OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Research & Social Science is 59. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas	311
Of renewable energy, energy democracy, and sustainable development: A roadmap to accelerate the energy transition in developing countries	248
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options	238
Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation	237
Just transition: A conceptual review	232
Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies	206
Heat pumps and our low-carbon future: A comprehensive review	186
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research	169
The new oil? The geopolitics and international governance of hydrogen	159
The role of energy democracy and energy citizenship for participatory energy transitions: A comprehensive review	154
Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there	149
Decarbonizing the iron and steel industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	135
Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics	135
Russia's war on Ukraine, European energy policy responses & implications for sustainable transformations	126
Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework	123
Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review	119
European energy politics after Ukraine: The road ahead	117
People in transitions: Energy citizenship, prosumerism and social movements in Europe	117
Do renewable energy communities deliver energy justice? Exploring insights from 71 European cases	115
A historical turning point? Early evidence on how the Russia-Ukraine war changes public support for clean energy policies	113
The interaction between humans and buildings for energy efficiency: A critical review	107
Intersectionality and energy transitions: A review of gender, social equity and low-carbon energy	104
A just transition for whom? Politics, contestation, and social identity in the disruption of coal in the Powder River Basin	94
Just energy transitions to low carbon economies: A review of the concept and its effects on labour and income	94
A meta-analysis of residential PV adoption: the important role of perceived benefits, intentions and antecedents in solar energy acceptance	92

Beyond the EVent horizon: Battery waste, recycling, and sustainability in the United Kingdom electric vehicle transition	88
Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave: A meta-theoretical framework integrating responsible innovation, social practices, and energy justice	82
The good, the bad and the ugly: An overview of the sustainability of blockchain technology	82
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems: Explaining the perpetuation of coal power in Japan	81
Pulling up the carbon ladder? Decarbonization, dependence, and third-country risks from the European carbon border adjustment mechanism	80
Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin	80
What prevents us from taking low-carbon actions? A comprehensive review of influencing factors affecting low-carbon behaviors	76
Energy justice within, between and beyond European community energy initiatives: A review	75
Energy poverty in developing countries: A review of the concept and its measurements	75
Rethinking community empowerment in the energy transformation: A critical review of the definitions, drivers and outcomes	74
Energy justice from the bottom up: A capability approach to community acceptance of wind energy in Mexico	74
Governing the dark side of renewable energy: A typology of global displacements	73
Distributional disparities in residential rooftop solar potential and penetration in four cities in the United States	72
Bitcoin’s energy consumption is underestimated: A market dynamics approach	72
Why hate carbon taxes? Machine learning evidence on the roles of personal responsibility, trust, revenue recycling, and other factors across 23 European countries	72
Reviewing the opportunities, challenges, and future directions for the digitalization of energy	71
Implications of poorly designed climate policy on energy poverty: Global reflections on the current surge in energy prices	70
Advancing local energy transitions: A global review of government instruments supporting community energy	70
Beyond instrumentalism: Broadening the understanding of social innovation in socio-technical energy systems	68
When renewable energy, empowerment, and entrepreneurship connect: Measuring energy policy effectiveness in 230 countries	68
Towards the lithium-ion battery production network: Thinking beyond mineral supply chains	66
Identifying double energy vulnerability: A systematic and narrative review of groups at-risk of energy and transport poverty in the global north	66
Effective policies to overcome barriers in the development of smart cities	64
Transferring awareness into action: A meta-analysis of the behavioral drivers of energy transitions in Germany, Austria, Finland, Morocco, Jordan and Iran	63
Proximities of energy justice: contesting community energy and austerity in England	63
Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries	63
Pluralizing energy justice: Incorporating feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous, and postcolonial perspectives	63
Model-based policymaking or policy-based modelling? How energy models and energy policy interact	63
Mitigating inequality with emissions? Exploring energy justice and financing transitions to low carbon energy in Indonesia	61
Unlocking the value of digitalization for the European energy transition: A typology of innovative business models	61
When East meets West: Understanding residents’ home energy management system adoption intention and willingness to pay in Japan and the United States	60
To eat and not to heat? Energy poverty and income inequality in Italian regions	60
Actors, objectives, context: A framework of the political economy of energy and climate policy applied to India, Indonesia, and Vietnam	60
The energy futures we want: A research and policy agenda for energy transitions	59
Decarbonizing the oil refining industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	59