Nature Sustainability

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Sustainability is 9. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The Global Climate Hub397
A river delta in transition393
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana355
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries334
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics329
Global industrial emissions of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons310
Sand-mining-driven reduction in Tonle Sap Lake’s critical flood pulse298
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production289
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers285
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management278
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers275
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging272
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics270
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile259
Squeezed by inflation255
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement252
A waste-free future for fashion251
Re-operating dams in the Mekong242
Polyamides go circular238
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies231
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development225
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems216
Embedded order boosts battery membranes204
Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion195
Harvesting intermittent energy194
Effective progress and implementation of the INC-5 plastics treaty through scientific guidance191
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America182
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk182
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value180
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency176
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity175
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis174
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation173
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution166
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas159
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils157
Upcycle for enhanced performance154
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory151
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems151
Tracking millions of farmland trees in India reveals a considerable decline of large trees150
A new approach to ecological zoning of the Earth in a changing climate147
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle145
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus142
Dye removal from polyester fibres unlocks textile recycling142
Closing emission gaps in border carbon adjustments for chemicals and plastics141
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean140
Nationally localized strategies for zero-carbon municipal solid waste management140
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii133
Embodied emissions of chemicals within the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism127
Recycling bias and reduction neglect125
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China122
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia121
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People120
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood117
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices116
Best practices for solar water production technologies107
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry106
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis104
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex103
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China102
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage101
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems101
A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction100
Ecological role of offshore structures99
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji99
The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting98
Global wood harvest is sufficient for climate-friendly transitions to timber cities97
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks97
The broader benefits of waste system investments in the global south97
Socioecological risks amplified by rising plant invasions in India97
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship95
Aqueous batteries beating the cold95
Beyond just floodwater95
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets94
Mobile apps for 30×30 equity94
Methane emissions from landfills differentially underestimated worldwide94
An alliance for the bioeconomy94
Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production93
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals89
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management89
The urgent need for designing greener drugs87
Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries86
Spatially differentiated nitrogen supply is key in a global food–fertilizer price crisis86
On the plastics crisis85
Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment85
Polymeric membranes with highly homogenized nanopores for ultrafast water purification84
All-temperature zinc batteries with high-entropy aqueous electrolyte84
Impacts of aggressive driving on transport emissions in China83
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world83
Distributed production of ready-to-use liquid nitrogenous fertilizer82
Addressing methane emission feedbacks from global wetlands81
War’s cascading global effects80
The emergence of cooperation from shared goals in the governance of common-pool resources80
Author Correction: Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit77
Preventing lead release from perovskites76
Sustainable palm fruit harvesting as a pathway to conserve Amazon peatland forests76
Towards process-oriented management of tropical reefs in the anthropocene75
Biodiversity consequences of cropland abandonment75
Leveraging edge artificial intelligence for sustainable agriculture75
From trash to jet fuel74
Effects of demand and recycling on the when and where of lithium extraction74
Elevated fires during COVID-19 lockdown and the vulnerability of protected areas74
Tailored synthesis of circular polyolefins73
Trends in tropical forest loss and the social value of emission reductions73
Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions72
Recognizing the long-term impacts of plastic particles for preventing distortion in decision-making71
Atomically dispersed bimetallic Fe–Co electrocatalysts for green production of ammonia71
Holistic climate change adaptation for World Heritage71
Ecological risk assessment of marine plastic pollution70
Housing policies and energy efficiency spillovers in low and moderate income communities70
Polymeric membranes with aligned zeolite nanosheets for sustainable energy storage70
Sensing as the key to battery lifetime and sustainability70
EPR policy falls short69
Author Correction: Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America69
Jobs lost and found in sustainability transitions69
Network metrics guide good control choices69
Cities dried up by few68
An innovative, sustainable, no-kill sea urchin aquaculture method68
Thirteen steps to transformation68
Clinical sustainability68
Unsustainably losing ground67
Upcycling contaminated plastics67
Policies for rapid decarbonization with steady economic transition and employment creation67
The vulnerability of global forests to human and climate impacts67
Pathways to sustainable plastics67
PFAS dark matter66
The overlooked health impacts of extreme rainfall exposure in 30 East Asian cities66
A delivery agenda on climate change66
Doubling of the global freshwater footprint of material production over two decades66
Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests66
Capture fog for clean water65
Co-benefits of transport demand reductions from compact urban development in Chinese cities65
Impacts of global trade on cropland soil-phosphorus depletion and food security64
Rising socio-economic costs of PM2.5 pollution and medical service mismatching64
Unevenly distributed biological invasion costs among origin and recipient regions63
Guiding large-scale management of invasive species using network metrics63
Supplying ecosystem services on US rangelands61
Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being61
Ammonia recovery from nitrate-rich wastewater using a membrane-free electrochemical system61
Strategic planning to mitigate mining impacts on protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon61
An empirically based dynamic approach to sustainable climate policy design61
Efficient CO and acrolein co-production via paired electrolysis59
Axial alignment of covalent organic framework membranes for giant osmotic energy harvesting59
Re-thinking procurement incentives for electric vehicles to achieve net-zero emissions59
Long-term evidence for ecological intensification as a pathway to sustainable agriculture59
A vision for sustainable additive manufacturing57
Global declines of offshore gas flaring inadequate to meet the 2030 goal57
Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit57
Human fingerprint on structural density of forests globally56
Transformative localization to accelerate the 2030 Agenda56
Identifying biases in the global placement of river gauges56
The economics of reversing fisheries-induced evolution55
A two-salt solution for batteries54
Effects of expanding electric vehicle charging stations in California on the housing market54
Viability and desirability of financing conservation in Africa through fire management54
Best practices for oxygen electrocatalysis54
Energy- and cost-efficient CO2 capture from dilute emissions by pyridinic-graphene membranes53
Ten principles for transforming economics in a time of global crises53
Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America53
Including stewardship in ecosystem health assessment53
Principles for transformative ocean governance52
Artificial intelligence in sustainable development research52
Diversified cropping systems with limited carbon accrual but increased nitrogen supply52
Achieving sustainability of greenhouses by integrating stable semi-transparent organic photovoltaics51
Impact of the Russia–Ukraine armed conflict on water resources and water infrastructure51
Chemical recycling of a lignin-based non-isocyanate polyurethane foam51
Sustained productivity and agronomic potential of perennial rice51
Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers51
On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar’s biggest mine50
A fairer and more effective carbon tax50
Sustainable power generation from sewage with engineered microorganisms as electrocatalysts50
Electrochemical lithium recycling from spent batteries with electricity generation49
Continuing large-scale global trade and illegal trade of highly hazardous chemicals49
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers49
Recycled micro-sized silicon anode for high-voltage lithium-ion batteries49
Lockdowns and fire in Madagascar’s parks48
Decoupled dual-salt electrolyte for practical aqueous zinc batteries48
Blueprint for phosphorus efficiency46
A green solvent increases the stability of a perovskite ink for scalable processing45
Turning Greenland’s sand into gold44
Returning to core principles to advance the 2030 Agenda44
Identifying gaps in systems-based plastic pollution literature44
Job–environment feedbacks44
Cross-national public acceptance of sustainable global supply chain policy instruments44
The Earth alignment principle for artificial intelligence42
Progress towards sustainable agriculture hampered by siloed scientific discourses42
The mixed effects of recent cover crop adoption on US cropland productivity42
Material efficiency to tackle the sand crisis42
Resilience of reefs to overfishing41
Characterizing culture’s influence in land systems41
Wildfire impacts41
Change in cooling degree days with global mean temperature rise increasing from 1.5 °C to 2.0 °C40
Author Correction: Pathways to sustaining tuna-dependent Pacific Island economies during climate change40
Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network40
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption40
Assessing the economic viability of unconventional rare earth element feedstocks40
Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions40
Leveraging biodiversity to maximize nutrition and resilience of global fisheries39
Community contributions to sustainability science39
The future of large-scale solar interfacial desalination39
Newer roots for agriculture39
Lights on at any cost39
A smart way to wrap a building38
Stabilizing oxygen redox chemistry for the realization of high-capacity batteries38
Olfactory misinformation reduces wheat seed loss caused by rodent pests37
Towards just and transformative social–ecological restoration37
The potential impacts of plastic on the marine carbon cycle37
Decarbonization with economic growth and job creation37
Adaptive capacity for multimodal transport network resilience to extreme floods37
Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions37
Carbon-efficient synthesis36
Voltage distribution within carbon dioxide reduction electrolysers36
Electrochemical ammonia recovery and co-production of chemicals from manure wastewater35
Present and future limits to climate change adaptation35
The cultural evolution of collective property rights for sustainable resource governance35
Human and infrastructure exposure to large wildfires in the United States35
Ocean alkalinity enhancement through restoration of blue carbon ecosystems35
Author Correction: Persistent impact of Fukushima decontamination on soil erosion and suspended sediment34
Solar-enhanced low-temperature biological wastewater treatment34
Reducing global land-use pressures with seaweed farming34
Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards for sustainable electronics34
Losses and lifetimes of metals in the economy34
A better fate for PVC33
Economically viable electrocatalytic ethylene production with high yield and selectivity33
Author Correction: A sunlight-responsive metal–organic framework system for sustainable water desalination33
Overlooked risks and opportunities in groundwatersheds of the world’s protected areas33
Networking for food production33
Messaging risk to drive coastal adaptation33
Modelling PM2.5 reduction scenarios for future cardiopulmonary disease reduction33
Artificial reef footprint in the United States ocean32
Human exposure risk via algae-induced transfer of tritiated water in the marine food chain32
Solving poverty need not cost the Earth32
Conservation outcomes of dietary transitions across different values of nature32
Adding nitrate to sewage sludge can drive robust anammox seed production32
Minimize oil palm plantation expansion with game theory32
Six principles to get natural climate solutions right in Africa32
Author Correction: Changes in global fluvial sediment concentrations and fluxes between 1985 and 202031
Synthesis of liquid nitrogenous fertilizer via a nitrogen conversion balance31
Extraction, purification, and reuse of dyes from coloured polyester textiles31
Sport hunting associated with favourable conservation status of mammals31
Unintended consequences of using maps to communicate sea-level rise31
Upcycling surplus acetone into long-chain chemicals using a tandem electro-biosystem30
Global hydroclimatic risks and strategic decommissioning pathways for thermal power units30
Crop water origins and hydroclimate vulnerability of global croplands30
Synergies and trade-offs of multi-use solar landscapes30
Opportunities to curb hydrological alterations via dam re-operation in the Mekong29
Revealing building operating carbon dynamics for multiple cities29
Integrated assessment of river development on downstream marine fisheries and ecosystems29
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Bycatch rates in fisheries largely driven by variation in individual vessel behaviour29
Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion29
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