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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	121
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	63
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	60
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	59
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)	58
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems	58
Sustainable futures of agro-food? İzmir's sustainable agro-food transitions in the making	56
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy	53
How do incumbent companies’ heterogeneous responses affect sustainability transitions? Insights from China’s major incumbent power generators	52
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research	51
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition	51
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions must embrace system dynamics	49
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	49
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	46
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries	46
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales	43
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	43
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions	42
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	42
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion	40
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart	39
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	38
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy	37
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	37
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	36

Households in sustainability transitions: a systematic review and new research avenues	36
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	35
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities	34
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	34
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	34
The space, the time, and the money. Wind energy politics in East Germany	33
A discourse analysis of yellow-vest resistance against carbon taxes	33
Editorial Board	32
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions	32
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’	32
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	32