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title: "Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions"
description: "Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.88 and an h-index of 110 in OpenAlex, #24 of 46 tracked management journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 106 papers, and its papers received 8,752 citations."
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# Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions

- 4 papers in the last 7 days
- category: Management
- publisher: Elsevier BV
- ISSN 2210-4224
- Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions
- ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2210-4224
- OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S2764720322

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md

## Key findings

- Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.88 and an h-index of 110 in OpenAlex, #24 of 46 tracked management journals by citedness.
- In 2025 it published 106 papers, and its papers received 8,752 citations.
- Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions published 10 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-02 to 2026-10-31), ranking #84 of 400 journals.
- Leading institutions: Utrecht University (2), Zealand Institute of Business and Technology (1) and HafenCity University Hamburg (1).
- Countries: Denmark (2), United States (2) and Hong Kong (2).
- 84% of the papers Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions published in 2023–2025 are open access in OpenAlex (hybrid 78%, bronze 0% and green 6%), #11 of 46 tracked management journals by open-access share.
- From Oct 2023 to Sep 2026, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions published 332 papers (9 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex).
- Its most frequent keywords over that period were “sustainability transitions” (143), “energy transition” (37) and “just transition” (20).

## Citation metrics

*Citation metrics (OpenAlex)*

| Metric | Value |
|---|---:|
| 2-year mean citedness | 6.88 |
| h-index | 110 |
| i10-index | 772 |
| Papers in OpenAlex | 1,149 |
| Citations in OpenAlex | 61,115 |
| Rank among tracked management journals | [#24 of 46](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) |

*Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)*

| Year | Papers | Citations received |
|---|---:|---:|
| 2026 (so far) | 96 | 8,007 |
| 2025 | 106 | 8,752 |
| 2024 | 121 | 8,179 |
| 2023 | 91 | 7,643 |
| 2022 | 99 | 6,729 |
| 2021 | 108 | 5,955 |
| 2020 | 100 | 4,545 |
| 2019 | 69 | 3,297 |
| 2018 | 53 | 2,945 |
| 2017 | 48 | 1,783 |
| 2016 | 42 | 1,225 |

2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly.

Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions

## The last 36 months

*Papers by publication date, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026*

| Oct 23–Sep 24 | Oct 24–Sep 25 | Oct 25–Sep 26 | 36 months |
|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 111 | 107 | 114 | 332 |

*Most frequent keywords, Oct 2023 to Sep 2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | sustainability transitions | 143 |
| 2 | [energy transition](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/energy-transition.md) | 37 |
| 3 | just transition | 20 |
| 4 | decarbonization | 15 |
| 5 | policy mix | 15 |
| 6 | transition governance | 12 |
| 7 | circular economy | 11 |
| 8 | path dependence | 11 |
| 9 | socio-technical transitions | 11 |
| 10 | Finland | 10 |

## Open access

*Papers per year by open-access status (OpenAlex)*

| Year | Papers | Open access | Diamond | Gold | Hybrid | Bronze | Green | Closed |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| 2017 | 48 | 40% | 0% | 0% | 15% | 4% | 21% | 60% |
| 2018 | 53 | 57% | 0% | 0% | 23% | 8% | 26% | 43% |
| 2019 | 69 | 59% | 0% | 0% | 32% | 1% | 26% | 41% |
| 2020 | 100 | 64% | 0% | 0% | 41% | 6% | 17% | 36% |
| 2021 | 108 | 71% | 0% | 0% | 49% | 6% | 17% | 29% |
| 2022 | 99 | 76% | 0% | 0% | 65% | 2% | 9% | 24% |
| 2023 | 91 | 84% | 0% | 0% | 76% | 1% | 7% | 16% |
| 2024 | 121 | 83% | 0% | 0% | 79% | 0% | 3% | 17% |
| 2025 | 104 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 0% | 8% | 12% |
| 2026 (so far) | 95 | 88% | 0% | 0% | 87% | 1% | 0% | 12% |

Open-access status as OpenAlex reports it for each paper (diamond: published in an open-access journal that charges authors no fee; gold: published in an open-access journal; hybrid: open under a licence in a subscription journal; bronze: free to read on the publisher's site without an open licence; green: only a free copy in a repository; closed: no free copy found). Papers count by publication year; the share is of the papers whose status is known.

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-29 | [Planning culture and Co-creation in green infrastructure transitions: Insights from seven green infrastructure projects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101213) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Jessica Kritz, Joerg Knieling, Mark Barnes-Ricketts et al. | Georgetown University; HafenCity University Hamburg; Zealand Institute of Business and Technology; … |
| 2026-10-28 | [Advancing a just circular economy transition: A perspective from trust and responsibility in Hong Kong](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101210) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Darren Man-wai Cheung, James Ho-chun Cheung, Daphne Ngar‐yin Mah et al. | Hong Kong Baptist University; Stanford University |
| 2026-10-26 | [Orchestrating the green transition: a game-theoretic analysis of policy mixes for heterogeneous actors](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101209) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Genbo Liu, Zhaopeng Chu, Chen Bian et al. | Northeastern University; Weifang University of Science and Technology |
| 2026-10-26 | [Transition by timing: mileage-based user fees and the dynamics of heterogeneous electrification pathways](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101212) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Itay Dabush, Chen Cohen | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| 2026-10-24 | [Exploring the micro-foundations of local green co-creation: challenging the myth of a Global North-Global South divide?](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101208) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Daniela Cristofoli, Marta Micacchi, Benedetta Trivellato | Bocconi University; University of Milano-Bicocca |
| 2026-10-10 | [Developing a resource-based analysis of technological innovation systems: The case of digital innovation in Dutch processing industries](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101206) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Nikhil John, Joeri Hendrik Wesseling, Koen Frenken | Utrecht University; Delft University of Technology |
| 2026-10-08 | [How directionality emerges through frame layering: An analysis of Swedish research and innovation policy on agri-food](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101204) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Linus Thomson, Ksenia Onufrey, Ingrid Mignon | Uppsala University; Chalmers University of Technology |
| 2026-10-06 | [Enhancing the social innovation ecosystem: university-led incubation pathways for rural sustainability](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101205) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Jessica M. Williams, Wai Fung Lam, Winnie W.Y. Law | University of Hong Kong |
| 2026-10-03 | [Entrepreneurial agency in mission oriented innovation policies](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101201) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Steffen Korsgaard, Claus Thrane | University of Southern Denmark; Aarhus University |
| 2026-10-03 | [Policy-as-practice: exploring the ‘hidden sides’ of policy-making in sustainability transitions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2026.101199) | [Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions.md) | Sabine de Graaff, Silje Marie Svartefoss, Håkon Endresen Normann et al. | Utrecht University; University of Oslo; Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions

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