Nature Sustainability

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Sustainability is 8. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The Global Climate Hub526
A river delta in transition494
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics458
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana426
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production305
From natural capital accounting to natural capital banking299
Ferric sauce for potassium-ion battery273
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers270
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics269
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management264
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging257
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries254
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile241
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers226
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement226
Squeezed by inflation222
Narratives for change222
A waste-free future for fashion219
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value218
Politics, power and planting trees216
The value of car ownership and use in the United States202
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America201
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development199
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems197
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk195
Embedded order boosts battery membranes194
Re-operating dams in the Mekong192
Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion192
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis190
Polyamides go circular185
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies178
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation166
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency161
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus158
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity158
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory156
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle156
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems154
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution152
Upcycle for enhanced performance151
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean144
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China143
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices140
Recycling bias and reduction neglect139
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii134
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems128
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People126
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas126
Tracking millions of farmland trees in India reveals a considerable decline of large trees125
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils125
A new approach to ecological zoning of the Earth in a changing climate122
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia121
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood119
Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation117
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis112
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage111
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex108
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry104
Best practices for solar water production technologies100
A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction99
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China99
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks97
Ecological role of offshore structures96
Mobile apps for 30×30 equity96
The challenges of electrolytic valorization of carbon dioxide94
China’s food news going forward92
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management92
A deadly double dose for India’s poor91
Beyond just floodwater91
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji90
Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production87
Critical research in the water-related multi-hazard field87
Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries86
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets86
The urgent need for designing greener drugs84
The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting84
Carbon analytics for net-zero emissions sustainable cities84
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship81
Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically81
On the plastics crisis81
Polymeric membranes with highly homogenized nanopores for ultrafast water purification80
Financing the Green New Deal80
All-temperature zinc batteries with high-entropy aqueous electrolyte80
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world80
Methane emissions from landfills differentially underestimated worldwide78
Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment77
Spatially differentiated nitrogen supply is key in a global food–fertilizer price crisis77
Impacts of aggressive driving on transport emissions in China75
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals75
Preventing lead release from perovskites74
Holistic climate change adaptation for World Heritage74
War’s cascading global effects74
Biodiversity consequences of cropland abandonment73
Housing policies and energy efficiency spillovers in low and moderate income communities73
Trends in tropical forest loss and the social value of emission reductions73
Elevated fires during COVID-19 lockdown and the vulnerability of protected areas72
Sustainable palm fruit harvesting as a pathway to conserve Amazon peatland forests72
Tailored synthesis of circular polyolefins72
Polymeric membranes with aligned zeolite nanosheets for sustainable energy storage72
Hydroplastic polymers as eco-friendly hydrosetting plastics71
Upward expansion and acceleration of forest clearance in the mountains of Southeast Asia71
Atomically dispersed bimetallic Fe–Co electrocatalysts for green production of ammonia70
Towards process-oriented management of tropical reefs in the anthropocene69
The emergence of cooperation from shared goals in the governance of common-pool resources68
Recognizing the long-term impacts of plastic particles for preventing distortion in decision-making67
Author Correction: Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit66
Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions66
EPR policy falls short64
Leveraging edge artificial intelligence for sustainable agriculture64
Jobs lost and found in sustainability transitions64
Sensing as the key to battery lifetime and sustainability64
The vulnerability of global forests to human and climate impacts63
Author Correction: Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America63
Cities dried up by few62
Global declines of offshore gas flaring inadequate to meet the 2030 goal62
Network metrics guide good control choices61
Thirteen steps to transformation61
Pathways to sustainable plastics60
Guiding large-scale management of invasive species using network metrics60
Supplying ecosystem services on US rangelands60
An innovative, sustainable, no-kill sea urchin aquaculture method60
Clinical sustainability59
Upcycling contaminated plastics59
Capture fog for clean water58
Re-thinking procurement incentives for electric vehicles to achieve net-zero emissions58
Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests58
Axial alignment of covalent organic framework membranes for giant osmotic energy harvesting57
Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being57
Efficient CO and acrolein co-production via paired electrolysis57
The overlooked health impacts of extreme rainfall exposure in 30 East Asian cities57
Unevenly distributed biological invasion costs among origin and recipient regions56
Human fingerprint on structural density of forests globally56
Co-benefits of transport demand reductions from compact urban development in Chinese cities56
Strategic planning to mitigate mining impacts on protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon56
A vision for sustainable additive manufacturing56
Rising socio-economic costs of PM2.5 pollution and medical service mismatching56
Long-term evidence for ecological intensification as a pathway to sustainable agriculture55
Ammonia recovery from nitrate-rich wastewater using a membrane-free electrochemical system55
Impacts of global trade on cropland soil-phosphorus depletion and food security55
Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit55
Identifying biases in the global placement of river gauges54
Drowning carbon sinks?54
Transformative localization to accelerate the 2030 Agenda52
The economics of reversing fisheries-induced evolution51
Effects of expanding electric vehicle charging stations in California on the housing market51
Displacing fishmeal with protein derived from stranded methane51
Viability and desirability of financing conservation in Africa through fire management51
Continuing large-scale global trade and illegal trade of highly hazardous chemicals51
Electrochemical lithium recycling from spent batteries with electricity generation51
Including stewardship in ecosystem health assessment49
A two-salt solution for batteries49
Achieving sustainability of greenhouses by integrating stable semi-transparent organic photovoltaics49
On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar’s biggest mine49
Chemical recycling of a lignin-based non-isocyanate polyurethane foam48
Recycled micro-sized silicon anode for high-voltage lithium-ion batteries48
A fairer and more effective carbon tax48
Sustainable power generation from sewage with engineered microorganisms as electrocatalysts47
Bioinspired hierarchical porous membrane for efficient uranium extraction from seawater47
Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America47
A seaweed aquaculture imperative to meet global sustainability targets47
Impact of the Russia–Ukraine armed conflict on water resources and water infrastructure47
Best practices for oxygen electrocatalysis46
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers46
Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers45
Principles for transformative ocean governance45
Rebound in China’s coastal wetlands following conservation and restoration45
Sustained productivity and agronomic potential of perennial rice45
Towards a unified understanding of human–nature interactions45
Diversified cropping systems with limited carbon accrual but increased nitrogen supply44
Job–environment feedbacks44
Lockdowns and fire in Madagascar’s parks43
Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions43
A green solvent increases the stability of a perovskite ink for scalable processing43
Blueprint for phosphorus efficiency43
The Earth alignment principle for artificial intelligence42
Progress towards sustainable agriculture hampered by siloed scientific discourses42
Modelling dynamic ecosystem services42
Cross-national public acceptance of sustainable global supply chain policy instruments42
Resilience of reefs to overfishing42
Turning Greenland’s sand into gold41
Returning to core principles to advance the 2030 Agenda41
Material efficiency to tackle the sand crisis40
Assessing the economic viability of unconventional rare earth element feedstocks40
Characterizing culture’s influence in land systems39
Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network39
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption39
Author Correction: Pathways to sustaining tuna-dependent Pacific Island economies during climate change38
Change in cooling degree days with global mean temperature rise increasing from 1.5 °C to 2.0 °C38
Author Correction: Persistent impact of Fukushima decontamination on soil erosion and suspended sediment38
Community contributions to sustainability science37
Newer roots for agriculture37
Stabilizing oxygen redox chemistry for the realization of high-capacity batteries37
Lights on at any cost37
The future of large-scale solar interfacial desalination36
A smart way to wrap a building36
Olfactory misinformation reduces wheat seed loss caused by rodent pests36
Present and future limits to climate change adaptation35
Disaster recovery via social capital35
The cultural evolution of collective property rights for sustainable resource governance35
Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions35
On-device lead-absorbing tapes for sustainable perovskite solar cells34
Losses and lifetimes of metals in the economy34
Ocean alkalinity enhancement through restoration of blue carbon ecosystems34
Reducing global land-use pressures with seaweed farming34
Human and infrastructure exposure to large wildfires in the United States33
Overlooked risks and opportunities in groundwatersheds of the world’s protected areas33
Sustainable high-strength macrofibres extracted from natural bamboo33
Economically viable electrocatalytic ethylene production with high yield and selectivity33
Electrochemical ammonia recovery and co-production of chemicals from manure wastewater32
Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards for sustainable electronics32
Quantifying timber illegality risk in the Brazilian forest frontier31
Unintended consequences of using maps to communicate sea-level rise31
Sensitive tree species remain at risk despite improved air quality benefits to US forests31
Messaging risk to drive coastal adaptation31
A better fate for PVC30
Minimize oil palm plantation expansion with game theory30
Industrial-scale sustainable rare earth mining enabled by electrokinetics30
Solving poverty need not cost the Earth30
Bycatch rates in fisheries largely driven by variation in individual vessel behaviour30
Integrated assessment of river development on downstream marine fisheries and ecosystems30
Unlocking aquifer sustainability through irrigator-driven groundwater conservation30
Author Correction: A sunlight-responsive metal–organic framework system for sustainable water desalination30
Networking for food production30
Highly unequal carbon footprints30
Opportunities to curb hydrological alterations via dam re-operation in the Mekong30
Effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services after loss and uncertainty of compensation29
Catalytic proton exchange in water distillation for efficient tritiated water clean-up29
Artificial reef footprint in the United States ocean29
Author Correction: Changes in global fluvial sediment concentrations and fluxes between 1985 and 202029
Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion28
Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events28
Distributional impacts of carbon pricing in developing Asia28
African food system and biodiversity mainly affected by urbanization via dietary shifts27
En route to a circular nitrogen economy27
A bridge over troubled waters27
Tools and methods for monitoring the health of the urban greenery27
Social–ecological benefits of land–sea planning at multiple scales in Mesoamerica27
Intensive millet–pig systems supported the rise of complex societies in North China27
Plastics are just the tip of the iceberg27
Investing wisely in land restoration27
Renewable and safer bisphenol A substitutes enabled by selective zeolite alkylation27
Explaining the diverse values assigned to environmental benefits across countries26
Technologies turning waste into food and feed have limited environmental benefits26
Respiratory risks from wildfire-specific PM2.5 across multiple countries and territories26
Biogas production in United States dairy farms incentivized by electricity policy changes26
Scalable manufacturing of sustainable packaging materials with tunable thermoregulability26
The impact of COVID-19 fiscal spending on climate change adaptation and resilience26
Scientific evidence for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction25
Synthesis of hydroxylamine from air and water via a plasma-electrochemical cascade pathway25
Nature inequity and higher COVID-19 case rates in less-green neighbourhoods in the United States25
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