OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Sustainability is 86. 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.)

Article	Citations
Ferric sauce for potassium-ion battery	580
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers	486
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers	377
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production	371
Global industrial emissions of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	333
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries	319
The Global Climate Hub	316
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana	299
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management	283
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics	276
A river delta in transition	276
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics	267
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging	267
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile	263
Narratives for change	258
Squeezed by inflation	253
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement	252
A waste-free future for fashion	250
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies	246
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development	245
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems	242
Embedded order boosts battery membranes	236
Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion	226
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation	223
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America	222

Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk	213
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value	201
Effective progress and implementation of the INC-5 plastics treaty through scientific guidance	198
Polyamides go circular	195
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency	194
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis	187
Re-operating dams in the Mekong	179
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity	175
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution	174
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas	172
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory	172
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils	168
Closing emission gaps in border carbon adjustments for chemicals and plastics	164
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus	163
Upcycle for enhanced performance	162
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems	153
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems	153
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle	145
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood	145
Tracking millions of farmland trees in India reveals a considerable decline of large trees	144
A new approach to ecological zoning of the Earth in a changing climate	143
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China	142
Embodied emissions of chemicals within the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism	137
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii	136
Nationally localized strategies for zero-carbon municipal solid waste management	135
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage	133
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis	132
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices	129
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex	129
Best practices for solar water production technologies	128
Recycling bias and reduction neglect	122
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia	117
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People	115
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry	114
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean	112
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China	112
A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction	111
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji	109
Ecological role of offshore structures	109
The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting	107
Global wood harvest is sufficient for climate-friendly transitions to timber cities	107
The broader benefits of waste system investments in the global south	104
Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production	100
Beyond just floodwater	97
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management	97
Mobile apps for 30×30 equity	96
An alliance for the bioeconomy	94
On the plastics crisis	94
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks	92
Polymeric membranes with highly homogenized nanopores for ultrafast water purification	92

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world	91
Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment	91
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship	90
Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries	90
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets	90
Critical research in the water-related multi-hazard field	89
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals	88
Methane emissions from landfills differentially underestimated worldwide	88
Spatially differentiated nitrogen supply is key in a global food–fertilizer price crisis	87
Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically	86
Financing the Green New Deal	86
The urgent need for designing greener drugs	86