Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

Papers
(The median citation count of Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Participatory ex-ante impact assessment for interactive research and development in agriculture and food systems41
Climate impact assessment procedures: time to look beyond compliance?27
Territorial Impact Assessment as a tool to assess urban tourism growth18
Chekhov’s Gun and Occam’s Razor: improving impact assessment efficiency for renewable energy developments16
Tools for Indigenous-led impact assessment: insights from five case studies16
A gender equity and new masculinities approach to development: examining results from a Colombian case study14
Simplification of environmental assessment – the case of Sweden14
Stakeholder perspectives and challenges to the institutionalization of strategic environmental assessment in Botswana13
Territorial Impact Assessment – 20 Years on13
Impact assessment publishing – observations and reflections after 7 years of being editor of impact assessment and project appraisal13
Rising mercury levels12
What would environmental impact assessment look like if we started from scratch today? Designing better EIA for developed neoliberal nations12
Pathways to pluralism in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): the Multi-Author Team and integrated governance model12
The environmental impact assessment midlife crisis?11
Moving to next generation community-based environmental assessment11
Facilitating public scrutiny of EIA reports with open data and artificial intelligence: insights from a Mexican case study11
Gaining a deeper understanding of the psychology underpinning significance judgements in environmental impact assessment (EIA)11
Response to: Environmental assessments and sustainable finance frameworks: will the EU taxonomy change the mindset over the contribution of EIA to sustainable development?10
AI and SIA: some reflections10
Transformation towards a sustainable world – the pivotal role of impact assessments9
Reflections on Ireland’s 2025 EIA conference: enhancing environmental assessment practice for renewable energy projects9
Using strategic environmental assessment and project environmental impact assessment to assess ecological connectivity at multiple scales in a national park context9
Capacity needs for assessing the cumulative social effects of projects9
Environmental assessments and sustainable finance frameworks: will the EU Taxonomy change the mindset over the contribution of EIA to sustainable development?9
Response to environmental assessments and sustainable finance frameworks8
Strategic environmental assessment implementation: variation across regions in China8
Taxonomies of sustainable investment and existing decision support approaches of EIA, SEA and CBA – a silver bullet for sustainable development? A response to Dusík and Bond8
Impact assessment for renewable energy development: analysis of impacts and mitigation practices for wind energy in western Canada8
Sustainability assessment: the state of the art in 20267
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment: public-developer information exchange dynamics during public participation processes in urban and rural projects in Malawi7
Reflections on the role of [meta]data in strategic environmental assessment7
AI in strategic planning and assessment – a game changer in decision-making or a risk for reproduction of hidden biases?7
Environmental assessments and sustainable finance taxonomies – a riposte7
Sustainable finance taxonomies: filling the gaps of EIA systems for developing countries7
Deriving best practice principles and evaluation criteria for EIA follow-up governance7
Does local planning culture influence the effectiveness of impact assessments?: reflecting on infrastructure projects in a Dutch UNESCO World Heritage site6
Testing the Social Framework for Projects: the social impacts of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg6
Pluralism in EIA practice: A Q-method analysis of the economic growth-environment nexus6
The future of impact assessment in Austria and Germany – streamlining impact assessment to save the planet?6
Contextual challenges for implementing strategic environmental assessment in the Global South: insights from a case study in Mexico6
How do principles determine the effectiveness of public participation in public infrastructure megaprojects?5
Reversing the gaze: understanding how community members are negatively affected by impact assessment5
Impact assessment in the age of artificial intelligence: reflections from IAIA255
Environmental assessment simplification in Spain: streamlining or weakening procedures?5
Editorial5
Innovation in the territorial impact assessment: an application to large infrastructure projects of the Italian recovery and resilience facility5
Consideration of risks to people and the environment related to accidents on natural gas transmission pipelines in LUP and SEA processes in Poland5
Understanding impact assessment from other perspectives: what might nature have to say?5
Identifying and promoting qualitative methods for impact assessment5
Between control and independence: computational modelling within EC’s trade sustainability impact assessments5
Editorial: meeting metrics-based performance targets is important, but not everything – on the necessity for journals to keep focusing on the needs of the community they are serving and on quality5
Simplification and potential replacement of EA in the UK – is it fit for purpose?5
Benchmarking biodiversity integration in environmental assessments5
Analysis of EA as an instrument for wetland protection: insights from the mining sector in western and northern Canada4
Is there any EIA simplification?: reflections on procedural aspects of the Polish system4
Pathways for improving the consideration of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment: lessons from five case studies4
What can law offer the challenge of cumulative effects? A Review of Rebecca Nelson, Regulating a thousand cuts: Global law and policy solutions to cumulative environmental problems4
Gaps in impact assessment teaching and research in Pakistan4
South Africa’s EIA Screening Tool: A preliminary study of how users perceive its accuracy and utility4
“It is the scale of issues that is important”: a review of “Handbook on cumulative impact assessment”4
Change-making in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): piloting changeology approach using England as a case study4
Current social impact assessment practices for transport projects and plans in Chinese cities4
An independent assessment of potential social impacts of the newly initiated inland port in Salt Lake City, United States4
Enhancing ecological connectivity through biodiversity offsets to mitigate impacts on habitats of large mammals in tropical forest environments4
Advancing the consideration of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment – Part 2 of the special issue4
Reviewing the quality of Environmental Impact Statements of Brazilian landfills: insights for promoting efficiency in final disposal4
A saliency mapping approach to understanding the visual impact of wind and solar infrastructure in amenity landscapes4
The role of impact assessment in the development of urban green infrastructure: a review of EIA and SEA practices in Thailand3
Towards an attitude-inclusive understanding of environmental assessment competence in higher education3
AI will change EA practice – but are we ready for it? A call for discussion based on developments in collecting and processing biodiversity data3
Educating on the importance of strategic environmental assessment: an experience from Brazil3
The contribution of resilience assessment to impact assessment3
The future of Impact assessment in Pakistan: reflections from two decades of practice, teaching and research3
Cycles of hope3
Impact assessment as planning (not permitting): factors affecting its potential to influence project design3
Environment-related underlying dynamics of project adaptability: a case study of sponge-city PPPs in China3
Exploring environmental assessment competence in higher education3
Replacing EIA and SEA with Environmental Outcome Reports (EORs) - the 2022 levelling up and regeneration bill in the UK3
Including climate change in airport EIAs3
How do the implementations of regulatory impact analysis perform on sustainable development? Investigating the OECD countries through data envelopment analysis3
Integrating heritage impact assessment into environmental impact assessment procedures: a case study of the historic city of Ayutthaya, Thailand3
Editorial3
Explaining variability in cultural impact assessment outcomes: insights from Aotearoa New Zealand2
Moving on since IAIA 20252
Retrospective reflection: IAPA 20242
On the underestimation of the significance of environmental impacts in Peru: an approach using homogeneous units2
Who is involved in environmental and social impact assessment public participation? Observations on urban and rural practices in Malawi2
Insight into impact: territorial impact assessment, the key to tackling complex challenges?2
Integrating climate change into environmental impact assessments of dams: insights from three case studies using an analytical model2
Strategic environmental assessment monitoring: the enduring forgotten sibling2
Applying next-generation community-based environmental assessment: case studies from Kenya2
Undermining Assessment: EIA follow-up, stake-holder advisory groups, and extractive industries in Nunavut, Canada2
A framework of stakeholder analysis for public participation in EIA process: a case study of Thailand2
Unfolding simplification beyond drawbacks: types and reasoning for simplifying environmental assessment2
Improving cumulative effects assessment: alternative approaches based upon an expert survey and literature review2
‘Simplification’ of environmental and other impact assessments – an international trend?2
Editorial2
Compensation for displacement caused by dam building: representation, recognition, and outcomes in Thailand2
For sustainable development, impact assessment must build trust. Artificial intelligence could support and undermine that2
Social impacts arising from road infrastructure projects in Sub-Saharan Africa: better management of social issues is needed in road construction, upgrading and rehabilitation2
Towards glint and glare impact assessment best practice2
Your leadership in impact assessment2
A review of the quality of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) reports in Botswana2
Lack of consideration of ecological connectivity in Canadian environmental impact assessment: Current practice and need for improvement2
Accelerating climate change mitigation and conserving biodiversity – the role of advanced digitalization for a fast and environmentally sound energy transition linking SEA and EIA2
Addressing climate change in the environmental impact assessment: a study of thermal power plants in Brazil2
How much can highway stormwater ponds contribute to amphibian ecological network connectivity?2
Does China’s real-name system improve or reduce residents’ willingness to participate in environmental impact assessments?2
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