OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 31. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Contents	171
Contents	155
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	97
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	84
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	84
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	78
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	75
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	64
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning	57
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	56
Editorial Board	56
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	56
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	55
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	47
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	43
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	43
Editorial Board	41
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	40
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	39
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	39
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	37
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	36
Editorial Board	36
From peril to promise? Local mitigation and adaptation policy decisions after extreme weather	35
Contents	35

Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	34
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	34
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?	34
Editorial Board	34
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	34
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	33
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet	31