OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability is 18. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Some feminist strands and their potential for the performativity of climate regulations: a review	326
Editorial Board	174
Contents	130
The global-capitalist elephant in the room: how resilient peacebuilding hinders substantive transformation and undermines long-term peace prospects	117
Pecuniary and non-pecuniary approaches for water conservation: a review	110
Climate-changed development: organizing climate risk and response through an economic growth lens	96
Governance challenges for sustainable food systems: the return of politics and territories	90
The political economy of the social constraints to adaptation	77
Unlocking the potential of biosphere reserves: a review of structural, institutional, and ideational challenges to transformational learning	65
Research trends and gaps in climate change impacts and adaptation potentials in major crops	63
Digital Twins in agriculture: challenges and opportunities for environmental sustainability	61
Participatory governance for people and nature in multifunctional landscapes — insights from Biosphere Reserves	60
Water–energy–food nexus in the circular economy: implications for climate mitigation	57
Editorial Board	54
Editorial overview: Leveraging the power of collective learning through networks to amplify sustainability transformation	54
Rethinking the drivers of biotechnologies: a paradigm for holistic climate change solutions	52
Trends in port decarbonisation research: are we reinventing the wheel?	50
Values as leverage points for sustainability transformation: two pathways for transformation research	50
Broadening the perspective for sustainable artificial intelligence: sustainability criteria and indicators for Artificial Intelligence systems	49
Circular approaches to urban water demand management: insights from a scoping review	48
Editorial overview: Leveraging the multiple values of nature for transformative change to just and sustainable futures — Insights from the IPBES Values Assessment	46
Five priorities to advance transformative transdisciplinary research	45
Disaster resilience in conflict-affected areas: a review of how armed conflicts impact disaster resilience	45
How serious are ethical considerations in energy system decarbonization?	44
Monitoring, evaluation and learning requirements for climate-resilient development pathways	43

Contents	40
Using games for social learning to promote self-governance	37
Determinants of circular economy adoption in wastewater treatment plants	37
Restoring trust in sustainability reporting: the enabling role of the external assurance	36
Potentials and limitations of complexity research for environmental sciences and modern farming applications	36
Climate change and migration from atolls? No evidence yet	35
Editorial overview: Resilience and peace	35
The role of infrastructure in societal transformations	35
The Ocean Decade as an instrument of peace	35
Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events	34
Patterns in reported adaptation constraints: insights from peer-reviewed literature on floods and sea-level rise	33
Gaps between demand and supply of biodiversity impact finance in the Global South	32
The salinization of the Mekong Delta: major drivers, coping strategies, and new hopes from ecosystem-based approaches	31
Growing through transformation pains: integrating emotional holding and processing into competence frameworks for sustainability transformations	31
Diversification from field to landscape to adapt Mediterranean rainfed agriculture to water scarcity in climate change context	31
Agroforests as the intersection of instrumental and relational values of nature: gendered, culture-dependent perspectives?	30
Capturing the moment: a snapshot review of contemporary food environment research featuring participatory photography methods	29
Future-proofing our ports against biological invasion	28
Three archetypical governance pathways for transformative change toward sustainability	28
Editorial Board	28
Integrating relational and instrumental values of nature in planning land use for multiple ecosystem services (LUMENS): tools and process	27
What can methods for assessing worldviews and broad values tell us about socio-environmental conflicts?	26
Advancing sustainable port development in the Western Indian Ocean region	26
The position of women in decision-making processes on environmental issues	26
National environmental regulatory systems for the management of environmental impacts in small island jurisdictions	24
Reviewing regulatory settings and their impacts on managed aquifer recharge implementation: evidence from six countries	24
The biodiversity–finance nexus: a future research agenda	23
Editorial overview: Biodiversity finance	23
Contents	23
Barriers and limits to adaptation in the Arctic	23
Philosophies of good living and values of nature: power and uncertainties in decision-making to achieve social-environmental justice in the Americas	23
Using the nexus approach to realise sustainable food systems	22
Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities	22
Biosphere Reserves as catalysts for sustainability transformations: five strategies to support place-based innovation	22
Deconstructing the Doughnut	21
The paradox of climate resilience and elusive peace in the Lake Chad Basin: a case for an adaptive governance approach	21
Greening container terminals through optimization: a systematic review on recent advances	21
Preventing violent extremism with resilience, adaptive peacebuilding, and community-embedded approaches	20
Adaptation limits as sufficiency entitlements of justice	20
Social limits to climate change adaptation: temporalities in behavioural responses to climate risks	20
Wastewater reuse for agriculture in Europe: regulatory frameworks, treatment technologies, and socio-economic perspectives	20
Justice, sustainability, and the diverse values of nature: why they matter for biodiversity conservation	20
Climate stress testing in the financial industry	20
Editorial Board	20
Editorial overview: Social limits to climate change adaptation revisited	19
Defining and operationalizing ‘nature-positive’ — a question of power	19
Editorial Board	19
Whose values count? A review of the nature valuation studies with a focus on justice	19
Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines	19
Intercultural networks deepen learning for transformative sustainability education: lessons from co-designing transdisciplinary international learning labs	19

Mapping the automation of Twitter communications on climate change, sustainability, and environmental crises — a review of current research	18
Climate-resilient development in developing countries	18
Editorial overview: Climate finance, risks, and accounting	18
Assessing the role of social networks in women’s access and use of climate services in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from literature	18
The European Union Emission Trading System and its role for green budgeting development — the case of EU member states	18
Contents	18