OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Environmental Politics is 6. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change	121
Precision Technologies for Agriculture: Digital Farming, Gene-Edited Crops, and the Politics of Sustainability	112
Future-Proofing Capitalism: The Paradox of the Circular Economy for Plastics	71
Catalytic Cooperation	58
Green Industrial Policy and the Global Transformation of Climate Politics	44
Policy Characteristics, Electoral Cycles, and the Partisan Politics of Climate Change	41
Intergovernmental Expert Consensus in the Making: The Case of the Summary for Policy Makers of the IPCC 2014 Synthesis Report	34
The Security–Sustainability Nexus: Lithium Onshoring in the Global North	33
Marine Biodiversity Negotiations During COVID-19: A New Role for Digital Diplomacy?	28
Pathways to an International Agreement to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground	27
Varieties of Crises: Comparing the Politics of COVID-19 and Climate Change	19
Populism and Environmental Performance	19
Big Oil and Climate Regulation: Business as Usual or a Changing Business?	17
Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization	17
Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal: The Problem of Phasedown	16
Participatory Designs and Epistemic Authority in Knowledge Platforms for Sustainability	16
Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization	16
The Potential and Limits of Environmental Disclosure Regulation: A Global Value Chain Perspective Applied to Tanker Shipping	16
The Practical Fit of Concepts: Ecosystem Services and the Value of Nature	16
Governing New Biotechnologies for Biodiversity Conservation: Gene Drives, International Law, and Emerging Politics	15
Nature 4.0: Assisted Evolution, De-extinction, and Ecological Restoration Technologies	15
Who Are the Engineers? Solar Geoengineering Research and Justice	15
Indigenous Peoples and Multiscalar Environmental Governance: The Opening and Closure of Participatory Spaces	14
The Supply Side of Climate Policies: Keeping Unburnable Fossil Fuels in the Ground	14
How Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Influence Climate and Renewable Energy Policies? Evidence from OECD Countries	14

Experiments in EU Climate Governance: The Unfulfilled Potential of the Covenant of Mayors	14
The International Politics of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pathways to Cooperative Global Governance	13
Backlash to Climate Policy	12
Silver Lining to Extreme Weather Events? Democracy and Climate Change Mitigation	12
Following the Leaders? How to Restore Progress in Global Climate Governance	12
Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks	11
Nationalist Backlash Against Foreign Climate Shaming	11
Judicializing Environmental Governance? The Case of Transnational Corporate Accountability	10
Making Representations: The SDG Process and Major Groups’ Images of the Future	9
Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and Maritime Baselines: Responding to the Plight of Low-Lying Atoll States	9
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Determinants of Production Cuts and Implications for an International Agreement	8
Massive Institutional Structures in Global Governance	8
Beliefs About Consequences from Climate Action Under Weak Climate Institutions: Sectors, Home Bias, and International Embeddedness	8
Green Industrial Policy After Paris: Renewable Energy Policy Measures and Climate Goals	7
It’s a Performance, Not an Orchestra! Rethinking Soft Coordination in Global Climate Governance	7
The Elusive Governance of Climate Change: Nationally Determined Contributions as Commitments and Negotiating Positions	7
Political Institutions and Supply-Side Climate Politics: Lessons from Coal Ports in Canada and the United States	7
Environmental Impacts and Public Opinion About International Trade: Experimental Evidence from Six OECD Countries	7
Design Trade-Offs Under Power Asymmetry: COPs and Flexibility Clauses	6
The Challenges of Coal Phaseout: Coal Plant Development and Foreign Finance in Indonesia and Vietnam	6
Differentiation in Environmental Treaty Making: Measuring Provisions and How They Reshape the Depth–Participation Dilemma	6