Most-cited Environmental Science papers of 2021, with free PDFs
The 25 most-cited Environmental Science research papers published in 2021, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.
- ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications
Joaquín Muñoz‐Sabater, Emanuel Dutra et al. · 2021 · 5,396 citations · Free PDF - Toxic Mechanisms of Five Heavy Metals: Mercury, Lead, Chromium, Cadmium, and Arsenic
Mahdi Balali‐Mood, Kobra Naseri et al. · 2021 · 3,122 citations · Free PDF - The global threat from plastic pollution
Matthew MacLeod, Hans Peter H. Arp et al. · 2021 · 2,929 citations - Agriculture Development, Pesticide Application and Its Impact on the Environment
Muyesaier Tudi, Huada Daniel Ruan et al. · 2021 · 2,669 citations · Free PDF - SoilGrids 2.0: producing soil information for the globe with quantified spatial uncertainty
Luís Moreira de Sousa, Laura Poggio et al. · 2021 · 2,362 citations · Free PDF - Heavy Metals and Pesticides Toxicity in Agricultural Soil and Plants: Ecological Risks and Human Health Implications
Ahmed Alengebawy, Sara Taha Abdelkhalek et al. · 2021 · 2,345 citations · Free PDF - Removal of heavy metal ions from wastewater: a comprehensive and critical review
Naef A.A. Qasem, Ramy H. Mohammed et al. · 2021 · 2,198 citations · Free PDF - Climate Change 2021—The Physical Science Basis
2021 · 2,192 citations - Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts
David L. Wagner, Eliza M. Grames et al. · 2021 · 1,947 citations - Environmental stress destabilizes microbial networks
Damian J. Hernandez, Aaron S. David et al. · 2021 · 1,562 citations · Free PDF - Cadmium toxicity in plants: Impacts and remediation strategies
Fasih Ullah Haider, Cai Liqun et al. · 2021 · 1,546 citations - Microplastics and human health
A. Dick Vethaak, Juliette Legler · 2021 · 1,526 citations - Global land use changes are four times greater than previously estimated
Karina Winkler, Richard Fuchs et al. · 2021 · 1,485 citations · Free PDF - More than 1000 rivers account for 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean
Lourens J. J. Meijer, Tim H. M. van Emmerik et al. · 2021 · 1,413 citations · Free PDF - The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change
Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera, Noah Scovronick et al. · 2021 · 1,341 citations · Free PDF - Various Natural and Anthropogenic Factors Responsible for Water Quality Degradation: A Review
Naseem Akhtar, Muhammad Izzuddin Syakir Ishak et al. · 2021 · 1,341 citations · Free PDF - Origins of Electron-Transfer Regime in Persulfate-Based Nonradical Oxidation Processes
Wei Ren, Cheng Cheng et al. · 2021 · 1,329 citations - Presence of airborne microplastics in human lung tissue
Luís Fernando Amato‐Lourenço, Regiani Carvalho-Oliveira et al. · 2021 · 1,319 citations - VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses
Jiarong Guo, Benjamin Bolduc et al. · 2021 · 1,291 citations · Free PDF - Recent advances on the removal of dyes from wastewater using various adsorbents: a critical review
Soumi Dutta, Bramha Gupta et al. · 2021 · 1,284 citations - Extreme Weather and Climate Change: Population Health and Health System Implications
Kristie L. Ebi, Jennifer Vanos et al. · 2021 · 1,199 citations - Carbon Nitride Supported High‐Loading Fe Single‐Atom Catalyst for Activation of Peroxymonosulfate to Generate 1 O 2 with 100 % Selectivity
Longshuai Zhang, Xunheng Jiang et al. · 2021 · 1,182 citations - Chemical Analysis of Microplastics and Nanoplastics: Challenges, Advanced Methods, and Perspectives
Natalia P. Ivleva · 2021 · 1,155 citations - Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Ecosystem Services, Sustainable Development Goals, and Need to Focus on Circular Economy and Policy Interventions
Rakesh Kumar, Anurag Verma et al. · 2021 · 1,103 citations · Free PDF - Global maps of cropland extent and change show accelerated cropland expansion in the twenty-first century
Peter V. Potapov, Svetlana A. Turubanova et al. · 2021 · 1,092 citations · Free PDF
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