OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Sustainability is 85. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Global Climate Hub	397
A river delta in transition	393
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana	355
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries	334
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics	329
Global industrial emissions of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	310
Sand-mining-driven reduction in Tonle Sap Lake’s critical flood pulse	298
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production	289
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers	285
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management	278
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers	275
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging	272
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics	270
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile	259
Squeezed by inflation	255
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement	252
A waste-free future for fashion	251
Re-operating dams in the Mekong	242
Polyamides go circular	238
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies	231
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development	225
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems	216
Embedded order boosts battery membranes	204
Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion	195
Harvesting intermittent energy	194

Effective progress and implementation of the INC-5 plastics treaty through scientific guidance	191
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America	182
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk	182
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value	180
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency	176
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity	175
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis	174
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation	173
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution	166
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas	159
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils	157
Upcycle for enhanced performance	154
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems	151
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory	151
Tracking millions of farmland trees in India reveals a considerable decline of large trees	150
A new approach to ecological zoning of the Earth in a changing climate	147
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle	145
Dye removal from polyester fibres unlocks textile recycling	142
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus	142
Closing emission gaps in border carbon adjustments for chemicals and plastics	141
Nationally localized strategies for zero-carbon municipal solid waste management	140
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean	140
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii	133
Embodied emissions of chemicals within the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism	127
Recycling bias and reduction neglect	125
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China	122
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia	121
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People	120
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood	117
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices	116
Best practices for solar water production technologies	107
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry	106
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis	104
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex	103
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China	102
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage	101
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems	101
A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction	100
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji	99
Ecological role of offshore structures	99
The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting	98
The broader benefits of waste system investments in the global south	97
Socioecological risks amplified by rising plant invasions in India	97
Global wood harvest is sufficient for climate-friendly transitions to timber cities	97
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks	97
Aqueous batteries beating the cold	95
Beyond just floodwater	95
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship	95
Mobile apps for 30×30 equity	94
Methane emissions from landfills differentially underestimated worldwide	94

An alliance for the bioeconomy	94
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets	94
Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production	93
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management	89
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals	89
The urgent need for designing greener drugs	87
Spatially differentiated nitrogen supply is key in a global food–fertilizer price crisis	86
Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries	86
Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment	85
On the plastics crisis	85