OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal is 4. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental assessments and sustainable finance frameworks: will the EU Taxonomy change the mindset over the contribution of EIA to sustainable development?	29
Improving Post-Relocation Support for People Resettled by Infrastructure Development	21
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) effectiveness in protected areas	18
Gendered health impacts of industrial gold mining in northwestern Tanzania: perceptions of local communities	15
Embedding gender-responsive approaches in impact assessment and management	12
Evaluating the effectiveness of a national environmental and social impact assessment system: lessons from Uganda	12
Simplification of environmental and other impact assessments – results from an international online survey	11
Land asset securitization: an innovative approach to distinguish between benefit-sharing and compensation in hydropower development	11
Wind energy environmental assessment requirements and processes: an uneven landscape	10
Advancing the consideration of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment: Synthesis and next steps forward	10
Hidden in plain sight: gender analysis of the environmental and social impact assessment of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline	10
Skills’ sets and shared benefits: perceptions of resettled people from the Yangtze-Huai River Diversion Project in China	10
Exploring the drivers of gendered grievance mechanisms: examples from the agribusiness, extractive and wind power sectors in Kenya	9
Treatment of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment: A global survey of current practices and common issues	9
The role of impact assessment in the development of urban green infrastructure: a review of EIA and SEA practices in Thailand	9
The central role of Inuit Qaujimaningit in Nunavut’s impact assessment process	9
Collective impacts: using systems thinking in project-level assessment	9
Next generation impact assessment: Exploring the key components	8
Using Sustainable Development Goals to develop EIA scoping practices: The case of Denmark	8
Advancing beyond project-scale Social Impact Assessment of transport infrastructure: insights into contextual constraints on practice	8
Using strategic environmental assessment and project environmental impact assessment to assess ecological connectivity at multiple scales in a national park context	8
Rural water sustainability index (RWSI): an innovative multicriteria and participative approach for rural communities	8
Assessing habitat connectivity in environmental impact assessment: a case-study in the UK context	8
The consideration of waste management in environmental impact assessment (EIA) for developments in protected areas	7
Quality of environmental impact assessment systems and economic growth in countries participating in the belt and road initiatives	7

Ten years of experience with ecological connectivity analysis and urban planning in Sweden	7
Expanding evidence and expertise in impact assessment: informing Canadian public policy with the knowledges of invisible communities	7
Fallacies about communities that lead to failed community relations	7
‘Literature review on the analysis of climate change risks in the environmental impact assessment of dams’	7
Mainstreaming ecological connectivity in road environmental impact assessments: a long way to go	6
Women at work and war: integrating gender and conflict into impact assessment	6
Simplification and potential replacement of EA in the UK – is it fit for purpose?	6
SIA and DRA integration for increased resilience	5
Advantages and obstacles to retrofitting benefit-sharing after development-induced displacement and resettlement	5
Social impact assessment and (realist) evaluation: meeting of the methods	5
Distilling best practice principles for public participation in impact assessment follow-up	5
‘Simplification’ of environmental and other impact assessments – an international trend?	5
Enhancing ecological connectivity through biodiversity offsets to mitigate impacts on habitats of large mammals in tropical forest environments	5
The evolving role of supreme auditing institutions (SAIs) towards enhancing environmental governance	5
Strategic environmental assessment monitoring: the enduring forgotten sibling	5
The future of impact assessment in Austria and Germany – streamlining impact assessment to save the planet?	5
Unfolding simplification beyond drawbacks: types and reasoning for simplifying environmental assessment	4
Don’t Shoot the Messenger – Reflections on streamlining and simplification of Environmental Assessment in the Netherlands	4
Three decades of EIA streamlining: Lessons from South Africa	4
Simplification of environmental assessment – the case of Sweden	4
Biodiversity impact assessment of two large dam projects in India under long term multi-scenarios simulation	4
Evaluating the quality of Environmental Impact Assessment Reports (EIARs) for tourism developments in protected areas: The Kruger to Canyons Biosphere case study	4
Lack of consideration of ecological connectivity in Canadian environmental impact assessment: Current practice and need for improvement	4
Powering corporate citizenship: assessing corporate social responsibility of hydroelectric companies in Canada	4
SEA as a change agent: still relevant and how to stay relevant?	4
Environmental assessment simplification in Spain: streamlining or weakening procedures?	4
SEA screening practice and the inclusion of environmental objectives in Swedish energy and climate planning	4
Replacing EIA and SEA with Environmental Outcome Reports (EORs) - the 2022 levelling up and regeneration bill in the UK	4
Weak Participation and Ideological Exemption: The Latest Stage of EIA Simplification in Brazil?	4