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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	121
Economic alterity and the green spirit of capitalism – on the pitfalls of green entrepreneurship	63
Innovation studies, social innovation, and sustainability transitions research: From mutual ignorance towards an integrative perspective?	60
Hibernation of off-grid solar e-waste in Kenya: An unintended response to an emerging waste issue	59
The role of place in shaping urban transformative capacity. The case of València (Spain)	58
Deep experiments for deep transitions – low-income households as sites of participation and socio-technical change in new energy systems	58
Sustainable futures of agro-food? İzmir's sustainable agro-food transitions in the making	56
Conceptualizing market formation for transformative policy	53
How do incumbent companies’ heterogeneous responses affect sustainability transitions? Insights from China’s major incumbent power generators	52
A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research	51
Decarbonising industry supply chains: Incumbent-oriented transition intermediation for industry energy transition	51
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions must embrace system dynamics	49
Forging a sharper blade: A design science research approach for transition studies	49
Accelerating the deployment of SMRs in Canada: The importance of intermediaries	46
Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations	46
Conceptualizing the democratization of innovation through transitions theory: A case study of biohacking in community science labs	43
Transformative social innovation in, of and by the city: Beyond mission-driven policy rationales	43
Fueling a net-zero future: The influence of government-funded research on climate change mitigation inventions	42
Cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit readiness, and sustainability transitions	42
Creating legitimacy for cultured meat in Germany: The role of social cohesion	40
Identity in sustainability transitions: The crucial role of landscape in the Green Heart	39
What matters? Unlocking householders’ flexibility towards cooling automation in India	38
Applying policy mix thinking to social innovation: from experimentation to socio-technical change	37
The Barefoot College ‘eco-village’ approach to women's entrepreneurship in energy	37
The changing landscape of deep transitions: Sociotechnical imprinting and chemical warfare	36

Households in sustainability transitions: a systematic review and new research avenues	36
Is social cohesion decisive for energy cooperatives existence? A quantitative analysis	35
How user innovation communities contribute to sustainability transitions. An exploration of three online communities	34
Incorporating social mechanisms in energy decarbonisation modelling	34
Just transition principles and criteria for food systems and beyond	34
The space, the time, and the money. Wind energy politics in East Germany	33
A discourse analysis of yellow-vest resistance against carbon taxes	33
Editorial Board	32
Transformative investment: New rules for investing in sustainability transitions	32
Introduction to ‘Markets in sustainability transitions’	32
Home field advantage: examining incumbency reorientation dynamics in low-carbon transitions	32
The role of design in sustainable transitions: The case of mobility in Greater Copenhagen	30
The spatial dynamics of deep transitions	30
Communal heat planning: Overcoming the path-dependency of natural gas in residential heating?	30
The role of borderlands in the energy transition: Toward a theoretical framework	30
How “clean” is the hydrogen economy? Tracing the connections between hydrogen and fossil fuels	29
A Media-based Innovation Indicator: Examining declining Technological Innovation Systems	29
How to account for the dark sides of social innovation? Transitions directionality in renewable energy prosumerism	29
Policies to minimise environmental and rebound effects from telework: A study for Australia	29
Legitimising technologies for a circular economy: Contested discourses on innovation for plastics recycling in Europe	29
Path dependence and path break-out in the electricity sector	29
A comparative and dynamic analysis of political party positions on energy technologies	29
Influences of technological and sectoral contexts on technological innovation systems	28
Learning and diffusion of knowledge in clean energy communities	27
Anchoring challenges through citizen participation in regional challenge-based innovation policies	26
Remaking political institutions in sustainability transitions	26
The comparative political economy of sustainability transitions: Varying obstacles, accelerants and power in national capitalisms	26
Creating actionable knowledge one step at a time: An analytical framework for tracing systems and agency in niche innovation pathways	26
A choreography of delay: The response of German auto incumbents to environmental policy	25
Mexico’s renewable energy innovation system: Geothermal and solar photovoltaics case study	25
Towards transformative leapfrogging	25
Ontological struggle over new product category: Transition potential of meat alternatives	25
Practice reconfigurations around heat pumps in and beyond Dutch households	25
Renewable energy diplomacy and transitions: An environmental peacebuilding approach	25
Editorial Board	24
A network perspective to niche-regime interactions and learning at the regime level	24
Pluralising place frames in urban transition management: Net-zero transitions at precinct scale	24
An elephant in the glasshouse? Trade-offs between acceleration and transformation in COVID-19 vaccine innovation policies	24
Multi-system interactions and institutional work: Actor interactions at the interface of residential storage systems and electric vehicles in Germany	24
Neglecting exit doors: How does regret cost shape the irreversible execution of renewable energy megaprojects?	23
Destabilizing the food regime “from within”: Tools and strategies used by urban food policy actors	23
Re-assembling infrastructures from below. The agency of households in the sustainable energy transition	23
Technological Change and the Politics of Decarbonization: A Re-making of Vested Interests?	23
Locked in unsustainability: Understanding lock-ins and their interactions using the case of food packaging	22
Policy mixes across vertical levels of governance in the EU: The case of the sustainable energy transition in Latvia	22
Power in urban logistics: A comparative analysis of networks and policymaking in logistics sustainability governance	22
Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy	22
The transition of agriculture to low carbon pathways with regional distributive impacts	22
Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems	22
Geospatial dimensions of the renewable energy transition — The importance of prioritisation	22

Sustainability against the logics of the state: Political and institutional barriers in the Chilean infrastructure sector	22
What are the key strategies for a successful and fair energy transition for all? Multi-criteria assessment of isolated case studies in São Paulo	21
Editorial Board	21
Understanding the limits to forming policy-driven markets in the electricity sector	21
Facilitating the transition to sustainable propulsion in the shipping industry: An agent-based modelling analysis of retrofitting	21
A relational approach to the role of the state in societal transitions and transformations towards sustainability	21
Assessing regime destabilisation through policy change: An analysis of agricultural policy in the United Kingdom during Brexit	20
Modes of intermediation: How intermediaries engage in advancing local bottom-up experimentation	20
Examining the vehicle-to-grid niche in Australia through the lens of a trial project	20
The ‘bioeconomics vs bioeconomy’ debate: Beyond criticism, advancing research fronts	20
Structural tensions limiting success of infrastructure upgrading: A multi-regime perspective	20
Justice in transitions: Widening considerations of justice in dietary transition	20
Transformative climate resilience and sport mega-events – The case of the Australian Open	20
Technology diffusion and green transition support in the brick sector of Bangladesh: Why transformational change is still elusive	19
Food system transitions in Vietnam: The case of pork and vegetable networks	19
Inclusive innovation in just transitions: The case of smart local energy systems in the UK	19
Modelling the macroeconomics of a ‘closing the green finance gap’ scenario for an energy transition	19
Transforming innovation policy in the context of global security	18
Designing low carbon innovation organisations: the Energy Technologies Institute experience	18
Accelerating the sustainability transition of brown regions: Unlocking the speed factor	18
Alteration spaces: Charting the sustainability potential of large organizations	18
Editorial Board	18
Mapping mental models in sustainability transitions	17
Sustainable market transformation: A refined framework for analyzing causal loops in transitions to sustainability	17
Mapping the governing entities and their interactions in designing policy mixes for sustainability transitions: The case of electric vehicles in China	17
Analyzing transitions through the lens of discourse networks: Coal phase-out in Germany	17
Collaboration or competition? Interactions between floating and fixed-bottom offshore wind in Norway	17
‘Fit-to-transform’: An institutional perspective on the empowerment of clothing product-service systems	16
Editorial Board	16
Policy entrepreneurs in green building transitions: The role of interurban coalitions	16
Digitalization, trust, and sustainability transitions: Insights from two blockchain-based green experiments in China's electricity sector	16
Three perspectives on regime destabilisation governance: A metatheoretical analysis of German pesticide policy	16
Editorial Board	16
Agency, directionality, location and the geographic situatedness of knowledge making: The politics of framing in innovation research on energy	16