OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Energy Sustainability and Society is 4. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic growth, energy consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions in the E7 countries: a bootstrap ARDL bound test	73
Sustainable forest biomass: a review of current residue harvesting guidelines	59
Renewable energy consumption in Africa: the role of economic well-being and economic freedom	38
How municipalities support energy cooperatives: survey results from Germany and Switzerland	33
Multilevel governance energy planning and policy: a view on local energy initiatives	32
A sustainable biomass network design model for bioenergy production by anaerobic digestion technology: using agricultural residues and livestock manure	31
Climate change in the Western Balkans and EU Green Deal: status, mitigation and challenges	30
Transitioning to a sustainable development framework for bioenergy in Malaysia: policy suggestions to catalyse the utilisation of palm oil mill residues	30
The impact of climate change awareness on behavioral changes in Germany: changing minds or changing behavior?	25
Assessing the social acceptance of key technologies for the German energy transition	25
Cultivation of microalgae for biofuel production: coupling with sugarcane-processing factories	24
Renewable energy and population growth for sustainable development in the Southeast Asian countries	23
Indicators for the optimization of sustainable urban energy systems based on energy system modeling	21
Assessing the wood sourcing practices of the U.S. industrial wood pellet industry supplying European energy demand	21
Stakeholders’ satisfaction as a key determinant of critical success factors in renewable energy projects	19
Combining the worlds of energy systems and material flow analysis: a review	19
Central versus wellhead power plants in geothermal grid electricity generation	18
Embedding the United Nations sustainable development goals into energy systems analysis: expanding the food–energy–water nexus	16
Conceptual framework for increasing legitimacy and trust of sustainability governance	16
Green BIM-based study on the green performance of university buildings in northern China	16
Innovative financing of the sustainable development goals in the countries of the Western Balkans	15
Health concerns and use of biomass energy in households: voices of women from rural communities in Western Uganda	14
The governance of energy transition: lessons from the Nigerian electricity sector	14
Decarbonisation of eastern European economies: monitoring, economic, social and security concerns	14
How to avoid unjust energy transitions: insights from the Ruhr region	14

Analyzing German consumers’ willingness to pay for green electricity tariff attributes: a discrete choice experiment	14
Perceptions of participation and the role of gender for the engagement in solar energy communities in Sweden	13
Transnational sustainability certification for the bioeconomy? Patterns and discourse coalitions of resistance and alternatives in biomass exporting regions	13
Sustainability indices for energy utilization using a multi-criteria decision model	13
The cultivation of five microalgae species and their potential for biodiesel production	12
Effects of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act and environmental, social and economic factors on biogas plant adoption and agricultural land use change	12
Electric vehicle charging and end-user motivation for flexibility: a case study from Norway	12
Mapping emergent public engagement in societal transitions: a scoping review	12
Fossil fuel dependence and energy insecurity	12
Digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions in Africa: assessing the impact of policy and regulatory environments on the energy sector in Nigeria and South Africa	12
Policy-relevant insights for regional renewable energy deployment	11
Thailand’s mid-century greenhouse gas emission pathways to achieve the 2 degrees Celsius target	11
Assessment of a decentralized grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) / wind / biogas hybrid power system in northern Nigeria	11
Climate change and agriculture management: Western Balkan region analysis	11
Designing a sustainable biofuel supply chain by considering carbon policies: a case study in Iran	10
Strengths and gaps of the EU frameworks for the sustainability assessment of bio-based products and bioenergy	10
Sustainable energy transition in Central Asia: status and challenges	10
Social life-cycle assessment (S-LCA) of residential rooftop solar panels using challenge-derived framework	10
Prices of conventional and renewable energy as determinants of sustainable and secure energy development: regression model analysis	10
Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique	9
Muon-catalyzed fusion and annihilation energy generation will supersede non-sustainable T + D nuclear fusion	9
Financing renewable energy: policy insights from Brazil and Nigeria	9
The development of social science research on smart grids: a semi-structured literature review	9
Revisiting the energy-growth-environment nexus in the OECD countries: An application of the CS-ARDL approach	8
Bioenergy plants’ potential for contributing to heat generation in Germany	8
Optimal design for a hybrid microgrid-hydrogen storage facility in Saudi Arabia	8
Trade-offs in German wind energy expansion: building bridges between different interests, values and priorities	8
Prospective assessment of energy technologies: a comprehensive approach for sustainability assessment	8
Linking qualitative scenarios with quantitative energy models: knowledge integration in different methodological designs	8
Temporal and spatial availability of cereal straw in Germany—Case study: Biomethane for the transport sector	8
Decision-making in sustainable energy transition in Southeastern Europe: probabilistic network-based model	7
Net zero 2050 as an EU priroty: modeling a system for efficient investments in eco innovation for climate change mitigation	7
Toward energy saving and food safety in Central Mozambique: the role of improved cook stoves and heat retention boxes	7
Sustainable energy recovery from thermal processes: a review	7
Heat consumption scenarios in the rural residential sector: the potential of heat pump-based demand-side management for sustainable heating	7
Energy efficiency in China: optimization and comparison between hydropower and thermal power	7
The value of community technology workers for LPG use: A pilot in Shirati, Tanzania	7
A consolidated potential analysis of bio-methane and e-methane using two different methods for a medium-term renewable gas supply in Germany	6
Stakeholder perceptions about sustainability governance in the German biogas sector	6
Small hydropower plants in Western Balkan countries: status, controversies and a proposed model for decision making	6
Challenges of future energy landscapes in Germany — a nature conservation perspective	6
The incandescent light bulb phase-out: exploring patterns of framing the governance of discontinuing a socio-technical regime	6
Sustainable transition of the Republic of Serbia: measuring capacity for circularity in agriculture and rural areas	5
Influence of occupant presence patterns on energy consumption and its relation to comfort: a case study based on sensor and crowd-sensed data	5
Low carbon futures: assessing the status of decarbonisation efforts at universities within a 2050 perspective	5
Sustainable development economy and the development of green economy in the European Union	5
The establishment of a micro-scale heat market using a biomass-fired district heating system	5
Comparison of macroeconomic developments in ten scenarios of energy system transformation in Germany: National and regional results	5
Sustainability assessments of energy scenarios: citizens’ preferences for and assessments of sustainability indicators	5
The intention of households in the Daklak province to instal smart grid rooftop solar electricity systems	5

Framing the mobility transition: public communication of industry, science, media, and politics in Germany	5
The energy potential of soft rush (Juncus effusus L.) in different conversion routes	5
Deep learning-based estimation of PV power plant potential under climate change: a case study of El Akarit, Tunisia	5
Managing the energy trilemma in the Philippines	5
The struggle of energy communities to enhance energy justice: insights from 113 German cases	5
Valorization of organic waste fractions: a theoretical study on biomethane production potential and the recovery of N and P in Austria	5
Social acceptance of green hydrogen in Germany: building trust through responsible innovation	5
Energy decisions within an applied ethics framework: an analysis of five recent controversies	5
Technical reliability of shipboard technologies for the application of alternative fuels	5
Probabilistic upscaling and aggregation of wind power forecasts	5
Energy efficiency in an integrated agro-ecosystem within an acidic soil area of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam	4
Fuelwood use and carbon emission reduction of improved biomass cookstoves: evidence from kitchen performance tests in Tigray, Ethiopia	4
Towards sustainable energy culture in the industrial sector: introducing an interdisciplinary method for understanding energy culture in business industries	4
Environmental and economic accounting for biomass energy in Ethiopia	4
Market development and consequences on end-of-life management of photovoltaic implementation in Europe	4
How does satisfaction of solar PV users enhance their trust in the power grid? - Evidence from PPAPs in rural China	4
Urban expansion of Energiewende in Germany: a systematic bibliometric analysis and literature study	4
Trends and dynamics of material and energy flows in an urban context: a case study of a city with an emerging economy	4
Enhancing environmental sustainability through corporate governance: the merger and acquisition perspective	4
SDG 8 and the food–energy–water nexus: a two-country dynamic computable general equilibrium CGE model	4
Biodiesel production from a non-edible source of royna (Aphanamixis polystachya) oil	4
The financial feasibility of compressed biomethane gas application in Thailand	4
Solar energy implementation at the household level: Gaza Strip case study	4
Competing socio-technical narratives in times of grid capacity challenges: the representative case of Sweden	4
Renewable energy from secondary wood products contributes to local green development: the case of small-scale privately owned forests in Ciamis Regency, Indonesia	4