| Year | Title | Journal | Authors | Use case | Document stock | Notes |
| 2022 | Assessing transitions through socio-technical configuration analysis – a methodological framework and a case study from the water sector | Research Policy | Jonas Heiberg; Bernhard Truffer; Christian Binz | Mapping shifts in socio-technical configurations over time and space in the water sector (proof of concept of the method). | Newspaper articles | Discursive coding approach. Global analysis using English-language newspaper articles. |
| 2022 | Overcoming the harmony fallacy: How values shape the course of innovation systems | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions | Jonas Heiberg; Bernhard Truffer | Used to identify value-based proximities and portfolios of institutional logics in the Technological Innovation System of Swiss modular water technologies. | Expert interviews | Substantive coding approach. Experts were asked to elaborate on other organizations and to assess their strategies, motivations and technology preferences. |
| 2022 | How global regimes diffuse in space – Explaining a missed transition in San Diego’s water sector | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions | Johan Miörner; Jonas Heiberg; Christian Binz | Used to map the socio-technical storylines mobilized by actor coalitions in favour of, or against, a new desalination project in a region. | Local newspaper articles | Discursive coding approach. Combination with interviews. |
| 2022 | A perspective on the future of sustainability transitions research | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions | Bernhard Truffer; Harald Rohracher; Paula Kivimaa; Rob Raven; Floor Alkemade; Luis Carvalho; Giuseppe Feola | Retracing the toplical and conceptual transformations of the field of transition studies as exemplified by publications in the leading journal EIST. | Abstracts Scopus | 500 abstracts from the journal EIST between 2011 and 2019. Research questions and conceptual frameworks as concept codes. Papers as actor equivalent. |
| 2023 | The Role of Global Actors in Sustainability Transitions – Tracing the Emergence of a Novel Infrastructure Paradigm in the Sanitation Sector | Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions | Djamila Lesch; Johan Miörner; Christian Binz | Used to assess shifts in the guiding rationality of water and sanitation projects funded by the World Bank. | World Bank project documents | Substantive coding approach. Combination with interviews. |
| 2023 | The emerging global socio-technical regime for tackling space debris: A discourse network analysis | Acta Astronautica | Xiao-Shan Yap; Jonas Heiberg; Bernhard Truffer | Positions of different actors on how to tackle the problem of space debris. Actors classified by institutional logics. Time period 2007 -2019. | Newspaper articles | 124 new articles from Lexis Uni. |
| 2024 | Changing from within: the interplay between imaginary, culture and innovation system in regional transformation | GEIST Working Paper series | Huiwen Gong; Bernhard Truffer | Changes in the statements and activities of different actors in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg confronted with the electric vehicle option as a leading manufacturing region in the internal combustion engine technology. | Local newspapers | Mixed discursive and substantive coding. German newspaper articles between 2010 and 2023 |
