The scientific journal Nature has published an exclusive list of research papers that have gained the most attention from policymakers. When economics articles are excluded– which otherwise dominate the list – three articles authored or co-written by Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), are featured in the top ten.
Most-cited papers — excluding economics research
- Planetary boundaries: guiding human development on a changing planet, Science (2015)
- Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems, The Lancet (2019)
- A safe operating space for humanity, Nature (2009)
For the analysis, the London-based firm Overton accumulated around 1,100 citations in policy documents and maintained a database of more than 12 million policy documents, think-tank papers, white papers and guidelines. Nature does point out, however, that Overton’s database has a bias towards documents published in English.
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