OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Sustainability is 82. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Global Climate Hub	543
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana	454
A river delta in transition	335
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics	326
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production	321
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers	295
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries	295
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management	294
Ferric sauce for potassium-ion battery	284
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics	254
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers	252
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile	249
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging	246
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement	245
Squeezed by inflation	244
Narratives for change	244
A waste-free future for fashion	237
Politics, power and planting trees	227
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value	223
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems	222
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development	222
Embedded order boosts battery membranes	217
Re-operating dams in the Mekong	216
Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion	210
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies	207

Effective progress and implementation of the INC-5 plastics treaty through scientific guidance	201
Polyamides go circular	201
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America	197
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk	190
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity	187
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency	182
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis	178
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation	172
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory	167
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution	161
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean	158
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas	157
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils	154
Tracking millions of farmland trees in India reveals a considerable decline of large trees	154
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems	152
A new approach to ecological zoning of the Earth in a changing climate	152
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood	150
Recycling bias and reduction neglect	146
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems	143
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus	138
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis	137
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii	136
Best practices for solar water production technologies	130
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia	128
Upcycle for enhanced performance	124
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People	123
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China	122
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle	117
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage	116
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices	114
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex	114
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry	113
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China	113
A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction	111
Mobile apps for 30×30 equity	108
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks	108
Ecological role of offshore structures	107
China’s food news going forward	104
The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting	100
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji	100
Beyond just floodwater	99
Critical research in the water-related multi-hazard field	99
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management	99
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship	99
Spatially differentiated nitrogen supply is key in a global food–fertilizer price crisis	98
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets	98
Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries	96
The urgent need for designing greener drugs	93
Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment	93
On the plastics crisis	91

Polymeric membranes with highly homogenized nanopores for ultrafast water purification	88
Global wood harvest is sufficient for climate-friendly transitions to timber cities	86
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world	84
The broader benefits of waste system investments in the global south	84
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals	84
Financing the Green New Deal	83
Methane emissions from landfills differentially underestimated worldwide	82