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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“Parasites in Our Country”: Eradicating Ants in the Surinamese Amazon as a Means of Colonial Enclosure	28
Path Dependence, Community Resilience, and Social Responses to the Implementation of Collaborative Forest Management in Ghana	25
Commons-Oriented, but Embodied Enough? De-Constructing Knowledge, Experiences, and Institutions in Naples’ Water Commons Project	16
Towards Democratisation of Public Administration: Public-Commons Partnerships in Barcelona	16
Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures	15
Conflicts in Forest <i>Commoning</i>: A Case Study of Indigenous Communities’ Struggle in India’s Gadchiroli District	14
The Image Fallacy: Rethinking the Tragedy of the Commons	14
Restoring the Commons: A Gendered Analysis of Customary Water Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa	14
Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain	13
Space Resources and the Politics of International Regime Formation	13
Leadership in Urban Commoning: Why Bridging Social Capital Matters?	11
Energy Community Surplus Sharing: Solidarity Strategies for Energy Commons Governance	11
Governing Commons Through Uncertainty: Towards a Link Between Commons and Pastoralist Territories of Life	11
Self-Governance and Adaptation: Rethinking Indigenous Arctic Histories	10
An Analysis of the Channels for Accessing Economic Benefits in the Commons Governance Regime of Space Resources	10
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	10
Accessibility to Space Infrastructures and Outer Space: Anthropological Insights from Europe’s Spaceport	9
Analysing Groundwater Governance in Uzbekistan through the Lenses of Social-Ecological Systems and Informational Governance	9
Combining Approaches for Systemic Behaviour Change in Groundwater Governance	9
Localized in Form, Centralized in Practice: SDG Localization, Ambiguous Politics and the Marginalization of Pastoral Commons in Arunachal Pradesh, India	9
Commoning Public Spaces Towards Inclusive Urbanism in Ghana	9
Four Alternative Scenarios of Commons in Space: Prospects and Challenges	9
What is “Political” in Commons-Public Partnership? The Italian Cases of Bologna and Naples	8
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	8
Enlisting Biodiversity: Steering Public Discourse to Win Support for Policies on Biodiversity Challenges	8

Understanding the Governing of Urban Commons: Reflecting on Five Key Features of Collaborative Governance in Zero Waste Lab, Amsterdam	8
Technical teams as commoning gatekeepers: The case of IATS in Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives in Uruguay	8
The Use of the Institutional Grammar 1.0 for Institutional Analysis: A Literature Review	7
School Gardens as Commons: Fostering Relational Values for Biodiversity Through Participatory Environmental Education	6
Introduction: Advancing the Commonsverse: The Political Economy of The Commons	6
A Synthesis of Rational Choice and Critical Urban Commons Debates	6
Polycentric Groundwater Governance: Insights from the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area	6
Nested Institutions for Nested Problems: Commoning for Rural Revitalisation in the Peri-Urban Setting	6
Landscapes and Cyberscapes of the Commons: Scottish Festivals in the Pandemic and Beyond	6
Managing Groundwater from the Ground Up: An Ex Ante Assessment of the Potential for Collective Action	6
The Drivers of Farmers’ Participation in Collaborative Water Management: A French Perspective	6
Institutional Change of Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems: Experience from Nepal	5
Socio-institutional Considerations of Fishway Implementation at the Community-level in Southeast Asia	5
Correction: Understanding Institutional Compliance in Flood Risk Management: A Network Analysis Approach Highlighting the Significance of Institutional Linkages and Context	5
More-than-Human Commoning through Women’s Kokorozashi Business for Collective Well-being: A Case from Aging and Depopulating Rural Japan	5
Together Strong or Falling Apart? Coping with COVID-19 in Smallholder Irrigated Agriculture	5
Mining, Criminalization and Developmentalized Sustainability Violence in the Peruvian Highlands: The Case of Conga	4
Actor Resistance Influences Effectiveness of Ostrom’s Design Principles for Governing Contested Landscapes	4
The Uncommonness of Urban Commons in Central and Eastern European Countries	4
Unshaping Model Forests in the Global South: Trans-local Politics and Community Forestry Knowledge Circulation in Ecuador and Cameroon	4
Concealed Contradictions: Sustainable Development Goals and Indigenous Land Dispossession in Cambodia	4
Collective Subjectivation in Socially Innovative Commoning	4
News on Biodiversity? An Analysis of the Biodiversity Discourse in European News Outlets in 2010 and 2022	4
Relational Ecosystems: Sustaining Prefigurative Change by Creating Conditions for Mutual Learning and Change	4
Policy Over Practice: A Review of Groundwater Governance Research in Sub-Saharan Africa	4
What Grows During a Crisis? Cultivating the Food Commons in Oxfordshire	4
(Re) Commoning Through Counter-Mapping, the Case of Mida Creek Area, Kilifi County, Kenya	3
Urban Communities, Housing Commons, and Real Estate Investment: Revisiting Housing Cooperative Development in Senegal Since the Beavers Experiment	3
Caution as a Response to Scientific Uncertainty: A Groundwater Game Experiment	3
Designing NGO Interventions in Forest Commons of the Western Ghats, India: Is it Possible to Avoid Institutional Panaceas While Using Design Principles?	3
Understanding the Emergence of Computational Institutional Science: A Review of Computational Modeling of Institutions and Institutional Dynamics	3
Learning Together for Groundwater Management: A Case of the Devnadi Basin, Nashik, Maharashtra, India	3
Knowledge for the Commons: What is Needed Now?	3
Pastoralist Mobility Choices and Resource Access: The Dynamics of Pastoral Systems in Eastern Sudan	3
No Commons Without Micropolitics. Learning with Feminist and Municipalist Movements in Spain	3
Grabbing Urban Wetland Commons in the Name of Sustainable Development: Strategic Marginalization of Local Institutions in Cotonou, Benin	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
The Incompatibility of the Commons and the Public	2
Westphalian Sovereignty and the Free-Rider Conundrum in the Atmospheric Commons: Examining Global Governance Regimes for Addressing Climate Change Adaptation	2
Community Forestry Management Implementation in Burkina Faso: Gendered Dynamics and Customary Complexity	2
Just Commons: Governance of Irrigation Water in World Heritage Rice Terraces, Southwest China	2
Communities as Global Actors in Counterhegemonic Policy Mobilities: Lessons from the Community Land Trust Movement	2
Caring for Groundwater: How Care Can Expand and Transform Groundwater Governance	2
Digital Social Networks as a Governance Mechanism: Shaping Norms for Agricultural Commodity Demand	2
Exploring the Practical Application of Leverage Points Framework for Transformative Interventions for Biodiversity: Case Study Leaders’ Perspectives on Integrating Diverse Viewpoints, Flexibility and	2
Linking Institutions for Collective Action to Agrarian Change: Insights from Transformations in an Irrigation Community, Central Mexico	2
Living with Fire: Relational Approach to Fire in the Uttarakhand Himalaya	2
Governing Outer Space as a Commons is Critical for Addressing Commons on Earth	2
Development of Tribes’ Commons in New Caledonia. Negotiation Over Kanak Land for Urbanization	2
Transforming Value Chains in Tropical Forests: Sustainability and Equity in Cocoa, Gold, and Handicrafts	2

Convivial Constitutionality: Conditions for Human-Predator Cohabitation, Institutional Change and Ontological Contestations in a ‘Glocal’ World	2
Intersectional Environmental Justice in Dutch-Brazilian Beef and Soy Trade: Challenges for the EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products	2
Multispecies Constitutionality: Governing Human-Wildlife Interaction Beyond Anthropocentrism	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
Becoming a Care-Tizen: Contributing to Democracy Through Forest Commoning	2
Making Informal Water Distribution Work: Collective Agency and Self-Organization in Informal Areas of Xochimilco, Mexico City	2
Participatory Video on Groundwater Governance with Youth in the M’zab Valley, Algeria	2
The Governance of the ReFi Ecosystem: Integrity in Voluntary Carbon Markets as a Common Resource	2
Tackling Gender Inequality in Community-Based Organizations: The Contribution of Cacao Cooperatives to Environmental Justice for Women in Peru	2