OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions is 16. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Regional capacity to govern the energy transition: The case of two Dutch energy regions	113
From terminating to transforming: The role of phase-out in sustainability transitions	59
Caring consumption and sustainability: Insights from household provisioning in the first ten years of motherhood	58
Trust gaps in energy transitions: Japan’s National Deliberative Poll after Fukushima	57
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open	56
On digitalization and sustainability transitions	56
Editorial Board	55
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Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit	50
Editorial Board	49
Utilising law in the transition of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to a low-carbon economy	48
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting	48
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo	46
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems	45
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)	42
Engaging with climate adaptation in transition studies	41
Corrigendum to ‘Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector’ [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transi	41
Knowledge and network resources in innovation system: How production contracts support strategic system building	40
Too risky – The role of finance as a driver of sustainability transitions	39
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	38
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation	38
Advancing the understanding of social innovation in sustainability transitions: exploring processes, politics, and policies for accelerating transitions	36
Replacing meat, an easy feat? The role of strategic categorizing in the rise of meat substitutes	36
Place-based and sectoral patterns in urban experimentation: Implications for deep transitions research	35

Understanding the limits to forming policy-driven markets in the electricity sector	34
Examining the vehicle-to-grid niche in Australia through the lens of a trial project	33
Lessons from European transformative policies	32
Creating points of opportunity in sustainability transitions: Reflective interventions in inter-organizational collaboration	32
How does learning drive sustainability transitions? Perspectives, problems and prospects from a systematic literature review	32
Behind the scenes: Politics and pragmatism in formulating mission-oriented innovation policies in a national context	32
Introduction to the special issue on just food system transition: Tackling inequalities for sustainability	32
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability	32
Analysing transitions in-the-making: A case study of aviation in Sweden	31
Just transitions through agroecological innovations in family farming in Guatemala: Enablers and barriers towards gender equality	31
Main topics in EIST during its first decade: A computational-linguistic analysis	30
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective	30
Sustainable futures of agro-food? İzmir's sustainable agro-food transitions in the making	29
Innovation policy for sustainability transitions in small economies: Energy technology innovation in Hong Kong	29
Steering ‘green’ innovation policy toward sustainability? Lessons from implementing EIP-AGRI in Sweden	29
A spatial whole systems justice approach to sustainability transitions	29
Whose transformation is this? Unpacking the ‘apparatus of capture’ in Sweden's bioeconomy	29
Ideas behind transformative innovation policy: Economists confronting missions and sustainability transition in Finland	28
Editorial Board	28
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	27
Solar business model adoption by energy incumbents: the importance of strategic fit	26
Transitions as a coevolutionary process: The urban emergence of electric vehicle inventions	26
Sustainable business model innovation and scaling through collaboration	26
User innovation, niche construction and regime destabilization in heat pump transitions	26
Understanding resistance to just transition ideas in Australian coal communities	25
Market intermediation and its embeddedness – Lessons from the Finnish energy transition	25
How do incumbent companies’ heterogeneous responses affect sustainability transitions? Insights from China’s major incumbent power generators	25
Functional analysis of technological innovation system with inclusion of sectoral and spatial perspectives: The case of the biogas industry in Russia	25
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition	24
Modelling the macroeconomics of a ‘closing the green finance gap’ scenario for an energy transition	24
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	24
Psychology: The missing link in transitions research	24
Policy mixes for just transitions: A holistic evaluation framework	24
Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions	23
Power to, over and with: Exploring power dynamics in social innovations in energy transitions across Europe	23
Social enterprises towards a sustainable business system: A model of institutional dynamics	23
The Role of Global Actors in Sustainability Transitions – Tracing the Emergence of a Novel Infrastructure Paradigm in the Sanitation Sector	23
Justice in transitions: Widening considerations of justice in dietary transition	22
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy	22
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions	22
The urgency of climate action and the aim for justice in energy transitions – dynamics and complexity	22
Towards a socio-techno-ecological approach to sustainability transitions	22
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research	22
Trade unions’ interpretation of a just transition in a fossil fuel economy	22
Scalar orientation of policies and technology legitimacy: The case of decarbonization in Norway	22
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts	21
Directionality in transformative innovation policy: who is giving directions?	21
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	20
Editorial Board	20
Editorial Board	20

Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks	20
Leaders or networkers? The role of mayors in renewable energy transition	20
Learning for transitions: An experiential learning strategy for urban experiments	20
Designing low carbon innovation organisations: the Energy Technologies Institute experience	19
Transitions in South Korean public food procurement policy: Landscape context, institutionalization, and local agents	19
Fostering learning beyond urban experiment boundaries	19
(Re)framing technology: The evolution from biogas to biomethane in Austria	19
Introducing the lens of markets-in-the-making to transition studies: The case of the Danish wind power market agencement	19
Just transition out of coal-fired power: Policy lessons from Australia's automotive sector closure	19
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales	18
Tackling intersecting climate change and biodiversity emergencies: Opportunities for sustainability transitions research	18
Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability	18
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	18
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart	18
Identifying social tipping point through perceived peer effect	17
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive	17
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy	17
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions	17
Niches, narratives, and national policy: How India developed off-grid solar for rural electrification	17
How power and politics shape niche-regime interactions: A view from the Global South	16
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	16
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries	16
Mnemonic agency in the Dutch energy transition to gas and electricity	16
Navigating sustainable transition processes at the local level: The case of Energy Island Bornholm	16
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	16
Mainstreaming storylines of a social innovation: The case of energy communities in Austria	16
On the gendering of the early American electric car	16