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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Moving beyond disruptive innovation: A review of disruption in sustainability transitions	120
The battle of the buzzwords: A comparative review of the circular economy and the sharing economy concepts	96
Comparing coal phase-out pathways: The United Kingdom’s and Germany’s diverging transitions	78
Transformative innovation policy: A systematic review	78
The digital sharing economy: A confluence of technical and social sharing	77
EU industrial policy: Between modernization and transformation of the automotive industry	65
Digitalization as a driver of transformative environmental innovation	51
Beyond food for thought – Directing sustainability transitions research to address fundamental change in agri-food systems	48
Entrepreneurship and the sustainable bioeconomy transformation	48
On digitalization and sustainability transitions	45
Heating in Great Britain: An incumbent discourse coalition resists an electrifying future	44
Can living labs offer a pathway to support local agri-food sustainability transitions?	43
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	43
Justice in transitions: Widening considerations of justice in dietary transition	42
Leaders and followers in finance mobilization for renewable energy in Germany and China	41
From terminating to transforming: The role of phase-out in sustainability transitions	40
Regional lead markets for environmental innovation	40
Sustainability transitions and strategic action fields: A literature review and discussion	40
A discourse analysis of yellow-vest resistance against carbon taxes	39
Decolonising transitions in the Global South: Towards more epistemic diversity in transitions research	39
Mixed feelings: A review and research agenda for emotions in sustainability transitions	39
Analyzing transitions through the lens of discourse networks: Coal phase-out in Germany	38
Behaviour in sustainability transitions: A mixed methods literature review	38
Governing the second deep transition towards a circular economy: How rules emerge, align and diffuse	38
The fragility of regional energy transitions	37

The politics of deliberate destabilisation for sustainability transitions	37
Towards a multi-scalar perspective on transition trajectories	37
Business model innovation in demand response firms: Beyond the niche-regime dichotomy	36
Exploring the role of failure in socio-technical transitions research	36
Evaluating the global impact of low-carbon energy transitions on social equity	36
Justice aspects of flexible household electricity consumption in future smart energy systems	36
A dramaturgy of critical moments in transition: Understanding the dynamics of conflict in socio-political change	35
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research	35
Power and empowerment of grassroots innovations for sustainability transitions: A review	30
Connecting the multi-level-perspective and social practice approach for sustainable transitions	30
E-scooter regulation: The micro-politics of market-making for micro-mobility in Bergen	30
An interdisciplinary perspective on scaling in transitions: Connecting actors and space	30
Households in sustainability transitions: a systematic review and new research avenues	30
Policies to minimise environmental and rebound effects from telework: A study for Australia	29
Modelling the macroeconomics of a ‘closing the green finance gap’ scenario for an energy transition	28
Starting low, reaching high? Sequencing in EU climate and energy policies	28
Understanding the correlation between energy transition and urbanization	28
Towards methodological diversity in sustainability transitions research? Comparing recent developments (2016-2019) with the past (before 2016)	27
Strengthen finance in sustainability transitions research	27
Conceptualising institutional complexity in the upscaling of community enterprises: Lessons from renewable energy and carsharing	27
The outcomes of directionality: Towards a morphology of sociotechnical systems	26
Trade unions’ interpretation of a just transition in a fossil fuel economy	26
A reflexive perspective for sustainability assumptions in transition studies	26
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts	26
Incumbents’ enabling role in niche-innovation: Power dynamics in a wastewater project	25
Utilising law in the transition of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to a low-carbon economy	24
Legitimizing transformative government	24
Challenges for electricity network governance in whole system change: Insights from energy transition in Norway	24
Advancing urban transitions and transformations research	23
Social networks and communication behaviour underlying smart home adoption in the UK	23
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)	23
Deepening democracy for the governance toward just transitions in agri-food systems	23
Dynamic capabilities and strategic reorientation towards decarbonisation in Baltic Sea shipping	23
Ten financial actors can accelerate a transition away from fossil fuels	23
Brick by brick: Governing industry decarbonization in the face of uncertainty and risk	23
User innovation, niche construction and regime destabilization in heat pump transitions	23
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study	22
Diffusion of environmental innovations: Sector differences and explanation range of factors	22
Mining—The dark side of the energy transition	21
Understanding resistance to just transition ideas in Australian coal communities	21
Directionality of transitions in space: Diverging trajectories of electric mobility and autonomous driving in urban and rural settlement structures	21
Directionality in transformative innovation policy: who is giving directions?	21
From institutional work to transition work: Actors creating, maintaining and disrupting transition processes	21
Whose transformation is this? Unpacking the ‘apparatus of capture’ in Sweden's bioeconomy	21
Neglected developments undermining sustainability transitions	20
Skills deployment for a ‘just’ net zero energy transition	20
Advocacy coalitions in the acceleration phase of the European energy transition	20
Modelling the socio-political feasibility of energy transition with system dynamics	20
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy	20
How do incumbent companies’ heterogeneous responses affect sustainability transitions? Insights from China’s major incumbent power generators	19

Unlearning in sustainability transitions: Insight from two Dutch community-supported agriculture farms	19
Research frontiers for multi-system dynamics and deep transitions	19
Exploring incumbents’ agency: Institutional work by grid operators in decentralized energy innovations	19
Main topics in EIST during its first decade: A computational-linguistic analysis	19
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors	19
Limits of the corporate-led market approach to off-grid energy access: A review	19
Technology phase-out as unravelling of socio-technical configurations: Cloud seeding case	18
Influence of policy discourse networks on local energy transitions	18
Business model innovation as a process for transforming user mobility practices	18
Market intermediation and its embeddedness – Lessons from the Finnish energy transition	18
A practical tool for analyzing socio-technical transitions	18
Biting the bullet: Addressing the democratic legitimacy of transition management	17
Sustainability-oriented labs in transitions: An empirically grounded typology	17
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging	17
Windows of opportunity for catching up in formative clean-tech sectors and the rise of China in concentrated solar power	17
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy	17
Learning to find a way out of non-sustainable systems	17
Anticipated emotions and resistance to innovations: the case of p2p car sharing	17
Beyond the North-South divide: The political economy and multi-level governance of international low-carbon technology transfer in China	17
Solar business model adoption by energy incumbents: the importance of strategic fit	16
Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems	16
Missions and mission-oriented innovation policy for sustainability: A review and critical reflection	16
Lewin's field theory as a lens for understanding incumbent actors’ agency in sustainability transitions	16
Ontological struggle over new product category: Transition potential of meat alternatives	16
Hard coal phase-out and the labour market transition pathways: The case of Poland	16
Contemporary financial capitalism and sustainability transitions in urban built environments	16
Towards sustainability in the port sector: The role of intermediation in transition work	16
The rise of China's new energy vehicle lithium-ion battery industry: The coevolution of battery technological innovation systems and policies	16