OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Research & Social Science is 65. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	349
Editorial Board	282
Editorial Board	194
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	189
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	185
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	180
Riding the wave of acceptance: Understanding factors in support for marine energy in the United States	172
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	149
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	147
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	140
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	136
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	129
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	128
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	121
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	109
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	108
An invisible threat? Exploring the physical and mental health risks of coal air pollution in the United States	107
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	106
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids	105
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	103
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	99
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review	98
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	97
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	96
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	94

Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	92
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	92
Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing	92
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	91
Integrating social justice criteria into multiscale spatial modeling of energy burden: A case study of four states in the United States	90
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	87
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications	86
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	85
The widening gap between copper supply and demand will have an impact on economic development and energy futures	85
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	82
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	82
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom	81
A multi-dimensional framework for comparing zero-carbon energy sources in the energy transition	80
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi	80
Mind the acceptability gap: Integrating lifestyle diversity into energy sufficiency analysis of the Swiss residential building stock	79
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	77
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	76
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	75
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	75
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	75
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	74
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	73
Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability and change in transitions	73
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	72
Deepening regional power connectivity: Beyond the industry-centric perspective	72
American policy conflict in the hothouse: Exploring the politics of climate inaction and polycentric rebellion	72
Does time matter? A multi-level assessment of delayed energy transitions and hydrogen pathways in Norway	71
Navigating Russia's war and energy transition: Poland's coal challenge	71
Unjust or just unfortunate? Examining claims of procedural (in)justice in the pursuit of universal electricity access in Rwanda	71
Exploring the market and community acceptance of seasonal thermal energy storage technologies: Insights from a population survey in Switzerland	70
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa	69
Non-energy feedback: The unseen impacts of sensory, social, material and systemic feedback on household energy demand	69
Disconnected during disruption: Energy insecurity of Indigenous Australian prepay customers during the COVID-19 pandemic	68
Great transformations: Social revolutions erupted during energy transitions around the world, 1500–2013	67
Editorial Board	67
Community benefit agreements for solar energy: Examining values, preferences and perceived benefits in the United States using a discrete choice experiment	67
For the climate, my friends, or my region? An experimental field trial for prosumer engagement with peer-to-peer energy trading in Austria	67
How can policy balance the goals of transition acceleration and justice? Permitting reform, large-scale renewable energy, and host communities in the United States	67
Making the difficult easy: Reducing carbon footprint while preserving quality of life through effective behavior change	66
Editorial Board	66
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries	65
Falling short in 2030: Simulating battery-electric vehicle adoption behaviour in the Netherlands	65