Nature Sustainability

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Sustainability is 9. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The Global Climate Hub556
Citizen science tackles plastics in Ghana468
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions with nanofertilizers348
Reversal of the levee effect towards sustainable floodplain management339
A river delta in transition308
An exploration of biodiversity limits to grazing ruminant milk and meat production302
Ferric sauce for potassium-ion battery300
Sustained productivity and the persistence of coral reef fisheries293
Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics267
Sustainable polymer coating for stainproof fabrics262
Advancing bio-based materials for sustainable solutions to food packaging258
Globally elevated greenhouse gas emissions from polluted urban rivers256
An all-weather radiative human body cooling textile255
How disruptive climate protests can benefit the broader climate movement253
Narratives for change250
Squeezed by inflation246
A waste-free future for fashion233
Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems229
Author Correction: Contribution of double-cropped maize ethanol in Brazil to sustainable development229
The human factor in seasonal streamflows across natural and managed watersheds of North America229
Embedded order boosts battery membranes228
Re-operating dams in the Mekong221
Publisher Correction: Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion220
Effective progress and implementation of the INC-5 plastics treaty through scientific guidance217
Technology-minded climate delegates support less stringent climate policies215
Impacts of climate litigation on firm value210
Telecoupled impacts of the Russia–Ukraine war on global cropland expansion and biodiversity207
Politics, power and planting trees205
Polyamides go circular200
Deep-sea mining poses an unjustifiable environmental risk186
Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency182
High-entropy single-atom activated carbon catalysts for sustainable oxygen electrocatalysis178
Direct recycling of spent cathode material at ambient conditions via spontaneous lithiation174
Widespread Amazonian dark earth in the Xingu Indigenous Territory171
Impact of socio-demographic trends on the future health burden of air pollution165
Using solar farms as a platform for the ecological restoration of arid soils162
Evaluating the impacts and mechanisms of locally managed marine areas162
Coral reefs and coastal tourism in Hawaii162
Tracking millions of farmland trees in India reveals a considerable decline of large trees159
Seagrass ecosystems as green urban infrastructure to mediate human pathogens in seafood156
A new approach to ecological zoning of the Earth in a changing climate156
Recycling bias and reduction neglect155
Mercury risk in blue carbon ecosystems147
Aquatic foods at the nutrition–environment nexus146
An ecotoxicological view on malaria vector control with ivermectin-treated cattle144
Upcycle for enhanced performance140
Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia139
Energy recovery and saving in municipal wastewater treatment engineering practices134
Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China133
Records reveal the vast historical extent of European oyster reef ecosystems132
Pathways to advanced resource recovery from sewage130
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean129
Paving the way for sustainable decarbonization of the European cement industry125
Strengthening global plastic policy with systems analysis123
Reducing lead toxicity of perovskite solar cells with a built-in supramolecular complex120
The role of high-biodiversity regions in preserving Nature’s Contributions to People119
Best practices for solar water production technologies118
Carbon emissions of 5G mobile networks in China116
A global conservation basic income is achievable for a fraction of the costs of inaction115
Telecoupled systems are rewired by risks114
Ecological role of offshore structures109
China’s food news going forward108
Evaluating marine areas in Fiji106
The politics of influence in biodiversity offsetting105
Beyond just floodwater104
Strategic stream gauging network design for sustainable water management103
Navigating sustainability trade-offs in global beef production103
Global wood harvest is sufficient for climate-friendly transitions to timber cities103
Critical research in the water-related multi-hazard field103
Recreational killing of wild animals can foster environmental stewardship102
Reducing the burden of anaemia in Indian women of reproductive age with clean-air targets101
The broader benefits of waste system investments in the global south98
On the plastics crisis97
Spatially differentiated nitrogen supply is key in a global food–fertilizer price crisis96
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world89
Mobile apps for 30×30 equity89
Polymeric membranes with highly homogenized nanopores for ultrafast water purification88
Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan-tropically88
All-temperature zinc batteries with high-entropy aqueous electrolyte87
Reducing supply risk of critical materials for clean energy via foreign direct investment86
Scientific evidence on the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals86
The urgent need for designing greener drugs86
Methane emissions from landfills differentially underestimated worldwide86
Low-cost iron trichloride cathode for all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries84
Financing the Green New Deal84
Trends in tropical forest loss and the social value of emission reductions82
Towards process-oriented management of tropical reefs in the anthropocene82
Impacts of aggressive driving on transport emissions in China82
Preventing lead release from perovskites82
Holistic climate change adaptation for World Heritage81
Biodiversity consequences of cropland abandonment80
War’s cascading global effects79
Author Correction: Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit78
Distributed production of ready-to-use liquid nitrogenous fertilizer78
Effects of demand and recycling on the when and where of lithium extraction78
Tailored synthesis of circular polyolefins78
Sustainable palm fruit harvesting as a pathway to conserve Amazon peatland forests76
Elevated fires during COVID-19 lockdown and the vulnerability of protected areas76
Housing policies and energy efficiency spillovers in low and moderate income communities76
Recognizing the long-term impacts of plastic particles for preventing distortion in decision-making75
The emergence of cooperation from shared goals in the governance of common-pool resources75
Polymeric membranes with aligned zeolite nanosheets for sustainable energy storage75
Sensing as the key to battery lifetime and sustainability74
Impacts of poverty alleviation on national and global carbon emissions74
Jobs lost and found in sustainability transitions73
Leveraging edge artificial intelligence for sustainable agriculture73
EPR policy falls short73
Atomically dispersed bimetallic Fe–Co electrocatalysts for green production of ammonia73
Author Correction: Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America72
Thirteen steps to transformation72
Cities dried up by few72
Network metrics guide good control choices71
Agricultural intensification, Indigenous stewardship and land sparing in tropical dry forests70
An innovative, sustainable, no-kill sea urchin aquaculture method70
Greenhouse gases reduce the satellite carrying capacity of low Earth orbit70
Guiding large-scale management of invasive species using network metrics70
Strategic planning to mitigate mining impacts on protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon69
The vulnerability of global forests to human and climate impacts68
Global declines of offshore gas flaring inadequate to meet the 2030 goal68
Upcycling contaminated plastics66
Supplying ecosystem services on US rangelands66
Clinical sustainability64
Rising socio-economic costs of PM2.5 pollution and medical service mismatching64
Capture fog for clean water63
Impacts of global trade on cropland soil-phosphorus depletion and food security62
Co-benefits of transport demand reductions from compact urban development in Chinese cities62
Efficient CO and acrolein co-production via paired electrolysis62
Pathways to sustainable plastics62
A vision for sustainable additive manufacturing62
Re-thinking procurement incentives for electric vehicles to achieve net-zero emissions62
Axial alignment of covalent organic framework membranes for giant osmotic energy harvesting61
The overlooked health impacts of extreme rainfall exposure in 30 East Asian cities61
Human fingerprint on structural density of forests globally61
Unevenly distributed biological invasion costs among origin and recipient regions60
Ammonia recovery from nitrate-rich wastewater using a membrane-free electrochemical system59
Long-term evidence for ecological intensification as a pathway to sustainable agriculture58
Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being58
Identifying biases in the global placement of river gauges57
Drowning carbon sinks?56
Viability and desirability of financing conservation in Africa through fire management55
Transformative localization to accelerate the 2030 Agenda55
Including stewardship in ecosystem health assessment55
Displacing fishmeal with protein derived from stranded methane55
Ten principles for transforming economics in a time of global crises55
The economics of reversing fisheries-induced evolution55
A two-salt solution for batteries55
Best practices for oxygen electrocatalysis55
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers54
Accelerating innovative water treatment in Latin America54
Electrochemical lithium recycling from spent batteries with electricity generation54
Diversified cropping systems with limited carbon accrual but increased nitrogen supply54
Artificial intelligence in sustainable development research54
Sustained productivity and agronomic potential of perennial rice54
Impact of the Russia–Ukraine armed conflict on water resources and water infrastructure53
On track to achieve no net loss of forest at Madagascar’s biggest mine53
Achieving sustainability of greenhouses by integrating stable semi-transparent organic photovoltaics53
Rebound in China’s coastal wetlands following conservation and restoration53
A fairer and more effective carbon tax53
Principles for transformative ocean governance51
Chemical recycling of a lignin-based non-isocyanate polyurethane foam51
A seaweed aquaculture imperative to meet global sustainability targets50
Carbon-efficient carbon dioxide electrolysers50
Effects of expanding electric vehicle charging stations in California on the housing market50
Sustainable power generation from sewage with engineered microorganisms as electrocatalysts50
Recycled micro-sized silicon anode for high-voltage lithium-ion batteries50
Towards a unified understanding of human–nature interactions49
Bioinspired hierarchical porous membrane for efficient uranium extraction from seawater49
A green solvent increases the stability of a perovskite ink for scalable processing49
Continuing large-scale global trade and illegal trade of highly hazardous chemicals49
Blueprint for phosphorus efficiency48
Lockdowns and fire in Madagascar’s parks48
Cross-national public acceptance of sustainable global supply chain policy instruments47
Resilience of reefs to overfishing47
Job–environment feedbacks46
Characterizing culture’s influence in land systems46
Turning Greenland’s sand into gold46
The Earth alignment principle for artificial intelligence46
Progress towards sustainable agriculture hampered by siloed scientific discourses45
Returning to core principles to advance the 2030 Agenda45
Identifying gaps in systems-based plastic pollution literature45
Change in cooling degree days with global mean temperature rise increasing from 1.5 °C to 2.0 °C45
Material efficiency to tackle the sand crisis45
Assessing placement bias of the global river gauge network45
The mixed effects of recent cover crop adoption on US cropland productivity44
Global evidence of human well-being and biodiversity impacts of natural climate solutions44
Modelling dynamic ecosystem services43
Assessing the economic viability of unconventional rare earth element feedstocks42
Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption42
Author Correction: Pathways to sustaining tuna-dependent Pacific Island economies during climate change41
Lights on at any cost41
Newer roots for agriculture41
Author Correction: Persistent impact of Fukushima decontamination on soil erosion and suspended sediment41
Stabilizing oxygen redox chemistry for the realization of high-capacity batteries40
The future of large-scale solar interfacial desalination40
Ocean alkalinity enhancement through restoration of blue carbon ecosystems40
Community contributions to sustainability science40
Losses and lifetimes of metals in the economy39
A smart way to wrap a building39
Political strategies for climate and environmental solutions39
Overlooked risks and opportunities in groundwatersheds of the world’s protected areas39
Leveraging biodiversity to maximize nutrition and resilience of global fisheries38
Solar-enhanced low-temperature biological wastewater treatment38
Olfactory misinformation reduces wheat seed loss caused by rodent pests38
Disaster recovery via social capital38
Adaptive capacity for multimodal transport network resilience to extreme floods38
The cultural evolution of collective property rights for sustainable resource governance38
Human and infrastructure exposure to large wildfires in the United States37
Present and future limits to climate change adaptation37
Recyclable vitrimer-based printed circuit boards for sustainable electronics36
Economically viable electrocatalytic ethylene production with high yield and selectivity36
Author Correction: A sunlight-responsive metal–organic framework system for sustainable water desalination36
Reducing global land-use pressures with seaweed farming36
Electrochemical ammonia recovery and co-production of chemicals from manure wastewater36
Sustainable high-strength macrofibres extracted from natural bamboo36
On-device lead-absorbing tapes for sustainable perovskite solar cells36
Solving poverty need not cost the Earth35
Minimize oil palm plantation expansion with game theory35
Networking for food production35
A better fate for PVC35
Author Correction: Changes in global fluvial sediment concentrations and fluxes between 1985 and 202035
Catalytic proton exchange in water distillation for efficient tritiated water clean-up34
Messaging risk to drive coastal adaptation34
Sensitive tree species remain at risk despite improved air quality benefits to US forests34
Upcycling surplus acetone into long-chain chemicals using a tandem electro-biosystem34
Industrial-scale sustainable rare earth mining enabled by electrokinetics33
Artificial reef footprint in the United States ocean33
Renewable and safer bisphenol A substitutes enabled by selective zeolite alkylation33
Synergies and trade-offs of multi-use solar landscapes32
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Bycatch rates in fisheries largely driven by variation in individual vessel behaviour32
Highly unequal carbon footprints32
Revealing building operating carbon dynamics for multiple cities32
Synthesis of liquid nitrogenous fertilizer via a nitrogen conversion balance31
Unintended consequences of using maps to communicate sea-level rise31
Integrated assessment of river development on downstream marine fisheries and ecosystems31
Distributional impacts of carbon pricing in developing Asia30
Unlocking aquifer sustainability through irrigator-driven groundwater conservation30
Quantifying timber illegality risk in the Brazilian forest frontier30
Harnessing infrared solar energy with plasmonic energy upconversion30
Effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services after loss and uncertainty of compensation30
Intensive millet–pig systems supported the rise of complex societies in North China29
Opportunities to curb hydrological alterations via dam re-operation in the Mekong29
Investing wisely in land restoration29
Future socio-ecosystem productivity threatened by compound drought–heatwave events29
Explaining the diverse values assigned to environmental benefits across countries29
Social–ecological benefits of land–sea planning at multiple scales in Mesoamerica29
Turning sun and seawater into disinfectant29
Technologies turning waste into food and feed have limited environmental benefits29
Plastics are just the tip of the iceberg29
Respiratory risks from wildfire-specific PM2.5 across multiple countries and territories28
Tools and methods for monitoring the health of the urban greenery28
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