OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 33. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Contents	160
Contents	148
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	115
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	92
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning	82
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	81
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	79
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	76
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	72
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	65
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	59
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	55
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	54
Editorial Board	53
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	53
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	51
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	46
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	42
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	42
Editorial Board	39
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	39
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	38
Contents	37
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	37
From peril to promise? Local mitigation and adaptation policy decisions after extreme weather	36

Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	36
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?	35
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability	34
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	34
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	34
The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors	34
Editorial Board	34
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events	33