OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Sustainability is 80. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Regional patterns of wild animal hunting in African tropical forests	512
The case for history in planning future food systems transformations	482
Particulates and anaemia in India	436
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers	414
A fresh start to sustainable sewage nitrogen removal	299
Economic drivers of deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon	298
Translating Earth system boundaries for cities and businesses	292
Drowning carbon sinks?	263
Identifying biases in the global placement of river gauges	259
A titanium dioxide sponge for capturing lead leaking from perovskite solar cells	256
Reverse the Cerrado’s neglect	248
Alarming patterns of mature forest loss in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	247
Viability and desirability of financing conservation in Africa through fire management	242
Towards sustainable aquaculture in the Amazon	233
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics	221
Electrochemical lithium recycling from spent batteries with electricity generation	220
Time to recover	217
Research for greener batteries	217
A truly sustainable future	216
Summers up in smoke	211
The cow in the room	208
From natural capital accounting to natural capital banking	208
Artificial intelligence for reducing the carbon emissions of 5G networks in China	195
Increase in exposure of humans and infrastructure to large wildfires in the United States	194
Response diversity as a sustainability strategy	194

On policies and protests	190
An investment strategy to address biodiversity loss from agricultural expansion	187
Punishment institutions selected and sustained through voting and learning	185
Global bioenergy with carbon capture and storage potential is largely constrained by sustainable irrigation	183
Public health impacts of an imminent Red Sea oil spill	181
Towards a unified understanding of human–nature interactions	179
The motivation–impact gap in pro-environmental clothing consumption	177
Charge carrier unveiled	174
Public–private sharing of carbon sequestration risk	162
Offsetting the greenhouse gas footprint of hydropower with floating solar photovoltaics	158
A fairer and more effective carbon tax	151
Air-stable naphthalene derivative-based electrolytes for sustainable aqueous flow batteries	151
Author Correction: The cultural evolution of collective property rights for sustainable resource governance	151
Author Correction: Effects of fishery bycatch-mitigation measures on vulnerable marine fauna and target catch	149
Lithium recovery from brines	148
A renewable and socially accepted energy system for astronomical telescopes	144
Outcomes and policy focus of environmental litigation in the United States	140
Efficacy of mitigation strategies for aquifer sustainability under climate change	139
A two-salt solution for batteries	133
Analytical utility of the JMP school water, sanitation and hygiene global monitoring data	132
A river delta in transition	130
A responsible energy transition	125
Perry L. McCarty 1931–2023	121
The economics of reversing fisheries-induced evolution	120
Cooperate to save a changing planet	118
Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America	117
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production	117
Principles for transformative ocean governance	115
Weaving nature into social safety nets	113
Author Correction: The importance of capturing management in forest restoration targets	112
Continuing large-scale global trade and illegal trade of highly hazardous chemicals	111
Diminishing returns on labour in the global marine food system	109
Informal and formal markets in meeting water needs	108
Transformative localization to accelerate the 2030 Agenda	107
Space bioprocess engineering as a potential catalyst for sustainability	106
Small Island Developing States under threat by rising seas even in a 1.5 °C warming world	104
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers	102
Severe decline in large farmland trees in India over the past decade	96
Visualizing greener cities	96
The Global Climate Hub	93
Weighing up policy tools	93
Our fifth anniversary	91
Sustainable power generation from sewage with engineered microorganisms as electrocatalysts	91
The ‘Pact for the Future’	89
Systems-level partnerships for sustainability at scale	89
Electrolyte design for lithium-ion batteries with a cobalt-free cathode and silicon oxide anode	88
Olympic legacies and the sustainability agenda	88
Securing oil palm smallholder livelihoods without more deforestation in Indonesia	87
Applying the food–energy–water nexus concept at the local scale	85
A watershed moment for healthy watersheds	83

Historical dynamics of landslide risk from population and forest-cover changes in the Kivu Rift	83
Data needed to decarbonize paratransit in Sub-Saharan Africa	82
Effects of global climate mitigation on regional air quality and health	82
The impact of genetically modified crops on bird diversity	80
Diversified cropping systems with limited carbon accrual but increased nitrogen supply	80