OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology is 12. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Examining the dynamics of ecological footprint in China with spectral Granger causality and quantile-on-quantile approaches	131
Environmental consequences of fossil fuel in Spain amidst renewable energy consumption: a new insights from the wavelet-based Granger causality approach	119
The role of renewable energy consumption and financial development in environmental sustainability: implications for the Nordic Countries	97
Role of technological innovation and globalization in BRICS economies: policy towards environmental sustainability	83
Towards nexus-based governance: defining interactions between economic activities and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)	82
A new fuzzy BWM approach for evaluating and selecting a sustainable supplier in supply chain management	68
Wicked problems: a mapping review of the literature	65
Impact of renewable and fossil fuel energy consumption on environmental degradation: evidence from USA by nonlinear approaches	54
Environmental sustainability in Turkey: an environmental Kuznets curve estimation for ecological footprint	51
The criticality of financial development and energy consumption for environmental sustainability in OECD countries: Evidence from dynamic panel analysis	50
Has information and communication technology improved environmental quality in the OECD? —a dynamic panel analysis	50
The 17 United Nations’ sustainable development goals: a status by 2020	48
Biomass energy consumption and sustainable development	48
Wastewater infrastructure for sustainable cities: assessment based on UN sustainable development goals (SDGs)	38
Do the asymmetric effects of technological innovation amidst renewable and nonrenewable energy make or mar carbon neutrality targets?	38
Green finance, fintech, and environmental sustainability: fresh policy insights from the BRICS nations	35
Striving towards environmental sustainability in the BRICS economies: the combined influence of fiscal decentralization and environmental innovation	31
Renewable energy consumption and sustainable development in high-income countries	30
Is product proximity a driver for better energy security? Global evidence of nonlinear relationships between product proximity and energy security	30
Concerns of developing countries and the sustainable development goals: case for India	30
Social-ecological system approaches for water resources management	28
The FDI-CO₂ nexus from the sustainable development perspective: the case of Azerbaijan	28
Exploring the environmental and economic impacts of wind energy: a cost-benefit perspective	28
Assessing national energy sustainability using multiple criteria decision analysis	26
Mapping key features and dimensions of the inclusive city: A systematic bibliometric analysis and literature study	26

Sustainable electricity generation: the possibility of substituting fossil fuels for hydropower and solar energy in Italy	26
Investigating the role of economic complexity in sustainable development and environmental sustainability	25
Agricultural mechanization and land productivity in China	24
Natural resources-sustainable environment conflicts amidst COP26 resolutions: investigating the role of renewable energy, technology innovations, green finance, and structural change	23
Prioritising sustainable supply chain management practices by their impact on multiple interacting barriers	23
On the shadow economy-environmental sustainability nexus in Africa: the (ir)relevance of financial development	22
Is climate change a monetary phenomenon? Evidence from time series analysis	22
MCDM/A studies for economic development, social cohesion and environmental sustainability: introduction	22
Can green resource productivity, renewable energy, and economic globalization drive the pursuit of carbon neutrality in the top energy transition economies?	21
Embedding sustainability into bank strategy: implications for sustainable development goals reporting	21
Rethinking Arctic sustainable development agenda through indigenizing UN sustainable development goals	21
Can clean energy adoption and international trade contribute to the achievement of India’s 2070 carbon neutrality agenda? Evidence using quantile ARDL measures	21
Solar energy and sustainable development: evidence from 35 countries	20
Assessing environmental sustainability by the double reference point methodology: the case of the provinces of Andalusia (Spain)	20
Climate change and food security in Caribbean small island developing states: challenges and strategies	19
Sustainable coastal social-ecological systems: how do we define “coastal”?	19
Strategizing sustainability in the banking industry using fuzzy cognitive maps and system dynamics	18
Preparing future professionals to act towards sustainable development: an analysis of undergraduate students’ motivations towards voluntary activities	18
Towards a common future: revising the evolution of university-based sustainability research literature	17
Algal pathway towards meeting United Nation’s sustainable development goal 6	17
Higher education and food waste: assessing current trends	16
Colligating ecological footprint and economic globalization after COP21: Insights from agricultural value-added and natural resources rents in the E7 economies	16
Impact of sustainability-focused learning intervention on teachers’ agency to teach for sustainable development	16
How do environmental tax and renewable energy contribute to ecological sustainability? New evidence from top renewable energy countries	16
Unweighted TOPSIS: a new multi-criteria tool for sustainability analysis	15
The impact of ecological footprint in West Africa: the role of biocapacity and renewable energy	15
Recent advances and opportunities in planning green petroleum supply chains: a model-oriented review	15
What factors contribute to environmental degradation in G11 economies? Emphasizing the importance of renewable and non-renewable energy sources	15
Analyzing the role of economic globalization in achieving carbon neutrality in Australia	15
Combining an evaluation grid application to assess ecosystem services of urban green spaces and a socioeconomic spatial analysis	14
Modelling a sustainable credit score system (SCSS) using BWM and fuzzy TOPSIS	14
Transient poverty in a sustainable development context	14
Sustainable development, renewable energy transformation and employment impact in the EU	14
Plastic roads: not all they’re paved up to be	13
Nature-based tourism in protected areas: a systematic review of socio-economic benefits and costs to local people	13
Agroecology as a pathway to resilience justice: peasant movements and collective action in the Niayes coastal region of Senegal	13
A social systems approach to sustainable waste management: leverage points for plastic reduction in Colombo, Sri Lanka	12
Urbanization-environment conundrum: an invitation to sustainable development in Saudi Arabian cities	12
The impacts of COVID-19 and climate change on smallholders through the lens of SDGs; and ways to keep smallholders on 2030 agenda	12
European SMEs and non-financial information on sustainability	12
Collaborative decision-making in sustainable mobility: identifying possible consensuses in the multi-actor multi-criteria analysis based on inverse mixed-integer linear optimization	12
Impact of economic growth, natural resources and trade on ecological footprint: do education and longevity promote sustainable development in Algeria?	12