OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Science & Policy is 40. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Surging seas, rising sea levels, and sinking communities: The urgent need for climate adaptation in small island states	219
Assessment and spatialization of vulnerability of Benin coast to sea level rise using composite/blended approach	181
International donors as agents of policy transfer in influencing water legislation: The adoption of the river basin principle by transition economies in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia	146
Early European experience with tradable green certificates neglected by EU ETS architects	116
An urban PES model for diffused green areas requalification and maintenance in Milan	108
Understanding barriers to collaborative governance for the food-energy-water nexus: The case of Phoenix, Arizona	104
U.S. states initiation of energy efficiency policies in the era of climate change: Throwing a searchlight on the influence of political partisanship	102
Applying Theory of Change in research program planning: Lessons from CGIAR	98
Global intercomparison of polyurethane foam passive air samplers evaluating sources of variability in SVOC measurements	82
Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)	73
How do Brazilian National Park managers evaluate the relationship between conservation and public use?	68
Dispossession and governance: The invisible role of indigenous peoples in protected natural areas in Chile	66
Networks at the science-policy-interface: Challenges, opportunities and the viability of the ‘network-of-networks’ approach	66
The agency of community groups in health and climate change adaptation governance and policy in SIDS: The case of in Toco, Trinidad and Tobago	65
Estimating the CAP greening effect by machine learning techniques: A big data ex post analysis	62
Coal, power and coal-powered politics in Indonesia	59
NAFTA and environment after 25 years: A retrospective analysis of the US-Mexico border	58
From self-governance to shared governance: Institutional change and bricolage in Brazilian extractive reserves	56
Seeking legitimacy in European biodiversity conservation policies: The case of French national parks	56
Mainstreaming climate change mitigation actions in Nepal: Influencing factors and processes	55
Can the Paris Agreement deliver ambitious climate cooperation? An experimental investigation of the effectiveness of pledge-and-review and targeting short-lived climate pollutants	55
Embedded researchers as transdisciplinary boundary spanners strengthening urban climate resilience	52
Imagining circular carbon: A mitigation (deterrence) strategy for the petrochemical industry	52
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation	51
Influence of methodological choices in farm sustainability assessments: A word of caution from a case study analysis of European dairy farms	51

Public opinion on protecting iconic species depends on individual wellbeing: Perceptions about orangutan conservation in Indonesia and Malaysia	51
Towards sustainable landscapes: Implementing participatory approaches in contract design for biodiversity preservation and ecosystem services in Europe	50
Soil pollution in the European Union – An outlook	50
Classed conservation: Socio-economic drivers of participation in marine resource management	49
How do household crop and livestock production adapt to extreme climatic events? —Insights from a typical agro-pastoral ecotone on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau	49
Governing the Murray-Darling Basin: Integrating social and biophysical indicators for better environmental outcomes	48
Design experimentation for Nature‐based Solutions: Towards a definition and taxonomy	47
Does the scientific knowledge reflect the chemical diversity of environmental pollution? – A twenty-year perspective	45
Cities facing the European green deal: Urban policy and locals’ perspective in the post-socialist area	45
A case study unpacking the collaborative research process: Eight essential components	45
Risk perception and risk realities in forming legally binding agreements: The governance of plastics	43
Localising and democratising goal-based governance for sustainability	43
Actors mainstreaming nature-based solutions in cities: A case study of Melbourne’s change agents and pathways for urban sustainability transformations	43
Integrating traditional and local knowledge into disaster risk reduction policies: Insights from Nepal, India and Bangladesh	43
Lessons learnt from previous local sustainability efforts to inform local action for the Sustainable Development Goals	41