OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sustainable Development 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Do renewable energy consumption and financial development matter for environmental sustainability? New global evidence	343
Investigate the role of technology innovation and renewable energy in reducing transport sector CO₂ emission in China: A path toward sustainable development	272
Does financial inclusion limit carbon dioxide emissions? Analyzing the role of globalization and renewable electricity output	251
Economic growth, renewable energy consumption, and ecological footprint: Exploring the role of environmental regulations and democracy in sustainable development	208
Nexus between green technology innovation, green financing, and CO₂ emissions in the G7 countries: The moderating role of social globalisation	192
The dynamic linkage between remittances, export diversification, education, renewable energy consumption, economic growth, and CO₂ emissions in top remittance‐receiving countries	164
Natural resources abundance, economic globalization, and carbon emissions: Advancing sustainable development agenda	156
Theoretical Framework for the Carbon Emissions Effects of Technological Progress and Renewable Energy Consumption	144
Spillover and dynamic effects of energy transition and economic growth on carbon dioxide emissions for the European Union: A dynamic spatial panel model	144
International trade and environmental performance in top ten‐emitters countries: The role of eco‐innovation and renewable energy consumption	142
Influence of growth and urbanization on CO₂ emissions: The moderating effect of foreign direct investment on energy use in BRICS	127
Do green innovation and financial globalization contribute to the ecological sustainability and energy transition in the United Kingdom? Policy insights from a bootstrap rolling window approach	107
Composite fiscal decentralisation and green innovation: Imperative strategy for institutional reforms and sustainable development in OECD countries	107
Free trade and carbon emissions revisited: The asymmetric impacts of trade diversification and trade openness	102
Linking institutional quality to environmental sustainability	98
Green innovation and ecological footprint relationship for a sustainable development: Evidence from top 20 green innovator countries	97
What abates carbon emissions in China: Examining the impact of renewable energy and green investment	95
Strategic attributions of corporate social responsibility and environmental management: The business case for doing well by doing good!	92
The linkages among natural resources, renewable energy consumption, and environmental quality: A path toward sustainable development	90
Path to sustainable development: Does digital economy matter in manufacturing green total factor productivity?	89
How do higher education institutions promote sustainable development? A literature review	87
Adoption of renewable energy sources, low‐carbon initiatives, and advanced logistical infrastructure—an step toward integrated global progress	85
Variations in sustainable development goal interactions: Population, regional, and income disaggregation	84
Revisiting the empirical relationship among the main targets of sustainable development: Growth, education, health and carbon emissions	80
Conceptualizing community resilience and the social dimensions of risk to overcome barriers to disaster risk reduction and sustainable development	78

Trade openness helps move towards carbon neutrality—Insight from 114 countries	77
Investigating the nexus between energy, economic growth, and environmental quality: A road map for the sustainable development	75
A green path towards sustainable development: Optimal behavior of the duopoly game model with carbon neutrality instruments	73
The energy‐extractives nexus and the just transition	70
Energy transition and environmental quality prospects in leading emerging economies: The role of environmental‐related technological innovation	70
Sustainable development and financial system: IntegratingESGrisks through sustainable investment strategies in a climate change context	69
Moving towards sustainable environmental development for BRICS: Investigating the asymmetric effect of natural resources on CO₂	69
Strategies for the sustainable development of China in the post‐epidemic era	65
Domestic material consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the EU‐28 countries: Implications for environmental sustainability targets	65
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability in the tourism sector: A systematic literature review and future outlook	63
Dynamics between environmental taxes and ecological sustainability: Evidence from top‐seven green economies by novel quantile approaches	61
Priorities for science to support national implementation of the sustainable development goals: A review of progress and gaps	60
Can nuclear energy technology budgets pave the way for a transition toward low‐carbon economy: Insights from the United Kingdom	59
Does sustainability performance impact financial performance? Evidence from Indian service sector firms	59
Core functions of Sustainable Human Resource Management. A hybrid literature review with the use of H‐Classics methodology	57
How Sustainable Development Goals interlinkages influence European Union countries’ progress towards the 2030 Agenda	55
The role of renewable energy investment in tackling climate change concerns: Environmental policies for achieving SDG‐13	53
Low‐carbon energy, sustainable development, and justice: Towards a just energy transition for the society and the environment	50
Exploring the impact of geopolitics on the environmental Kuznets curve research	49
Toward better measurement of sustainable development and wellbeing: A small number of SDG indicators reliably predict life satisfaction	48
Are green resource productivity and environmental technologies the face of environmental sustainability in the Nordic region?	48
Indicator‐based assessment of local and regional progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): An integrated approach from Romania	47
The drivers of the integration of the sustainable development goals into the non‐financial information system: Individual and joint analysis of their influence	46
Renewable energy and advanced logistical infrastructure: Carbon‐free economic development	44
Advancing community‐based tourism approaches for the sustainable development of destinations	42
Sustainable community development: Integrating social and environmental sustainability for sustainable housing and communities	42
The role of logistics performance for sustainable development in top Asian countries: Evidence from advance panel estimations	42
Achieving the objectives of the 2030 sustainable development goals agenda: Causalities between economic growth, environmental sustainability, financial development, and renewable energy consumption	42
Towards sustainable development in the European Union countries: Does economic complexity affect renewable and non‐renewable energy consumption?	42
Innovation Ecosystem framework directed to Sustainable Development Goal #17 partnerships implementation	41
Environmental sustainability in South Africa: Understanding the criticality of economic policy uncertainty, fiscal decentralization, and green innovation	40
Sustainable practices in hospitality pre and amid COVID‐19 pandemic: Looking back for moving forward post‐COVID‐19	40
Building a unified sustainable development goal database: Why does sustainable development goal data selection matter?	39
Is Covid‐19 changing sustainable consumer behavior? A survey of Italian consumers	39
Highlighting the role of agriculture and geospatial technology in food security and sustainable development goals	39
Do changes in the business environment and sustainable development really matter for enhancing enterprise development?	37
The path to sustainable environment: Do environmental taxes and governance matter?	37
Business orientation and sustainable development: A systematic review of sustainability orientation literature and future research avenues	37
Sustainable innovation among small businesses: The role of digital orientation, the external environment, and company characteristics	37
Towards a sustainable future: The role of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and urbanization in limiting CO₂ emissions in Sweden	36
Renewable energy public–private partnerships in developing countries: Determinants of private investment	36
Revisiting the relationship between sustainable project management and project success: The moderating role of stakeholder engagement and team building	36
Is economic growth in East Asia pacific and South Asia ESG factors based and aligned growth?	34
How eco‐efficient are electric vehicles across Europe? A regionalized life cycle assessment‐based eco‐efficiency analysis	34
Striving for the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs) in BRICS economies: The role of green finance, fintech, and natural resource rent	33
Decoupling the role of renewable energy, green finance and political stability in achieving the sustainable development goal 13: Empirical insight from emerging economies	32
Transdisciplinary research in natural resources management: Towards an integrative and transformative use of co‐concepts	32
The AI ESG protocol: Evaluating and disclosing the environment, social, and governance implications of artificial intelligence capabilities, assets, and activities	32
Can energy productivity gains harness the carbon dioxide‐inhibiting agenda of the Next 11 countries? Implications for achieving sustainable development	30
Synthesizing the impacts of information and communication technology advancement and educational developments on environmental sustainability: A comparative analyses of three economic blocs—BRICS	30

Sustainable development goals and corporate reporting: An empirical investigation of the oil and gas industry	30
Bracing for the Typhoon: Climate change and sovereign risk in Southeast Asia	30
Current status, prospects, and implications of renewable energy for achieving sustainable development goals in Nepal	29
The eco‐friendly side of narcissism: The case of green marketing	29
When and how the implementation of green human resource management and data‐driven culture to improve the firm sustainable environmental development?	29
Achieving sustainable development goals through board size and innovation	29
Sustainable energy development through non‐residential rooftop solar photovoltaic adoption: Empirical evidence from India	28
Impact of digital economy on urban sustainable development: Evidence from Chinese cities	28
Towards a sustainable development assessment framework to bridge supply chain practices and technologies	28
Linkages between sanitation and the sustainable development goals: A case study of Brazil	28
Collaboration for organizational sustainability limits to growth: Developing a factors, benefits, and challenges framework	27
Sustainable development model for measuring and managing sustainability in the automotive sector	27
The synergistic effect of green trade and economic complexity on sustainable environment: A new perspective on the economic and ecological components of sustainable development	27
Artificial intelligence for Sustainable Development Goals: Bibliometric patterns and concept evolution trajectories	26
How do technological innovation and renewables shape environmental quality advancement in emerging economies: An exploration of the E7 bloc?	26
Demarcating transdisciplinary research in sustainability science—Five clusters of research modes based on evidence from 59 research projects	26
Analysing the alignment between circular economy and industry 4.0 nexus with industry 5.0 era: An integrative systematic literature review	25
Understanding the roles of universities for sustainable development transformations: A framing analysis of university models	25
Investing green for sustainable development without ditching economic growth	25
Moving toward sustainable development of sub‐Saharan African countries: Investigating the effect of financial inclusion on environmental quality	25
Waste to energy in Kathmandu Nepal—A way toward achieving sustainable development goals	24
The nexus between renewable energy, income inequality, and consumption‐based CO₂ emissions: An empirical investigation	24
Investigating the dependence of energy prices and economic growth rates with emphasis on the development of renewable energy for sustainable development in Iran	24
Achieving regional sustainability and carbon neutrality target in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa economies: Understanding the importance of fiscal decentralization, export diversificat	24
Knowledge co‐production and researcher roles in transdisciplinary environmental management projects	24
Knowledge integration in transdisciplinary sustainability science: Tools from applied critical realism	24
Public support for sustainable development and environmental policy: A case of the Czech Republic	23
Green hydrogen partnerships with the Global South. Advancing an energy justice perspective on “tomorrow's oil”	23
The importance of institutional differences among countries in SDGs achievement: A cross‐country empirical study	23
For sustainable development in the transportation sector: Determinants of acceptance of sustainable transportation using the innovation diffusion theory and technology acceptance model	23
An international comparison analysis of CO₂ emissions in the construction industry	23
Success factors of global goal‐setting for sustainable development: Learning from the Millennium Development Goals	23
Towards a win‐win situation for innovation and sustainable development: The role of environmental regulation	23
Regional analysis of the sustainable development of two Mediterranean countries: Spain and Italy	22
Attaining sustainable business performance under resource constraints: Insights from an emerging economy	22
Do investors value the voluntary assurance of sustainability information? Evidence from the Spanish stock market	22
Roadmap to achieving sustainable development: Does digital economy matter in industrial green transformation?	22
Synergies and trade‐offs across sustainable development goals: A novel method incorporating indirect interactions analysis	22
Sustainable built environment for facilitating public health of older adults: Evidence from Hong Kong	22
Navigating sustainability: Unveiling the interconnected dynamics of ESG factors and SDGs in BRICS‐11	22
The importance of sustainability engagement in small businesses supplier collaboration	21
Rethinking the sustainable development goals: Learning with and from community‐led initiatives	21
Sustainable development policies of renewable energy and technological innovation toward climate and sustainable development goals	21
The sustainable development of mobility in the green transition: Renewable energy, local industrial chain, and battery recycling	21
Identifying and assessing modular construction implementation barriers in developing nations for sustainable building development	21
Global food stability and its socio‐economic determinants towards sustainable development goal 2 (Zero Hunger)	21
Innovative urban design for low‐carbon sustainable development: Evidence from China's innovative city pilots	21
Closing the sustainable development gap: A global study of goal interactions	21
Environmental good exports and green total factor productivity: Lessons from China	20
Do green finance, green technology innovation, and institutional quality help achieve environmental sustainability? Evidence from the developing economies	20
Does sustainable corporate governance have an impact on materiality disclosure quality in integrated reporting? International evidence	20
How agricultural technologies and climatic factors affect India's crop production? A roadmap towards sustainable agriculture	20
Examining the asymmetric effects of fossil fuel consumption, foreign direct investment, and globalization on ecological footprint in Mexico	20
Sustainability as a strategy base in Spanish firms: Sustainability reports and performance on the sustainable development goals	20
The influence of renewable energy and economic freedom aspects on ecological sustainability in the G7 countries	20
Environmental degradation, economic growth, and energy consumption: The role of education	20
International trade and consumption‐based carbon emissions: Does energy efficiency and financial risk ensure sustainable environment?	20
Are institutional investors “in love” with the sustainable development goals? Understanding the idyll in the case of governments and pension funds	19
Environmental sustainability in developing countries: Understanding the criticality of financial inclusion and globalization	19
Assessing the impacts of formal and informal regulations on ecological footprint	19
Appraising the nexus between influencers and sustainability‐oriented innovation adoption in affordable housing projects	19
Sustainable development with environmental, social and governance: Strategies for urban sustainability	19
Economic globalisation and inclusive green growth in Africa: Contingencies and policy‐relevant thresholds of governance	19
Strategic or substantive innovation? The effect of government environmental punishment on enterprise green technology innovation	19
Is renewable energy a path towards sustainable development?	18
Achieving green environment in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa economies: Do composite risk index, green innovation, and environmental policy stringency matter?	18
Environmental governance, local government competition and industrial green transformation: Evidence from China's sustainable development practice	18
Adopting sustainability competence‐based education in academic disciplines: Insights from 13 higher education institutions	18
Assessing the effects of workforce diversity on project productivity performance for sustainable workplace in the construction industry	18
Sustainable urban development: Can the balanced scorecard contribute to the strategic management of sustainable cities?	18
On the sustainable trade development: Do Financial inclusion and eco‐innovation matter? Evidence from method of moments quantile regression	17
A multi‐perspective composite assessment framework for prioritizing targets of sustainable development goals	17
The cultural dimensions of sustainable development: A cross‐country configurational analysis	17
The influence of industrial attitudes and behaviours in adopting sustainable construction practices	17
Sustainable development through green innovation and resource allocation in cities: Evidence from machine learning	17
Sustainable investment – Exploring the linkage between alpha,ESG, andSDGs	17
Circular economy at the company level: An empirical study based on sustainability reports	17
Corporate social responsibility model for a competitive and resilient hospitality industry	17
Barriers to sustainable development: Critical social factors influencing the sustainable building development based on Swedish experts' perspectives	17
The nexus of United Nations' 2030 Agenda and corporate sustainability reports	17

Improving human development through urbanization, demographic dividend and biomass energy consumption	17
Voluntary disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions by cities under carbon disclosure project: A sustainable development approach	17
Artificial intelligence ‐ driven sustainable development: Examining organizational, technical, and processing approaches to achieving global goals	16
Circular economy adoption challenges in medical waste management for sustainable development: An empirical study	16
Upscaling circular economy in foodtechs businesses in emergent countries: Towards sustainable development through natural resource based view	16
Low‐carbon tourism for island destinations: A crucial alternative for sustainable development	16
Exploring the antecedents of sustainable consumers' purchase intentions: Evidence from emerging countries	16
Does industry 5.0 model optimize sustainable performance of Agri‐enterprises? Real‐time investigation from the realm of stakeholder theory and domain	16
Circular economy—A way forward to Sustainable Development: Identifying Conceptual Overlaps and Contingency Factors at the Microlevel	16
Spatial spillover effects of green technology innovation and renewable energy on ecological sustainability: New evidence and analysis	16
Sustainable development, disclosure to stakeholders and the Sustainable Development Goals: Evidence from Brazilian banks' non‐financial reports	16
High‐tech industries, financial expansion, and low‐carbon energy deployment along the Belt and Road Initiative	16
Deconstructing corporate environmental, social, and governance performance: Heterogeneous stakeholder preferences in the food industry	15
Corporate governance code and voluntary disclosure of integrated reporting: Evidence from an emerging economy	15
Sustainable supply chain finance adoption and firm performance: Is green supply chain integration a missing link?	15
Cross‐scale, cross‐level and multi‐actor governance of transformations toward the Sustainable Development Goals: A review of common challenges and solutions	15
The evolution of N‐helix of the regional innovation system: Implications for sustainability	15
Effects of climate change on health and wellbeing: A systematic review	15
Toward marine sustainability: Unveiling the effect of the fishery industry on blue carbon sequestration	15
The imperative of embedding sustainability in business: A model for transformational sustainable development	15
Developing a sustainability competences paradigm in Higher Education or a White Elephant?	15
Evolution, trends and future research lines in corporate social responsibility and tourism: A bibliometric analysis and science mapping	15
Evaluating a pathway for environmental sustainability: The role of competitive industrial performance and renewable energy consumption in European countries	15
A systematic review of the critical success factors for implementing circular economy in construction projects	15
Developing a new water–energy–food‐greenhouse gases nexus tool for sustainable agricultural landscape management	15
Evaluating consumer environmental behavior for sustainable development: A confirmatory factor analysis	15
Sustainable value in the fashion industry: A case study of value construction/destruction using digital twins	14
Rural sustainability methods, drivers, and outcomes: A systematic review	14
Do top management team diversity and chief sustainability officer make firms greener? Moderating role of top management team behavioral integration	14
Challenges facing indicators to become a universal language for sustainable urban development	14
Unpacking the sustainable development goals (SDGs) interlinkages: A semantic network analysis of the SDGs targets	14
Sustainable development and stakeholder engagement in the agri‐food sector: Exploring the nexus between biodiversity conservation and information technology	14
Towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 in sub‐Saharan Africa: Role of governance and renewable energy	14
Renewable energy project success: Internal versus external stakeholders' satisfaction and influences of power‐interest matrix	14
Climate shocks and poverty persistence: Investigating consequences and coping strategies in Niger, Tanzania, and Uganda	14
Leaders' sustainability competences and small and medium‐sized enterprises outcomes: The role of social entrepreneurial orientation	14
Sustainable purchase intentions: The role of moral norm and social dominance orientation in the theory of planned behavior applied to the case of fair trade products	14
Moving towards sustainable environment development in emerging economies: The role of green finance, green tech‐innovation, natural resource depletion, and forested area in assessing the load capacity	14
Financial inclusion and trade adjusted carbon emissions: Evaluating the role of environment related taxes employing non‐parametric panel methods	13
Sustainable food consumption and Sustainable Development Goal 12: Conceptual challenges for monitoring and implementation	13
The role of affluence, urbanization, and human capital for sustainable forest management in China: Robust findings from a new method of Fourier cointegration	13
The impact of clean energy consumption, green innovation, and technological diffusion on environmental sustainability: New evidence from load capacity curve hypothesis for 10 European Union countries	13
Class and climate‐change adaptation in rural India: Beyond community‐based adaptation models	13
Natural resources, renewable energy, and governance: A path towards sustainable development	13
Digital approach toward environmental sustainability in supply chains: Evidence from Vietnamese firms	13
HowFIFAWorld Cup2022™can meet the carbon neutral commitments and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?: Reflections from the tree nursery project in Qatar	13
Toward achieving sustainable development: Searching for economic development and globalization thresholds in the foreign direct investment‐environmental degradation nexus	13
Assessing the important factors of sustainable agriculture development: An Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles‐Analytic Hierarchy Process study in the northern region of V	13
Translating the 2030 Agenda into reality through stakeholder engagement	13
Sustainable development via environmental taxes and efficiency in energy: Evaluating trade adjusted carbon emissions	13
Emissions‐Adjusted International Trade for Sustainable Development in China: Evidence from dynamic autoregressive distributed lags model and kernel based regression	13
Climate reporting quality following the recommendations of the task force on climate‐related financial disclosures: A Focus on the German capital market	13
Unveiling the relationship between sustainable development and Industry 4.0: A text mining literature analysis	13
Climate change acknowledgment to promote sustainable development: A critical discourse analysis of local action plans in coastal Florida	13
Does greenwashing obstruct sustainable environmental technologies and green financing from promoting environmental sustainability? Analytical evidence from the Indian economy	13
The implementation of green human resource management bundles across firms in pursuit of environmental sustainability goals	12
Circular economy and firm performance: The influence of product life cycle analysis, upcycling, and redesign	12
The burgeoning field of sustainable investment: Past, present and future	12
Evaluation of the green development level of tourism in ecological conservation areas: A case study of Beijing	12
Understanding the behavior of ESG in both OPEC and non‐OPEC countries? The implications for sustainable development reaching	12
The role of local cultural factors in the achievement of the sustainable development goals	12
How financial performance influences investment in sustainable development initiatives in the airline industry: The moderation role of state‐ownership	12
Enabling transdisciplinary research collaboration for planetary health: Insights from practice at the environment‐health‐development nexus	12
The impact of globalization on the decoupling of water consumption and economic growth in BRICS and N11 countries—Linear and nonlinear approaches	12
Sustainable development in nature‐based destinations. The social dilemma of an environmental policy	12
Towards low‐carbon sustainable development under Industry 4.0: The influence of industrial intelligence on China's carbon mitigation	12
An exploratory study of stakeholder views on the sustainable development of mountain tourism	12
The impact of political competition on green innovation: A new insight into sustainable development	12
The role of aesthetics and art in organizational sustainability: A conceptual model and exploratory study in higher education	12
Can sustainability be achieved through sustainable oriented innovation practices? Empirical evidence of micro, small and medium scale manufacturing enterprises	12
The barriers and drivers of environmental management accounting practices' adoption in developed and developing countries for sustainable development	12
Exploring the role of the belt and road initiative in promoting sustainable and inclusive development	12
Machine learning and the renewable energy revolution: Exploring solar and wind energy solutions for a sustainable future including innovations in energy storage	12
Elucidating the effects of environmental consciousness and environmental attitude on green travel behavior: Moderating role of green self‐efficacy	11
Improving sustainability teaching by grouping and interrelating pedagogical approaches and sustainability competences: Evidence from 15 Worldwide Higher Education Institutions	11
Exploring the role of information communication technology, trade, and foreign direct investment to promote sustainable economic growth: Evidence from Belt and Road Initiative economies	11
The great stagnation and environmental sustainability: A multidimensional perspective	11
Emergence fostered by systemic analysis—Seeding innovation for sustainable development	11
A systematic review on the role of geographical information systems in monitoring and achieving sustainable development goal 6: Clean water and sanitation	11
A balancing act between economic growth and sustainable development: Historical trajectory through the lens of development indicators	11
Sustainable tourism development and globalization: Recent insights from the United States	11
Factors influencing green purchases: An emerging market perspective	11
The path to sustainable municipal solid waste management: Do human development, energy efficiency, and income inequality matter?	11
Resourcification: A non‐essentialist theory of resources for sustainable development	11
Building resilience to climate change: Examining the impact of agro‐ecological zones and social groups on sustainable development	11
From sustainable development to resilience? (Dis)continuities in climate and development policy governance discourse	11
The role of values in shaping sustainable development perspectives and outcomes: A case study of Iceland	11
Formulation of citizen science approach for monitoring Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation for an Indian city	11
Financing sustainable development? The role of foreign aid in Southeast Asia's energy transition	11
A framework for the assessment of qualitative and quantitative sustainable development of groundwater system	10
Impact of environmental policies on the profitability of greenhouse agriculture in southeastern Spain	10
Transformative social policies as an essential buffer during socio‐economic crises	10
Failing to attain sustainable development in Bangladesh: A potential comprehensive strategy for sustainability	10
Why is ecological sustainability so difficult to achieve? An in‐context discussion of conceptual barriers	10
Monitoring sustainable development goals and the quest for high‐quality indicators: Learning from a practical evaluation of data on corruption	10