OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Energy Sustainability and Society is 9. 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
Indicators for the optimization of sustainable urban energy systems based on energy system modeling	23
Conceptual framework for increasing legitimacy and trust of sustainability governance	23
Green BIM-based study on the green performance of university buildings in northern China	22
How to avoid unjust energy transitions: insights from the Ruhr region	21
Sustainable energy transition in Central Asia: status and challenges	21
Decarbonisation of eastern European economies: monitoring, economic, social and security concerns	20
Analyzing German consumers’ willingness to pay for green electricity tariff attributes: a discrete choice experiment	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
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
Innovative financing of the sustainable development goals in the countries of the Western Balkans	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
Delivering an off-grid transition to sustainable energy in Ethiopia and Mozambique	14
Mapping emergent public engagement in societal transitions: a scoping review	14
Transnational sustainability certification for the bioeconomy? Patterns and discourse coalitions of resistance and alternatives in biomass exporting regions	14
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
Designing a sustainable biofuel supply chain by considering carbon policies: a case study in Iran	13
Prospective assessment of energy technologies: a comprehensive approach for sustainability assessment	12
The development of social science research on smart grids: a semi-structured literature review	12
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
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
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
Linking sustainability and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: a monitoring framework accounting for technological development	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