Most-cited Environmental Science papers of 2017, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Environmental Science research papers published in 2017, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made
   Roland Geyer, Jenna Jambeck et al. · 2017 · 18,542 citations
2. WorldClim 2: new 1‐km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas
   Stephen E. Fick, Robert J. Hijmans · 2017 · 17,178 citations
3. Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone
   Noel Gorelick, M. Hancher et al. · 2017 · 14,817 citations
4. Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015
   Aaron J. Cohen, Michael D Brauer et al. · 2017 · 6,597 citations · Free PDF
5. SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning
   Tomislav Hengl, J.S. Mendes de Jesus et al. · 2017 · 4,740 citations · Free PDF
6. River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans
   Laurent Lebreton, Joost van der Zwet et al. · 2017 · 4,017 citations · Free PDF
7. An overview of chemical additives present in plastics: Migration, release, fate and environmental impact during their use, disposal and recycling
   John Ν. Hahladakis, Costas A. Velis et al. · 2017 · 3,869 citations
8. Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being
   Gretta T. Pecl, Miguel B. Araújo et al. · 2017 · 3,662 citations · Free PDF
9. Plastic and Human Health: A Micro Issue?
   Stephanie Wright, Frank J. Kelly · 2017 · 3,405 citations
10. Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons
    Boyin Huang, Peter Thorne et al. · 2017 · 3,240 citations
11. Modelling and Interpretation of Adsorption Isotherms
    Nimibofa Ayawei, Augustus Newton Ebelegi et al. · 2017 · 2,948 citations
12. Opening the black box: an open‐source release of Maxent
    Steven J. Phillips, Robert P. Anderson et al. · 2017 · 2,878 citations
13. Stochastic Community Assembly: Does It Matter in Microbial Ecology?
    Jizhong Z. Zhou, Daliang Ning · 2017 · 2,781 citations · Free PDF
14. A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity
    Luke Thompson, Jon G. Sanders et al. · 2017 · 2,711 citations · Free PDF
15. Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Aquatic Environments: Aggregation, Deposition, and Enhanced Contaminant Transport
    Olubukola S. Alimi, Jeffrey M. Farner et al. · 2017 · 2,687 citations
16. Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines
    Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich et al. · 2017 · 2,641 citations
17. GLEAM v3: satellite-based land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture
    Brecht Martens, Diego G. Miralles et al. · 2017 · 2,627 citations
18. No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide
    Hanno Seebens, Tim M. Blackburn et al. · 2017 · 2,568 citations · Free PDF
19. Significant Remote Sensing Vegetation Indices: A Review of Developments and Applications
    Jinru Xue, Baofeng Su · 2017 · 2,498 citations
20. Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016
    Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson et al. · 2017 · 2,495 citations · Free PDF
21. An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm
    Eric Dinerstein, David Mark Olson et al. · 2017 · 2,447 citations
22. Microplastics as an emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems
    Anderson Abel de Souza Machado, Werner Kloas et al. · 2017 · 2,362 citations
23. Real-time Environmental Applications and Display sYstem: READY
    Glenn D. Rolph, Ariel Stein et al. · 2017 · 2,096 citations
24. Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the freshwater aquatic environment
    Anekwe Jennifer Ebele, Mohamed Abou‐Elwafa Abdallah et al. · 2017 · 2,029 citations
25. Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities
    Kristy Deiner, Holly M. Bik et al. · 2017 · 1,941 citations · Free PDF

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