OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Research & Social Science is 56. 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	376
Editorial Board	347
The political economy of socio-technical transitions: A relational view of the state and bus system decarbonization in the United Kingdom	341
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	203
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	200
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	180
Turning a coal state to a green state: Identifying themes of support and opposition to decarbonize the energy system in the United States	174
The politics of low-carbon innovation: Implementing the European Union’s strategic energy technology plan	160
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	152
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	144
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	135
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	132
Empowerment or employment? Uncovering the paradoxes of social entrepreneurship for women via Husk Power Systems in rural North India	118
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	115
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	113
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	108
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	103
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	103
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	94
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	93
Power dynamics, shifting roles, and learning: Exploring key actors in participation processes in the German energy transformation (Energiewende)	92
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	91
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications	90
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	88
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	83

Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	82
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	80
Rethinking collaborative action and citizen empowerment: Characterising a Whole-of-Society approach to the energy transition	79
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	78
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	75
Uncharted waters: Exploring coastal recreation impacts, coping behaviors, and attitudes towards offshore wind energy development in the United States	75
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	74
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	73
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	72
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	67
Does cash money solve energy poverty? Assessing the impact of household heating allowances in Spain	64
Strengthening the sustainability of rural electrification projects: Renewable energy, management models and energy transitions in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia	63
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	63
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	63
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	63
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom	62
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	61
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	61
Can renewable energy communities enable a just energy transition? Exploring alignment between stakeholder motivations and needs and EU policy in Latvia, Norway, Portugal and Spain	61
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	61
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives: A review	61
Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia	61
Editorial Board	60
Editorial Board	58
What came first, the pellet or boiler? Interacting leverage points within a sociotechnical system in the United States	57
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–2013	57
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality	57
Future at play: Applying Reflexive Public Reason in the case of Taiwanese energy transition	57
Between decentralization and reintermediation: Blockchain platforms and the governance of ‘commons-led’ and ‘business-led’ energy transitions	56
Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions and hydrogen pathways in Norway	56
Energy plans in practice: The making of thermal energy storage in urban Denmark	56
Neighbourhood batteries in Australia: Anticipating questions of value conflict and (in)justice	56