OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Development is 10. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Conceptualizing climate-induced migration in Africa	136
Exploring socioeconomic and environmental impacts of road infrastructure development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic literature review	104
An eco-social exploration of tourism area evolution in mountains through stakeholders’ perspective	76
A business prioritisation of the sustainable development goals indicators: Building bridges between academics and practitioners in the Spanish case	73
Trajectories of socio-ecological systems: Does social capital matter? A case study in the tropical Andes	72
How do international donors influence regional environmental governance? The case of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty	64
Adapting to climate change: Women's livelihood strategies in uMkhanyakude District Municipality	64
The impact of social capital on the resilience of flood-prone communities: The case study of northern Iran	57
Obstacles and appeal of environmental taxation: Insights from sub-Saharan Africa	54
Irrawaddy dolphin in Asia's largest brackish water lagoon: A perspective from SWOT and sentiment analysis for sustainable ecotourism	51
Living with technological drought: Experience of smallholding farmers of Bangladesh	49
Multisource remote sensing monitoring and analyzing for land subsidence and crop growth in a coal mining area under different rainfall conditions	47
Political construction of carbon pricing: Experience from New Zealand emissions trading scheme	43
Does structural change matter for sustainable development in newly industrialized countries? Fresh evidence from a new sustainability indicator	43
Study on the spatial changes in land use and landscape patterns and their effects on ecosystem services in Ghana, West Africa	42
Advancing Technocratic Capacity in Local Climate Policy: Insights from Theory of Planned Behavior and Participatory Learning and Action	41
Is banks’ ESG disclosure associated with financial depth and economic growth? Evidence from the Visegrad Four countries	37
The breadth and potential of systems analysis across Africa	36
Navigating CSRD reporting: Turning compliance into sustainable development with science-based metrics	34
What factors drive industrial plants in emerging economies to adopt ISO 14000 environmental management standards: Evidence from the Indian organized manufacturing sector	33
Critical analysis of waste management systems utilizing a performance assessment and optimization model	33
Building cleaner communities in equatorial Africa: Road upgrades and household waste management in northern Benin	32
Agricultural carbon emission efficiency and agricultural practices: Implications for balancing carbon emissions reduction and agricultural productivity increment	32
Accuracy of historical precipitation from CMIP6 global climate models under diversified climatic features over India	32
Global online trade in primates for pets	31

Evaluation of drought hazards and coping strategies adopted by pastoral communities in the Cholistan Rangeland of Pakistan	30
Assessment of regional environmental quality using cluster analysis	30
Forecasting and the influence of socioeconomic factors on municipal solid waste generation: A literature review	30
A framework to assess the benefits and challenges of ecosystem services of a reservoir-based wetland in the Himalayan foothills	27
Life cycle-based environmental, social, and economic assessment of waste printed circuit board management in isolated island areas: A case study in British Columbia, Canada	26
From abundance to aridity: The institutional drivers behind Lake Urmia's decline	26
A qualitative framework to identify variables influencing ecological sustainability in tropical small-scale agriculture	26
Using radical terraces for erosion control and water quality improvement in Rwanda: A case study in Sebeya catchment	25
Formation and endogenous feedback mechanism of farmers’ bioenergy feedstocks planting decisions	24
Resistance to decentralised natural resource governance: Taiwan's Chiku wildlife refuge	24
Twitterati on COVID-19 pandemic-environment linkage: Insights from mining one year of tweets	24
Integrated indicators for the analysis of vulnerability in a socio-ecological system of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil	23
Exploring women's empowerment and adaptive capacity in Chepang communities of Chitwan, Nepal	22
Who wants to pay for Pantanal? Experiences of payment for environmental services in the preservation of a single biome	22
A Herder's eye view: Traditional ecological knowledge based indicators for monitoring rangeland conditions in Thal, Pakistan	22
Economic valuation of Earth's critical zone: Framework, theory and methods	21
A critical review of opportunities and challenges of solid waste management in an emerging economy- evidence from Pakistan	21
Breaking the carbon bind: How digitalization and energy transformation reshape carbon dependency based on wavelet and machine learning approaches	21
Determining synergies and trade-offs between adaptation, mitigation and development in coastal socio-ecological systems in Bangladesh	21
How does farmers' differentiation affect farmland abandonment from the perspective of land attachment and generational differences? Evidence from Sichuan Province, China	20
Editorial Board	20
Smallholder farmers’ perceptions and knowledge on climate variability and perceived effects in vulnerable rural communities in the Offinso Municipality, Ghana	19
Perceptions of scientific assessment effectiveness	19
A composite indicator-based method to assess the energy security of Nepal and prospects of cross-border electricity sharing in South Asia	19
How to promote public participation in the recycling of floating debris in the reservoir area of hydropower projects? A stochastic quadripartite evolutionary game analysis	19
‘The public perception of the role, importance, and vulnerability of seagrass. A case study from the Great Barrier Reef’	19
Spatiotemporal changes and management measure to enhance ecosystem services in the Mongolian Plateau	18
Climate change perception and adaptation strategies to multiple climatic hazards: Evidence from the northeast of Thailand	18
Sustainability in agribusiness: Analysis of environmental changes in agricultural production using spatial geotechnologies	18
Editorial Board	17
A systematic review of adaptation practices to promote health resilience in response to climate change	17
Elephants and an ecological civilization	17
Empowering the informal sector in urban waste management: Towards a comprehensive waste management policy for India	17
Effects of proximity to highways on tissue properties of three tropical grazing grass species	17
Income inequality of tribal households in Bangladesh: A decomposition analysis	17
Prolonged drought and governance challenges in Turkana County, Kenya – Access to water and livelihood changes	16
Framing social systems for ecosystem-based management: The Guadalquivir estuary-Gulf of Cadiz coupled SES as case study	16
Sustainability and challenges of renewable energy in ASEAN countries: Insights from the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework	16
Vulnerability of communities' livelihoods to the impacts of climate change in north-western highlands of Tanzania	16
Exploring the complexity of sustainable and healthy diets	16
Community perceptions and ecosystem services provided by small hydropower plants	16
Disasters of natural origin, gender equality and GDP growth: a co-integration analysis for Latin America and the Caribbean	16
Prospects for treated wastewater reuse in agriculture in low- and middle-income countries: Systematic analysis and decision-making trees for diverse management approaches	16
Strategic insights for sustainable tourism development in Kashmir Valley: SWOT and QSPM analysis	16
Research progress and frontier of global solid waste management based on bibliometrics	16
Enhancing climate resilience in northern Ghana: A stochastic dominance analysis of risk-efficient climate-smart technologies for smallholder farmers	16
Assessing socio-economic vulnerability to riverbank erosion in the Middle Brahmaputra floodplains of Assam, India	16
Promoting use of vetiver grass for landslide protection: A pathway to achieve Sustainable Development Goals in Thailand	16
Towards effective weather and/or climate services in South Africa: profiling sectoral needs and constraints	16
On the allocation of critical metals between nations for a green and just transition	15

Indigenous culture and nature relatedness: Results from a collaborative study	15
A thorough assessment of various forest management planning initiatives and development of improvement strategies towards an ecosystem-based planning	15
The legal and illegal supply chains of sea turtle eggs in Costa Rica	15
Conservation-compatible livelihoods: An approach to rural development in protected areas of developing countries	15
Quantification of Turkey's wasted, landfilled, recycled and combusted PET	15
A practical and pragmatic way to assess deeper motivations for ecosystems preservation in developing country – The case of banc d’Arguin National Park (Mauritania)	15
Farmers’ perceptions and likelihood of adoption of the roundtable on sustainable palm oil practices in Thailand	15
Modeling and scenario building for climate change adaptation planning: The case of large mining in Chile	14
Does climate information source matter in smallholder farmers' climate resilience? Comparative insights from Malawi and Ghana	14
Study of stakeholders’ perceptions of climate change and its impact on mountain communities in central Himalaya, India	14
Policy planning to achieve sustainable development goals for low-income nations	14
Exploring inconsistent and susceptible reservoir storage areas using frequency and rule-based decision tree approach	14
Assessing the IUCN global standard for nature-based solutions in riverine flood risk mitigation	14
Development of a new social resilience assessment model for urban forest parks	14
Effects of ICT-based extension service use on fertilizer knowledge and use efficiency: Evidence from litchi farmers in rural China	14
The impact of renewable energy and urbanization on CO2 emissions in Europe – Spatio-temporal approach	13
Recent trends in the fire dynamics in Brazilian Legal Amazon: Interaction between the ENSO phenomenon, climate and land use	13
Carbon footprint reduction potential of waste management strategies in tourism	13
Assessing sustainable development pathways for water, food, and energy security in a transboundary river basin	13
A relational social-ecological systems approach to determine essential variables for monitoring sustainability at a catchment level	13
Assessing local people's perceptions and preference for ecosystem services to support management plan in Omo Biosphere Reserve, Nigeria	13
The effect of construction intensity on landscape preferences in Cuban tourist resorts	12
A wicked problem between the supply and consumption of ecosystem services: The continuously declining degree of synergy in northeast China	12
Environmental flow assessment and implications on sustainability of aquatic ecosystems in Ethiopia: A literature review on global and national evidences	12
The plural realities of plant invasions in India: A review of impacts to wellbeing	12
Exploring climate change impacts on rural livelihoods and adaptation strategies: Reflections from marginalized communities in India	12
Editorial – Volume 39	12
Drivers of pro-environmental behaviors and risk perception to climate change in small coastal communities: An insight from the Mexican Pacific	12
Farmers’ maladaptation: Eroding sustainable development, rebounding and shifting vulnerability in smallholder agriculture system	12
Drought impact on peri-urban farmers’ mental health in semi-arid Ghana: The moderating role of personal social capital	12
The impact of corruption on climate risk – An international evidence	12
A comprehensive bibliometric review of forest fires in Iran	12
The impact of environmental policy on the global consumption of climate-friendly crops: Evidence from crops reducing carbon emissions	12
Enhanced local governance as response to threats on vulnerable non-timber forest product species: Case of Garcinia kola Heckel in East Cameroon	12
Using self-affirmation to encourage recycle and reuse behaviors in New York State	12
Editorial Board	11
Investigating the link between place attachment, civic engagement, and pro-environmental behaviors	11
Sensitivity analysis of trends in environmental education in schools and its implications in the built environment	11
Rapid systematic reviews for synthesizing research on built environment	11
Editorial Board	11
Community capacity for social enterprise development: Empirical evidence from community forest enterprises (CFEs) in Cameroon	11
Do institutions, incentives, and information enhance adoption of climate smart agriculture practices? Empirical evidence from India	11
An input-output approach to study the impact of carbon taxes in (almost) every country	10
Decision-making strategies for climate change adaptation in coastal regions of Africa	10
A systematic literature review of sensory-related sustainable product design	10
The influence of ore grade decline on energy consumption and GhG emissions: The case of gold	10
Physicochemical and microbial treatments for plastics, microplastics, and nanoplastics	10
Editorial Board	10
Fostering climate change adaptation through local authority efforts: Insights from the case study of Genoa	10
Integrating urban household solid waste management with WASH: Implications from case studies of monitoring in sub-Saharan Africa	10
Harnessing the socio-ecological benefits of agroforestry diversification in social forestry with functional and phylogenetic tools	10
Factors affecting climate change coping strategies used by smallholder farmers under root crop farming systems in derived savannah ecology zone of Nigeria	10
Global horizontal irradiance modeling from environmental inputs using machine learning with automatic model selection	10
Exploring small-holder farmers’ adaptation strategies under soil salinity impacts in coastal areas of Bangladesh	10
Carbon stock and sequestration as a form of payment for environmental services in a sedimentary basin humid forest refuge in brazilian semiarid	10
Sustainable intensification of fodder crop production can mitigate feed shortage and seasonality in East Africa	10