OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 14. 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
Synchronizers, amplifiers, integrators – three strategic roles of co-creating low-carbon aviation value chains	31
Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Hybrid technologies' multifaceted role in the transition from incumbent to emerging technologies	31
The potential of international institutions to foster transitions. The example of the Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement	31
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures	30
More of the same? The structural dimension of incumbency in the formation of hydrogen expectations in Chile and the UK	30
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism	30
Chasing the sun: How does policy-induced local demand promote the spatio-temporal evolution of China’s solar photovoltaic industry	30
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions	29
Enacting neutrality or enabling change? The contested role of city administration in socio-ecological transformation	29
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen	29
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions	29
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?	28
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework	27
Blurred powers, multiple agencies, and discontinuous temporalities. A multi-level perspective on bottom-up innovation in agri-food policies	27
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels	27
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households	26
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies	26
How narratives construct wickedness in mission-oriented innovation policy problems	26
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities	25
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe	25
Distribution of forest-based innovations across Europe	25
A theoretical and systematic examination of finance in strategic niche management	24
Tracing actors in policy mixes for transitions: A systematic literature review and insights from policy process theories	24
Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts	24
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways	23
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy	23
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms	23
Editorial Board	22
From concept to practice: How agricultural and forestry living labs are implemented within European funded projects	22
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition	22
Towards transformative leapfrogging	22
Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance	21
Energising the Polis? Analysing transition challenges to energy communities in Greece	21
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?	21
Experimenting to remain the same: The politics of smart grid pilot projects in the Swedish energy transition	21
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts	20
Integrating spatial planning and energy policy in The Netherlands: challenges and lessons for societal energy transitions	20
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector	20
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?	20
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia	19
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation	19
Accelerating sustainable housing transitions: A case study of the window industry in Australia	19
Technological trajectories in the circular economy: Evidence from patent networks and patent portfolios	18

An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies	18
Editorial Board	18
Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy	18
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale	18
Unpacking the territorial roots of barriers to circular bioeconomy transitions in agri-food waste systems: evidence from Réunion Island	18
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach	18
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging	18
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany	18
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors	18
How do multi-purpose technological innovation systems expand? Insights from carbon capture technology	17
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway	17
Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks	17
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting	17
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit	17
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo	17
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open	16
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective	16
A technological innovation system in revival: Nuclear energy in Sweden	16
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation	16
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive	16
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability	16
The anatomy of failed historical transitions: An approach to expand the study of socio-technical change	16
Academic Institutions as Innovation Intermediaries; Co-creating knowledge and building the Gujarat agroecology learning alliance (GALA)	15
‘Kicking the shin and extending a hand’: Which strategies do civil society actors use to affect transitions to sustainable finance?	15
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China	15
Between the ‘Other’ and the ‘Same’: The alterity of the alternative economies in sustainability transitions	15
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway	15
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions	15
From lab to fork: Directionality in the European innovation system for precision fermentation-derived food ingredients	15
The role of households in sustainability transitions: An infrastructural inversion	14
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK	14
Corrigendum to “Does Religious Difference Have an Impact on the Diffusion of Sustainable Innovations? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Ecovillages Worldwide” [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transiti	14
Citizen participation in food systems transitions: How inclusive should it be?	14
Editorial Board	14
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor	14
Earth observation and sustainable development: A systematic literature review and content analysis about the New Space Economy	14
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks	14