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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	217
Editorial Board	179
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	121
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	95
Contents	91
Contents	86
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	80
Fisheries conflicts as drivers of social transformation	68
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	66
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	60
Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations	53
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning	51
Participatory governance for people and nature in multifunctional landscapes — insights from Biosphere Reserves	50
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	49
Editorial Board	46
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	43
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	41
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	40
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	39
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	39
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	39
Contents	38
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?	38
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	38
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	37

Editorial Board	37
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	36
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	35
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	35
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	35
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations	34
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace	33
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet	32
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?	32
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations	32
The salinization of the Mekong Delta: major drivers, coping strategies, and new hopes from ecosystem-based approaches	31
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability	31
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events	31
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context	27
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods	27
Gaps between demand and supply of biodiversity impact finance in the Global South	26
The position of women in decision-making processes on environmental issues	26
Editorial Board	26
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region	25
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?	24
Towards just sustainability through government-led housing: conceptual and practical considerations	24
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions	24
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process	24
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion	24
Contents	23
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic	23
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda	23
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach	22
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas	22
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances	22
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems	21
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities	21
Deconstructing the Doughnut	20
Climate stress testing in the financial industry	20
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation	20
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches	20
Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice	20
Editorial Board	19
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	19
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks	19
Positive social transformations of coastal communities: what conditions enable the success of territorial use rights for fishing?	18
Editorial overview: Social limits to climate change adaptation revisited	18
Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature	18
Climate-resilient development in developing countries	18
Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting	18
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines	18
Editorial Board	18
Intercultural networks deepen learning for transformative sustainability education: lessons from co-designing transdisciplinary international learning labs	18
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states	18
Contents	18

Defining and operationalizing ‘nature-positive’ — a question of power	17
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	16
Editorial overview: Values and decisions: How can development trajectories transform	16
Artistic activism promotes three major forms of sustainability transformation	16
Insurance and climate change	16
A resilience-based transformations approach to peacebuilding and transformative justice	16
Beyond the ‘urban’ and the ‘rural’: conceptualizing a new generation of infrastructure systems to enable rural–urban sustainability	16