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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Alice Mah	129
Erratum	114
Rights of Nature and World Order: Reimagining Socioecological Futures	26
Patent or Planet? Rethinking IP for Just Climate Tech Transition in the Global South	25
Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex	24
Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations	23
Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope by Peter Friederici	23
Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age by Marc Landry	22
Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective	21
Polycentric Climate Governance: The State, Local Action, Democratic Preferences, and Power—Emerging Insights and a Research Agenda	20
Is It Just About Sustainability? Politics at Home and the Trade Impacts of Voluntary Standards Abroad	20
Pipeline Politics and the Future of Environmental Justice Struggles in North America	20
Bucking the Trend: Civil Society and the Strengthening of Environmental Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean	18
Growing Apart: China and India at the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol	16
Toward a Super-COP? Timing, Temporality, and Rethinking World Climate Governance	12
Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel	11
Plastic Politics of Delay: How Political Corporate Social Responsibility Discourses Produce and Reinforce Inequality in Plastic Waste Governance	11
Promises and Pitfalls of Polycentric Federalism: The Case of Solar Power in India	11
Challenging the Narrative of Inclusion: Feminist Decolonial Perspectives on Climate Governance	11
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations	10
Continuity and Change in Norm Translations After the Paris Agreement: From First to Second Nationally Determined Contributions	10
Gender Distribution of Leadership Positions in Global Environmental Politics	10
Civil Society Strikes Back: How Global South Coalitions Are Shaping Corporate Accountability in the Age of Mandatory Due Diligence	10
The Effects of Political Knowledge Use by Developing Country Negotiators in Loss and Damage Negotiations	10
Accountability as Constructive Dialogue: Can NGOs Persuade States to Conserve Biodiversity?	9

Amazonia Center of the World: Telling Stories of Socioenvironmentalism as Struggles for a Planet of Many Worlds	9
The Political Economy of Protected Area Designations: Commercial Interests in Conservation Policy	9
Lithium’s Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec	9
Supporting the Next Generation of Global Environmental Politics Research: A Call to Dialogue and Action	9
Transcalar and Intersectional Advocacy in a Super-Network: The Right to a Healthy Environment Coalition	9
Blue (Un)certainties: Mitigization of the Deep-Sea Mining Policy Process in the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, Norway	8
The Changing Contours of Climate Politics	8
The Missing Ingredients for a Polycentric Governance System of Orbital Debris	8
Keeping the Environment on the Agenda: UNEP Discourse During the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries’ NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort?	7
The Empirical Realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue	6
Climate Change, Vulnerability, and the Propensity for Climate Migration: Evidence from Guatemala	6
The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization by Jonathan Silver	6
Reply: The Persistent Absence of Empirical Evidence for Free-Riding in Global Climate Politics	6
Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists by Mary Alice Haddad	6
Participating in Polycentric Climate Governance: The Partnership Choices of Latin American NGOs	6
The Failure of CBDR in Global Environmental Politics	6