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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental assessments and sustainable finance frameworks: will the EU Taxonomy change the mindset over the contribution of EIA to sustainable development?	23
Improving Post-Relocation Support for People Resettled by Infrastructure Development	21
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) effectiveness in protected areas	17
Evaluating Chinese policy on post-resettlement support for dam-induced displacement and resettlement	14
Gendered health impacts of industrial gold mining in northwestern Tanzania: perceptions of local communities	13
Evaluating the effectiveness of a national environmental and social impact assessment system: lessons from Uganda	11
Embedding gender-responsive approaches in impact assessment and management	11
How a new university campus affected people in three villages: the dynamic nature of social licence to operate	11
Skills’ sets and shared benefits: perceptions of resettled people from the Yangtze-Huai River Diversion Project in China	10
Wind energy environmental assessment requirements and processes: an uneven landscape	10
Modifying social impact assessment to enhance the effectiveness of company social investment strategies in contributing to local community development	10
Advancing the consideration of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment: Synthesis and next steps forward	9
Land asset securitization: an innovative approach to distinguish between benefit-sharing and compensation in hydropower development	9
Collective impacts: using systems thinking in project-level assessment	9
Treatment of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment: A global survey of current practices and common issues	9
Hidden in plain sight: gender analysis of the environmental and social impact assessment of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline	8
Exploring the drivers of gendered grievance mechanisms: examples from the agribusiness, extractive and wind power sectors in Kenya	8
Fallacies about communities that lead to failed community relations	7
Ten years of experience with ecological connectivity analysis and urban planning in Sweden	7
Assessing habitat connectivity in environmental impact assessment: a case-study in the UK context	7
The central role of Inuit Qaujimaningit in Nunavut’s impact assessment process	7
Rural water sustainability index (RWSI): an innovative multicriteria and participative approach for rural communities	7
Using Sustainable Development Goals to develop EIA scoping practices: The case of Denmark	7
‘Literature review on the analysis of climate change risks in the environmental impact assessment of dams’	7
Advancing beyond project-scale Social Impact Assessment of transport infrastructure: insights into contextual constraints on practice	7

Simplification of environmental and other impact assessments – results from an international online survey	7
The role of impact assessment in the development of urban green infrastructure: a review of EIA and SEA practices in Thailand	7
Expanding evidence and expertise in impact assessment: informing Canadian public policy with the knowledges of invisible communities	7
Next generation impact assessment: Exploring the key components	6
Quality of environmental impact assessment systems and economic growth in countries participating in the belt and road initiatives	6
Using strategic environmental assessment and project environmental impact assessment to assess ecological connectivity at multiple scales in a national park context	6
Women at work and war: integrating gender and conflict into impact assessment	6
Mainstreaming ecological connectivity in road environmental impact assessments: a long way to go	6
Social impact assessment and (realist) evaluation: meeting of the methods	5
SIA and DRA integration for increased resilience	5
Strategic environmental assessment of urban plans in Australia: the case study of Melbourne Urban Extension Plan	5
Assessing the public interest in environmental assessment: lessons from cost-benefit analysis of an energy megaproject	5
Enhancing ecological connectivity through biodiversity offsets to mitigate impacts on habitats of large mammals in tropical forest environments	5
SEA as a change agent: still relevant and how to stay relevant?	4
Strategic environmental assessment monitoring: the enduring forgotten sibling	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
The evolving role of supreme auditing institutions (SAIs) towards enhancing environmental governance	4
SEA screening practice and the inclusion of environmental objectives in Swedish energy and climate planning	4
Advantages and obstacles to retrofitting benefit-sharing after development-induced displacement and resettlement	4
Establishing international best practice principles for impact assessment teaching and training	4
Distilling best practice principles for public participation in impact assessment follow-up	4
Evaluating the quality of Environmental Impact Assessment Reports (EIARs) for tourism developments in protected areas: The Kruger to Canyons Biosphere case study	4
The consideration of waste management in environmental impact assessment (EIA) for developments in protected areas	4