OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Ambio is 34. 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
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere	265
Beyond ‘trees are good’: Disservices, management costs, and tradeoffs in urban forestry	110
Wildfires in the Siberian taiga	105
The potential effects of microplastics on human health: What is known and what is unknown	103
Why bees are critical for achieving sustainable development	96
Nature and COVID-19: The pandemic, the environment, and the way ahead	84
Planning nature-based solutions: Principles, steps, and insights	80
Recognizing Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda	74
Recognize fish as food in policy discourse and development funding	72
Plastic pollution: A focus on freshwater biodiversity	61
Building community resilience in a context of climate change: The role of social capital	61
Principles for urban nature-based solutions	58
COVID-19: From health crises to food security anxiety and policy implications	58
Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe	57
The loss of an indigenous constructed landscape following British invasion of Australia: An insight into the deep human imprint on the Australian landscape	54
The socioeconomic and environmental drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic: A review	54
Freshwater systems and ecosystem services: Challenges and chances for cross-fertilization of disciplines	54
Efficiency of mitigation measures targeting nutrient losses from agricultural drainage systems: A review	53
The potential of nature-based solutions to deliver ecologically just cities: Lessons for research and urban planning from a systematic literature review	46
Mitigation of eutrophication caused by wastewater discharge: A simulation-based approach	46
Shaping more resilient and just food systems: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic	46
Intensification, regulation and diversification: The changing face of inland aquaculture in China	45
The worst 2020 saline water intrusion disaster of the past century in the Mekong Delta: Impacts, causes, and management implications	43
A review of public acceptance of nature-based solutions: The ‘why’, ‘when’, and ‘how’ of success for disaster risk reduction measures	42
Exploring sustainable solutions for the water environment in Chinese and Southeast Asian cities	40

From land-use/land-cover to land system science	40
Reflections on 200 years of Nitrogen, 20 years later	40
Pro-environmental habits: An underexplored research agenda in sustainability science	39
Bioeconomy imaginaries: A review of forest-related social science literature	38
Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework	38
Combined effects of human pressures on Europe’s marine ecosystems	37
Nitrogen and the future of agriculture: 20 years on	36
Driving factors for coordinating urbanization with conservation of the ecological environment in China	34
Governance models for nature-based solutions: Seventeen cases from Germany	34
Investing in climate change adaptation and mitigation: A methodological review of real-options studies	34