Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Participatory ex-ante impact assessment for interactive research and development in agriculture and food systems38
Chekhov’s Gun and Occam’s Razor: improving impact assessment efficiency for renewable energy developments23
Climate impact assessment procedures: time to look beyond compliance?17
Impact assessment publishing – observations and reflections after 7 years of being editor of impact assessment and project appraisal16
Territorial Impact Assessment as a tool to assess urban tourism growth16
Tools for Indigenous-led impact assessment: insights from five case studies14
A gender equity and new masculinities approach to development: examining results from a Colombian case study14
Territorial Impact Assessment – 20 Years on14
Simplification of environmental assessment – the case of Sweden14
Stakeholder perspectives and challenges to the institutionalization of strategic environmental assessment in Botswana12
Rising mercury levels11
AI and SIA: some reflections11
Gaining a deeper understanding of the psychology underpinning significance judgements in environmental impact assessment (EIA)11
What would environmental impact assessment look like if we started from scratch today? Designing better EIA for developed neoliberal nations11
Facilitating public scrutiny of EIA reports with open data and artificial intelligence: insights from a Mexican case study11
Pathways to pluralism in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): the Multi-Author Team and integrated governance model11
Response to: Environmental assessments and sustainable finance frameworks: will the EU taxonomy change the mindset over the contribution of EIA to sustainable development?11
Capacity needs for assessing the cumulative social effects of projects10
Moving to next generation community-based environmental assessment10
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
Transformation towards a sustainable world – the pivotal role of impact assessments8
Impact assessment for renewable energy development: analysis of impacts and mitigation practices for wind energy in western Canada8
Environmental assessments and sustainable finance taxonomies – a riposte8
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
Using strategic environmental assessment and project environmental impact assessment to assess ecological connectivity at multiple scales in a national park context8
AI in strategic planning and assessment – a game changer in decision-making or a risk for reproduction of hidden biases?8
“An essential corner piece in the puzzle”: a review of “Handbook on Strategic Environmental Assessment”7
Evaluating the effectiveness of a national environmental and social impact assessment system: lessons from Uganda6
Pluralism in EIA practice: A Q-method analysis of the economic growth-environment nexus6
Reflections on the role of [meta]data in strategic environmental assessment6
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
Sustainable finance taxonomies: filling the gaps of EIA systems for developing countries6
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
Editorial5
Innovation in the territorial impact assessment: an application to large infrastructure projects of the Italian recovery and resilience facility5
Between control and independence: computational modelling within EC’s trade sustainability impact assessments5
Reversing the gaze: understanding how community members are negatively affected by impact assessment5
Consideration of risks to people and the environment related to accidents on natural gas transmission pipelines in LUP and SEA processes in Poland5
Collective impacts: using systems thinking in project-level assessment5
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
How do principles determine the effectiveness of public participation in public infrastructure megaprojects?5
A saliency mapping approach to understanding the visual impact of wind and solar infrastructure in amenity landscapes4
Advancing beyond project-scale Social Impact Assessment of transport infrastructure: insights into contextual constraints on practice4
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
“It is the scale of issues that is important”: a review of “Handbook on cumulative impact assessment”4
An independent assessment of potential social impacts of the newly initiated inland port in Salt Lake City, United States4
Identifying and promoting qualitative methods for impact assessment4
Environmental assessment simplification in Spain: streamlining or weakening procedures?4
Gaps in impact assessment teaching and research in Pakistan4
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
Change-making in Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): piloting changeology approach using England as a case study4
Simplification and potential replacement of EA in the UK – is it fit for purpose?4
Impact assessment in the age of artificial intelligence: reflections from IAIA254
Current social impact assessment practices for transport projects and plans in Chinese cities4
Handbook on teaching and learning for sustainable development: review in context of teaching impact assessment4
South Africa’s EIA Screening Tool: A preliminary study of how users perceive its accuracy and utility4
Pathways for improving the consideration of ecological connectivity in environmental assessment: lessons from five case studies4
Reviewing the quality of Environmental Impact Statements of Brazilian landfills: insights for promoting efficiency in final disposal4
Understanding impact assessment from other perspectives: what might nature have to say?4
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