OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 17. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Transformative innovation and translocal diffusion	157
Capitalism in sustainability transitions research: Time for a critical turn?	137
Understanding the protein transition: The rise of plant-based meat substitutes	129
Moving beyond disruptive innovation: A review of disruption in sustainability transitions	102
Forever stuck in old ways? Pluralising incumbencies in sustainability transitions	99
Conceptualising the systemic activities of intermediaries in sustainability transitions	81
The battle of the buzzwords: A comparative review of the circular economy and the sharing economy concepts	81
The role of local government greening policies in the transition towards nature-based cities	71
The digital sharing economy: A confluence of technical and social sharing	66
Nature-based innovation systems	65
Barriers to and consequences of a solar-based energy transition in Greece	64
Risk-benefit perceptions and public acceptance of Carbon Capture and Utilization	61
Comparing coal phase-out pathways: The United Kingdom’s and Germany’s diverging transitions	54
Transformative innovation policy: A systematic review	52
EU industrial policy: Between modernization and transformation of the automotive industry	52
Pathways for the transition of the Polish power sector and associated risks	49
Shaping sustainable markets—A conceptual framework illustrated by the case of biogas in Sweden	46
A review of linking models and socio-technical transitions theories for energy and climate solutions	46
Shifting political power in an era of electricity decentralization: Rescaling, reorganization and battles for influence	45
Beyond food for thought – Directing sustainability transitions research to address fundamental change in agri-food systems	42
Digitalization as a driver of transformative environmental innovation	42
Entrepreneurship and the sustainable bioeconomy transformation	42
China’s post-COVID-19 stimulus: No Green New Deal in sight	41
Endogenous regime change: Lessons from transition pathways in Dutch dairy farming	41
Sustainability transitions in the agri-food sector: How ecology affects transition dynamics	41

The study of institutional entrepreneurship and its implications for transition studies	40
On digitalization and sustainability transitions	40
Can living labs offer a pathway to support local agri-food sustainability transitions?	38
Governing the second deep transition towards a circular economy: How rules emerge, align and diffuse	38
Leaders and followers in finance mobilization for renewable energy in Germany and China	38
Relating financial systems to sustainability transitions: Challenges, demands and design features	38
Heating in Great Britain: An incumbent discourse coalition resists an electrifying future	37
Are battery electric vehicles the future? An uncertainty comparison with hydrogen and combustion engines	37
Intermediaries in accelerating transitions: Introduction to the special issue	34
A social innovation perspective on dietary transitions: Diffusion of vegetarianism and veganism in Austria	34
Exploring the role of failure in socio-technical transitions research	34
A framework to explain the role of boundary objects in sustainability transitions	33
Sustainability transitions and strategic action fields: A literature review and discussion	33
Temporal echoes and cross-geography policy effects: Multiple levels of transition governance and the electric vehicle breakthrough	33
Regional lead markets for environmental innovation	33
Business model innovation in demand response firms: Beyond the niche-regime dichotomy	33
Analyzing transitions through the lens of discourse networks: Coal phase-out in Germany	33
Challenges for implementing renewable energy in a cooperative-driven off-grid system in the Philippines	33
A dramaturgy of critical moments in transition: Understanding the dynamics of conflict in socio-political change	32
Justice aspects of flexible household electricity consumption in future smart energy systems	32
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	32
A discourse analysis of yellow-vest resistance against carbon taxes	32
The politics of deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions	31
Towards a multi-scalar perspective on transition trajectories	31
Climate-change induced uncertainties, risks and opportunities for the coal-based region of Silesia: Stakeholders' perspectives	31
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research	31
Inter-niche competition on ice? Socio-technical drivers, benefits and barriers of the electric vehicle transition in Iceland	31
From terminating to transforming: The role of phase-out in sustainability transitions	31
Positioning of systemic intermediaries in sustainability transitions: Between storylines and speech acts	30
The fragility of regional energy transitions	30
Justice in transitions: Widening considerations of justice in dietary transition	30
Decolonising transitions in the Global South: Towards more epistemic diversity in transitions research	28
The regional facet of a global innovation system: Exploring the spatiality of resource formation in the value chain for onshore wind energy	28
Evaluating the global impact of low-carbon energy transitions on social equity	28
Diffusion intermediaries: A taxonomy based on renewable electricity technology in Sweden	26
Why do companies’ institutional strategies differ across cities? A cross-case analysis of bike sharing in Shanghai & Amsterdam	26
The importance of stakeholders in scoping risk assessments—Lessons from low-carbon transitions	25
E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen	25
Power and empowerment of grassroots innovations for sustainability transitions: A review	25
Policies to minimise environmental and rebound effects from telework: A study for Australia	25
Starting low, reaching high? Sequencing in EU climate and energy policies	25
Participatory modeling for transition governance: Linking methods to process phases	25
Towards methodological diversity in sustainability transitions research? Comparing recent developments (2016-2019) with the past (before 2016)	24
Mixed feelings: A review and research agenda for emotions in sustainability transitions	24
Do existing regional specialisations stimulate or hinder diversification into cleantech?	23
Behaviour in sustainability transitions: A mixed methods literature review	23
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions	23
Understanding the correlation between energy transition and urbanization	23
A reflexive perspective for sustainability assumptions in transition studies	23
Dynamic capabilities and strategic reorientation towards decarbonisation in Baltic Sea shipping	22

An interdisciplinary perspective on scaling in transitions: Connecting actors and space	22
Modelling the macroeconomics of a ‘closing the green finance gap’ scenario for an energy transition	22
Incumbents’ enabling role in niche-innovation: Power dynamics in a wastewater project	22
Diffusion of environmental innovations: Sector differences and explanation range of factors	21
The outcomes of directionality: Towards a morphology of sociotechnical systems	21
Intermediaries to accelerate the diffusion of wooden multi-storey construction in Finland	21
What sticks? Ephemerality, permanence and local transition pathways	21
Institutional work in diverse niche contexts: The case of low-carbon housing in the Netherlands	21
Niche politics: Biogas, technological flexibility and the economisation of resource recovery	21
Strengthen finance in sustainability transitions research	21
Shifting gears on sustainable transport transitions: Stakeholder perspectives on e-bikes in Toronto, Canada	21
Households in sustainability transitions: a systematic review and new research avenues	21
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts	20
Trade unions’ interpretation of a just transition in a fossil fuel economy	20
User innovation, niche construction and regime destabilization in heat pump transitions	20
Challenges for electricity network governance in whole system change: Insights from energy transition in Norway	20
Utilising law in the transition of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to a low-carbon economy	20
Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels	19
Social networks and communication behaviour underlying smart home adoption in the UK	19
Lessons from Bali for small-scale biogas development in Indonesia	19
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy	19
Legitimizing transformative government	19
Mining—The dark side of the energy transition	18
Intermediating policy for transitions towards net-zero energy buildings	18
Modelling the socio-political feasibility of energy transition with system dynamics	18
Capturing the distributional impacts of long-term low-carbon transitions	18
An evolving risk perspective for policy instrument choice in sustainability transitions	18
Between hope, hype, and hell: Electric mobility and the interplay of fear and desire in sustainability transitions	18
Whose transformation is this? Unpacking the ‘apparatus of capture’ in Sweden's bioeconomy	18
Deepening democracy for the governance toward just transitions in agri-food systems	17
Main topics in EIST during its first decade: A computational-linguistic analysis	17
Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions	17
Exploring incumbents’ agency: Institutional work by grid operators in decentralized energy innovations	17
Institutional capacity to integrate ‘radical’ perspectives on sustainability in small municipalities: experiences from Sweden	17
Business model innovation as a process for transforming user mobility practices	17
Influence of policy discourse networks on local energy transitions	17
Advancing urban transitions and transformations research	17