OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Research & Social Science is 60. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	434
Editorial Board	402
Rethinking collaborative action and citizen empowerment: Characterising a Whole-of-Society approach to the energy transition	244
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	238
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	216
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications	189
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review	186
Turning a coal state to a green state: Identifying themes of support and opposition to decarbonize the energy system in the United States	163
Strengthening the sustainability of rural electrification projects: Renewable energy, management models and energy transitions in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia	149
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	148
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	148
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	139
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing	134
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	120
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	120
Does cash money solve energy poverty? Assessing the impact of household heating allowances in Spain	116
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi	109
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids	108
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	108
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	104
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	95
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom	94
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	86
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	83

Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	83
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	82
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	80
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	78
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	76
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	76
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	75
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	75
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	73
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	73
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	73
Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia	73
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	71
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	70
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	69
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	69
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	69
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	68
Power dynamics, shifting roles, and learning: Exploring key actors in participation processes in the German energy transformation (Energiewende)	68
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	68
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	68
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	65
Editorial Board	64
Editorial Board	64
Norwegian–Polish carbon capture and storage network: Bilateral collaboration for European climate action	64
What came first, the pellet or boiler? Interacting leverage points within a sociotechnical system in the United States	63
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality	63
Domestic electricity consumers and the interactive bill: design intervention for improved energy literacy and empowerment	62
Towards an intersectional justice approach to carbon taxation: Energy poverty, vulnerable households, and revenue recycling in Ireland	62
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries	62
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand	60
Neighbourhood batteries in Australia: Anticipating questions of value conflict and (in)justice	60
The solar influencer next door: Predicting low income solar referrals and leads	60
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	60
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland	60