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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Global Climate Hub543
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana454
A river delta in transition335
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics326
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production321
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers295
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries295
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management294
Ferric sauce for potassium-ion battery284
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics254
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers252
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile249
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging246
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement245
Squeezed by inflation244
Narratives for change244
A waste-free future for fashion237
Politics, power and planting trees227
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value223
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems222
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development222
Embedded order boosts battery membranes217
Re-operating dams in the Mekong216
Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion210
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies207
Effective progress and implementation of the INC-5 plastics treaty through scientific guidance201
Polyamides go circular201
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America197
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk190
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity187
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency182
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis178
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation172
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory167
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution161
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean158
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas157
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils154
Tracking millions of farmland trees in India reveals a considerable decline of large trees154
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems152
A new approach to ecological zoning of the Earth in a changing climate152
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood150
Recycling bias and reduction neglect146
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems143
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus138
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis137
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii136
Best practices for solar water production technologies130
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia128
Upcycle for enhanced performance124
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People123
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China122
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle117
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage116
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices114
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex114
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry113
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China113
A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction111
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks108
Mobile apps for 30×30 equity108
Ecological role of offshore structures107
China’s food news going forward104
The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting100
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji100
Beyond just floodwater99
Critical research in the water-related multi-hazard field99
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management99
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship99
Spatially differentiated nitrogen supply is key in a global food–fertilizer price crisis98
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets98
Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries96
The urgent need for designing greener drugs93
Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment93
On the plastics crisis91
Polymeric membranes with highly homogenized nanopores for ultrafast water purification88
Global wood harvest is sufficient for climate-friendly transitions to timber cities86
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world84
The broader benefits of waste system investments in the global south84
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals84
Financing the Green New Deal83
Methane emissions from landfills differentially underestimated worldwide82
All-temperature zinc batteries with high-entropy aqueous electrolyte81
Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically81
Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production81
Impacts of aggressive driving on transport emissions in China80
Effects of demand and recycling on the when and where of lithium extraction80
Elevated fires during COVID-19 lockdown and the vulnerability of protected areas79
Housing policies and energy efficiency spillovers in low and moderate income communities78
Recognizing the long-term impacts of plastic particles for preventing distortion in decision-making77
Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions77
Tailored synthesis of circular polyolefins77
Biodiversity consequences of cropland abandonment77
Trends in tropical forest loss and the social value of emission reductions76
War’s cascading global effects75
Towards process-oriented management of tropical reefs in the anthropocene75
Author Correction: Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit74
Leveraging edge artificial intelligence for sustainable agriculture74
Holistic climate change adaptation for World Heritage74
Atomically dispersed bimetallic Fe–Co electrocatalysts for green production of ammonia73
The emergence of cooperation from shared goals in the governance of common-pool resources73
Sustainable palm fruit harvesting as a pathway to conserve Amazon peatland forests73
Preventing lead release from perovskites72
Polymeric membranes with aligned zeolite nanosheets for sustainable energy storage71
Sensing as the key to battery lifetime and sustainability71
Jobs lost and found in sustainability transitions70
EPR policy falls short70
Cities dried up by few69
Author Correction: Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America69
An innovative, sustainable, no-kill sea urchin aquaculture method68
Network metrics guide good control choices68
Thirteen steps to transformation68
Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit66
Pathways to sustainable plastics66
Rising socio-economic costs of PM2.5 pollution and medical service mismatching66
Guiding large-scale management of invasive species using network metrics66
The vulnerability of global forests to human and climate impacts64
Supplying ecosystem services on US rangelands64
The overlooked health impacts of extreme rainfall exposure in 30 East Asian cities64
Clinical sustainability63
Upcycling contaminated plastics63
Strategic planning to mitigate mining impacts on protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon62
Global declines of offshore gas flaring inadequate to meet the 2030 goal61
Human fingerprint on structural density of forests globally61
Co-benefits of transport demand reductions from compact urban development in Chinese cities61
Capture fog for clean water60
Efficient CO and acrolein co-production via paired electrolysis60
A vision for sustainable additive manufacturing59
Impacts of global trade on cropland soil-phosphorus depletion and food security59
Re-thinking procurement incentives for electric vehicles to achieve net-zero emissions59
Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being59
Long-term evidence for ecological intensification as a pathway to sustainable agriculture58
Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests58
Ammonia recovery from nitrate-rich wastewater using a membrane-free electrochemical system57
Unevenly distributed biological invasion costs among origin and recipient regions56
Axial alignment of covalent organic framework membranes for giant osmotic energy harvesting56
Drowning carbon sinks?55
A two-salt solution for batteries55
Identifying biases in the global placement of river gauges55
The economics of reversing fisheries-induced evolution55
Diversified cropping systems with limited carbon accrual but increased nitrogen supply54
Viability and desirability of financing conservation in Africa through fire management54
Sustained productivity and agronomic potential of perennial rice54
Displacing fishmeal with protein derived from stranded methane54
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers54
Continuing large-scale global trade and illegal trade of highly hazardous chemicals53
Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America53
Recycled micro-sized silicon anode for high-voltage lithium-ion batteries53
Electrochemical lithium recycling from spent batteries with electricity generation52
Artificial intelligence in sustainable development research52
Chemical recycling of a lignin-based non-isocyanate polyurethane foam52
On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar’s biggest mine52
Effects of expanding electric vehicle charging stations in California on the housing market51
Including stewardship in ecosystem health assessment51
Transformative localization to accelerate the 2030 Agenda51
Ten principles for transforming economics in a time of global crises50
Sustainable power generation from sewage with engineered microorganisms as electrocatalysts50
Principles for transformative ocean governance50
Towards a unified understanding of human–nature interactions50
A fairer and more effective carbon tax50
Impact of the Russia–Ukraine armed conflict on water resources and water infrastructure49
Achieving sustainability of greenhouses by integrating stable semi-transparent organic photovoltaics49
A seaweed aquaculture imperative to meet global sustainability targets49
Best practices for oxygen electrocatalysis48
Rebound in China’s coastal wetlands following conservation and restoration48
Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers48
Bioinspired hierarchical porous membrane for efficient uranium extraction from seawater48
Lockdowns and fire in Madagascar’s parks47
A green solvent increases the stability of a perovskite ink for scalable processing47
Resilience of reefs to overfishing46
The Earth alignment principle for artificial intelligence46
Turning Greenland’s sand into gold46
Blueprint for phosphorus efficiency46
Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions45
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption45
Change in cooling degree days with global mean temperature rise increasing from 1.5 °C to 2.0 °C45
Job–environment feedbacks44
Returning to core principles to advance the 2030 Agenda44
Material efficiency to tackle the sand crisis44
Assessing the economic viability of unconventional rare earth element feedstocks44
Cross-national public acceptance of sustainable global supply chain policy instruments43
Modelling dynamic ecosystem services43
Identifying gaps in systems-based plastic pollution literature43
Characterizing culture’s influence in land systems43
Progress towards sustainable agriculture hampered by siloed scientific discourses42
Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network41
The mixed effects of recent cover crop adoption on US cropland productivity41
Lights on at any cost40
Author Correction: Pathways to sustaining tuna-dependent Pacific Island economies during climate change40
Newer roots for agriculture40
Author Correction: Persistent impact of Fukushima decontamination on soil erosion and suspended sediment40
The future of large-scale solar interfacial desalination39
Community contributions to sustainability science39
Stabilizing oxygen redox chemistry for the realization of high-capacity batteries38
Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions38
The cultural evolution of collective property rights for sustainable resource governance38
Disaster recovery via social capital38
Overlooked risks and opportunities in groundwatersheds of the world’s protected areas37
Adaptive capacity for multimodal transport network resilience to extreme floods37
A smart way to wrap a building37
Present and future limits to climate change adaptation37
Solar-enhanced low-temperature biological wastewater treatment37
Olfactory misinformation reduces wheat seed loss caused by rodent pests36
Leveraging biodiversity to maximize nutrition and resilience of global fisheries36
Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards for sustainable electronics36
Reducing global land-use pressures with seaweed farming36
Ocean alkalinity enhancement through restoration of blue carbon ecosystems35
Economically viable electrocatalytic ethylene production with high yield and selectivity35
Human and infrastructure exposure to large wildfires in the United States35
On-device lead-absorbing tapes for sustainable perovskite solar cells35
Sustainable high-strength macrofibres extracted from natural bamboo35
Electrochemical ammonia recovery and co-production of chemicals from manure wastewater35
Losses and lifetimes of metals in the economy35
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