OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Research & Social Science is 67. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas	305
Of renewable energy, energy democracy, and sustainable development: A roadmap to accelerate the energy transition in developing countries	239
Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions	235
Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation	233
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options	233
Just transition: A conceptual review	224
When pandemics impact economies and climate change: Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on oil and electricity demand in China	223
An outlook on the global development of renewable and sustainable energy at the time of COVID-19	223
Analysis of the electricity demand trends amidst the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic	209
Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies	197
Heat pumps and our low-carbon future: A comprehensive review	178
The impact of different COVID-19 containment measures on electricity consumption in Europe	176
Analysis of mobility trends during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic: Exploring the impacts on global aviation and travel in selected cities	168
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research	168
What opportunities could the COVID-19 outbreak offer for sustainability transitions research on electricity and mobility?	167
Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future	161
The new oil? The geopolitics and international governance of hydrogen	152
The role of energy democracy and energy citizenship for participatory energy transitions: A comprehensive review	149
Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there	144
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology	137
Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics	135
Decarbonizing the iron and steel industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	127
The Green New Deal in the United States: What it is and how to pay for it	122
Coronavirus comes home? Energy use, home energy management, and the social-psychological factors of COVID-19	121
Russia's war on Ukraine, European energy policy responses & implications for sustainable transformations	119

Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review	118
Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework	118
European energy politics after Ukraine: The road ahead	117
People in transitions: Energy citizenship, prosumerism and social movements in Europe	117
A historical turning point? Early evidence on how the Russia-Ukraine war changes public support for clean energy policies	112
Do renewable energy communities deliver energy justice? Exploring insights from 71 European cases	108
The interaction between humans and buildings for energy efficiency: A critical review	105
Emergency measures to protect energy consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic: A global review and critical analysis	100
Intersectionality and energy transitions: A review of gender, social equity and low-carbon energy	98
COVID-19 energy sector responses in Africa: A review of preliminary government interventions	94
Just energy transitions to low carbon economies: A review of the concept and its effects on labour and income	93
Toward feminist energy systems: Why adding women and solar panels is not enough✰	91
The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health	91
A just transition for whom? Politics, contestation, and social identity in the disruption of coal in the Powder River Basin	90
A meta-analysis of residential PV adoption: the important role of perceived benefits, intentions and antecedents in solar energy acceptance	88
Beyond the EVent horizon: Battery waste, recycling, and sustainability in the United Kingdom electric vehicle transition	86
Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave: A meta-theoretical framework integrating responsible innovation, social practices, and energy justice	81
Three sides to every story: Gender perspectives in energy transition pathways in Canada, Kenya and Spain	80
The good, the bad and the ugly: An overview of the sustainability of blockchain technology	80
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems: Explaining the perpetuation of coal power in Japan	80
Pulling up the carbon ladder? Decarbonization, dependence, and third-country risks from the European carbon border adjustment mechanism	79
Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin	79
Just transitions: Histories and futures in a post-COVID world	76
What prevents us from taking low-carbon actions? A comprehensive review of influencing factors affecting low-carbon behaviors	75
SDGs in action: A novel framework for assessing energy projects against the sustainable development goals	75
Energy justice from the bottom up: A capability approach to community acceptance of wind energy in Mexico	74
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives: A review	74
Towards impactful energy justice research: Transforming the power of academic engagement	73
Financing renewable energy development: Insights from 55 countries	73
Rethinking community empowerment in the energy transformation: A critical review of the definitions, drivers and outcomes	73
Biofuels, environmental sustainability, and food security: A review of 51 countries	73
Governing the dark side of renewable energy: A typology of global displacements	72
Distributional disparities in residential rooftop solar potential and penetration in four cities in the United States	70
Destined for decline? Examining nuclear energy from a technological innovation systems perspective	70
Bitcoin’s energy consumption is underestimated: A market dynamics approach	70
Energy poverty in developing countries: A review of the concept and its measurements	70
Reviewing the opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the digitalization of energy	70
Why hate carbon taxes? Machine learning evidence on the roles of personal responsibility, trust, revenue recycling, and other factors across 23 European countries	69
A crude future? COVID-19s challenges for oil demand, supply and prices	68
Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy	68
Beyond instrumentalism: Broadening the understanding of social innovation in socio-technical energy systems	67
Scale, history and justice in community wind energy: An empirical review	67