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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Diversity and Challenges of the Urban Commons: A Comprehensive Review	36
Food Safety and Value Chain Coordination in the Context of a Transition Economy: The Role of Agricultural Cooperatives	27
Blockchain Networks as Knowledge Commons	14
Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves: A Comparative Study of Three Sacred Groves in Southwest Nigeria	10
Commons Management in Migrant Communities	9
Assessing Policy Issue Interdependencies in Environmental Governance	8
Identifying Topics and Trends in the Study of Common-Pool Resources Using Natural Language Processing	8
Collective Action Dilemmas at Cultural Heritage Sites: An Application of the IAD-NAAS Framework	8
Migration and Gender Dynamics of Irrigation Governance in Nepal	7
Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures	7
Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain	6
Crafting Collective Management Institutions in Messy Real-World Settings: A Call for Action Research	6
The Promise of Collective Action for Large-Scale Commons Dilemmas: Reflections on Common-Pool-Resource Theory	6
The Food-as-a-Commons Discourse: Analyzing the Journey to Policy Impact	6
Contested Commoning: Urban Fishing Spaces and Community Wellbeing	5
Commoning Semantic Interoperability in Healthcare	5
Path Dependence, Community Resilience, and Social Responses to the Implementation of Collaborative Forest Management in Ghana	5
Securing the Commons in India: Mapping Polycentric Governance	5
Decentralizing the Governance of Inland Fisheries in the Pacific Region of Colombia	4
The Overexploitation of Natural Resources in Arid Central Asia. The Case of Hungry Steppe: Can a Collapse be a Solution?	4
Is the Formalization of Collective Tenure Rights Supporting Sustainable Indigenous Livelihoods? Insights from Comunidades Nativas in the Peruvian Amazon	4
Integrating Institutions with Local Contexts in Community-Based Irrigation Governance: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Variables, Combinations, and Effects	4
Design Principles of Common Property Institutions: The Case of Farmer Cooperatives in the Upper West Region of Ghana	4
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	4
Can the Indonesian collective action norm of Gotong-Royong be strengthened with economic incentives? Comparing the implementation of an aquaculture irrigation policy program	4

A Perspective on the Future of Studying the Commons	4
Outer Space as a Global Commons: An Empirical Study of Space Arrangements	4
Open Source Hardware, Exploring how Industry Regulation Affects Knowledge Commons Governance: An Exploratory Case Study	4
Dynamics of the Legal Environment and the Development of Communal Irrigation Systems	3
How Do Game Design, Gender, and Players’ Backgrounds Affect Behavior in Framed Field Experiments? Evidence from Community Forestry in India	3
Prosuming Alone or Together: A Bisectoral Approach to Conceptualizing the Commons Prosumer	3
Early Medieval Commons? Or How the History of Early Medieval Europe Could Benefit from a Necessary Conversation: The Case From NW Iberia	3
Community Control in the Housing Commons: A Conceptual Typology	3
Understanding Collective Action from Mexican Fishers’ Discourses: How Fishers Articulate the Need for the State Support and Self-Governance Capabilities	3
Dire Necessity or Mere Opportunity? Recurrent Peat Commercialisation from Raised Bog Commons in the Early Modern Low Countries	3
Towards a Theory of Value as a Commons	3
Social-Ecological Institutional Fit in Volunteer-Based Organizations: A Study of Lake Management Organizations in Vilas County, Wisconsin, U.S.A.	3
Revealing the Foggara as a Living Irrigation System through an Institutional Analysis: Evidence from Oases in the Algerian Sahara	3
Adapting Common Resource Management to Under-Use Contexts: The Case of Common Pasture Organizations in the Black Forest Biosphere Reserve	3
Caring for Groundwater: How Care Can Expand and Transform Groundwater Governance	2
Conviviality Under Pressure of Market-Modernist Expertocracy: The Case of Water Commons in Rural Switzerland	2
Restoring the Commons: A Gendered Analysis of Customary Water Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa	2
Conditions for Collective Land Use by Community-Based Organizations: Case Study of Community Farming Enterprises in Japan	2
Just Commons: Governance of Irrigation Water in World Heritage Rice Terraces, Southwest China	2
Averting Evolutionary Suicide from the Tragedy of the Commons	2
Advancing Co-governance through Framing Processes: Insights from Action-Research in the Requena-Utiel Aquifer (Eastern Spain)	2
Space Resources and the Politics of International Regime Formation	2
Magical Realism for Water Governance Under Power Asymmetries in the Aracataca River Basin, Colombia	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
Knowledge for the Commons: What is Needed Now?	1
Towards Democratisation of Public Administration: Public-Commons Partnerships in Barcelona	1
Becoming a Care-Tizen: Contributing to Democracy Through Forest Commoning	1
Tackling Gender Inequality in Community-Based Organizations: The Contribution of Cacao Cooperatives to Environmental Justice for Women in Peru	1
The ‘Farmer Lens’: A Gender Blinder? Considering Farmer Diversity in Research and Policy on African Farmer-led Irrigation Development	1
Symmetries and Asymmetries in Collective Management: Comparing Effects on Resilience and Rural Development in Galician Common Lands and the Brazilian Extractive Reserves	1
Tipping Points of Space Debris in Low Earth Orbit	1
Commons-Oriented, but Embodied Enough? De-Constructing Knowledge, Experiences, and Institutions in Naples’ Water Commons Project	1
Westphalian Sovereignty and the Free-Rider Conundrum in the Atmospheric Commons: Examining Global Governance Regimes for Addressing Climate Change Adaptation	1
Diagnosing Participation and Inclusion in Collective Decision-Making in the Commons: Lessons from Ecuador	1
Environmental Movements in Turkey from the Perspective of Commons	1
Linking Institutions for Collective Action to Agrarian Change: Insights from Transformations in an Irrigation Community, Central Mexico	1
More-than-Human Commoning through Women’s Kokorozashi Business for Collective Well-being: A Case from Aging and Depopulating Rural Japan	1
Cui Bono: Do Open Source Software Incubator Policies and Procedures Benefit the Projects or the Incubator?	1
The Incompatibility of the Commons and the Public	1
The Use of the Institutional Grammar 1.0 for Institutional Analysis: A Literature Review	1
Caution as a Response to Scientific Uncertainty: A Groundwater Game Experiment	1
Four Alternative Scenarios of Commons in Space: Prospects and Challenges	1
Policy Over Practice: A Review of Groundwater Governance Research in Sub-Saharan Africa	1
High-Efficiency Irrigation: Local Water Users’ Responses to the Modernization of Village Irrigation Technology and Government Control in China	1
Autonomous Change Processes in Traditional Institutions: Lessons from Innovations in Village Governance in Vanuatu	1
Mechanism Design in Regional Arrangements for Water Governance	1
In Common or Enclosed: A Comparison of Farmers’ Market Development in Poland and the United States	1