OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Sustainability is 80. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Global Climate Hub	526
A river delta in transition	494
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics	458
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana	426
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production	305
From natural capital accounting to natural capital banking	299
Ferric sauce for potassium-ion battery	273
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers	270
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics	269
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management	264
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging	257
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries	254
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile	241
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers	226
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement	226
Squeezed by inflation	222
Narratives for change	222
A waste-free future for fashion	219
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value	218
Politics, power and planting trees	216
The value of car ownership and use in the United States	202
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America	201
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development	199
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems	197
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk	195

Embedded order boosts battery membranes	194
Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion	192
Re-operating dams in the Mekong	192
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis	190
Polyamides go circular	185
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies	178
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation	166
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency	161
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus	158
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity	158
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle	156
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory	156
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems	154
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution	152
Upcycle for enhanced performance	151
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean	144
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China	143
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices	140
Recycling bias and reduction neglect	139
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii	134
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems	128
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People	126
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas	126
Tracking millions of farmland trees in India reveals a considerable decline of large trees	125
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils	125
A new approach to ecological zoning of the Earth in a changing climate	122
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia	121
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood	119
Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation	117
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis	112
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage	111
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex	108
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry	104
Best practices for solar water production technologies	100
A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction	99
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China	99
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks	97
Ecological role of offshore structures	96
Mobile apps for 30×30 equity	96
The challenges of electrolytic valorization of carbon dioxide	94
China’s food news going forward	92
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management	92
Beyond just floodwater	91
A deadly double dose for India’s poor	91
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji	90
Critical research in the water-related multi-hazard field	87
Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production	87
Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries	86
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets	86
The urgent need for designing greener drugs	84

The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting	84
Carbon analytics for net-zero emissions sustainable cities	84
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship	81
Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically	81
On the plastics crisis	81
Polymeric membranes with highly homogenized nanopores for ultrafast water purification	80
Financing the Green New Deal	80
All-temperature zinc batteries with high-entropy aqueous electrolyte	80
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world	80