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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Ferric sauce for potassium-ion battery595
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana490
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production387
Global industrial emissions of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons384
The Global Climate Hub343
Sand-mining-driven reduction in Tonle Sap Lake’s critical flood pulse330
A river delta in transition323
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries321
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics300
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management288
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile286
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers274
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics271
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers267
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging265
Narratives for change263
Squeezed by inflation261
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement250
A waste-free future for fashion248
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies243
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development242
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems237
Embedded order boosts battery membranes233
Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion226
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk213
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value207
Effective progress and implementation of the INC-5 plastics treaty through scientific guidance206
Polyamides go circular201
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity193
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation189
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America189
Re-operating dams in the Mekong179
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis176
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency176
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution175
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas174
Upcycle for enhanced performance168
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils168
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory164
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems159
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle152
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 climate149
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii148
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems144
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China142
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus140
Closing emission gaps in border carbon adjustments for chemicals and plastics139
Embodied emissions of chemicals within the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism137
Nationally localized strategies for zero-carbon municipal solid waste management137
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean136
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China136
Best practices for solar water production technologies128
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood126
Recycling bias and reduction neglect125
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis119
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia119
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry118
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex118
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage115
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices112
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People110
A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction109
Ecological role of offshore structures102
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji102
The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting100
Global wood harvest is sufficient for climate-friendly transitions to timber cities98
An alliance for the bioeconomy97
The broader benefits of waste system investments in the global south97
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks96
Mobile apps for 30×30 equity96
Beyond just floodwater95
Critical research in the water-related multi-hazard field94
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship94
Aqueous batteries beating the cold94
Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment93
Spatially differentiated nitrogen supply is key in a global food–fertilizer price crisis93
Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries92
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management91
Financing the Green New Deal91
Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production91
Methane emissions from landfills differentially underestimated worldwide91
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals89
The urgent need for designing greener drugs89
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets89
Polymeric membranes with highly homogenized nanopores for ultrafast water purification89
On the plastics crisis88
All-temperature zinc batteries with high-entropy aqueous electrolyte87
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world87
Impacts of aggressive driving on transport emissions in China86
Distributed production of ready-to-use liquid nitrogenous fertilizer85
Addressing methane emission feedbacks from global wetlands83
From trash to jet fuel83
Recognizing the long-term impacts of plastic particles for preventing distortion in decision-making83
The emergence of cooperation from shared goals in the governance of common-pool resources82
Housing policies and energy efficiency spillovers in low and moderate income communities82
War’s cascading global effects81
Author Correction: Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit80
Trends in tropical forest loss and the social value of emission reductions79
Preventing lead release from perovskites79
Biodiversity consequences of cropland abandonment78
Elevated fires during COVID-19 lockdown and the vulnerability of protected areas78
Sustainable palm fruit harvesting as a pathway to conserve Amazon peatland forests77
Tailored synthesis of circular polyolefins76
Effects of demand and recycling on the when and where of lithium extraction75
Leveraging edge artificial intelligence for sustainable agriculture75
Ecological risk assessment of marine plastic pollution74
Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions74
Towards process-oriented management of tropical reefs in the anthropocene74
Sensing as the key to battery lifetime and sustainability73
Holistic climate change adaptation for World Heritage72
Jobs lost and found in sustainability transitions71
Atomically dispersed bimetallic Fe–Co electrocatalysts for green production of ammonia71
EPR policy falls short71
Polymeric membranes with aligned zeolite nanosheets for sustainable energy storage71
Author Correction: Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America70
Network metrics guide good control choices70
Cities dried up by few70
An innovative, sustainable, no-kill sea urchin aquaculture method69
Thirteen steps to transformation69
Clinical sustainability69
Unsustainably losing ground68
Guiding large-scale management of invasive species using network metrics67
Doubling of the global freshwater footprint of material production over two decades67
Strategic planning to mitigate mining impacts on protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon66
Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit66
Upcycling contaminated plastics66
Pathways to sustainable plastics65
The vulnerability of global forests to human and climate impacts65
Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests65
Re-thinking procurement incentives for electric vehicles to achieve net-zero emissions64
Axial alignment of covalent organic framework membranes for giant osmotic energy harvesting64
A delivery agenda on climate change64
Rising socio-economic costs of PM2.5 pollution and medical service mismatching64
A vision for sustainable additive manufacturing64
Co-benefits of transport demand reductions from compact urban development in Chinese cities64
Unevenly distributed biological invasion costs among origin and recipient regions64
Supplying ecosystem services on US rangelands64
Global declines of offshore gas flaring inadequate to meet the 2030 goal64
Capture fog for clean water64
Human fingerprint on structural density of forests globally63
Policies for rapid decarbonization with steady economic transition and employment creation63
Impacts of global trade on cropland soil-phosphorus depletion and food security63
Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being62
Efficient CO and acrolein co-production via paired electrolysis62
The overlooked health impacts of extreme rainfall exposure in 30 East Asian cities62
Long-term evidence for ecological intensification as a pathway to sustainable agriculture61
Identifying biases in the global placement of river gauges60
Transformative localization to accelerate the 2030 Agenda60
Ammonia recovery from nitrate-rich wastewater using a membrane-free electrochemical system60
The economics of reversing fisheries-induced evolution59
A two-salt solution for batteries58
Viability and desirability of financing conservation in Africa through fire management58
Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America57
Decoupled dual-salt electrolyte for practical aqueous zinc batteries57
Artificial intelligence in sustainable development research57
Including stewardship in ecosystem health assessment57
Towards a unified understanding of human–nature interactions56
Effects of expanding electric vehicle charging stations in California on the housing market55
Ten principles for transforming economics in a time of global crises55
A fairer and more effective carbon tax54
Principles for transformative ocean governance54
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers52
Impact of the Russia–Ukraine armed conflict on water resources and water infrastructure52
Energy- and cost-efficient CO2 capture from dilute emissions by pyridinic-graphene membranes52
On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar’s biggest mine52
Diversified cropping systems with limited carbon accrual but increased nitrogen supply51
Sustainable power generation from sewage with engineered microorganisms as electrocatalysts51
Best practices for oxygen electrocatalysis50
Sustained productivity and agronomic potential of perennial rice50
Achieving sustainability of greenhouses by integrating stable semi-transparent organic photovoltaics50
Continuing large-scale global trade and illegal trade of highly hazardous chemicals49
Blueprint for phosphorus efficiency49
Lockdowns and fire in Madagascar’s parks49
Chemical recycling of a lignin-based non-isocyanate polyurethane foam49
A green solvent increases the stability of a perovskite ink for scalable processing49
Recycled micro-sized silicon anode for high-voltage lithium-ion batteries49
Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers49
Electrochemical lithium recycling from spent batteries with electricity generation49
Turning Greenland’s sand into gold49
Identifying gaps in systems-based plastic pollution literature48
Cross-national public acceptance of sustainable global supply chain policy instruments48
Returning to core principles to advance the 2030 Agenda47
The mixed effects of recent cover crop adoption on US cropland productivity47
The Earth alignment principle for artificial intelligence47
Material efficiency to tackle the sand crisis47
Job–environment feedbacks47
Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions46
Resilience of reefs to overfishing45
Characterizing culture’s influence in land systems45
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption44
Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network44
Progress towards sustainable agriculture hampered by siloed scientific discourses44
Assessing the economic viability of unconventional rare earth element feedstocks44
Author Correction: Pathways to sustaining tuna-dependent Pacific Island economies during climate change42
Change in cooling degree days with global mean temperature rise increasing from 1.5 °C to 2.0 °C42
Community contributions to sustainability science41
Newer roots for agriculture41
Author Correction: Persistent impact of Fukushima decontamination on soil erosion and suspended sediment41
Lights on at any cost40
The future of large-scale solar interfacial desalination40
Adaptive capacity for multimodal transport network resilience to extreme floods39
Leveraging biodiversity to maximize nutrition and resilience of global fisheries39
Olfactory misinformation reduces wheat seed loss caused by rodent pests39
Stabilizing oxygen redox chemistry for the realization of high-capacity batteries39
Disaster recovery via social capital38
The potential impacts of plastic on the marine carbon cycle38
Voltage distribution within carbon dioxide reduction electrolysers38
Modelling PM2.5 reduction scenarios for future cardiopulmonary disease reduction37
The cultural evolution of collective property rights for sustainable resource governance37
A smart way to wrap a building37
Solar-enhanced low-temperature biological wastewater treatment37
Human and infrastructure exposure to large wildfires in the United States36
Ocean alkalinity enhancement through restoration of blue carbon ecosystems36
Overlooked risks and opportunities in groundwatersheds of the world’s protected areas36
Reducing global land-use pressures with seaweed farming36
Losses and lifetimes of metals in the economy36
Decarbonization with economic growth and job creation36
Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions36
Present and future limits to climate change adaptation36
Sustainable high-strength macrofibres extracted from natural bamboo35
Electrochemical ammonia recovery and co-production of chemicals from manure wastewater35
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