OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 16. 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
Editorial Board	56
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	56
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	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
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	43
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	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
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?	30
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations	30
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events	30
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability	29
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods	29
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace	29
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations	29
The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors	28
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context	27
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process	27
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region	26
Editorial Board	25
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion	24
Towards just sustainability through government-led housing: conceptual and practical considerations	24
Governing natural climate solutions: prospects and pitfalls	24
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda	23
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic	23
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions	22
Contents	21
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?	21
Deconstructing the Doughnut	20
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas	20
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation	20
Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems: impacts, vulnerability and decision-making	20
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach	20
Climate stress testing in the financial industry	19
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities	19
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems	19
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks	19
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances	19
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	18
Contents	18
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches	18
Contents	18
Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice	18
Climate-resilient development in developing countries	17
Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature	17
Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting	17
Editorial Board	17
Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing?	17
Editorial Board	17
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	16
Artistic activism promotes three major forms of sustainability transformation	16

The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states	16
Editorial overview: Values and decisions: How can development trajectories transform	16
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines	16