energy transition and climate change	77
A just transition for whom? Politics, contestation, and social identity in the disruption of coal in the Powder River Basin	77
Beyond the EVent horizon: Battery waste, recycling, and sustainability in the United Kingdom electric vehicle transition	76
A meta-analysis of residential PV adoption: the important role of perceived benefits, intentions and antecedents in solar energy acceptance	75
Three sides to every story: Gender perspectives in energy transition pathways in Canada, Kenya and Spain	74
Toward feminist energy systems: Why adding women and solar panels is not enough✰	74
Just transitions: Histories and futures in a post-COVID world	74
The good, the bad and the ugly: An overview of the sustainability of blockchain technology	70
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems: Explaining the perpetuation of coal power in Japan	70
What prevents us from taking low-carbon actions? A comprehensive review of influencing factors affecting low-carbon behaviors	68
Biofuels, environmental sustainability, and food security: A review of 51 countries	68
Pulling up the carbon ladder? Decarbonization, dependence, and third-country risks from the European carbon border adjustment mechanism	68
Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin	68
Financing renewable energy development: Insights from 55 countries	68
Guides or gatekeepers? Incumbent-oriented transition intermediaries in a low-carbon era	67
Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave: A meta-theoretical framework integrating responsible innovation, social practices, and energy justice	66
Energy justice from the bottom up: A capability approach to community acceptance of wind energy in Mexico	66
SDGs in action: A novel framework for assessing energy projects against the sustainable development goals	65
Towards impactful energy justice research: Transforming the power of academic engagement	65
The political economy of national climate policy: Architectures of constraint and a typology of countries	65
Expanding the scope and implications of energy research: A guide to key themes and concepts from the Social Sciences and Humanities	65