Nature Sustainability

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Sustainability is 35. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ferric sauce for potassium-ion battery580
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers486
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers377
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production371
Global industrial emissions of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons333
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries319
The Global Climate Hub316
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana299
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management283
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics276
A river delta in transition276
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics267
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging267
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile263
Narratives for change258
Squeezed by inflation253
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement252
A waste-free future for fashion250
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies246
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development245
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems242
Embedded order boosts battery membranes236
Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion226
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation223
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America222
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk213
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value201
Effective progress and implementation of the INC-5 plastics treaty through scientific guidance198
Polyamides go circular195
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency194
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis187
Re-operating dams in the Mekong179
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity175
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution174
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas172
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory172
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils168
Closing emission gaps in border carbon adjustments for chemicals and plastics164
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus163
Upcycle for enhanced performance162
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems153
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems153
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle145
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood145
Tracking millions of farmland trees in India reveals a considerable decline of large trees144
A new approach to ecological zoning of the Earth in a changing climate143
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China142
Embodied emissions of chemicals within the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism137
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii136
Nationally localized strategies for zero-carbon municipal solid waste management135
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage133
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis132
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex129
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices129
Best practices for solar water production technologies128
Recycling bias and reduction neglect122
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia117
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People115
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry114
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China112
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean112
A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction111
Ecological role of offshore structures109
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji109
The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting107
Global wood harvest is sufficient for climate-friendly transitions to timber cities107
The broader benefits of waste system investments in the global south104
Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production100
Beyond just floodwater97
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management97
Mobile apps for 30×30 equity96
An alliance for the bioeconomy94
On the plastics crisis94
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks92
Polymeric membranes with highly homogenized nanopores for ultrafast water purification92
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world91
Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment91
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets90
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship90
Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries90
Critical research in the water-related multi-hazard field89
Methane emissions from landfills differentially underestimated worldwide88
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals88
Spatially differentiated nitrogen supply is key in a global food–fertilizer price crisis87
The urgent need for designing greener drugs86
Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically86
Financing the Green New Deal86
Impacts of aggressive driving on transport emissions in China85
All-temperature zinc batteries with high-entropy aqueous electrolyte85
The emergence of cooperation from shared goals in the governance of common-pool resources85
Distributed production of ready-to-use liquid nitrogenous fertilizer85
Ecological risk assessment of marine plastic pollution84
Addressing methane emission feedbacks from global wetlands82
Preventing lead release from perovskites82
War’s cascading global effects81
Author Correction: Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit81
Elevated fires during COVID-19 lockdown and the vulnerability of protected areas80
Towards process-oriented management of tropical reefs in the anthropocene80
Recognizing the long-term impacts of plastic particles for preventing distortion in decision-making80
Leveraging edge artificial intelligence for sustainable agriculture79
Holistic climate change adaptation for World Heritage79
Trends in tropical forest loss and the social value of emission reductions78
Effects of demand and recycling on the when and where of lithium extraction78
Sensing as the key to battery lifetime and sustainability78
Atomically dispersed bimetallic Fe–Co electrocatalysts for green production of ammonia76
Polymeric membranes with aligned zeolite nanosheets for sustainable energy storage76
Biodiversity consequences of cropland abandonment75
Tailored synthesis of circular polyolefins75
Sustainable palm fruit harvesting as a pathway to conserve Amazon peatland forests74
Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions73
Housing policies and energy efficiency spillovers in low and moderate income communities73
Jobs lost and found in sustainability transitions72
EPR policy falls short71
Author Correction: Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America70
Network metrics guide good control choices70
An innovative, sustainable, no-kill sea urchin aquaculture method69
Thirteen steps to transformation69
Cities dried up by few69
Unsustainably losing ground68
Clinical sustainability68
Capture fog for clean water67
Guiding large-scale management of invasive species using network metrics67
Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being66
Strategic planning to mitigate mining impacts on protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon66
Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests66
Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit65
Long-term evidence for ecological intensification as a pathway to sustainable agriculture65
Supplying ecosystem services on US rangelands65
Unevenly distributed biological invasion costs among origin and recipient regions64
Co-benefits of transport demand reductions from compact urban development in Chinese cities64
Global declines of offshore gas flaring inadequate to meet the 2030 goal63
Impacts of global trade on cropland soil-phosphorus depletion and food security63
Doubling of the global freshwater footprint of material production over two decades63
Pathways to sustainable plastics62
The vulnerability of global forests to human and climate impacts62
Upcycling contaminated plastics62
Ammonia recovery from nitrate-rich wastewater using a membrane-free electrochemical system62
Re-thinking procurement incentives for electric vehicles to achieve net-zero emissions62
A vision for sustainable additive manufacturing62
Efficient CO and acrolein co-production via paired electrolysis61
Axial alignment of covalent organic framework membranes for giant osmotic energy harvesting61
The overlooked health impacts of extreme rainfall exposure in 30 East Asian cities61
Rising socio-economic costs of PM2.5 pollution and medical service mismatching60
Human fingerprint on structural density of forests globally59
Identifying biases in the global placement of river gauges59
The economics of reversing fisheries-induced evolution58
Transformative localization to accelerate the 2030 Agenda58
A two-salt solution for batteries58
Artificial intelligence in sustainable development research57
Including stewardship in ecosystem health assessment57
Sustainable power generation from sewage with engineered microorganisms as electrocatalysts57
Bioinspired hierarchical porous membrane for efficient uranium extraction from seawater57
Achieving sustainability of greenhouses by integrating stable semi-transparent organic photovoltaics56
Recycled micro-sized silicon anode for high-voltage lithium-ion batteries56
Electrochemical lithium recycling from spent batteries with electricity generation56
Viability and desirability of financing conservation in Africa through fire management56
Towards a unified understanding of human–nature interactions55
Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers55
Decoupled dual-salt electrolyte for practical aqueous zinc batteries55
Ten principles for transforming economics in a time of global crises55
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers54
Diversified cropping systems with limited carbon accrual but increased nitrogen supply53
Chemical recycling of a lignin-based non-isocyanate polyurethane foam53
Principles for transformative ocean governance52
Displacing fishmeal with protein derived from stranded methane52
Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America52
Best practices for oxygen electrocatalysis52
A fairer and more effective carbon tax51
Effects of expanding electric vehicle charging stations in California on the housing market51
On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar’s biggest mine51
Sustained productivity and agronomic potential of perennial rice51
Continuing large-scale global trade and illegal trade of highly hazardous chemicals51
Impact of the Russia–Ukraine armed conflict on water resources and water infrastructure50
Blueprint for phosphorus efficiency49
Resilience of reefs to overfishing49
Lockdowns and fire in Madagascar’s parks49
A green solvent increases the stability of a perovskite ink for scalable processing49
Cross-national public acceptance of sustainable global supply chain policy instruments48
Job–environment feedbacks48
Identifying gaps in systems-based plastic pollution literature48
Turning Greenland’s sand into gold48
Returning to core principles to advance the 2030 Agenda47
The mixed effects of recent cover crop adoption on US cropland productivity47
Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions46
The Earth alignment principle for artificial intelligence46
Material efficiency to tackle the sand crisis45
Change in cooling degree days with global mean temperature rise increasing from 1.5 °C to 2.0 °C45
Progress towards sustainable agriculture hampered by siloed scientific discourses45
Characterizing culture’s influence in land systems45
Assessing the economic viability of unconventional rare earth element feedstocks44
Author Correction: Persistent impact of Fukushima decontamination on soil erosion and suspended sediment44
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption44
Author Correction: Pathways to sustaining tuna-dependent Pacific Island economies during climate change44
Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network44
Newer roots for agriculture43
Community contributions to sustainability science43
Stabilizing oxygen redox chemistry for the realization of high-capacity batteries41
Lights on at any cost41
Leveraging biodiversity to maximize nutrition and resilience of global fisheries41
The future of large-scale solar interfacial desalination41
A smart way to wrap a building40
The cultural evolution of collective property rights for sustainable resource governance40
Olfactory misinformation reduces wheat seed loss caused by rodent pests40
Adaptive capacity for multimodal transport network resilience to extreme floods40
Reducing global land-use pressures with seaweed farming39
Losses and lifetimes of metals in the economy39
Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards for sustainable electronics39
Disaster recovery via social capital38
Present and future limits to climate change adaptation38
Overlooked risks and opportunities in groundwatersheds of the world’s protected areas38
The potential impacts of plastic on the marine carbon cycle37
Ocean alkalinity enhancement through restoration of blue carbon ecosystems37
Solar-enhanced low-temperature biological wastewater treatment37
Voltage distribution within carbon dioxide reduction electrolysers36
Human and infrastructure exposure to large wildfires in the United States36
Electrochemical ammonia recovery and co-production of chemicals from manure wastewater36
Economically viable electrocatalytic ethylene production with high yield and selectivity35
Sustainable high-strength macrofibres extracted from natural bamboo35
Messaging risk to drive coastal adaptation35
Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions35
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