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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Extractivist States: Contesting and Negotiating the “Commodities Consensus” in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Across Latin America	86
International Ozone Negotiations and the Green Spiral	77
Erratum	53
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Alice Mah	40
Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries: Norway’s and Canada’s Struggles to Align Climate Leadership with Fossil Fuel Extraction	33
Domestic Provision of Global Public Goods: How Other Countries’ Behavior Affects Public Support for Climate Policy	33
Rights of Nature and World Order: Reimagining Socioecological Futures	32
Exclusive Apart, Inclusive as a System: Polycentricity in Climate City Networks	32
Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics	32
Conflicting Sovereignties: Global Conservation, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Nations in the Peruvian Amazon	27
The International Politics of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pathways to Cooperative Global Governance	18
Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex	16
From Progress to Delay: The Quest for Data in the Negotiations on Greenhouse Gases in the International Maritime Organization	16
The Influence of Alternative Development Finance on the World Bank’s Safeguards Regime	15
Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope by Peter Friederici	14
Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations	14
Polycentric Climate Governance: The State, Local Action, Democratic Preferences, and Power—Emerging Insights and a Research Agenda	14
Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization	13
Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective	13
The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty by Maria Ivanova	13
Carbon Emission Performance and Regime Type: The Role of Inequality	13
Growing Apart: China and India at the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol	12
Promises and Pitfalls of Polycentric Federalism: The Case of Solar Power in India	12
Pipeline Politics and the Future of Environmental Justice Struggles in North America	12
Bucking the Trend: Civil Society and the Strengthening of Environmental Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean	11

Marine Biodiversity Negotiations During COVID-19: A New Role for Digital Diplomacy?	11
Is It Just About Sustainability? Politics at Home and the Trade Impacts of Voluntary Standards Abroad	11
Introduction	10
Toward a Super-COP? Timing, Temporality, and Rethinking World Climate Governance	10
Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel	9
Disaster Making in the Capitalocene	9
Introduction	8
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations	8
Plastic Politics of Delay: How Political Corporate Social Responsibility Discourses Produce and Reinforce Inequality in Plastic Waste Governance	8
Gender Distribution of Leadership Positions in Global Environmental Politics	8
Challenging the Narrative of Inclusion: Feminist Decolonial Perspectives on Climate Governance	8
Private Governance and Public Authority: Regulating Sustainability in a Global Economy by Stefan Renckens	7
Continuity and Change in Norm Translations After the Paris Agreement: From First to Second Nationally Determined Contributions	7
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Determinants of Production Cuts and Implications for an International Agreement	7
The Effects of Political Knowledge Use by Developing Country Negotiators in Loss and Damage Negotiations	7
Accountability as Constructive Dialogue: Can NGOs Persuade States to Conserve Biodiversity?	7
Sustainable Energy for All? Assessing Global Distributive Justice in the Green Climate Fund’s Energy Finance	7
Lithium’s Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec	7
The Political Economy of Protected Area Designations: Commercial Interests in Conservation Policy	6
It All Hinges on China: Environmental Governance in the Twenty-First Century	6
The Empirical Realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue	6
Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization	6
The Missing Ingredients for a Polycentric Governance System of Orbital Debris	6
Participating in Polycentric Climate Governance: The Partnership Choices of Latin American NGOs	6
Amazonia Center of the World: Telling Stories of Socioenvironmentalism as Struggles for a Planet of Many Worlds	6
How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries’ NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort?	6