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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing our authors	79
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”	75
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution	73
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice	70
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes	60
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints	55
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions	53
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea	52
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals	52
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland	52
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts	49
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study	47
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review	46
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems	46
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city	44
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process	42
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research	42
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool	42
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES	41
Cognition and behavior in context: a framework and theories to explain natural resource use decisions in social-ecological systems	40
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders	40
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study	39
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums	37
Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis	37
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations	37

Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services	35
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system	34
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland	34
Exploring the sustainability narratives of cultured meat	34
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach	34
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines: the case of Mozambique’s natural gas project	33
The effect of financial crises on deforestation: a global and regional panel data analysis	33
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico	32
Spanning the boundaries between policy, politics and science to solve wicked problems: policy pilots, deliberation fora and policy labs	32
Correction to: Creative, embodied practices, and the potentialities for sustainability transformations	32
Reflexive use of methods: a framework for navigating different types of knowledge and power in transformative research	32
Regenerating soil, regenerating soul: an integral approach to understanding agricultural transformation	32
Stakeholder perceptions about the drivers, impacts and barriers of certification in the Ghanaian cocoa and oil palm sectors	32