OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Sustainability is 84. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Global Climate Hub	556
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana	468
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers	348
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management	339
A river delta in transition	308
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production	302
Ferric sauce for potassium-ion battery	300
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries	293
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics	267
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics	262
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging	258
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers	256
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile	255
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement	253
Narratives for change	250
Squeezed by inflation	246
A waste-free future for fashion	233
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development	229
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America	229
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems	229
Embedded order boosts battery membranes	228
Re-operating dams in the Mekong	221
Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion	220
Effective progress and implementation of the INC-5 plastics treaty through scientific guidance	217
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies	215

Impacts of climate litigation on firm value	210
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity	207
Politics, power and planting trees	205
Polyamides go circular	200
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk	186
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency	182
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis	178
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation	174
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory	171
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution	165
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii	162
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils	162
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas	162
Tracking millions of farmland trees in India reveals a considerable decline of large trees	159
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood	156
A new approach to ecological zoning of the Earth in a changing climate	156
Recycling bias and reduction neglect	155
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems	147
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus	146
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle	144
Upcycle for enhanced performance	140
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia	139
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices	134
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China	133
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems	132
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage	130
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean	129
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry	125
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis	123
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex	120
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People	119
Best practices for solar water production technologies	118
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China	116
A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction	115
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks	114
Ecological role of offshore structures	109
China’s food news going forward	108
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji	106
The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting	105
Beyond just floodwater	104
Critical research in the water-related multi-hazard field	103
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management	103
Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production	103
Global wood harvest is sufficient for climate-friendly transitions to timber cities	103
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship	102
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets	101
The broader benefits of waste system investments in the global south	98
On the plastics crisis	97
Spatially differentiated nitrogen supply is key in a global food–fertilizer price crisis	96
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world	89

Mobile apps for 30×30 equity	89
Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically	88
Polymeric membranes with highly homogenized nanopores for ultrafast water purification	88
All-temperature zinc batteries with high-entropy aqueous electrolyte	87
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals	86
The urgent need for designing greener drugs	86
Methane emissions from landfills differentially underestimated worldwide	86
Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment	86
Financing the Green New Deal	84
Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries	84