OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of the Commons is 1. 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
Towards Democratisation of Public Administration: Public-Commons Partnerships in Barcelona	14
Path Dependence, Community Resilience, and Social Responses to the Implementation of Collaborative Forest Management in Ghana	11
The Food-as-a-Commons Discourse: Analyzing the Journey to Policy Impact	11
From a Challenge to an Opportunity: Sustainability and the “Dark Side” of Social Capital in Paros, Greece	10
Commons-Oriented, but Embodied Enough? De-Constructing Knowledge, Experiences, and Institutions in Naples’ Water Commons Project	9
Crafting Collective Management Institutions in Messy Real-World Settings: A Call for Action Research	9
The Image Fallacy: Rethinking the Tragedy of the Commons	9
Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures	9
An Uncommon Commons: Government’s Role in Constituting an Unusual Credit Union Deposit Insurance Scheme	8
Space Resources and the Politics of International Regime Formation	8
Restoring the Commons: A Gendered Analysis of Customary Water Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa	8
Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain	7
Leadership in Urban Commoning: Why Bridging Social Capital Matters?	6
Accessibility to Space Infrastructures and Outer Space: Anthropological Insights from Europe’s Spaceport	6
Commoning for Land Tenure Regularization: The Case of the Collective Urban Special Adverse Possession of Chácara do Catumbi in the City of Rio de Janeiro	6
Analysing Groundwater Governance in Uzbekistan through the Lenses of Social-Ecological Systems and Informational Governance	6
An Analysis of the Channels for Accessing Economic Benefits in the Commons Governance Regime of Space Resources	6
Integrating Institutions with Local Contexts in Community-Based Irrigation Governance: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Variables, Combinations, and Effects	6
Combining Approaches for Systemic Behaviour Change in Groundwater Governance	6
Four Alternative Scenarios of Commons in Space: Prospects and Challenges	5
Understanding the Governing of Urban Commons: Reflecting on Five Key Features of Collaborative Governance in Zero Waste Lab, Amsterdam	5
Towards a Theory of Value as a Commons	5
Adapting Common Resource Management to Under-Use Contexts: The Case of Common Pasture Organizations in the Black Forest Biosphere Reserve	5
Nested Institutions for Nested Problems: Commoning for Rural Revitalisation in the Peri-Urban Setting	4
What is “Political” in Commons-Public Partnership? The Italian Cases of Bologna and Naples	4

Analysis of the Institutional Framework for the Management of Community Areas Through the Prism of Institutional Bricolage: The Case of Benin’s Bouche du Roy	4
Managing Groundwater from the Ground Up: An Ex Ante Assessment of the Potential for Collective Action	4
The Use of the Institutional Grammar 1.0 for Institutional Analysis: A Literature Review	4
Polycentric Groundwater Governance: Insights from the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area	4
Technical teams as commoning gatekeepers: The case of IATS in Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives in Uruguay	4
A Synthesis of Rational Choice and Critical Urban Commons Debates	3
A Perspective on the Future of Studying the Commons	3
Autonomous Change Processes in Traditional Institutions: Lessons from Innovations in Village Governance in Vanuatu	3
The Uncommonness of Urban Commons in Central and Eastern European Countries	3
Introduction: Advancing the Commonsverse: The Political Economy of The Commons	3
Institutional Change of Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems: Experience from Nepal	3
Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves: A Comparative Study of Three Sacred Groves in Southwest Nigeria	3
Socio-institutional Considerations of Fishway Implementation at the Community-level in Southeast Asia	3
More-than-Human Commoning through Women’s Kokorozashi Business for Collective Well-being: A Case from Aging and Depopulating Rural Japan	3
Migration and Gender Dynamics of Irrigation Governance in Nepal	3
The Drivers of Farmers’ Participation in Collaborative Water Management: A French Perspective	3
Decentralizing the Governance of Inland Fisheries in the Pacific Region of Colombia	3
What Grows During a Crisis? Cultivating the Food Commons in Oxfordshire	3
Unshaping Model Forests in the Global South: Trans-local Politics and Community Forestry Knowledge Circulation in Ecuador and Cameroon	2
Actor Resistance Influences Effectiveness of Ostrom’s Design Principles for Governing Contested Landscapes	2
Caution as a Response to Scientific Uncertainty: A Groundwater Game Experiment	2
Magical Realism for Water Governance Under Power Asymmetries in the Aracataca River Basin, Colombia	2
Together Strong or Falling Apart? Coping with COVID-19 in Smallholder Irrigated Agriculture	2
Relational Ecosystems: Sustaining Prefigurative Change by Creating Conditions for Mutual Learning and Change	2
Indigenous and Local Knowledge’s Role in Social Movement’s Struggles Against Threats to Community-Based Natural Resource Management Systems: Insights from a Qualitative Meta-analysis	2
Policy Over Practice: A Review of Groundwater Governance Research in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Dire Necessity or Mere Opportunity? Recurrent Peat Commercialisation from Raised Bog Commons in the Early Modern Low Countries	2
Knowledge for the Commons: What is Needed Now?	2
Designing NGO Interventions in Forest Commons of the Western Ghats, India: Is it Possible to Avoid Institutional Panaceas While Using Design Principles?	2
The Governance of the ReFi Ecosystem: Integrity in Voluntary Carbon Markets as a Common Resource	1
Averting Evolutionary Suicide from the Tragedy of the Commons	1
Cui Bono: Do Open Source Software Incubator Policies and Procedures Benefit the Projects or the Incubator?	1
Community Forestry Management Implementation in Burkina Faso: Gendered Dynamics and Customary Complexity	1
Can Restoration of the Commons Reduce Rural Vulnerability? A Quasi-Experimental Comparison of COVID-19 Livelihood-based Coping Strategies among Rural Households in Three Indian States	1
Becoming a Care-Tizen: Contributing to Democracy Through Forest Commoning	1
The Incompatibility of the Commons and the Public	1
Communities as Global Actors in Counterhegemonic Policy Mobilities: Lessons from the Community Land Trust Movement	1
Governing Outer Space as a Commons is Critical for Addressing Commons on Earth	1
No Commons Without Micropolitics. Learning with Feminist and Municipalist Movements in Spain	1
Dynamics of the Legal Environment and the Development of Communal Irrigation Systems	1
Linking Institutions for Collective Action to Agrarian Change: Insights from Transformations in an Irrigation Community, Central Mexico	1
Prosuming Alone or Together: A Bisectoral Approach to Conceptualizing the Commons Prosumer	1
Just Commons: Governance of Irrigation Water in World Heritage Rice Terraces, Southwest China	1
Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science: A Review of Computational Modeling of Institutions and Institutional Dynamics	1
Learning Together for Groundwater Management: A Case of the Devnadi Basin, Nashik, Maharashtra, India	1
Securing the Commons in India: Mapping Polycentric Governance	1
Westphalian Sovereignty and the Free-Rider Conundrum in the Atmospheric Commons: Examining Global Governance Regimes for Addressing Climate Change Adaptation	1