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Global Sustainability
H-index 25

Global Sustainability

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Environmental Sciences 266 63 47 20

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 167
Documents by Best Scientists*: 92
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 14
SCIMAGO H-index: 33
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.495
Impact Factor: 5.8

Top Publications

  • Discourses of climate delay

    William F. Lamb;Giulio Mattioli;Sebastian Levi;J. Timmons Roberts

    (2020)
    541 Citations
  • Global recognition of the importance of nature-based solutions to the impacts of climate change

    Nathalie Seddon;Elizabeth Daniels;Rowan Davis;Alexandre Chausson

    (2020)
    226 Citations
  • Operationalising positive tipping points towards global sustainability

    (2022)
    98 Citations
  • How to assess sustainability transformations: a review

    Anna Salomaa;Sirkku Juhola

    (2020)
    91 Citations
  • Assessment of the growth in social groups for sustainable agriculture and land management

    Jules Pretty;Simon Attwood;Richard Bawden;Henk van den Berg

    (2020)
    78 Citations
  • Use your power for good: plural valuation of nature – the Oaxaca statement

    Sander Jacobs;Noelia Zafra-Calvo;David Gonzales-Jimenez;Louise Guibrunet

    (2020)
    75 Citations
  • Ten new insights in climate science 2021: a horizon scan

    (2021)
    58 Citations
  • Solving the climate crisis: Lessons from ozone depletion and COVID-19

    Mark P. Baldwin;Timothy M. Lenton

    (2020)
    54 Citations
  • Towards a bridging concept for undesirable resilience in social-ecological systems

    André Z. Dornelles;Emily Boyd;Richard J. Nunes;Mike Asquith

    (2020)
    49 Citations
  • Global redistribution of income and household energy footprints: a computational thought experiment

    Y. Oswald;J.K. Steinberger;D. Ivanova;J. Millward-Hopkins

    (2021)
    48 Citations

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