OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainability Science is 33. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing our authors	131
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals	83
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions	78
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland	77
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”	74
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review	68
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems	67
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city	66
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution	63
The need for a systems approach to better understand the linkages between natural resources and human (im)mobility	60
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea	58
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice	58
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints	54
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes	54
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool	52
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts	48
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach	45
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study	45
Using a systems thinking approach to assess the complex interplay between sustainable development goals, climate change, and humanitarian operations	45
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums	44
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis	42
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations	42
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study	40
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services	39
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system	39

Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland	39
Pathway narratives towards a nature-positive European Union land system: operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for policy objectives	38
Has research on health co-benefits influenced urban climate and transport planning in the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, and France?	37
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES	37
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico	36
The governance of forest carbon in a subnational climate mitigation system: insights from a network of action situations approach	36
Integrated modeling to achieve global goals: lessons from the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-use, and Energy (FABLE) initiative	35
Sunrise at the Salton Sea: environmental justice, land use change, and hydrosocial dynamics of solar energy transitions in the Imperial Valley, California	33
Core design principles for just sustainability transitions: a framework for transformative research	33
Non-monetary narratives motivate businesses to engage with climate change	33