OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainability Science is 34. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing our authors	107
Public perception of carbon dioxide removal in three Asian regions	105
Climate justice beyond intergenerational conflict: youth climate activism in South Korea	101
Heterogeneous energy landscapes and the challenges for spatial planning: the Port of Ravenna and its hinterland	84
Teaching sustainability at the high sea: the “One Ocean Expedition”	63
Harnessing concepts for sustainability: a pledge for a practice	62
Development of a method for downscaling ecological footprint and biocapacity to a 1-km square resolution	62
Systemic barriers preventing farmer engagement in the agricultural climate transition: a qualitative study	61
What qualitative systems mapping is and what it could be: integrating and visualizing diverse knowledge of complex problems	60
How individuals make sense of their climate impacts in the capitalocene: mixed methods insights from calculating carbon footprints	58
Sustainability transitions in agri-food systems through the lens of agent-based modeling: a systematic review	57
The role of universities in SDGs solution co-creation and implementation: a human-centered design and shared-action learning process	54
From shops to bins: a case study of consumer attitudes and behaviours towards plastics in a UK coastal city	54
Networks of action situations: a systematic review of empirical research	53
Sustainability justice: a systematic review of emergent trends and themes	52
Navigating sustainability: key factors in prioritising Sustainable Development Goals	51
Environmental, nutritional and social assessment of nuts	51
Roles of researchers in inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research: a reflection tool	47
Pathway narratives towards a nature-positive European Union land system: operationalising the Nature Futures Framework for policy objectives	47
Threatened sustainability: extractivist tendencies in the forest-based bioeconomy in Finland	46
Using a systems thinking approach to assess the complex interplay between sustainable development goals, climate change, and humanitarian operations	46
Whose “place” is it? Using corpus-based techniques to sketch place-based sustainability discourses in public and academic forums	44
Working the boundary: science–policy interactions and uneven knowledge politics in IPBES	41
Conducting sustainability research in the anthropocene: toward a relational approach	40
Transformative science–policy interfacing: the case of biodiversity and ecosystem services	40

Agents of change or victims of transition? Media framings on household roles during the energy crisis	40
Interplays between relational and instrumental values: insights from research experiences on human–nature relations	39
A natural language processing model for supporting sustainable development goals: translating semantics, visualizing nexus, and connecting stakeholders	39
Enabling collective agency for sustainability transformations through reframing in the Xochimilco social–ecological system	39
ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study	39
Core design principles for just sustainability transitions: a framework for transformative research	36
Limiting money: redesigning the artifact that shapes modern people	36
Has research on health co-benefits influenced urban climate and transport planning in the United Kingdom, United States, Japan, and France?	35
A complex transdisciplinary approach to achieve water sustainability: lessons from a case study in Morelia, Mexico	34
Sunrise at the Salton Sea: environmental justice, land use change, and hydrosocial dynamics of solar energy transitions in the Imperial Valley, California	34