OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of the Commons is 3. 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
The Food-as-a-Commons Discourse: Analyzing the Journey to Policy Impact	11
Path Dependence, Community Resilience, and Social Responses to the Implementation of Collaborative Forest Management in Ghana	11
From a Challenge to an Opportunity: Sustainability and the “Dark Side” of Social Capital in Paros, Greece	10
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
Commons-Oriented, but Embodied Enough? De-Constructing Knowledge, Experiences, and Institutions in Naples’ Water Commons Project	9
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
An Uncommon Commons: Government’s Role in Constituting an Unusual Credit Union Deposit Insurance Scheme	8
Imaginaries and the Commons: Insights From Irrigation Modernization in Valencia, Spain	7
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
Leadership in Urban Commoning: Why Bridging Social Capital Matters?	6
Accessibility to Space Infrastructures and Outer Space: Anthropological Insights from Europe’s Spaceport	6
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
Four Alternative Scenarios of Commons in Space: Prospects and Challenges	5
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
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
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
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