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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development	102
Drivers of soil salinity and their correlation with climate change	97
Climate change, drought, land degradation and migration: exploring the linkages	85
Equity, inclusion, and justice as criteria for decision-making on climate adaptation in cities	74
Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation: implications for sustainable land use transformation in the Global South	64
Estimating global terrestrial denitrification from measured N2O:(N2O + N2) product ratios	64
The rise of green bonds for sustainable finance: global standards and issues with the expanding Chinese market	63
The Global-DEP conceptual framework — research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability	62
The role of low carbon and high carbon materials in carbon neutrality science and carbon economics	59
The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture	58
The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability	57
Future of Asian Deltaic Megacities under sea level rise and land subsidence: current adaptation pathways for Tokyo, Jakarta, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City	54
Loss and damage implications of sea-level rise on Small Island Developing States	53
An inclusive future: disabled populations in the context of climate and environmental change	51
Climate change adaptation through agroforestry: opportunities and gaps	50
Transformation beyond conservation: how critical social science can contribute to a radical new agenda in biodiversity conservation	49
Global patterns of adaptation to climate change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A systematic review	47
Closing maize yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa will boost soil N2O emissions	46
Food system narratives to end hunger: extractive versus regenerative	44
Mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions in the context of nitrogen loss reduction from agroecosystems: managing hot spots and hot moments	42
Exploring climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands	42
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	41
Measuring denitrification and the N2O:(N2O + N2) emission ratio from terrestrial soils	40
The sustainability impact of a digital circular economy	36
Essential ecosystem service variables for monitoring progress towards sustainability	36

Climate change, slow onset events and human mobility: reviewing the evidence	36
Does public participation lead to more ambitious and transformative local climate change planning?	35
Policy integration and climate change adaptation	35
Multi-scale analyses on the ecosystem services in the Chinese Loess Plateau and implications for dryland sustainability	34
Sustainability transitions in manufacturing: the role of intellectual property	34
Transformations to groundwater sustainability: from individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers	34
Toward a sustainable grazing management based on biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality in drylands	34
Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach	34
Co-production of knowledge and sustainability transformations: a strategic compass for global research networks	33
Losses and damages associated with slow-onset events: urban drought and water insecurity in Asia	32
Approaches and concepts of modelling denitrification: increased process understanding using observational data can reduce uncertainties	32
Connecting the dots between climate change, household water insecurity, and migration	32
Establishing intensifying chronic exposure to extreme heat as a slow onset event with implications for health, wellbeing, productivity, society and economy	32
Making place-based sustainability initiatives visible in the Brazilian Amazon	31
Dryland ecosystem dynamic change and its drivers in Mediterranean region	31
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	30
An inclusive typology of values for navigating transformations towards a just and sustainable future	30
Navigating trade-offs in the social-ecological systems	30
Improving N2O emission estimates with the global N2O database	29
Emerging options for mitigating N2O emissions from food production by manipulating the soil microbiota	29
Multiple knowledge systems and participatory actions in slow-onset effects of climate change: insights and perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean	29
Integrating institutional approaches and decision science to address climate change: a multi-level collective action research agenda	29
How politics shapes the outcomes of forest carbon finance	28
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises	27
The migration-sustainability paradox: transformations in mobile worlds	27
Transformative potential of managed retreat as climate adaptation	27
Strategic planning of hydropower development: balancing benefits and socioenvironmental costs	26
Transformation as praxis: responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia	25
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	23
Soil N intensity as a measure to estimate annual N2O and NO fluxes from natural and managed ecosystems	23
From research to policy: optimizing the design of a national monitoring system to mitigate soil nitrous oxide emissions	22
Downscaling doughnut economics for sustainability governance	22
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice	22
Rising seas, changing salt lines, and drinking water salinization	22
The impacts of climate change and urbanization on food retailers in urban sub-Saharan Africa	21
Nature’s disvalues: what are they and why do they matter?	21
Urban climate resilience through hybrid infrastructure	20
Deciding how to make climate change adaptation decisions	20
Leveraging SETS resilience capabilities for safe-to-fail infrastructure under climate change	20
Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations: a synthesis of emerging approaches	20
Responses and feedbacks of African dryland ecosystems to environmental changes	20
Critical social science perspectives on transformations to sustainability	19
Entry points for addressing justice and politics in urban flood adaptation decision making	19
Building on Paris: integrating nitrous oxide mitigation into future climate policy	19
Slow-onset events: a review of the evidence from the IPCC Special Reports on Land, Oceans and Cryosphere	19
Managing supply and demand of ecosystem services in dryland catchments	19
A plural climate studies framework for the Himalayas	19
The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors	19
Achieving a fit between social and ecological systems in drylands for sustainability	18
Managing slow onset events related to climate change: the role of public bureaucracy	18

A comprehensive framework for evaluating the impact of land use change and management on soil organic carbon stocks in global drylands	18
Transforming wasted food will require systemic and sustainable infrastructure innovations	18
Planning for urban green infrastructure: addressing tradeoffs and synergies	18
Why care about theories? Innovative ways of theorizing in sustainability science	18
The role of data in transformations to sustainability: a critical research agenda	17
Finance for Loss and Damage: a comprehensive risk analytical approach	17
Beyond the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural–urban sustainability	17
Impact of slow-onset events related to Climate Change on food security in Latin America and the Caribbean	17
Expertise and exclusivity in adaptation decision-making	17
Nitrous oxide emissions from ruminant urine: science and mitigation for intensively managed perennial pastures	16
Earth observation for drought risk financing in pastoral systems of sub-Saharan Africa	16
Alternative sources of protein for food and feed	16
Farmer land-use decision-making from an instrumental and relational perspective	16
Poverty and climate change challenges for sustainable intensification of cocoa systems	16
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	16
Oil palm plantations are large sources of nitrous oxide, but where are the data to quantify the impact on global warming?	16