Most-cited Environmental Science papers of 2018, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Environmental Science research papers published in 2018, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers
   Joseph Poore, Thomas Nemecek · 2018 · 6,063 citations
2. The biomass distribution on Earth
   Yinon M. Bar‐On, Rob Phillips et al. · 2018 · 3,720 citations
3. Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity
   Andrea J. Reid, Andrew K. Carlson et al. · 2018 · 3,632 citations
4. Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins
   Ben Purvis, Yong Jian Mao et al. · 2018 · 3,259 citations · Free PDF
5. Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
   Will Steffen, Johan Rockström et al. · 2018 · 3,125 citations
6. Cyanobacterial blooms
   Jef Huisman, Geoffrey A. Codd et al. · 2018 · 2,892 citations · Free PDF
7. Assessing nature's contributions to people
   Sandra M. Díaz, Unai Pascual et al. · 2018 · 2,881 citations
8. Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter
   Richard Thomas Burnett, Hong Chen et al. · 2018 · 2,503 citations
9. A review of statistically-based landslide susceptibility models
   Paola Reichenbach, Mauro Rossi et al. · 2018 · 2,363 citations
10. Classifying drivers of global forest loss
    Philip G. Curtis, Christy M. Slay et al. · 2018 · 2,336 citations
11. Global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016
    Melanie J. Froude, David N. Petley · 2018 · 2,319 citations · Free PDF
12. A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil
    Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Angela Oliverio et al. · 2018 · 2,317 citations
13. Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene
    Terry P. Hughes, Kristen D. Anderson et al. · 2018 · 2,221 citations · Free PDF
14. Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks
    Franciska T. de Vries, Robert Iwan Griffiths et al. · 2018 · 2,111 citations · Free PDF
15. Rainfall–runoff modelling using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks
    Frederik Kratzert, Daniel Klotz et al. · 2018 · 2,099 citations · Free PDF
16. Meat consumption, health, and the environment
    H. Charles J. Godfray, Paul N Aveyard et al. · 2018 · 2,084 citations
17. Textile dye wastewater characteristics and constituents of synthetic effluents: a critical review
    Dina Ali Yaseen, Miklas Scholz · 2018 · 2,033 citations · Free PDF
18. Impacts of Microplastics on the Soil Biophysical Environment
    Anderson Abel de Souza Machado, Chung Wai Lau et al. · 2018 · 1,893 citations
19. Microplastics in Seafood and the Implications for Human Health
    Madeleine P. Smith, David C. Love et al. · 2018 · 1,884 citations · Free PDF
20. An Ensemble Version of the E‐OBS Temperature and Precipitation Data Sets
    Richard Cornes, Gerard van der Schrier et al. · 2018 · 1,864 citations
21. Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic
    Laurent Lebreton, Boyan Slat et al. · 2018 · 1,844 citations · Free PDF
22. Antibiotic Use in Agriculture and Its Consequential Resistance in Environmental Sources: Potential Public Health Implications
    Christy Echakachi Manyi-Loh, Sampson Mamphweli et al. · 2018 · 1,809 citations · Free PDF
23. The health benefits of the great outdoors: A systematic review and meta-analysis of greenspace exposure and health outcomes
    Caoimhe Twohig-Bennett, Andy Jones · 2018 · 1,749 citations
24. Ammonia Clathrate Hydrate As Seen from Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulations
    Balázs Fábián, Sylvain Picaud et al. · 2018 · 1,700 citations
25. Solid waste issue: Sources, composition, disposal, recycling, and valorization
    Hussein I. Abdel‐Shafy, Mona S. M. Mansour · 2018 · 1,694 citations

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