Nature Sustainability

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Sustainability is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Displacing fishmeal with protein derived from stranded methane460
Public–private sharing of carbon sequestration risk418
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers417
Regional patterns of wild animal hunting in African tropical forests375
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics370
Towards sustainable aquaculture in the Amazon258
Efficacy of mitigation strategies for aquifer sustainability under climate change257
Author Correction: Effects of fishery bycatch-mitigation measures on vulnerable marine fauna and target catch255
Electrochemical lithium recycling from spent batteries with electricity generation242
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging238
Particulates and anaemia in India221
Perry L. McCarty 1931–2023216
On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar’s biggest mine212
A responsible energy transition195
Drowning carbon sinks?194
Charge carrier unveiled193
Identifying biases in the global placement of river gauges191
A titanium dioxide sponge for capturing lead leaking from perovskite solar cells180
Effects of expanding electric vehicle charging stations in California on the housing market180
Weaving nature into social safety nets179
Recycled micro-sized silicon anode for high-voltage lithium-ion batteries178
Perceptions of degrowth in the European Parliament178
The impact of genetically modified crops on bird diversity176
Offsetting the greenhouse gas footprint of hydropower with floating solar photovoltaics174
Sustainable power generation from sewage with engineered microorganisms as electrocatalysts174
Research for greener batteries173
Time to recover171
A two-salt solution for batteries166
A truly sustainable future163
Transformative localization to accelerate the 2030 Agenda160
Summers up in smoke160
The cow in the room159
A river delta in transition157
Artificial intelligence for reducing the carbon emissions of 5G networks in China157
Analytical utility of the JMP school water, sanitation and hygiene global monitoring data147
Best practices for oxygen electrocatalysis145
Including stewardship in ecosystem health assessment144
From natural capital accounting to natural capital banking139
Space bioprocess engineering as a potential catalyst for sustainability134
A fresh start to sustainable sewage nitrogen removal130
Increase in exposure of humans and infrastructure to large wildfires in the United States128
Growing prominence of deep-sea life in marine bioprospecting126
On policies and protests125
Mycorrhizal fungi-mediated uptake of tree-derived nitrogen by maize in smallholder farms125
Diminishing returns on labour in the global marine food system122
The spread and cost of saltwater intrusion in the US Mid-Atlantic119
Our fifth anniversary114
Visualizing greener cities112
The Global Climate Hub111
Weighing up policy tools109
Securing oil palm smallholder livelihoods without more deforestation in Indonesia109
The economics of reversing fisheries-induced evolution102
A renewable and socially accepted energy system for astronomical telescopes101
Lithium recovery from brines100
A fairer and more effective carbon tax97
Hybrid polymer network cathode-enabled soluble-polysulfide-free lithium–sulfur batteries95
Upcycling of polyolefins into detergents95
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production93
Economic drivers of deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon92
Continuing large-scale global trade and illegal trade of highly hazardous chemicals91
Leveraging the collaborative power of AI and citizen science for sustainable development87
Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers86
Techno-economic assessment of low-temperature carbon dioxide electrolysis85
The motivation–impact gap in pro-environmental clothing consumption84
China’s future food demand and its implications for trade and environment84
Floating macrolitter leaked from Europe into the ocean83
Cooperate to save a changing planet82
Co-benefits of marine protected areas for nature and people81
Systems-level partnerships for sustainability at scale81
Principles for transformative ocean governance80
Data needed to decarbonize paratransit in Sub-Saharan Africa79
Ecosystem services benefits from the restoration of non-producing US oil and gas lands78
Reverse the Cerrado’s neglect78
Impact of the Russia–Ukraine armed conflict on water resources and water infrastructure77
The role of midstream actors in advancing the sustainability of agri-food supply chains77
Air-stable naphthalene derivative-based electrolytes for sustainable aqueous flow batteries76
Lattice-sulfur-impregnated zero-valent iron crystals for long-term metal encapsulation76
Towards a unified understanding of human–nature interactions73
Ultrahigh-nickel layered cathode with cycling stability for sustainable lithium-ion batteries73
Ferric sauce for potassium-ion battery73
New pathways for e-waste recycling73
Impacts of urban expansion on natural habitats in global drylands70
Towards circular plastics within planetary boundaries69
Dynamic electrochromism for all-season radiative thermoregulation69
Effects of global climate mitigation on regional air quality and health68
Quantifying the human cost of global warming68
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics67
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile66
Best practices for radiative cooling65
Viability and desirability of financing conservation in Africa through fire management64
Air quality, health and equity implications of electrifying heavy-duty vehicles64
Diversified cropping systems with limited carbon accrual but increased nitrogen supply64
Fast-charge high-voltage layered cathodes for sodium-ion batteries61
A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China61
Sustainable layered cathode with suppressed phase transition for long-life sodium-ion batteries60
Severe decline in large farmland trees in India over the past decade60
Punishment institutions selected and sustained through voting and learning59
Informal and formal markets in meeting water needs59
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers58
Land loss due to human-altered sediment budget in the Mississippi River Delta58
Chemical recycling of a lignin-based non-isocyanate polyurethane foam58
The ‘Pact for the Future’58
Small Island Developing States under threat by rising seas even in a 1.5 °C warming world56
Electrolyte design for lithium-ion batteries with a cobalt-free cathode and silicon oxide anode56
Sustainable upcycling of spent LiCoO2 to an ultra-stable battery cathode at high voltage56
Environmental impacts along the value chain from the consumption of ultra-processed foods55
Sustained productivity and agronomic potential of perennial rice54
Sea-level rise from land subsidence in major coastal cities54
Global bioenergy with carbon capture and storage potential is largely constrained by sustainable irrigation54
Large and inequitable flood risks in Los Angeles, California53
Fostering a climate-smart intensification for oil palm53
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries52
Preventing lead leakage in perovskite solar cells with a sustainable titanium dioxide sponge52
Bioinspired hierarchical porous membrane for efficient uranium extraction from seawater52
Achieving sustainability of greenhouses by integrating stable semi-transparent organic photovoltaics51
Rebound in China’s coastal wetlands following conservation and restoration51
Valorization of waste biodegradable polyester for methyl methacrylate production51
A seaweed aquaculture imperative to meet global sustainability targets51
Limited quantity and quality of steel supply in a zero-emission future50
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management50
Climate-driven ecological thresholds in China’s drylands modulated by grazing50
Outcomes and policy focus of environmental litigation in the United States49
Applying the food–energy–water nexus concept at the local scale49
Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity49
Understanding intercalation chemistry for sustainable aqueous zinc–manganese dioxide batteries49
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers48
Solar-driven waste-to-chemical conversion by wastewater-derived semiconductor biohybrids48
Reprocessable and ultratough epoxy thermosetting plastic47
A bio-based nanofibre hydrogel filter for sustainable water purification47
Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses47
Mercury and CO2 emissions from artisanal gold mining in Brazilian Amazon rainforest46
An investment strategy to address biodiversity loss from agricultural expansion45
Author Correction: The cultural evolution of collective property rights for sustainable resource governance45
Author Correction: The importance of capturing management in forest restoration targets45
Olympic legacies and the sustainability agenda44
Forest conservation in Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon43
An evaluation of the sustainability of the Olympic Games43
Response diversity as a sustainability strategy43
Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill43
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana43
A global model to forecast coastal hardening and mitigate associated socioecological risks43
Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America42
A watershed moment for healthy watersheds42
Historical dynamics of landslide risk from population and forest-cover changes in the Kivu Rift42
Ultrastable electrocatalytic seawater splitting at ampere-level current density42
Urban water crises driven by elites’ unsustainable consumption42
Institutional navigation for polycentric sustainability governance41
Addressing ‘leaks’ in climate-smart agriculture40
Returning to core principles to advance the 2030 Agenda40
A green solvent increases the stability of a perovskite ink for scalable processing40
Politics, power and planting trees40
Synthesis of valuable benzenoid aromatics from bioderived feedstock40
Re-operating dams in the Mekong39
Vulnerability of blue foods to human-induced environmental change39
Most rocks trap CO239
Substantial impacts of climate shocks in African smallholder agriculture39
Material efficiency to tackle the sand crisis39
Meeting global challenges with regenerative agriculture producing food and energy38
Recovery at sea of abandoned, lost or discarded drifting fish aggregating devices38
The value of car ownership and use in the United States38
An inshore–offshore sorting system revealed from global classification of ocean litter38
Understanding the plastics cycle to minimize exposure38
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies38
Lockdowns and fire in Madagascar’s parks37
Green energy financing37
The potential of implementing superblocks for multifunctional street use in cities36
Mineral security essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals36
Gross polluters and vehicle emissions reduction35
A sustainable approach to universal metabolic cancer diagnosis35
Environmental and socioeconomic footprints of the German bioeconomy35
Urgent action is needed to restore the water sector in Ukraine34
Sustainable health systems34
Global effects of progress towards Sustainable Development Goals on subjective well-being34
Large-scale implementation of solar interfacial desalination34
Narratives for change34
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems33
Searching for a MicroFEWs nexus in Alaska33
Charting a sustainable course for batteries33
Blueprint for phosphorus efficiency33
Embedded order boosts battery membranes33
Squeezed by inflation33
Resilience of reefs to overfishing32
Turning Greenland’s sand into gold32
Towards sustainable rare-earth-element mining31
A global conservation basic income to safeguard biodiversity31
Globalizing green industrial policy through technology transfers31
Building a sustainable place in space31
Increased personal protective equipment litter as a result of COVID-19 measures30
Implementing the material footprint to measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 1230
Surface-substituted Prussian blue analogue cathode for sustainable potassium-ion batteries29
Efficient osmosis-powered production of green hydrogen29
Environmental impact assessments not the main barrier to timely forest management in the United States29
Persistent CO2 photocatalysis for solar fuels in the dark29
Mapped US artificial reef footprint29
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity29
High-throughput clean-up of viscous oil spills enabled by a gel-coated mesh filter29
Sustainable regeneration of spent cathodes for lithium-ion and post-lithium-ion batteries28
Job–environment feedbacks28
Polyamides go circular28
The greenhouse gas emissions of indoor cannabis production in the United States28
Increasing material efficiencies of buildings to address the global sand crisis28
Insect pest management with sex pheromone precursors from engineered oilseed plants27
Modelling dynamic ecosystem services27
Wildfire smoke exposure worsens students’ learning outcomes27
Flash upcycling of glass fibre-reinforced plastics waste26
Incarcerated people in the United States face deadly and growing heat exposure risk26
Radiative electrochromism for energy-efficient buildings26
Cross-scale plastic policy ambition25
Maintaining the productivity of co-culture systems in the face of environmental change25
Climate, caribou and human needs linked by analysis of Indigenous and scientific knowledge25
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk25
A sustainable no-kill sea urchin aquaculture method to obtain caviar25
Greener and higher conversion of esterification via interfacial photothermal catalysis24
Olympic sustainability or Olympian smokescreen24
Co-benefits of forest carbon projects in Southeast Asia24
Greening hydropower in Africa23
Looking for massive carbon capture23
Assessing the economic viability of unconventional rare earth element feedstocks23
Cross-national public acceptance of sustainable global supply chain policy instruments23
Human footprint is associated with shifts in the assemblages of major vector-borne diseases23
Solar power challenges23
In-stream turbines for rethinking hydropower development in the Amazon basin23
National-level evaluation of a community-based marine management initiative23
Economic efficiency and targeting of the African Great Green Wall22
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency22
Why win–wins are rare in complex environmental management22
Global mapping of urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation22
Preventing lead leakage with built-in resin layers for sustainable perovskite solar cells22
Policy implications of multiple concurrent soil erosion processes in European farmland22
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis22
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement21
A sustainable alternative to bisphenol A21
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption21
Selective extraction of uranium from seawater with biofouling-resistant polymeric peptide21
Socio-demographic factors shaping the future global health burden from air pollution21
Efficient methane oxidation to formaldehyde via photon–phonon cascade catalysis21
The aluminium demand risk of terawatt photovoltaics for net zero emissions by 205021
Biodiversity conservation threatened by global mining wastes20
Mainstreaming regenerative dynamics for sustainability20
Shaping a resilient future in response to COVID-1920
Characterizing culture’s influence in land systems20
Mechanical weeding enhances ecosystem multifunctionality and profit in industrial oil palm20
A bioinspired permeable junction approach for sustainable device microfabrication20
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value19
Escalating arsenic contamination throughout Chinese soils19
Technology assessment of solar disinfection for drinking water treatment19
Rethinking energy planning to mitigate the impacts of African hydropower19
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation19
The importance of capturing management in forest restoration targets19
The wider the gap between rich and poor the higher the flood mortality19
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