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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Working with Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge in assessments of nature and nature’s linkages with people	171
Indigenous environmental justice and sustainability	114
The nature of cities and the Covid-19 pandemic	95
Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development	83
Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk	66
Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda	66
Circular nutrient solutions for agriculture and wastewater – a review of technologies and practices	61
Drivers of soil salinity and their correlation with climate change	59
Climate change, drought, land degradation and migration: exploring the linkages	57
The rise of green bonds for sustainable finance: global standards and issues with the expanding Chinese market	56
Estimating global terrestrial denitrification from measured N2O:(N2O + N2) product ratios	53
Challenges to realizing the potential of nature-based solutions	52
The Global-DEP conceptual framework — research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability	51
Urban resilience and green infrastructure systems: towards a multidimensional evaluation	50
The role of low carbon and high carbon materials in carbon neutrality science and carbon economics	49
The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability	46
Technological advances in biodiversity monitoring: applicability, opportunities and challenges	45
The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture	44
Equity, inclusion, and justice as criteria for decision-making on climate adaptation in cities	43
Loss and damage implications of sea-level rise on Small Island Developing States	40
Closing maize yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa will boost soil N2O emissions	39
Transformation beyond conservation: how critical social science can contribute to a radical new agenda in biodiversity conservation	38
Exploring climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands	37
Introduction: toward more inclusive definitions of sustainability	36
An inclusive future: disabled populations in the context of climate and environmental change	36

Future of Asian Deltaic Megacities under sea level rise and land subsidence: current adaptation pathways for Tokyo, Jakarta, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City	35
Food system narratives to end hunger: extractive versus regenerative	35
Mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions in the context of nitrogen loss reduction from agroecosystems: managing hot spots and hot moments	34
Global patterns of adaptation to climate change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A systematic review	34
Essential ecosystem service variables for monitoring progress towards sustainability	33
Syntropy and innovation in agriculture	32
Multi-scale analyses on the ecosystem services in the Chinese Loess Plateau and implications for dryland sustainability	31