OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Energy Sustainability and Society is 3. 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
Sustainable forest biomass: a review of current residue harvesting guidelines	75
Climate change in the Western Balkans and EU Green Deal: status, mitigation and challenges	45
Transitioning to a sustainable development framework for bioenergy in Malaysia: policy suggestions to catalyse the utilisation of palm oil mill residues	39
Multilevel governance energy planning and policy: a view on local energy initiatives	38
The impact of climate change awareness on behavioral changes in Germany: changing minds or changing behavior?	33
Renewable energy and population growth for sustainable development in the Southeast Asian countries	33
Assessing the social acceptance of key technologies for the German energy transition	31
Combining the worlds of energy systems and material flow analysis: a review	25
Embedding the United Nations sustainable development goals into energy systems analysis: expanding the food–energy–water nexus	24
Conceptual framework for increasing legitimacy and trust of sustainability governance	23
Indicators for the optimization of sustainable urban energy systems based on energy system modeling	23
Green BIM-based study on the green performance of university buildings in northern China	22
Sustainable energy transition in Central Asia: status and challenges	21
How to avoid unjust energy transitions: insights from the Ruhr region	21
Analyzing German consumers’ willingness to pay for green electricity tariff attributes: a discrete choice experiment	20
Decarbonisation of eastern European economies: monitoring, economic, social and security concerns	20
Sustainable development economy and the development of green economy in the European Union	19
Central versus wellhead power plants in geothermal grid electricity generation	19
Innovative financing of the sustainable development goals in the countries of the Western Balkans	18
Health concerns and use of biomass energy in households: voices of women from rural communities in Western Uganda	18
Fossil fuel dependence and energy insecurity	18
The cultivation of five microalgae species and their potential for biodiesel production	17
Electric vehicle charging and end-user motivation for flexibility: a case study from Norway	17
The governance of energy transition: lessons from the Nigerian electricity sector	17
Policy-relevant insights for regional renewable energy deployment	16

The struggle of energy communities to enhance energy justice: insights from 113 German cases	16
Social life-cycle assessment (S-LCA) of residential rooftop solar panels using challenge-derived framework	16
Perceptions of participation and the role of gender for the engagement in solar energy communities in Sweden	16
Sustainable energy recovery from thermal processes: a review	16
Digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions in Africa: assessing the impact of policy and regulatory environments on the energy sector in Nigeria and South Africa	15
Transnational sustainability certification for the bioeconomy? Patterns and discourse coalitions of resistance and alternatives in biomass exporting regions	14
Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique	14
Mapping emergent public engagement in societal transitions: a scoping review	14
Designing a sustainable biofuel supply chain by considering carbon policies: a case study in Iran	13
Thailand’s mid-century greenhouse gas emission pathways to achieve the 2 degrees Celsius target	13
Financing renewable energy: policy insights from Brazil and Nigeria	13
Climate change and agriculture management: Western Balkan region analysis	13
Optimal design for a hybrid microgrid-hydrogen storage facility in Saudi Arabia	13
The development of social science research on smart grids: a semi-structured literature review	12
Prospective assessment of energy technologies: a comprehensive approach for sustainability assessment	12
Decision-making in sustainable energy transition in Southeastern Europe: probabilistic network-based model	11
Muon-catalyzed fusion and annihilation energy generation will supersede non-sustainable T + D nuclear fusion	11
Challenges of the green transition for the recovery of the Western Balkans	11
Trade-offs in German wind energy expansion: building bridges between different interests, values and priorities	11
Social acceptance of green hydrogen in Germany: building trust through responsible innovation	11
Prices of conventional and renewable energy as determinants of sustainable and secure energy development: regression model analysis	11
Linking qualitative scenarios with quantitative energy models: knowledge integration in different methodological designs	11
Effects of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act and environmental, social and economic factors on biogas plant adoption and agricultural land use change	11
Linking sustainability and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: a monitoring framework accounting for technological development	10
Sustainability assessments of energy scenarios: citizens’ preferences for and assessments of sustainability indicators	10
Revisiting the energy-growth-environment nexus in the OECD countries: An application of the CS-ARDL approach	10
Net zero 2050 as an EU priroty: modeling a system for efficient investments in eco innovation for climate change mitigation	10
Temporal and spatial availability of cereal straw in Germany—Case study: Biomethane for the transport sector	9
Toward energy saving and food safety in Central Mozambique: the role of improved cook stoves and heat retention boxes	9
Low carbon futures: assessing the status of decarbonisation efforts at universities within a 2050 perspective	9
Heat consumption scenarios in the rural residential sector: the potential of heat pump-based demand-side management for sustainable heating	8
Enhancing environmental sustainability through corporate governance: the merger and acquisition perspective	8
The value of community technology workers for LPG use: A pilot in Shirati, Tanzania	8
Sustainable transition of the Republic of Serbia: measuring capacity for circularity in agriculture and rural areas	8
The intention of households in the Daklak province to instal smart grid rooftop solar electricity systems	8
Small hydropower plants in Western Balkan countries: status, controversies and a proposed model for decision making	8
Influence of occupant presence patterns on energy consumption and its relation to comfort: a case study based on sensor and crowd-sensed data	8
The potential contribution of biogas to the security of gas supply in Germany	7
A consolidated potential analysis of bio-methane and e-methane using two different methods for a medium-term renewable gas supply in Germany	7
Comparison of macroeconomic developments in ten scenarios of energy system transformation in Germany: National and regional results	7
Solar energy implementation at the household level: Gaza Strip case study	7
Energy efficiency in China: optimization and comparison between hydropower and thermal power	7
Urban expansion of Energiewende in Germany: a systematic bibliometric analysis and literature study	7
Fuelwood use and carbon emission reduction of improved biomass cookstoves: evidence from kitchen performance tests in Tigray, Ethiopia	7
Framing the mobility transition: public communication of industry, science, media, and politics in Germany	7
Biodiesel production from a non-edible source of royna (Aphanamixis polystachya) oil	7
Success factors of citizen energy cooperatives in north western Germany: a conceptual and empirical review	6
Addressing energy poverty through technological and governance innovation	6
The incandescent light bulb phase-out: exploring patterns of framing the governance of discontinuing a socio-technical regime	6
Modelling renewable energy communities: assessing the impact of different configurations, technologies and types of participants	6

How does satisfaction of solar PV users enhance their trust in the power grid? - Evidence from PPAPs in rural China	6
Towards sustainable energy culture in the industrial sector: introducing an interdisciplinary method for understanding energy culture in business industries	6
Levelized profits for residential PV-battery systems and the role of regulatory and fiscal aspects in Germany	6
Environmental and economic accounting for biomass energy in Ethiopia	5
Balancing wind power deployment and sustainability objectives in Swedish planning and permitting	5
What’s in my fuel tank? Insights into beliefs and preferences for e-fuels and biofuels	5
Valorization of organic waste fractions: a theoretical study on biomethane production potential and the recovery of N and P in Austria	5
Weaving an innovation network from the middle-out: the case of the renewable energy ecosystem	5
Managing the energy trilemma in the Philippines	5
Competing for space? A multi-criteria scenario framework intended to model the energy–biodiversity–land nexus for regional renewable energy planning based on a German case study	5
Technical reliability of shipboard technologies for the application of alternative fuels	5
Renewable energy from secondary wood products contributes to local green development: the case of small-scale privately owned forests in Ciamis Regency, Indonesia	5
The financial feasibility of compressed biomethane gas application in Thailand	5
Does agrivoltaism reconcile energy and agriculture? Lessons from a French case study	4
Analysis of international public funding flows for the environment, climate change, and sustainability: the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
Effect of fuel injection pressure on the performances of a CI engine using water-emulsified diesel (WED) as a fuel	4
International relations challenges and sustainable development in developing countries after 2022: conceptualization of the risk assessment model	4
SDG 8 and the food–energy–water nexus: a two-country dynamic computable general equilibrium CGE model	4
Electrical energy transition in the context of Ghana	4
Exploring energy citizenship in the urban heating system with the ‘Walking with Energy’ methodology	4
Governing sustainability of bioenergy, biomaterial and bioproduct supply chains from forest and agricultural landscapes	4
A global super-grid: sociotechnical drivers and barriers	4
Are strategy developers well equipped when designing sustainable supply chains for a circular bio-economy? Supporting innovations’ market uptake in a PESTEL + I environment	3
An economic–environmental–energy efficiency analysis for optimizing organic waste treatment of a livestock-orchard system: a case in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam	3
Adoption of improved cook stoves by households in informal settlements of Woreda 12, Yeka subcity, Addis Ababa	3
Performance comparison of three prototype biomass stoves with traditional and Mirt stoves for baking Injera	3
The Integrated Policy Package Assessment approach: elaborating ex ante knowledge in the field of urban mobility	3
Causes and effects of the German energy transition in the context of environmental, societal, political, technological, and economic developments	3
Energy security of the European Union and corruption in Central Asia as the main challenges for the European sustainable energy future	3
Renewable energy as a connecting spot between China and Central and Eastern European countries: status, directions and perspectives	3
Influencing residential electricity consumption with tailored messages: long-term usage patterns and effects on user experience	3
Characterization of briquettes developed from banana peels, pineapple peels and water hyacinth	3
Competing socio-technical narratives in times of grid capacity challenges: the representative case of Sweden	3
Scaling up community wind energy: the relevance of autonomy and community	3
The impacts of observational learning and word-of-mouth learning on farmers’ use of biogas in rural Hubei, China: does interpersonal trust play a role?	3
Response to the comment “Are claims of cheap muon production correct?” by K. Hansen and J. Engelen, Energy Sustain. Soc., 2023	3
Over a century of small hydropower projects in Indonesia: a historical review	3