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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Analysing Informal Governance Arrangements in Small-Scale Fisheries: A Case Study of Norton, Zimbabwe	40
Towards a Theory of Value as a Commons	14
Becoming a Care-Tizen: Contributing to Democracy Through Forest Commoning	10
Governing Landscape Simplification in Rapid Commercialization Contexts – the Case of the Dike-Pond System in the Pearl River Delta, China	9
Actor Resistance Influences Effectiveness of Ostrom’s Design Principles for Governing Contested Landscapes	8
Four Alternative Scenarios of Commons in Space: Prospects and Challenges	7
Analysing Groundwater Governance in Uzbekistan through the Lenses of Social-Ecological Systems and Informational Governance	7
Path Dependence, Community Resilience, and Social Responses to the Implementation of Collaborative Forest Management in Ghana	6
Diagnosing Participation and Inclusion in Collective Decision-Making in the Commons: Lessons from Ecuador	6
Accessibility to Space Infrastructures and Outer Space: Anthropological Insights from Europe’s Spaceport	6
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	6
Combining Approaches for Systemic Behaviour Change in Groundwater Governance	6
Towards Democratisation of Public Administration: Public-Commons Partnerships in Barcelona	5
Adapting Common Resource Management to Under-Use Contexts: The Case of Common Pasture Organizations in the Black Forest Biosphere Reserve	5
Outer Space as a Global Commons: An Empirical Study of Space Arrangements	4
The Food-as-a-Commons Discourse: Analyzing the Journey to Policy Impact	4
Caution as a Response to Scientific Uncertainty: A Groundwater Game Experiment	4
Dire Necessity or Mere Opportunity? Recurrent Peat Commercialisation from Raised Bog Commons in the Early Modern Low Countries	4
Westphalian Sovereignty and the Free-Rider Conundrum in the Atmospheric Commons: Examining Global Governance Regimes for Addressing Climate Change Adaptation	4
Prosuming Alone or Together: A Bisectoral Approach to Conceptualizing the Commons Prosumer	4
Challenges in Expanding the Commonsverse	4
Knowledge for the Commons: What is Needed Now?	3
From a Challenge to an Opportunity: Sustainability and the “Dark Side” of Social Capital in Paros, Greece	3
Relational Ecosystems: Sustaining Prefigurative Change by Creating Conditions for Mutual Learning and Change	3
Crafting Collective Management Institutions in Messy Real-World Settings: A Call for Action Research	3

Coping with Dismantling Forces: Traditional Management and Transformations of Székely-Hungarian Village Commons of Transylvania, in the 16–21th Centuries	3
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	3
The Use of the Institutional Grammar 1.0 for Institutional Analysis: A Literature Review	3
The Image Fallacy: Rethinking the Tragedy of the Commons	3
Understanding the Governing of Urban Commons: Reflecting on Five Key Features of Collaborative Governance in Zero Waste Lab, Amsterdam	3
Commons-Oriented, but Embodied Enough? De-Constructing Knowledge, Experiences, and Institutions in Naples’ Water Commons Project	3
Rethink of Individual Transferable Quota Fishery Management System in China: A Case Study in Zhejiang Province, China	2
Technical teams as commoning gatekeepers: The case of IATS in Mutual Aid Housing Cooperatives in Uruguay	2
What is “Political” in Commons-Public Partnership? The Italian Cases of Bologna and Naples	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
Drivers of Biodiversity Conservation in Sacred Groves: A Comparative Study of Three Sacred Groves in Southwest Nigeria	2
Socio-Material Bricolage: (Co)Shaping of Irrigation Institutions and Infrastructures	2
Nested Institutions for Nested Problems: Commoning for Rural Revitalisation in the Peri-Urban Setting	2
An Uncommon Commons: Government’s Role in Constituting an Unusual Credit Union Deposit Insurance Scheme	2
Contested Socio-Material Transformations in Irrigation Communities: Exploring New Entry Points for the Analysis of Commons and Collectives	2
The Incompatibility of the Commons and the Public	1
Governance Interactions Concerning Peri-Urban Lake Ecosystems: A Systematic Literature Review	1
The Overexploitation of Natural Resources in Arid Central Asia. The Case of Hungry Steppe: Can a Collapse be a Solution?	1
Designing NGO Interventions in Forest Commons of the Western Ghats, India: Is it Possible to Avoid Institutional Panaceas While Using Design Principles?	1
Introduction: Advancing the Commonsverse: The Political Economy of The Commons	1
Just Commons: Governance of Irrigation Water in World Heritage Rice Terraces, Southwest China	1
Conviviality Under Pressure of Market-Modernist Expertocracy: The Case of Water Commons in Rural Switzerland	1
Managing African Commons in the Context of Covid-19 Challenges	1
The Social-Ecological System Framework of Urban Wetlands: The Role of Collective Management at Local Level	1
Migration and Gender Dynamics of Irrigation Governance in Nepal	1
Managing Groundwater from the Ground Up: An Ex Ante Assessment of the Potential for Collective Action	1
Restoring the Commons: A Gendered Analysis of Customary Water Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa	1
Diversity and Challenges of the Urban Commons: A Comprehensive Review	1
Making Informal Water Distribution Work: Collective Agency and Self-Organization in Informal Areas of Xochimilco, Mexico City	1
Averting Evolutionary Suicide from the Tragedy of the Commons	1
In Common or Enclosed: A Comparison of Farmers’ Market Development in Poland and the United States	1
Crafting Combinations to Govern Groundwater: Knowledge, Motivation, and Agency	1
Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain	1
Magical Realism for Water Governance Under Power Asymmetries in the Aracataca River Basin, Colombia	1
Polycentric Groundwater Governance: Insights from the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area	1
The Drivers of Farmers’ Participation in Collaborative Water Management: A French Perspective	1