OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Science & Policy is 39. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

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
The governance of marine and coral reef restoration, lessons and paths forward for novel interventions	116
Redefining co-design for social-ecological research and practice: A systematic literature review	108
Identifying leverage points for sustainable transitions in urban – rural systems: Application of graph theory to participatory causal loop diagramming	104
Harvesting “development minerals” for local needs in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Malawi	102
Wildfire narratives: Identifying and characterizing multiple understandings of western wildfire challenges	98
Gender inequalities, water research and knowledge production in Ghana	82
Principles, barriers, and challenges of Indigenous water governance around the world	73
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach	68
Transformative change from below? Linking biodiversity governance with the diversity of bottom-up action	66
Applying Theory of Change in research program planning: Lessons from CGIAR	65
International human rights and climate change (policies): Challenging the concept of vulnerability	59
Towards sustainable landscapes: Implementing participatory approaches in contract design for biodiversity preservation and ecosystem services in Europe	58
An urban PES model for diffused green areas requalification and maintenance in Milan	56
Early European experience with tradable green certificates neglected by EU ETS architects	56
Understanding barriers to collaborative governance for the food-energy-water nexus: The case of Phoenix, Arizona	55
Global intercomparison of polyurethane foam passive air samplers evaluating sources of variability in SVOC measurements	55
Who should measure air quality in modern cities? The example of decentralization of urban air quality monitoring in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)	52
How do Brazilian National Park managers evaluate the relationship between conservation and public use?	52
The agency of community groups in health and climate change adaptation governance and policy in SIDS: The case of in Toco, Trinidad and Tobago	51
Dispossession and governance: The invisible role of indigenous peoples in protected natural areas in Chile	51
Networks at the science-policy-interface: Challenges, opportunities and the viability of the ‘network-of-networks’ approach	51
Coal, power and coal-powered politics in Indonesia	50

Estimating the CAP greening effect by machine learning techniques: A big data ex post analysis	50
NAFTA and environment after 25 years: A retrospective analysis of the US-Mexico border	49
Seeking legitimacy in European biodiversity conservation policies: The case of French national parks	49
From self-governance to shared governance: Institutional change and bricolage in Brazilian extractive reserves	48
Can the Paris Agreement deliver ambitious climate cooperation? An experimental investigation of the effectiveness of pledge-and-review and targeting short-lived climate pollutants	47
Embedded researchers as transdisciplinary boundary spanners strengthening urban climate resilience	45
Mainstreaming climate change mitigation actions in Nepal: Influencing factors and processes	45
Imagining circular carbon: A mitigation (deterrence) strategy for the petrochemical industry	45
Plastics in a circular economy: Mitigating the ambiguity of widely-used terms from stakeholders consultation	43
Soil pollution in the European Union – An outlook	43
Influence of methodological choices in farm sustainability assessments: A word of caution from a case study analysis of European dairy farms	43
Public opinion on protecting iconic species depends on individual wellbeing: Perceptions about orangutan conservation in Indonesia and Malaysia	43
How do household crop and livestock production adapt to extreme climatic events? —Insights from a typical agro-pastoral ecotone on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau	41
Governing the Murray-Darling Basin: Integrating social and biophysical indicators for better environmental outcomes	39
Classed conservation: Socio-economic drivers of participation in marine resource management	39
Design experimentation for Nature‐based Solutions: Towards a definition and taxonomy	39
Does the scientific knowledge reflect the chemical diversity of environmental pollution? – A twenty-year perspective	39