# 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2806569362) · 6,063 citations
2. [The biomass distribution on Earth](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2804910112) · 3,720 citations
3. [Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2901199346) · 3,632 citations
4. [Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2888940799) · 3,259 citations · Free PDF
5. [Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2886281704) · 3,125 citations
6. [Cyanobacterial blooms](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4211010233) · 2,892 citations · Free PDF
7. [Assessing nature's contributions to people](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2782917446) · 2,881 citations
8. [Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2890701797) · 2,503 citations
9. [A review of statistically-based landslide susceptibility models](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2793831793) · 2,363 citations
10. [Classifying drivers of global forest loss](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2890263737) · 2,336 citations
11. [Global fatal landslide occurrence from 2004 to 2016](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2792546905) · 2,319 citations · Free PDF
12. [A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2783192416) · 2,317 citations
13. [Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2782456798) · 2,221 citations · Free PDF
14. [Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2883416811) · 2,111 citations · Free PDF
15. [Rainfall–runoff modelling using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2800819102) · 2,099 citations · Free PDF
16. [Meat consumption, health, and the environment](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2884775052) · 2,084 citations
17. [Textile dye wastewater characteristics and constituents of synthetic effluents: a critical review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2901997077) · 2,033 citations · Free PDF
18. [Impacts of Microplastics on the Soil Biophysical Environment](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2883912728) · 1,893 citations
19. [Microplastics in Seafood and the Implications for Human Health](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2885126584) · 1,884 citations · Free PDF
20. [An Ensemble Version of the E‐OBS Temperature and Precipitation Data Sets](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2887293259) · 1,864 citations
21. [Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2791727655) · 1,844 citations · Free PDF
22. [Antibiotic Use in Agriculture and Its Consequential Resistance in Environmental Sources: Potential Public Health Implications](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2794891594) · 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2812445013) · 1,749 citations
24. [Ammonia Clathrate Hydrate As Seen from Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulations](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2793729526) · 1,700 citations
25. [Solid waste issue: Sources, composition, disposal, recycling, and valorization](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2891799885) · 1,694 citations

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