OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Sustainability is 87. 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.)

Article	Citations
Ferric sauce for potassium-ion battery	595
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana	490
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production	387
Global industrial emissions of chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	384
The Global Climate Hub	343
Sand-mining-driven reduction in Tonle Sap Lake’s critical flood pulse	330
A river delta in transition	323
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries	321
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics	300
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management	288
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile	286
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers	274
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics	271
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers	267
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging	265
Narratives for change	263
Squeezed by inflation	261
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement	250
A waste-free future for fashion	248
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies	243
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development	242
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems	237
Embedded order boosts battery membranes	233
Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion	226
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk	213

Impacts of climate litigation on firm value	207
Effective progress and implementation of the INC-5 plastics treaty through scientific guidance	206
Polyamides go circular	201
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity	193
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation	189
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America	189
Re-operating dams in the Mekong	179
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis	176
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency	176
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution	175
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas	174
Upcycle for enhanced performance	168
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils	168
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory	164
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems	159
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle	152
Tracking millions of farmland trees in India reveals a considerable decline of large trees	150
A new approach to ecological zoning of the Earth in a changing climate	149
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii	148
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems	144
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China	142
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus	140
Closing emission gaps in border carbon adjustments for chemicals and plastics	139
Embodied emissions of chemicals within the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism	137
Nationally localized strategies for zero-carbon municipal solid waste management	137
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean	136
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China	136
Best practices for solar water production technologies	128
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood	126
Recycling bias and reduction neglect	125
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis	119
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia	119
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry	118
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex	118
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage	115
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices	112
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People	110
A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction	109
Ecological role of offshore structures	102
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji	102
The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting	100
Global wood harvest is sufficient for climate-friendly transitions to timber cities	98
An alliance for the bioeconomy	97
The broader benefits of waste system investments in the global south	97
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks	96
Mobile apps for 30×30 equity	96
Beyond just floodwater	95
Critical research in the water-related multi-hazard field	94
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship	94
Aqueous batteries beating the cold	94

Spatially differentiated nitrogen supply is key in a global food–fertilizer price crisis	93
Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment	93
Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries	92
Methane emissions from landfills differentially underestimated worldwide	91
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management	91
Financing the Green New Deal	91
Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production	91
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals	89
The urgent need for designing greener drugs	89
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets	89
Polymeric membranes with highly homogenized nanopores for ultrafast water purification	89
On the plastics crisis	88
All-temperature zinc batteries with high-entropy aqueous electrolyte	87
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world	87