OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Science & Policy is 49. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	283
Can a Science Week empower scientists for conservation advocacy?	133
Editorial Board	110
Editorial Board	104
Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)	102
Participatory study of policy process for wildlife conservation and ecotourism in Eswatini: A multiple streams analysis	97
Evaluation of global research on agricultural nitrogen pollution between 1990 and 2023: Challenges for more efficacy and equity	92
A stakeholder analysis based on project managers’ perceptions: Unlocking transformative potential in Natura 2000 projects	90
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach	88
Energy sovereignty and climate adaptation: A community model for empowering maya women in Ixil, Yucatan	87
Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming	86
Enhancing climate change-induced flood co-adaptation in the Johor river basin, Malaysia: A dotmocracy mapping approach with key technical stakeholders	85
Beyond a garden: Alignment of Sustainable Development Goals with botanic gardens	83
Environmental assessment and regulatory oversight of genetically engineered crops in the United States	82
Marine and coastal places: Wellbeing in a blue economy	82
Conditional visibility: Intersectional inequities marginalize local scholarship in conservation science	81
Adaptation pathways to inform policy and practice in the context of development	76
Investigating the risky dilemma of regional flood planning: The case of the Wolastoq \| Saint John River Basin, Canada	72
Gender-based climate (in)justice: An overview	72
Flood risk management along German rivers – A review of multi-criteria analysis methods and decision-support systems	71
Designing successful agri-environmental schemes: A mechanistic analysis of a collective scheme for eco-system services in the Netherlands	71
Integrating traditional and local knowledge into disaster risk reduction policies: Insights from Nepal, India and Bangladesh	69
“Our burgers eat carbon”: Investigating the discourses of corporate net-zero commitments	67
Analyzing efficiency and built environment factors for achieving convenient access to public transport: A Europe-wide DEA application	67
Identifying success factors for integrated coastal zone management: Development of a regional coastal plan in Morocco.	65

Indigenous peoples in carbon pricing policymaking	65
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation	65
Applying Theory of Change in research program planning: Lessons from CGIAR	63
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review	62
A conceptual framework for knowledge integration in cross-disciplinary collaborations	61
Twinning green and digital futures in waste management	60
Knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy: A review of knowledge and research needs	57
Expert knowledge and institutional interplay: Exploring the epistemic linkages of the IPCC, IPBES, WCRP, and Future Earth	57
Local content policies: Knowledge stock and future directions for research and policy making in view of the sustainability agenda	56
Analyzing the political impact of Real-world laboratories for urban transformation in eight German ‘Cities of the Future’	55
Conservation or deforestation: Households attitudinal analysis of forest resources for sustainable development of the Tain (II) Forest Reserve, Ghana	55
A review of ES knowledge use in spatial planning	53
Just sortition, communitarian deliberation: Two proposals for grounded climate assemblies	52
A knowledge exchange framework to connect research, policy, and practice, developed through the example of the Chinese island of Hainan	52
Editorial Board	52
Earthquake recommendations in Europe: Types and diversity	51
Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 2022	51
Collaborative valuation of ecosystem services to inform lake remediation	51
Measuring and managing for environmental sustainability. An application of the Environmental Sustainability Gap (ESGAP) framework in New Caledonia	50
What motivates urban dwellers to adapt to climate-driven water insecurity? An empirical study from Lima, Peru	50
Corrigendum to “Sustainability transition frameworks: Integrating space, scale, nature, power, and justice” [Environ. Sci. Policy 177 (2026) 104327]	50
Social perception assessment of hydropower sustainability: A stepwise logistic regression modeling	49
Advancing socio-ecological considerations in impact assessment of extractive industries: A realist interview study in the Canadian context	49
Integrating adaptation practice in assessments of climate change science: The case of IPCC Working Group II reports	49
What is there to sustain? Ontological imaginaries and the existence and agency of gods, Tūpuna, and everything else	49