OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Research & Social Science is 63. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	299
Editorial Board	194
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	188
Riding the wave of acceptance: Understanding factors in support for marine energy in the United States	173
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	158
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	150
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	144
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	138
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	128
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review	123
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing	121
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	116
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	116
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	115
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	111
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	106
Integrating social justice criteria into multiscale spatial modeling of energy burden: A case study of four states in the United States	103
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	101
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	99
When beyond compliance is the expectation: the realities of environmental planning and permitting for renewable energy projects in the great plains of the United States	98
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi	96
Heat behind the hearth: Dalit women's thermal labour, nutritional trade-offs, and energy injustice in Madhesh Province, Nepal	93
Mind the acceptability gap: Integrating lifestyle diversity into energy sufficiency analysis of the Swiss residential building stock	93
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	93
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	89

Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	87
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	86
A multi-dimensional framework for comparing zero-carbon energy sources in the energy transition	85
An invisible threat? Exploring the physical and mental health risks of coal air pollution in the United States	84
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	84
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	84
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	82
The widening gap between copper supply and demand will have an impact on economic development and energy futures	79
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	79
Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability and change in transitions	78
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	78
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids	77
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	76
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	76
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	76
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	74
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	74
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	73
The temporal evolution of resistance strategies during low-carbon transitions: Revealing the industry playbook of US, German, and Japanese automakers in the unfolding electric vehicle transition (1990	71
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	70
Beyond four walls and a roof: Developing a holistic housing framework to explore energy precarity based on the lived experience of households in a small Canadian town	70
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	70
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	70
Deepening regional power connectivity: Beyond the industry-centric perspective	69
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand	67
Unjust or just unfortunate? Examining claims of procedural (in)justice in the pursuit of universal electricity access in Rwanda	67
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–2013	66
Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic	66
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa	66
Making the difficult easy: Reducing carbon footprint while preserving quality of life through effective behavior change	65
Editorial Board	65
Falling short in 2030: Simulating battery-electric vehicle adoption behaviour in the Netherlands	65
For the climate, my friends, or my region? An experimental field trial for prosumer engagement with peer-to-peer energy trading in Austria	65
Domestic electricity consumers and the interactive bill: design intervention for improved energy literacy and empowerment	64
Shifting sustainable lifestyle practices and behaviour during times of pandemic disruptive change: Implications for on-going socio-technical transitions	64
Divergent consumer preferences and visions for cooking and heating technologies in the United Kingdom: Make our homes clean, safe, warm and smart!	64
Cycles of adversity: Parental joblessness in childhood and energy poverty in adulthood	64
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality	63
When oil companies race to the bottom: Environmental enforcement in theory and corporate impunity in practice in the Peruvian Amazon	63
Managing transition risk: Toward an interdisciplinary understanding of strategies in the oil industry	63