OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Energy Research & Social Science is 64. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas	269
The political economy of car dependence: A systems of provision approach	240
Covid-19 and the politics of sustainable energy transitions	219
When pandemics impact economies and climate change: Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on oil and electricity demand in China	214
An outlook on the global development of renewable and sustainable energy at the time of COVID-19	212
Analysis of the electricity demand trends amidst the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic	201
Who are the victims of low-carbon transitions? Towards a political ecology of climate change mitigation	191
Of renewable energy, energy democracy, and sustainable development: A roadmap to accelerate the energy transition in developing countries	176
Industrial decarbonization via hydrogen: A critical and systematic review of developments, socio-technical systems and policy options	174
Just transition: A conceptual review	168
Renewable energy for whom? A global systematic review of the environmental justice implications of renewable energy technologies	166
The impact of different COVID-19 containment measures on electricity consumption in Europe	162
Analysis of mobility trends during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic: Exploring the impacts on global aviation and travel in selected cities	160
What opportunities could the COVID-19 outbreak offer for sustainability transitions research on electricity and mobility?	160
Sociotechnical agendas: Reviewing future directions for energy and climate research	152
The limits of energy sufficiency: A review of the evidence for rebound effects and negative spillovers from behavioural change	150
Heat pumps and our low-carbon future: A comprehensive review	149
Research on the social acceptance of renewable energy technologies: Past, present and future	141
The misallocation of climate research funding	135
Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology	132
Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there	123
The new oil? The geopolitics and international governance of hydrogen	122
Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics	115
Coronavirus comes home? Energy use, home energy management, and the social-psychological factors of COVID-19	114
Sociotechnical matters: Reviewing and integrating science and technology studies with energy social science	112

The role of energy democracy and energy citizenship for participatory energy transitions: A comprehensive review	111
The Green New Deal in the United States: What it is and how to pay for it	108
Energy democracy as a process, an outcome and a goal: A conceptual review	98
A historical turning point? Early evidence on how the Russia-Ukraine war changes public support for clean energy policies	97
People in transitions: Energy citizenship, prosumerism and social movements in Europe	96
Emergency measures to protect energy consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic: A global review and critical analysis	96
Demand-side solutions for climate mitigation: Bottom-up drivers of household energy behavior change in the Netherlands and Spain	94
European energy politics after Ukraine: The road ahead	93
The interaction between humans and buildings for energy efficiency: A critical review	92
Russia's war on Ukraine, European energy policy responses & implications for sustainable transformations	91
Motivations, barriers and risks of smart home adoption: From systematic literature review to conceptual framework	91
COVID-19 energy sector responses in Africa: A review of preliminary government interventions	89
Decarbonizing the iron and steel industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options	89
The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health	87
Do renewable energy communities deliver energy justice? Exploring insights from 71 European cases	86
What is prosumerism for? Exploring the normative dimensions of decentralised energy transitions	85
Intersectionality and energy transitions: A review of gender, social equity and low-carbon energy	80
Just energy transitions to low carbon economies: A review of the concept and its effects on labour and income	80
Grand Narratives for sustainable mobility: A conceptual review	80
Is peer-to-peer electricity trading empowering users? Evidence on motivations and roles in a prosumer business model trial in Australia	77
Community energy meets smart grids: Reviewing goals, structure, and roles in Virtual Power Plants in Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands	77
Beyond the EVent horizon: Battery waste, recycling, and sustainability in the United Kingdom electric vehicle transition	75
Unpacking the right-populist threat to climate action: Poland's pro-governmental media on energy transition and climate change	75
Three sides to every story: Gender perspectives in energy transition pathways in Canada, Kenya and Spain	73
A just transition for whom? Politics, contestation, and social identity in the disruption of coal in the Powder River Basin	72
Toward feminist energy systems: Why adding women and solar panels is not enough✰	72
Just transitions: Histories and futures in a post-COVID world	71
Rethinking the future low-carbon city: Carbon neutrality, green design, and sustainability tensions in the making of Masdar City	71
The good, the bad and the ugly: An overview of the sustainability of blockchain technology	69
Revisiting carbon lock-in in energy systems: Explaining the perpetuation of coal power in Japan	69
A meta-analysis of residential PV adoption: the important role of perceived benefits, intentions and antecedents in solar energy acceptance	69
Biofuels, environmental sustainability, and food security: A review of 51 countries	68
Financing renewable energy development: Insights from 55 countries	67
Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin	66
Energy justice from the bottom up: A capability approach to community acceptance of wind energy in Mexico	66
Guides or gatekeepers? Incumbent-oriented transition intermediaries in a low-carbon era	65
Expanding the scope and implications of energy research: A guide to key themes and concepts from the Social Sciences and Humanities	65
What prevents us from taking low-carbon actions? A comprehensive review of influencing factors affecting low-carbon behaviors	65
Towards impactful energy justice research: Transforming the power of academic engagement	64
The political economy of national climate policy: Architectures of constraint and a typology of countries	64
Energy transitions from the cradle to the grave: A meta-theoretical framework integrating responsible innovation, social practices, and energy justice	64