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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Transdisciplinary sustainability research in real-world labs: success factors and methods for change	114
Inner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: fostering new avenues for change through dialogue and reflection	108
The costs and benefits of environmental sustainability	104
Leverage points for sustainability transformations: nine guiding questions for sustainability science and practice	69
A systems model of SDG target influence on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	62
Transformation for sustainability: a deep leverage points approach	58
Carbon neutrality commitment for China: from vision to action	55
An actionable understanding of societal transitions: the X-curve framework	53
Urban–rural linkages: effective solutions for achieving sustainable development in Ghana from an SDG interlinkage perspective	50
Drivers of sustainability transformations: leverage points, contexts and conjunctures	49
COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development research	49
Conflicting roles of researchers in sustainability transitions: balancing action and reflection	46
Towards coherence on sustainability in education: a systematic review of Whole Institution Approaches	45
Scale-related governance challenges in the water–energy–food nexus: toward a diagnostic approach	44
Beyond “blah blah blah”: exploring the “how” of transformation	44
The evolution of the blue-green revolution of rice-fish cultivation for sustainable food production	44
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	44
Getting to the heart of transformation	43
Impact assessment of citizen science: state of the art and guiding principles for a consolidated approach	42
SDGs mainstreaming at the local level: case studies from Japan	41
Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems	40
Learning from knowledge co-production research and practice in the twenty-first century: global lessons and what they mean for collaborative research in Nunatsiavut	39
Alternatives to sustainable development: what can we learn from the pluriverse in practice?	39
Co-creating local socioeconomic pathways for achieving the sustainable development goals	38
The patterns of curriculum change processes that embed sustainability in higher education institutions	37

Reforming China’s fertilizer policies: implications for nitrogen pollution reduction and food security	36
A path forward for qualitative research on sustainability in the COVID-19 pandemic	36
Decolonising knowledge co-production: examining the role of positionality and partnerships to support Indigenous-led bush product enterprises in northern Australia	36
A review of scientific advancements in datasets derived from big data for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals	35
Lifestyle carbon footprints and changes in lifestyles to limit global warming to 1.5 °C, and ways forward for related research	35
Decolonizing transformations through ‘right relations’	34
EMF 35 JMIP study for Japan’s long-term climate and energy policy: scenario designs and key findings	34
Realising potentials for arts-based sustainability science	33