| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Moving towards a sustainable environment: The dynamic linkage between natural resources, human capital, urbanization, economic growth, and ecological footprint in China | Resources Policy | 2020 | 702 |
| 2 | Rare earth elements as critical raw materials: Focus on international markets and future strategies | Resources Policy | 2013 | 613 |
| 3 | Exploring the origins of ‘social license to operate’ in the mining sector: Perspectives from governance and sustainability theories | Resources Policy | 2012 | 584 |
| 4 | The paths to social licence to operate: An integrative model explaining community acceptance of mining | Resources Policy | 2014 | 503 |
| 5 | The impact of natural resources, human capital, and foreign direct investment on the ecological footprint: The case of the United States | Resources Policy | 2019 | 476 |
| 6 | The evolution of the natural resource curse thesis: A critical literature survey | Resources Policy | 2017 | 465 |
| 7 | Social licence and mining: A critical perspective | Resources Policy | 2013 | 455 |
| 8 | The dynamic impact of natural resources, technological innovations and economic growth on ecological footprint: An advanced panel data estimation | Resources Policy | 2020 | 409 |
| 9 | The linkages between natural resources, human capital, globalization, economic growth, financial development, and ecological footprint: The moderating role of technological innovations | Resources Policy | 2022 | 371 |
| 10 | The Environmental sustainability of mining in Australia: key mega-trends and looming constraints | Resources Policy | 2010 | 365 |
| 11 | An almost practical step toward sustainability | Resources Policy | 1993 | 360 |
| 12 | Natural resource abundance and economic growth revisited | Resources Policy | 2005 | 350 |
| 13 | Sustainable development in the mining industry: clarifying the corporate perspective | Resources Policy | 2000 | 321 |
| 14 | Resource abundance, industrial structure, and regional carbon emissions efficiency in China | Resources Policy | 2019 | 317 |
| 15 | Corporate Social Responsibility in the extractive industries: Experiences from developing countries | Resources Policy | 2012 | 315 |
| 16 | Oil spills on other commodities | Resources Policy | 2007 | 306 |
| 17 | The crude oil market and the gold market: Evidence for cointegration, causality and price discovery | Resources Policy | 2010 | 304 |
| 18 | The macroeconomic determinants of volatility in precious metals markets | Resources Policy | 2010 | 303 |
| 19 | Rare earths supply chains: Current status, constraints and opportunities | Resources Policy | 2014 | 282 |
| 20 | Natural resource abundance, technological innovation, and human capital nexus with financial development: A case study of China | Resources Policy | 2020 | 277 |
| 21 | An analysis of factors leading to the establishment of a social licence to operate in the mining industry | Resources Policy | 2013 | 270 |
| 22 | Is gold a hedge or safe haven against oil price movements? | Resources Policy | 2013 | 267 |
| 23 | Asymmetric impact of gold, oil prices and their volatilities on stock prices of emerging markets | Resources Policy | 2016 | 252 |
| 24 | Using the cumulative availability curve to assess the threat of mineral depletion: The case of lithium | Resources Policy | 2009 | 247 |
| 25 | Global renewable energy development: Influencing factors, trend predictions and countermeasures | Resources Policy | 2019 | 247 |
| 26 | Dynamic linkages among oil price, gold price, exchange rate, and stock market in India | Resources Policy | 2016 | 242 |
| 27 | Global trends in gold mining: Towards quantifying environmental and resource sustainability | Resources Policy | 2007 | 238 |
| 28 | Social impact assessment in the mining sector: Review and comparison of indicators frameworks | Resources Policy | 2018 | 236 |
| 29 | Assessing the environmental sustainability corridor: Linking natural resources, renewable energy, human capital, and ecological footprint in BRICS. | Resources Policy | 2021 | 236 |
| 30 | An overview of global gold market and gold price forecasting | Resources Policy | 2010 | 231 |
| 31 | Challenges with eradicating illegal mining in Ghana: A perspective from the grassroots | Resources Policy | 2008 | 223 |
| 32 | Is natural resource abundance a stimulus for financial development in the USA? | Resources Policy | 2018 | 222 |
| 33 | How do energy consumption and environmental regulation affect carbon emissions in China? New evidence from a dynamic threshold panel model | Resources Policy | 2020 | 218 |
| 34 | Corruption in natural resource management: Implications for policy makers | Resources Policy | 2009 | 213 |
| 35 | Sustainable development principles for the disposal of mining and mineral processing wastes | Resources Policy | 2011 | 213 |
| 36 | How COVID-19 drives connectedness among commodity and financial markets: Evidence from TVP-VAR and causality-in-quantiles techniques | Resources Policy | 2021 | 213 |
| 37 | Nexus between energy poverty and energy efficiency: Estimating the long-run dynamics | Resources Policy | 2021 | 212 |
| 38 | Testing the fluctuations of oil resource price volatility: A hurdle for economic recovery | Resources Policy | 2022 | 208 |
| 39 | Natural resources and economic growth in Africa: The role of institutional quality and human capital | Resources Policy | 2019 | 205 |
| 40 | An analysis of interactions among critical success factors to implement green supply chain management towards sustainability: An Indian perspective | Resources Policy | 2015 | 204 |
| 41 | Does uncertainty move the gold price? New evidence from a nonparametric causality-in-quantiles test | Resources Policy | 2016 | 200 |
| 42 | Development on whose terms?: CSR discourse and social realities in Papua New Guinea's extractive industries sector | Resources Policy | 2012 | 199 |
| 43 | Research on the impact of green finance on the upgrading of China's regional industrial structure from the perspective of sustainable development | Resources Policy | 2021 | 197 |
| 44 | Impact of crude oil price volatility on economic activities: An empirical investigation in the Thai economy | Resources Policy | 2009 | 196 |
| 45 | How to evaluate raw material supply risks—an overview | Resources Policy | 2013 | 194 |
| 46 | Rare earth elements in China: Policies and narratives of reinventing an industry | Resources Policy | 2013 | 192 |
| 47 | Nexus between green finance, fintech, and high-quality economic development: Empirical evidence from China | Resources Policy | 2021 | 190 |
| 48 | Explaining the resource curse, with special reference to mineral-exporting countries | Resources Policy | 1997 | 189 |
| 49 | Natural resources, tourism development, and energy-growth-CO2 emission nexus: A simultaneity modeling analysis of BRI countries | Resources Policy | 2020 | 189 |
| 50 | Energy endowment, industrial structure upgrading, and CO2 emissions in China: Revisiting resource curse in the context of carbon emissions | Resources Policy | 2021 | 189 |
