OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainability Science is 32. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Key competencies in sustainability in higher education—toward an agreed-upon reference framework	240
Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN sustainable development goals	188
The Sustainable Development Goals prioritize economic growth over sustainable resource use: a critical reflection on the SDGs from a socio-ecological perspective	158
Environmental justice and the SDGs: from synergies to gaps and contradictions	151
The contribution of small-scale food production in urban areas to the sustainable development goals: a review and case study	118
Towards understanding interactions between Sustainable Development Goals: the role of environment–human linkages	113
Inner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: fostering new avenues for change through dialogue and reflection	82
Current practice of assessing students’ sustainability competencies: a review of tools	81
Transdisciplinary sustainability research in real-world labs: success factors and methods for change	75
Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy	71
The costs and benefits of environmental sustainability	65
Creating a space for place and multidimensional well-being: lessons learned from localizing the SDGs	63
Three decades of research on climate change and peace: a bibliometrics analysis	59
Analysing interactions among the sustainable development goals: findings and emerging issues from local and global studies	52
Leverage points for sustainability transformations: nine guiding questions for sustainability science and practice	50
Agroforestry for sustainable landscape management	48
A systems model of SDG target influence on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	45
Environmental sustainable value in agriculture revisited: How does Common Agricultural Policy contribute to eco-efficiency?	45
COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research	44
Carbon neutrality commitment for China: from vision to action	39
Drivers of sustainability transformations: leverage points, contexts and conjunctures	38
Transdisciplinarity: science for and with society in light of the university’s roles and functions	38
The ‘end of the world’ vs. the ‘end of the month’: understanding social resistance to sustainability transition agendas, a lesson from the Yellow Vests in France	37
Transformation for sustainability: a deep leverage points approach	36
Conflicting roles of researchers in sustainability transitions: balancing action and reflection	36

Philosophy of science for sustainability science	35
Homegarden commercialization: extent, household characteristics, and effect on food security and food sovereignty in Rural Indonesia	34
Co-creating local socioeconomic pathways for achieving the sustainable development goals	33
Agroforestry governance for operationalising the landscape approach: connecting conservation and farming actors	33
SDGs mainstreaming at the local level: case studies from Japan	33
Urban–rural linkages: effective solutions for achieving sustainable development in Ghana from an SDG interlinkage perspective	33
Scale-related governance challenges in the water–energy–food nexus: toward a diagnostic approach	33
Problematic blue growth: a thematic synthesis of social sustainability problems related to growth in the marine and coastal tourism	32
A path forward for qualitative research on sustainability in the COVID-19 pandemic	32