OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Science & Policy is 47. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	251
Indigenous peoples in carbon pricing policymaking	125
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review	98
Integrating traditional and local knowledge into disaster risk reduction policies: Insights from Nepal, India and Bangladesh	98
Marine and coastal places: Wellbeing in a blue economy	91
Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming	89
Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)	87
Identifying success factors for integrated coastal zone management: Development of a regional coastal plan in Morocco.	86
Enhancing climate change-induced flood co-adaptation in the Johor river basin, Malaysia: A dotmocracy mapping approach with key technical stakeholders	82
Evaluation of global research on agricultural nitrogen pollution between 1990 and 2023: Challenges for more efficacy and equity	80
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation	79
Designing successful agri-environmental schemes: A mechanistic analysis of a collective scheme for eco-system services in the Netherlands	78
Investigating the risky dilemma of regional flood planning: The case of the Wolastoq \| Saint John River Basin, Canada	77
Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy: A review of knowledge and research needs	75
Participatory study of policy process for wildlife conservation and ecotourism in Eswatini: A multiple streams analysis	75
A conceptual framework for knowledge integration in cross-disciplinary collaborations	75
Twinning green and digital futures in waste management	75
Local content policies: Knowledge stock and future directions for research and policy making in view of the sustainability agenda	74
Expert knowledge and institutional interplay: Exploring the epistemic linkages of the IPCC, IPBES, WCRP, and Future Earth	73
Beyond a garden: Alignment of Sustainable Development Goals with botanic gardens	72
Editorial Board	70
Gender-based climate (in)justice: An overview	70
Editorial Board	69
A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects	68
Analyzing efficiency and built environment factors for achieving convenient access to public transport: A Europe-wide DEA application	67

Can a Science Week empower scientists for conservation advocacy?	67
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach	65
Environmental assessment and regulatory oversight of genetically engineered crops in the United States	64
Energy sovereignty and climate adaptation: A community model for empowering maya women in Ixil, Yucatan	62
Flood risk management along German rivers – A review of multi-criteria analysis methods and decision-support systems	60
Conditional visibility: Intersectional inequities marginalize local scholarship in conservation science	60
Are stakeholders ready to transform phosphorus use in food systems? A transdisciplinary study in a livestock intensive system	59
“Our burgers eat carbon”: Investigating the discourses of corporate net-zero commitments	57
Applying Theory of Change in research program planning: Lessons from CGIAR	56
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development	55
Analyzing the political impact of Real-world laboratories for urban transformation in eight German ‘Cities of the Future’	54
A knowledge exchange framework to connect research, policy, and practice, developed through the example of the Chinese island of Hainan	54
The ClimateHack: How tech entrepreneurship shapes climate action	53
Unintended consequences: The erosion of traditional collective action and social capital by externally imposed climate adaptation programs	52
Trade-offs in expanding citizen participation in low-carbon transitions: Seven transition arena experiments	52
Conservation or deforestation: Households attitudinal analysis of forest resources for sustainable development of the Tain (II) Forest Reserve, Ghana	51
Corrigendum to “Sustainability transition frameworks: Integrating space, scale, nature, power, and justice” [Environ. Sci. Policy 177 (2026) 104327]	51
Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 2022	51
Integrating adaptation practice in assessments of climate change science: The case of IPCC Working Group II reports	50
Governing water in multi-functional landscapes: Coordination, collaboration and networks	50
Comparing normative and descriptive methods for multi-criteria decision analysis: A case study evaluating wetland restoration opportunities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA	49
How to promote the integrative ability of transdisciplinary graduate students	49
Key challenges in forest restoration and adaptation in Spain: Expert-based solutions for a resilient future	47
A review of ES knowledge use in spatial planning	47