OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions is 50. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario	271
The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change	214
Imperialist appropriation in the world economy: Drain from the global South through unequal exchange, 1990–2015	168
The Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale: Development and validation of a multidimensional scale	119
The climate change mitigation impacts of active travel: Evidence from a longitudinal panel study in seven European cities	117
Anticipating futures through models: the rise of Integrated Assessment Modelling in the climate science-policy interface since 1970	113
Contextualizing climate justice activism: Knowledge, emotions, motivations, and actions among climate strikers in six cities	112
Socio-economic conditions for satisfying human needs at low energy use: An international analysis of social provisioning	103
Co-productive agility and four collaborative pathways to sustainability transformations	99
Global-scale impact analysis of mine tailings dam failures: 1915–2020	98
Surge in global metal mining threatens vulnerable ecosystems	91
The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality	89
Exploring river nitrogen and phosphorus loading and export to global coastal waters in the Shared Socio-economic pathways	87
Climate change in news media across the globe: An automated analysis of issue attention and themes in climate change coverage in 10 countries (2006–2018)	86
Nature-dependent people: Mapping human direct use of nature for basic needs across the tropics	85
The influence of political ideology on greenhouse gas emissions	85
Explaining Growing Glyphosate Use: The Political Economy of Herbicide-Dependent Agriculture	83
Exploratory modeling for analyzing coupled human-natural systems under uncertainty	81
(Un)making in sustainability transformation beyond capitalism	81
Conflicted transitions: Exploring the actors, tactics, and outcomes of social opposition against energy infrastructure	81
Knowledge co-production for Indigenous adaptation pathways: Transform post-colonial articulation complexes to empower local decision-making	80
Linking internal and external transformation for sustainability and climate action: Towards a new research and policy agenda	80
Improving the evidence base: A methodological review of the quantitative climate migration literature	79
Air conditioning and global inequality	78
Income, consumer preferences, and the future of livestock-derived food demand	74

Shared Socio-economic Pathways for European agriculture and food systems: The Eur-Agri-SSPs	72
Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work	70
Toward a climate mobilities research agenda: Intersectionality, immobility, and policy responses	70
Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision	69
Negative-emissions technology portfolios to meet the 1.5 °C target	67
The economics of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) deployment in a 1.5 °C or 2 °C world	66
Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to global warming, 1971–2021	64
Aligning climate and sustainable development finance through an SDG lens. The role of development assistance in implementing the Paris Agreement	63
Systems thinking as a paradigm shift for sustainability transformation	63
How EU policies could reduce nutrient pollution in European inland and coastal waters	61
Nature unsettled: How knowledge and power shape ‘nature-based’ approaches to societal challenges	60
Knowing like a global expert organization: Comparative insights from the IPCC and IPBES	60
Climate change in a changing world: Socio-economic and technological transitions, regulatory frameworks and trends on global greenhouse gas emissions from EDGAR v.5.0	60
Prospects for a saturation of humanity’s resource use? An analysis of material stocks and flows in nine world regions from 1900 to 2035	58
The scale and drivers of carbon footprints in households, cities and regions across India	58
Global long-term mapping of surface temperature shows intensified intra-city urban heat island extremes	56
A conceptual framework for cross-border impacts of climate change	56
Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends	55
How the future of the global forest sink depends on timber demand, forest management, and carbon policies	53
China’s pathway to carbon neutrality for the iron and steel industry	53
Climate change action as a project of identity: Eight meta-analyses	51
The global value of coastal wetlands for storm protection	51
Cattle ranchers and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Production, location, and policies	51
Greenhouse gas emissions from global cities under SSP/RCP scenarios, 1990 to 2100	51
No peace for the forest: Rapid, widespread land changes in the Andes-Amazon region following the Colombian civil war	50
Legume dreams: The contested futures of sustainable plant-based food systems in Europe	50
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges	50
Environmental and land defenders: Global patterns and determinants of repression	50
An assessment of the performance of scenarios against historical global emissions for IPCC reports	50