OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Sustainability is 93. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana	511
Levers for equitable material use	452
Energy-efficient electrified ethylene synthesis in CO-starved environment	406
Sea-level-driven land conversion amplified by coastal agriculture	398
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers	394
Increasing global threat of outburst floods from overlooked small alpine lakes	388
Author Correction: Effects of forestry decentralization on rural inequality in Nepal	371
A river delta in transition	360
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries	348
Global industrial emissions of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	314
Sand-mining-driven reduction in Tonle Sap Lake’s critical flood pulse	307
Rice–fish co-culturing reduces schistosomiasis risk and increases yields and incomes	302
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers	284
Spiralling frontier threats in Indigenous Amazonia	279
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging	273
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production	267
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics	258
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics	242
The Global Climate Hub	241
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile	240
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management	217
Squeezed by inflation	217
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement	215
A waste-free future for fashion	213
Embedded order boosts battery membranes	209

Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion	206
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development	203
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems	202
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value	195
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity	191
Scalable all-in-one electrochromic glazing for full-spectrum solar radiation management	186
On the relevance of post-growth in China	183
Harvesting intermittent energy	182
Neighbourhood design and the environmental and social costs of suburbanization	175
Effective progress and implementation of the INC-5 plastics treaty through scientific guidance	167
Re-operating dams in the Mekong	160
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies	159
Polyamides go circular	155
Evidence and limits of restitution	153
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk	153
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation	151
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency	148
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis	146
Fast and selective CO2 capture from outdoor air by covalent organic frameworks	143
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution	142
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas	142
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils	139
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle	138
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China	136
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory	135
Upcycle for enhanced performance	134
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems	133
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People	133
Tracking millions of farmland trees in India reveals a considerable decline of large trees	131
A new approach to ecological zoning of the Earth in a changing climate	130
Closing emission gaps in border carbon adjustments for chemicals and plastics	129
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean	128
Dye removal from polyester fibres unlocks textile recycling	127
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus	126
Electrifying water treatment at device level	125
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis	121
Fast solvation restructuring accelerates interfacial charge transfer	121
Nationally localized strategies for zero-carbon municipal solid waste management	119
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex	118
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia	114
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices	114
Embodied emissions of chemicals within the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism	109
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China	109
Resource consumption in global concrete production	108
Recycling bias and reduction neglect	107
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood	107
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage	107
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems	105
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry	105
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii	104

A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction	104
An alliance for the bioeconomy	104
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji	104
Aqueous batteries beating the cold	104
Mobile apps for 30×30 equity	103
The broader benefits of waste system investments in the global south	103
Polymeric membranes with highly homogenized nanopores for ultrafast water purification	102
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks	101
Widespread range contraction of carnivores in protected areas of China	101
The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting	100
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets	100
Ecological role of offshore structures	98
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management	98
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship	97
Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment	96
Global wood harvest is sufficient for climate-friendly transitions to timber cities	95
Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production	94
Spatially differentiated nitrogen supply is key in a global food–fertilizer price crisis	93