OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 33. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	211
Editorial Board	112
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	75
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia	74
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems	71
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition	69
Time on hold: Justice, governance, and the politics of transitions in critical mineral frontiers	67
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	65
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	56
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion	55
Pathways towards successful urban community waste management: Insight from 26 experiments in China	54
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	53
Towards multi-scalar transition management? Insights from four transition arenas in Norway’s port sector	51
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries	50
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	50
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	44
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions	41
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales	41
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	39
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	38
Reframing Green Prosperity: integrating sustainability and just transitions into Community Wealth Building	38
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	37
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	37
Editorial Board	37
Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system	36

Configurations of leverage points for the deliberate acceleration of ideal-type transition pathways in the EU food system	36
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities	36
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	35
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’	35
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	35
Building local sustainability: Identifying critical transformative capacities	34
Economic development, environmental challenges & the interests of future generations: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s advice revisited	34
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	34
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures	33