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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	179
Editorial Board	95
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	68
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems	59
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition	56
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	55
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy	55
Assessing directionality and institutional production in SDG localisation: Lessons from Melbourne, Australia	54
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)	52
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research	52
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	47
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion	46
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	44
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart	43
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	42
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales	42
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	37
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	37
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	36
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	36
Pathways towards successful urban community waste management: Insight from 26 experiments in China	36
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions	35
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy	35
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	35
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries	35

Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’	34
Resource constellations and institutional logics shape network structures of the organic seed niche innovation system	33
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	33
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	33
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities	33
Editorial Board	33
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	32
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector	30
The potential of international institutions to foster transitions. The example of the Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement	30
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism	30
Blurred powers, multiple agencies, and discontinuous temporalities. A multi-level perspective on bottom-up innovation in agri-food policies	29
A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems	29
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?	28
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions	28
Synchronizers, amplifiers, integrators – three strategic roles of co-creating low-carbon aviation value chains	28
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen	27
The polysemous nature of the German Verkehrswende—Exploring the role of floating signifiers in shaping mobility futures	27
Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Hybrid technologies' multifaceted role in the transition from incumbent to emerging technologies	27
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework	27
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study	26
Tracing actors in policy mixes for transitions: A systematic literature review and insights from policy process theories	26
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe	26
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels	26
A theoretical and systematic examination of finance in strategic niche management	26
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions	26
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households	26
Unravelling the relationship between digitalisation and sustainable energy transitions using socio-technical-ecological scripts	26
Ontological struggle over new product category: Transition potential of meat alternatives	25
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies	24
Editorial Board	24
Experimenting to remain the same: The politics of smart grid pilot projects in the Swedish energy transition	24
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities	24
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms	24
Integrating spatial planning and energy policy in The Netherlands: challenges and lessons for societal energy transitions	24
Towards transformative leapfrogging	24
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy	24
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways	24
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?	24
Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance	23
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition	23
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies	23
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale	23
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?	23
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia	22
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level	22
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging	22
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany	21
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts	21
Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy	20
Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems	20

Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation	20
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach	19
The potential impact of cultivated protein on agriculture in Norway	19
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors	19
Editorial Board	19
Examining the vehicle-to-grid niche in Australia through the lens of a trial project	19
Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector	19
Low carbon technologies and the grid: Analysing regulation and transitions in electricity networks	19
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective	19
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit	18
The role of households in sustainability transitions: An infrastructural inversion	18
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open	18
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo	18
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting	18
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability	18
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive	18
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation	18
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts	18
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks	17
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions	17
Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability	17
Citizen participation in food systems transitions: How inclusive should it be?	17
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor	17
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway	17
Between the ‘Other’ and the ‘Same’: The alterity of the alternative economies in sustainability transitions	17
Academic Institutions as Innovation Intermediaries; Co-creating knowledge and building the Gujarat agroecology learning alliance (GALA)	17