# 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2737217596) · 18,542 citations
2. [WorldClim 2: new 1‐km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2614464134) · 17,178 citations
3. [Google Earth Engine: Planetary-scale geospatial analysis for everyone](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2725897987) · 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2607350314) · 6,597 citations · Free PDF
5. [SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2588003345) · 4,740 citations · Free PDF
6. [River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2604316091) · 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2761590587) · 3,869 citations
8. [Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2598701004) · 3,662 citations · Free PDF
9. [Plastic and Human Health: A Micro Issue?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2620099204) · 3,405 citations
10. [Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature, Version 5 (ERSSTv5): Upgrades, Validations, and Intercomparisons](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2738516213) · 3,240 citations
11. [Modelling and Interpretation of Adsorption Isotherms](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2752698709) · 2,948 citations
12. [Opening the black box: an open‐source release of Maxent](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2598320237) · 2,878 citations
13. [Stochastic Community Assembly: Does It Matter in Microbial Ecology?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2761955173) · 2,781 citations · Free PDF
14. [A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2766358903) · 2,711 citations · Free PDF
15. [Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Aquatic Environments: Aggregation, Deposition, and Enhanced Contaminant Transport](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2779282391) · 2,687 citations
16. [Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2724327356) · 2,641 citations
17. [GLEAM v3: satellite-based land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2485420366) · 2,627 citations
18. [No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2589100885) · 2,568 citations · Free PDF
19. [Significant Remote Sensing Vegetation Indices: A Review of Developments and Applications](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2617056706) · 2,498 citations
20. [Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2573821892) · 2,495 citations · Free PDF
21. [An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2605932719) · 2,447 citations
22. [Microplastics as an emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2771511416) · 2,362 citations
23. [Real-time Environmental Applications and Display sYstem: READY](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2674884973) · 2,096 citations
24. [Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the freshwater aquatic environment](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2570907753) · 2,029 citations
25. [Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2754769271) · 1,941 citations · Free PDF

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