OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Research & Social Science is 61. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Power dynamics, shifting roles, and learning: Exploring key actors in participation processes in the German energy transformation (Energiewende)	285
Editorial Board	266
“I hope they shouldn't happen”: Social vulnerability and resilience to urban energy disruptions in a digital society in Scotland	239
Editorial Board	171
Invisible, intangible, irrelevant, yet inevitable? Qualitative insights into consumer perceptions of heating tariffs and drop-in renewable gases in the German domestic heating market	162
Roadblocks of polarization: Interpretive mechanisms of opposition to a speed limit policy on German highways	158
Renewable energy transition in Senegal? Exploring the dynamics of emerging paths to a sustainable energy system	157
Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia	157
Energy distributive injustices: Assessing the demographics of communities surrounding renewable and fossil fuel power plants in the United States	137
A systematic mapping study on software approaches analyzing human behavior in energy efficiency	131
A hydraulic mission for whom? A critical examination of Ethiopia's Gibe III hydropower dam	123
Behaving or not? Explaining energy conservation via identity, values, and awareness in U.S. suburban homes	122
From obstacles to heritage: The shifting status of glaciers across 150 years of mining research	118
Drivers, barriers and policy options to renewable energy development in Native American communities: A systematic review	110
Navigating the energy transition in South America: Regulatory challenges and trends in Chile’s evolving energy legal landscape	110
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	110
Not just a donor learning experience: Exploring failure, accountability, and harm within a large aid funded biogas project in Malawi	97
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids	96
Unveiling the political economy of fossil fuel extractivism in Colombia: Tracing the processes of phase-in, entrenchment, and lock-in	92
The politics of assembling pilots: Policy networks and selection strategies in top-down climate experimentation	90
Charting the complexities of a post-COVID energy transition: emerging research frontiers for a sustainable future	89
Whither rentierism following the 2014 oil price decline: Trajectories of policy adjustment in the Arab Gulf	87
User perceptions on the adoption of smart energy management systems in the workplace: Design and policy implications	87
Anticipatory Regulation: Lessons from fracking and insights for Greenhouse Gas Removal innovation and governance	85
Routes to renewables: Overcoming obstacles and accelerating biogas cooperation	85

Exploring the challenges and potential of implementing community solar initiatives into Egypt’s urban subsidized low-income housing	84
Riding the wave of acceptance: Understanding factors in support for marine energy in the United States	83
Coal, green growth and crises: Exploring three European Union policy responses to regional energy transitions	83
I'm coming home (to charge): The relation between commuting practices and peak energy demand in the United Kingdom	82
In plain sight: The rise of state coordination and fall of liberalised markets in the United Kingdom power sector	80
After the battle: Emergent norms and the silencing of dissent in a Norwegian wind power community	79
The sun is not enough: The slow solar transition in Arizona and Algeria	79
Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities	76
A just energy transition for Indigenous peoples: From ideal deliberation to fairness in Canada and Australia	75
Large-scale renewable energy developments on the Indigenous Estate: How can participation benefit Australia's First Nations peoples?	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
Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability and change in transitions	73
Developing a relational approach to energy demand: A methodological and conceptual guide	72
Can battery electric vehicles meet sustainable energy demands? Systematically reviewing emissions, grid impacts, and coupling to renewable energy	72
Not enough (yet): A capabilities assessment of the implementation of energy poverty policies in Italy	72
Energy futures reimagined: the global energy transition and dependence on Russian energy as issues in the sociotechnical imaginaries of energy security in Finland	70
Organizations as users in sustainability transitions: Embedding Vehicle-to-Grid technology in the United Kingdom	69
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	69
Decarbonising the refinery sector: A socio-technical analysis of advanced biofuels, green hydrogen and carbon capture and storage developments in Sweden	68
Energy democracy, public participation, and support for local energy system change in Canada	68
Locally charged: Energy justice outcomes of a low-income community solar project in Michigan	67
Gas grid regulation in the context of net zero transitions: A review of seven European countries	67
Where's the justice?: The need for critical social science across US food-energy-water systems as illustrated by unconventional drilling	67
Rarely pure and never simple: Exploring perceptions of truth and objectivity in energy modelling and scenarios	66
How effective is opposition to pipelines in lower- and middle-income countries? Coalitions and countervailing power in Latin America and Africa	65
Making the difficult easy: Reducing carbon footprint while preserving quality of life through effective behavior change	65
What is nuclear cultural heritage? Developing an analytical framework	64
Neighbourhood batteries in Australia: Anticipating questions of value conflict and (in)justice	64
Product traits, decision-makers, and household low-carbon technology adoptions: moving beyond single empirical studies	64
Traffic ahead: Navigating the road to carbon neutrality	63
Understanding the social norms of cooling in Chinese offices: Predominance, professionalism, and peer respect	63
Editorial Board	62
Editorial Board	62
Partisan winds: Group-level polarization and issue-framing propel attitudes about local wind farms	61
How do policies drive China's hydrogen energy industrialization? A comparative analysis of policy across central and regional governments (2016–2024)	61
The solar influencer next door: Predicting low income solar referrals and leads	61