OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 32. 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
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	82
Editorial Board	79
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	71
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia	61
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems	60
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	58
Time on hold: Justice, governance, and the politics of transitions in critical mineral frontiers	57
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition	55
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion	52
Towards multi-scalar transition management? Insights from four transition arenas in Norway’s port sector	49
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries	48
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	46
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales	44
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions	44
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	43
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	42
Reframing Green Prosperity: integrating sustainability and just transitions into Community Wealth Building	42
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	39
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	39
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	38
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	38
Pathways towards successful urban community waste management: Insight from 26 experiments in China	38
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	38
Editorial Board	37
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities	37

Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system	37
Building local sustainability: Identifying critical transformative capacities	36
Configurations of leverage points for the deliberate acceleration of ideal-type transition pathways in the EU food system	36
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’	35
Economic development, environmental challenges & the interests of future generations: Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen’s advice revisited	35
How public policy and public salience interact with the energy transition: The case of commercial-scale battery storage adoption	33
Socio-technical pathways of automotive decarbonization: evidence from patent network analysis in Germany and Japan	33