OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of the Commons is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The Food-as-a-Commons Discourse: Analyzing the Journey to Policy Impact	20
Towards Democratisation of Public Administration: Public-Commons Partnerships in Barcelona	15
Crafting Collective Management Institutions in Messy Real-World Settings: A Call for Action Research	13
Path Dependence, Community Resilience, and Social Responses to the Implementation of Collaborative Forest Management in Ghana	13
From a Challenge to an Opportunity: Sustainability and the “Dark Side” of Social Capital in Paros, Greece	11
The Image Fallacy: Rethinking the Tragedy of the Commons	11
An Uncommon Commons: Government’s Role in Constituting an Unusual Credit Union Deposit Insurance Scheme	10
Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures	10
Restoring the Commons: A Gendered Analysis of Customary Water Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa	10
Commons-Oriented, but Embodied Enough? De-Constructing Knowledge, Experiences, and Institutions in Naples’ Water Commons Project	10
Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain	9
Space Resources and the Politics of International Regime Formation	9
An Analysis of the Channels for Accessing Economic Benefits in the Commons Governance Regime of Space Resources	8
Energy Community Surplus Sharing: Solidarity Strategies for Energy Commons Governance	8
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	8
Leadership in Urban Commoning: Why Bridging Social Capital Matters?	8
Towards a Theory of Value as a Commons	8
Self-Governance and Adaptation: Rethinking Indigenous Arctic Histories	8
Combining Approaches for Systemic Behaviour Change in Groundwater Governance	7
Accessibility to Space Infrastructures and Outer Space: Anthropological Insights from Europe’s Spaceport	7
Four Alternative Scenarios of Commons in Space: Prospects and Challenges	7
Adapting Common Resource Management to Under-Use Contexts: The Case of Common Pasture Organizations in the Black Forest Biosphere Reserve	7
What is “Political” in Commons-Public Partnership? The Italian Cases of Bologna and Naples	6
The Use of the Institutional Grammar 1.0 for Institutional Analysis: A Literature Review	6
Understanding the Governing of Urban Commons: Reflecting on Five Key Features of Collaborative Governance in Zero Waste Lab, Amsterdam	6

Analysing Groundwater Governance in Uzbekistan through the Lenses of Social-Ecological Systems and Informational Governance	6
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	6
Managing Groundwater from the Ground Up: An Ex Ante Assessment of the Potential for Collective Action	5
Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves: A Comparative Study of Three Sacred Groves in Southwest Nigeria	5
Technical teams as commoning gatekeepers: The case of IATS in Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives in Uruguay	5
Introduction: Advancing the Commonsverse: The Political Economy of The Commons	5
Nested Institutions for Nested Problems: Commoning for Rural Revitalisation in the Peri-Urban Setting	5
Migration and Gender Dynamics of Irrigation Governance in Nepal	5
The Drivers of Farmers’ Participation in Collaborative Water Management: A French Perspective	4
Socio-institutional Considerations of Fishway Implementation at the Community-level in Southeast Asia	4
More-than-Human Commoning through Women’s Kokorozashi Business for Collective Well-being: A Case from Aging and Depopulating Rural Japan	4
A Synthesis of Rational Choice and Critical Urban Commons Debates	4
A Perspective on the Future of Studying the Commons	4
Policy Over Practice: A Review of Groundwater Governance Research in Sub-Saharan Africa	4
Unshaping Model Forests in the Global South: Trans-local Politics and Community Forestry Knowledge Circulation in Ecuador and Cameroon	4
Polycentric Groundwater Governance: Insights from the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area	4
Institutional Change of Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems: Experience from Nepal	4
Autonomous Change Processes in Traditional Institutions: Lessons from Innovations in Village Governance in Vanuatu	4
Decentralizing the Governance of Inland Fisheries in the Pacific Region of Colombia	4
Caution as a Response to Scientific Uncertainty: A Groundwater Game Experiment	3
The Uncommonness of Urban Commons in Central and Eastern European Countries	3
Correction: Understanding Institutional Compliance in Flood Risk Management: A Network Analysis Approach Highlighting the Significance of Institutional Linkages and Context	3
Relational Ecosystems: Sustaining Prefigurative Change by Creating Conditions for Mutual Learning and Change	3
What Grows During a Crisis? Cultivating the Food Commons in Oxfordshire	3
Actor Resistance Influences Effectiveness of Ostrom’s Design Principles for Governing Contested Landscapes	3
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	3
Concealed Contradictions: Sustainable Development Goals and Indigenous Land Dispossession in Cambodia	3
Together Strong or Falling Apart? Coping with COVID-19 in Smallholder Irrigated Agriculture	3
Collective Subjectivation in Socially Innovative Commoning	3
Knowledge for the Commons: What is Needed Now?	3
Magical Realism for Water Governance Under Power Asymmetries in the Aracataca River Basin, Colombia	2
No Commons Without Micropolitics. Learning with Feminist and Municipalist Movements in Spain	2
Paving the Ground for Biodiversity-Positive Transformative Change in Fashion: An Exploration of Drivers of Biodiversity Loss and Barriers to Transformative Change in the Textile, Apparel, and Fashion	2
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	2
Dynamics of the Legal Environment and the Development of Communal Irrigation Systems	2
Urban Communities, Housing Commons, and Real Estate Investment: Revisiting Housing Cooperative Development in Senegal Since the Beavers Experiment	2
Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science: A Review of Computational Modeling of Institutions and Institutional Dynamics	2
Learning Together for Groundwater Management: A Case of the Devnadi Basin, Nashik, Maharashtra, India	2
Community Forestry Management Implementation in Burkina Faso: Gendered Dynamics and Customary Complexity	2
Becoming a Care-Tizen: Contributing to Democracy Through Forest Commoning	2
Designing NGO Interventions in Forest Commons of the Western Ghats, India: Is it Possible to Avoid Institutional Panaceas While Using Design Principles?	2
Cui Bono: Do Open Source Software Incubator Policies and Procedures Benefit the Projects or the Incubator?	2
Governing Outer Space as a Commons is Critical for Addressing Commons on Earth	2
Prosuming Alone or Together: A Bisectoral Approach to Conceptualizing the Commons Prosumer	2
Linking Institutions for Collective Action to Agrarian Change: Insights from Transformations in an Irrigation Community, Central Mexico	2