| Constraints on collective action in a transitional economy: the case of Bulgaria’s irrigation sector I Theesfeld World Development 32 (2), 251-271, 2004 | 191 | 2004 |
| Institutional challenges for national groundwater governance: Policies and issues I Theesfeld Groundwater 48 (1), 131-142, 2010 | 175 | 2010 |
| The grammar of institutions: The challenge of distinguishing between strategies, norms, and rules A Schlüter, I Theesfeld Rationality and Society 22 (4), 445-475, 2010 | 99 | 2010 |
| Snipping around for food: economic, ethical and policy implications of CRISPR/Cas genome editing B Bartkowski, I Theesfeld, F Pirscher, J Timaeus Geoforum 96, 172-180, 2018 | 82 | 2018 |
| Water Grabbing and the Role of Power: Shifting Water Governance in the Light of Agricultural Foreign Direct Investment. A Bues, I Theesfeld Water Alternatives 5 (2), 2012 | 78 | 2012 |
| Social sustainability through social interaction—A national survey on community gardens in Germany N Rogge, I Theesfeld, C Strassner Sustainability 10 (4), 1085, 2018 | 75 | 2018 |
| Land grabbing in Europe? Socio-cultural externalities of large-scale land acquisitions in East Germany R Bunkus, I Theesfeld Land 7 (3), 98, 2018 | 65 | 2018 |
| The procedure for institutional compatibility assessment: ex-ante policy assessment from an institutional perspective I Theesfeld, C Schleyer, O Aznar Journal of Institutional Economics 6 (3), 377-399, 2010 | 53 | 2010 |
| Categorizing urban commons: Community gardens in the Rhine-Ruhr agglomeration, Germany N Rogge, I Theesfeld International Journal of the Commons 12 (2), 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
| Perceived power resources in situations of collective action I Theesfeld Water alternatives 4 (1), 86, 2011 | 49 | 2011 |
| Germany's light version of integrated water resources management I Theesfeld, C Schleyer Environmental Policy and Governance 23 (2), 130-144, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| Administering the Common Agricultural Policy in Bulgaria and Romania: obstacles to accountability and administrative capacity S Wegener, K Labar, M Petrick, D Marquardt, I Theesfeld, G Buchenrieder International Review of Administrative Sciences 77 (3), 583-608, 2011 | 45 | 2011 |
| A common pool resource in transition: Determinants of institutional change for Bulgaria's postsocialist irrigation sector I Theesfeld Shaker, 2005 | 44 | 2005 |
| Die Interpretation des p-Wertes–Grundsätzliche Missverständnisse N Hirschauer, O Mußhoff, S Grüner, U Frey, I Theesfeld, P Wagner Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 236 (5), 557-575, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
| The role of agri-environmental contracts in saving biodiversity in the post-socialist Czech Republic J Prazan, I Theesfeld International Journal of the Commons 8 (1), 2014 | 36 | 2014 |
| The effects of rules on local political decision-making processes: How can rules facilitate participation? I Theesfeld, T Dufhues, G Buchenrieder Policy Sciences 50, 675-696, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
| A misfit in policy to protect Russia’s black soil region. An institutional analytical lens applied to the ban on burning of crop residues I Theesfeld, L Jelinek Land Use Policy 67, 517-526, 2017 | 34 | 2017 |
| Can water abundance compensate for weak water governance? Determining and comparing dimensions of irrigation water security in Tajikistan F Klümper, T Herzfeld, I Theesfeld Water 9 (4), 286, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| Irrigation sector in Bulgaria: impact of post-socialist policy reforms I Theesfeld Water Policy 10 (4), 375-389, 2008 | 29 | 2008 |
| Self-organization in the commons: An empirically-tested model A Ghorbani, G Bravo, U Frey, I Theesfeld Environmental Modelling & Software 96, 30-45, 2017 | 28 | 2017 |
