It concerns Wüstenhagen, R, Wolsink, M, Bürer, MJ (2007) Social acceptance of renewable energy innovation: An introduction to the concept. Energy Policy, 35(5), 2683-2691. The impact of 1000 citations is very rare, especially in social sciences. For example, Energy Policy (included in both ScienceCitationIndex and ScocialScienceCitaionIndex) published over 13.000 papers whereas only one achieved a higher number (Unruh, 2000, “Understanding carbon lock-in”).

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2017.12.006), although their mapping included application to acceptance issues of less innovative technologies that continue carbon-based and centralized energy provision (e.g. shale-gas, nuclear, bio-fuels/mass, CCS etc.). Beside energy, the concept has been used in other domains, such as land use, ecosystem management, water management, digitalization, genetic modification, forestry, transport, 3D-printing, food provision, etc.