OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Sustainability is 59. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-03-01 to 2023-03-01.)

Article	Citations
China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management	1114
Six Transformations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals	615
Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century	421
Examining different recycling processes for lithium-ion batteries	295
Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals	255
Emerging human infectious diseases and the links to global food production	253
A polydimethylsiloxane-coated metal structure for all-day radiative cooling	235
Infrastructure for sustainable development	227
Social-ecological and technological factors moderate the value of urban nature	224
Connecting climate action with other Sustainable Development Goals	213
Microstructure and surface control of MXene films for water purification	198
Agrivoltaics provide mutual benefits across the food–energy–water nexus in drylands	194
Global forecasts of shipping traffic and biological invasions to 2050	169
Direct human health risks of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide	167
Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy	157
Direct and indirect loss of natural area from urban expansion	154
Research gaps in knowledge of the impact of urban growth on biodiversity	153
Human impacts on planetary boundaries amplified by Earth system interactions	145
China’s CO2 peak before 2030 implied from characteristics and growth of cities	145
Policy design for the Anthropocene	141
Food production shocks across land and sea	139
Countries and the global rate of soil erosion	136
Importance of snow and glacier meltwater for agriculture on the Indo-Gangetic Plain	135
Contributions of sociometabolic research to sustainability science	130
Sustainability in global agriculture driven by organic farming	122
Well-being outcomes of marine protected areas	117
Rethinking resilience to wildfire	117
Meta-analysis of pro-environmental behaviour spillover	116
Air quality in megacity Delhi affected by countryside biomass burning	112
Techno–ecological synergies of solar energy for global sustainability	110
Global emission hotspots of coal power generation	109
Air quality and health benefits from fleet electrification in China	107
The global conservation movement is diverse but not divided	101
A multi-model assessment of food security implications of climate change mitigation	101
Disparities in rooftop photovoltaics deployment in the United States by race and ethnicity	100
Improving network approaches to the study of complex social–ecological interdependencies	100
Income-based variation in Sustainable Development Goal interaction networks	99
The global nexus of food–trade–water sustaining environmental flows by 2050	98
Anthropocene risk	97
Ozone depletion, ultraviolet radiation, climate change and prospects for a sustainable future	91
Unprecedented health costs of smoke-related PM2.5 from the 2019–20 Australian megafires	83
Urban river pollution control in developing countries	81
A more dynamic understanding of human behaviour for the Anthropocene	81
Protecting half of the planet could directly affect over one billion people	78
Reductions in deforestation and poverty from decentralized forest management in Nepal	78
Systems thinking for education about the molecular basis of sustainability	74
Realizing resilience for decision-making	74
Heat exposure and global air conditioning	73
Biodiversity’s contributions to sustainable development	73
Floating treatment wetlands as a suitable option for large-scale wastewater treatment	72
Participation and inclusiveness in the Intergovernmental Science–Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services	69
Flexibility and intensity of global water use	69
Methane removal and atmospheric restoration	68
Leveraging total factor productivity growth for sustainable and resilient farming	68
Modelling the drivers of a widespread shift to sustainable diets	67
Firm-level propagation of shocks through supply-chain networks	66
Environmental and health co-benefits for advanced phosphorus recovery	65
Aridity and reduced soil micronutrient availability in global drylands	65
Expansion of sustainability science needed for the SDGs	64
Massive soybean expansion in South America since 2000 and implications for conservation	63
Mitigating crop yield losses through weed diversity	63
Recyclable thermoset hyperbranched polymers containing reversible hexahydro-s-triazine	62
Our footprint on Antarctica competes with nature for rare ice-free land	60
Governance in socioeconomic pathways and its role for future adaptive capacity	59