OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Environmental Law is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Regulating Heat Networks: An Appraisal of the Energy Act 2023	46
Planning Policy and the Law	36
The Place of Law in Technology Transitions: A Case Study from Chemical Risk Assessment	24
Significant international environmental law developments: 2024–25	21
Licence to Pollute? Revisiting the Regulatory Compliance Defence in Civil Proceedings in Cases of Human Rights Violations	21
Energy Geopolitics and Climate Law: Interdisciplinary Environmental Law Scholarship in a Geopolitical World	20
Allocation of Institutional Responsibility for Climate Change Mitigation: Judicial Application of Constitutional Environmental Provisions in the European Climate Cases Arctic Oil, Neubauer	15
The devolution of the Crown Estate in Wales: an environmental law perspective	12
The Role of Quota Systems in Realising Planetary Boundaries	11
Climate Change, Fundamental Rights, and Statutory Interpretation	9
Held v State of Montana: A Constitutional Rights Turn in Climate Change Litigation?	8
The Obligations of the States in Respect of Climate Change Before the International Court of Justice	8
A World of Difference: Overcoming Normative Limits of the ECHR Framework through a Legally Binding Recognition of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment	7
Erga omnes and erga omnes partes obligations in the International Court of Justice’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion	7
Policies, Places and Practices: Why Environmental Law Scholars Should Care About the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act 2023	7
Implementing Landscape-scale Environmental Management: Landscape Enterprise Networks	6
On Cracks, Lights and Environments	6
Ten years a chair—reflections on the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee	6
In between the missed opportunities and future possibilities: human rights in the ICJ's advisory opinion on climate change and the prospects for climate litigation	6
Significant EU Environmental Cases: 2023	5
An Example of Sustainable Development (In)Action: The Case of Waste Pickers at a Buy-Back Centre in Johannesburg	5
Exploring a Right to Submit Environmental Information Under International Environmental Law	5
We Need To Talk About Method: A Call for More and Better Empirical Environmental Law Scholarship	5
From ‘ILCs’ to ‘IPLCs’: A Victory for Indigenous Peoples’ Rights Advocacy Under the Convention on Biological Diversity?	4
Interpreting the Law of the Sea in the Context of Sea-Level Rise: The Ambulatory Thesis and State Practice	4

The Nature, Content and Realisation of the Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment	4
Narrative and Story-telling in Darwall & Anor v Dartmoor National Park Authority	4
Greenwashing in the oil and gas sector: the limitations of climate change litigation on advertising in Brazil	3
The Legal Protection of Animal Parasites in International Biodiversity Law	3
Regulating Greenwashing: Where Market Rules Meet Climate Action	3
Significant UK Environmental Law Cases 2024–25	3
Regulation With Borders?—‘Nature’ and ‘Society’ in Marine Protection Areas	3
The Centre Will Not Hold: The Foundations of Environmental Law	3
Significant EU Environmental Cases: 2021–2022	3
Waste, Fertilising Product, or Something Else? EU Regulation of Biochar	3
‘State Greenwashing’: An Overlooked Phenomenon?	3
The Contribution of Urgenda to the Mitigation of Climate Change	3