OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 14. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Working with Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge in assessments of nature and nature’s linkages with people	177
Indigenous environmental justice and sustainability	116
The nature of cities and the Covid-19 pandemic	95
Transformative governance of biodiversity: insights for sustainable development	85
Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk	71
Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda	70
Drivers of soil salinity and their correlation with climate change	63
Circular nutrient solutions for agriculture and wastewater – a review of technologies and practices	62
Estimating global terrestrial denitrification from measured N2O:(N2O + N2) product ratios	59
Climate change, drought, land degradation and migration: exploring the linkages	58
The rise of green bonds for sustainable finance: global standards and issues with the expanding Chinese market	57
Urban resilience and green infrastructure systems: towards a multidimensional evaluation	56
Challenges to realizing the potential of nature-based solutions	55
The Global-DEP conceptual framework — research on dryland ecosystems to promote sustainability	52
The role of low carbon and high carbon materials in carbon neutrality science and carbon economics	51
The role of crop diversity in climate change adaptation: insights from local observations to inform decision making in agriculture	49
The governance of sociotechnical transformations to sustainability	48
Technological advances in biodiversity monitoring: applicability, opportunities and challenges	46
Equity, inclusion, and justice as criteria for decision-making on climate adaptation in cities	45
Loss and damage implications of sea-level rise on Small Island Developing States	44
Closing maize yield gaps in sub-Saharan Africa will boost soil N2O emissions	40
Transformation beyond conservation: how critical social science can contribute to a radical new agenda in biodiversity conservation	39
Introduction: toward more inclusive definitions of sustainability	39
Exploring climate-driven non-economic loss and damage in the Pacific Islands	39
Future of Asian Deltaic Megacities under sea level rise and land subsidence: current adaptation pathways for Tokyo, Jakarta, Manila, and Ho Chi Minh City	37

Syntropy and innovation in agriculture	37
An inclusive future: disabled populations in the context of climate and environmental change	37
Food system narratives to end hunger: extractive versus regenerative	36
Global patterns of adaptation to climate change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A systematic review	35
Essential ecosystem service variables for monitoring progress towards sustainability	34
Mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions in the context of nitrogen loss reduction from agroecosystems: managing hot spots and hot moments	34
Measuring denitrification and the N2O:(N2O + N2) emission ratio from terrestrial soils	33
Multi-scale analyses on the ecosystem services in the Chinese Loess Plateau and implications for dryland sustainability	31
Climate change, slow onset events and human mobility: reviewing the evidence	31
Sustainability transitions in manufacturing: the role of intellectual property	30
Toward a sustainable grazing management based on biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality in drylands	29
Security risks from climate change and environmental degradation: implications for sustainable land use transformation in the Global South	29
Adoption of conservation practices: what have we learned from two decades of social-psychological approaches?	29
Co-production of knowledge and sustainability transformations: a strategic compass for global research networks	28
Resurgence of relationality: reflections on decolonizing and indigenizing ‘sustainable development’	28
Establishing intensifying chronic exposure to extreme heat as a slow onset event with implications for health, wellbeing, productivity, society and economy	28
Climate change adaptation through agroforestry: opportunities and gaps	28
Improving N2O emission estimates with the global N2O database	27
Technology, nature’s appropriation and capital accumulation in modern agriculture	27
Making place-based sustainability initiatives visible in the Brazilian Amazon	27
Losses and damages associated with slow-onset events: urban drought and water insecurity in Asia	26
Using case study data to understand SES interactions: a model-centered meta-analysis of SES framework applications	26
Does public participation lead to more ambitious and transformative local climate change planning?	26
Approaches and concepts of modelling denitrification: increased process understanding using observational data can reduce uncertainties	26
Transformations to groundwater sustainability: from individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers	26
Smarter greener cities through a social-ecological-technological systems approach	25
Discourse coalitions for sustainability transformations: common ground and conflict beyond neoliberalism	25
Multiple knowledge systems and participatory actions in slow-onset effects of climate change: insights and perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean	25
Integrating institutional approaches and decision science to address climate change: a multi-level collective action research agenda	25
Advances in understanding the evolution of institutions in complex social-ecological systems	25
Emerging options for mitigating N2O emissions from food production by manipulating the soil microbiota	25
Dryland ecosystem dynamic change and its drivers in Mediterranean region	24
The migration-sustainability paradox: transformations in mobile worlds	24
Navigating trade-offs in the social-ecological systems	24
Connecting the dots between climate change, household water insecurity, and migration	23
Indigenous peoples and transformations in freshwater governance and management	23
Policy integration and climate change adaptation	23
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	23
How politics shapes the outcomes of forest carbon finance	22
Transformative potential of managed retreat as climate adaptation	21
Game masters and Amazonian Indigenous views on sustainability	21
From research to policy: optimizing the design of a national monitoring system to mitigate soil nitrous oxide emissions	20
The sustainability impact of a digital circular economy	20
Rethinking standards of permanence for terrestrial and coastal carbon: implications for governance and sustainability	19
Managing supply and demand of ecosystem services in dryland catchments	19
Soil N intensity as a measure to estimate annual N2O and NO fluxes from natural and managed ecosystems	19
Gender and Indigenous concepts of climate protection: a critical revision of REDD+ projects	19
Anticipatory governance of solar geoengineering: conflicting visions of the future and their links to governance proposals	19
An inclusive typology of values for navigating transformations towards a just and sustainable future	19
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure: promises and perils for water justice	18

Strategic planning of hydropower development: balancing benefits and socioenvironmental costs	18
The impacts of climate change and urbanization on food retailers in urban sub-Saharan Africa	18
Transformation as praxis: responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia	18
Nature’s disvalues: what are they and why do they matter?	17
Entry points for addressing justice and politics in urban flood adaptation decision making	17
Rising seas, changing salt lines, and drinking water salinization	17
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	17
Responses and feedbacks of African dryland ecosystems to environmental changes	17
A plural climate studies framework for the Himalayas	17
The effects of weather experiences on climate change attitudes and behaviors	16
Nothing goes to waste: sustainable practices of re-use among Indigenous groups in the Russian North	16
Critical social science perspectives on transformations to sustainability	16
Rethinking the governance of urban infrastructural transformations: a synthesis of emerging approaches	16
Leveraging SETS resilience capabilities for safe-to-fail infrastructure under climate change	16
Achieving a fit between social and ecological systems in drylands for sustainability	16
Impact of slow-onset events related to Climate Change on food security in Latin America and the Caribbean	15
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	15
A comprehensive framework for evaluating the impact of land use change and management on soil organic carbon stocks in global drylands	15
Poverty and climate change challenges for sustainable intensification of cocoa systems	15
Urban climate resilience through hybrid infrastructure	15
Building on Paris: integrating nitrous oxide mitigation into future climate policy	15
Water, society and pollution in an urbanizing world: recent developments and future challenges	15
Navigating capitalist expansion and climate change in pastoral social-ecological systems: impacts, vulnerability and decision-making	14
Social assistance programs and climate resilience: reducing vulnerability through cash transfers	14
Managing slow onset events related to climate change: the role of public bureaucracy	14
Finance for Loss and Damage: a comprehensive risk analytical approach	14
Agroecology as a transformative approach to tackle climatic, food, and ecosystemic crises	14
Slow-onset events: a review of the evidence from the IPCC Special Reports on Land, Oceans and Cryosphere	14
Nitrous oxide emissions from ruminant urine: science and mitigation for intensively managed perennial pastures	14
Oil palm plantations are large sources of nitrous oxide, but where are the data to quantify the impact on global warming?	14
Why care about theories? Innovative ways of theorizing in sustainability science	14
Algorithmic conservation in a changing climate	14