OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Research & Social Science is 64. 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
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	334
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	289
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	273
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	187
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi	185
Editorial Board	182
Editorial Board	173
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	169
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	148
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	140
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	134
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review	132
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing	127
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	126
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications	119
Integrating social justice criteria into multiscale spatial modeling of energy burden: A case study of four states in the United States	109
Riding the wave of acceptance: Understanding factors in support for marine energy in the United States	107
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	104
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	103
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	101
Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia	100
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	96
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	95
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids	94
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	94

From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	90
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	90
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	89
Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability and change in transitions	88
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	88
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	88
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	85
An invisible threat? Exploring the physical and mental health risks of coal air pollution in the United States	84
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	83
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	82
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	81
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	80
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	80
The widening gap between copper supply and demand will have an impact on economic development and energy futures	80
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	77
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	75
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	75
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	75
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	73
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom	72
The temporal evolution of resistance strategies during low-carbon transitions: Revealing the industry playbook of US, German, and Japanese automakers in the unfolding electric vehicle transition (1990	72
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	71
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	71
How do policies drive China's hydrogen energy industrialization? A comparative analysis of policy across central and regional governments (2016–2024)	70
Deepening regional power connectivity: Beyond the industry-centric perspective	70
Unjust or just unfortunate? Examining claims of procedural (in)justice in the pursuit of universal electricity access in Rwanda	70
American policy conflict in the hothouse: Exploring the politics of climate inaction and polycentric rebellion	70
Norwegian–Polish carbon capture and storage network: Bilateral collaboration for European climate action	70
Navigating Russia's war and energy transition: Poland's coal challenge	69
Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions and hydrogen pathways in Norway	69
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand	68
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland	68
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa	68
Getting the signal – Do electricity users meet the preconditions for making informed decisions on demand response?	67
Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic	67
Conceptualizing resilience: An energy services approach	66
A “spatially just” transition? A critical review of regional equity in decarbonisation pathways	66
How can policy balance the goals of transition acceleration and justice? Permitting reform, large-scale renewable energy, and host communities in the United States	65
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–2013	65
Critical minerals and the shaping of Central Asian economies through the ages	64
Community benefit agreements for solar energy: Examining values, preferences and perceived benefits in the United States using a discrete choice experiment	64
Designing effective demand response: A review of behavioral insights, consumer engagement, and operational strategies in energy systems	64