| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Rare Earth Elements: Overview of Mining, Mineralogy, Uses, Sustainability and Environmental Impact | Resources | 2014 | 395 |
| 2 | Metal Extraction Processes for Electronic Waste and Existing Industrial Routes: A Review and Australian Perspective | Resources | 2014 | 360 |
| 3 | Ecological Footprint Accounting for Countries: Updates and Results of the National Footprint Accounts, 2012–2018 | Resources | 2018 | 219 |
| 4 | An Introduction to Environmentally-Extended Input-Output Analysis | Resources | 2013 | 215 |
| 5 | The Potential Phosphorus Crisis: Resource Conservation and Possible Escape Technologies: A Review | Resources | 2018 | 208 |
| 6 | Decreasing Ore Grades in Global Metallic Mining: A Theoretical Issue or a Global Reality? | Resources | 2016 | 193 |
| 7 | Global Lithium Sources—Industrial Use and Future in the Electric Vehicle Industry: A Review | Resources | 2018 | 182 |
| 8 | Green Consumer Behavior in the Cosmetics Market | Resources | 2019 | 175 |
| 9 | Collaborative Consumption: Towards a Resource-Saving Consumption Culture | Resources | 2013 | 167 |
| 10 | Social and Environmental Impact of the Rare Earth Industries | Resources | 2014 | 160 |
| 11 | Population–Urbanization–Energy Nexus: A Review | Resources | 2019 | 160 |
| 12 | Key Enablers of and Barriers to the Uptake and Implementation of Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Settings: A Review | Resources | 2019 | 148 |
| 13 | Biotechnology and Conservation of Plant Biodiversity | Resources | 2013 | 137 |
| 14 | Valuing Ecosystem Services for Coastal Wetland Protection and Restoration: Progress and Challenges | Resources | 2013 | 133 |
| 15 | Integrated, Decentralized Wastewater Management for Resource Recovery in Rural and Peri-Urban Areas | Resources | 2017 | 132 |
| 16 | Pathways to Shape the Bioeconomy | Resources | 2017 | 128 |
| 17 | Global Patterns of Material Flows and their Socio-Economic and Environmental Implications: A MFA Study on All Countries World-Wide from 1980 to 2009 | Resources | 2014 | 127 |
| 18 | What Gives You a Social Licence? An Exploration of the Social Licence to Operate in the Australian Mining Industry | Resources | 2014 | 120 |
| 19 | The Abiotic Depletion Potential: Background, Updates, and Future | Resources | 2016 | 119 |
| 20 | Essential Oils and Their Application on Active Packaging Systems: A Review | Resources | 2021 | 112 |
| 21 | Possible Target Corridor for Sustainable Use of Global Material Resources | Resources | 2015 | 107 |
| 22 | Mineral Resources: Reserves, Peak Production and the Future | Resources | 2016 | 106 |
| 23 | Rare Earth Element Deposits of Alkaline Igneous Rocks | Resources | 2017 | 106 |
| 24 | The Potential Use of Oyster Shell Waste in New Value-Added By-Product | Resources | 2019 | 104 |
| 25 | Waste Picker Organizations and Their Contribution to the Circular Economy: Two Case Studies from a Global South Perspective | Resources | 2017 | 101 |
| 26 | Producing Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: A Review of Sustainable Sources and Future Trends for the EPA and DHA Market | Resources | 2020 | 97 |
| 27 | Proposal of a Sustainable Circular Index for Manufacturing Companies | Resources | 2017 | 93 |
| 28 | The Role of Hydrocarbons in the Global Energy Agenda: The Focus on Liquefied Natural Gas | Resources | 2020 | 91 |
| 29 | Eight Tons of Material Footprint—Suggestion for a Resource Cap for Household Consumption in Finland | Resources | 2014 | 90 |
| 30 | Developing Composite Indicators for Agricultural Sustainability Assessment: Effect of Normalization and Aggregation Techniques | Resources | 2017 | 90 |
| 31 | Historical Review of Waste Management and Recycling in South Africa | Resources | 2017 | 88 |
| 32 | Circular Economy: Questions for Responsible Minerals, Additive Manufacturing and Recycling of Metals | Resources | 2014 | 86 |
| 33 | System Dynamics Modeling for Agricultural and Natural Resource Management Issues: Review of Some Past Cases and Forecasting Future Roles | Resources | 2016 | 85 |
| 34 | Properties and Beneficial Uses of (Bio)Chars, with Special Attention to Products from Sewage Sludge Pyrolysis | Resources | 2018 | 84 |
| 35 | An Assessment of Potential Resources for Biomass Energy in Nigeria | Resources | 2020 | 84 |
| 36 | Importance of Sustainable Mineral Resource Management in Implementing the Circular Economy (CE) Model and the European Green Deal Strategy | Resources | 2020 | 79 |
| 37 | Enough Metals? Resource Constraints to Supply a Fully Renewable Energy System | Resources | 2019 | 77 |
| 38 | Business Model Innovation to Create and Capture Resource Value in Future Circular Material Chains | Resources | 2014 | 76 |
| 39 | Regression Model to Predict the Higher Heating Value of Poultry Waste from Proximate Analysis | Resources | 2018 | 74 |
| 40 | Artificial Intelligence in the Sorting of Municipal Waste as an Enabler of the Circular Economy | Resources | 2021 | 74 |
| 41 | Platinum Group Metals: A Review of Resources, Production and Usage with a Focus on Catalysts | Resources | 2021 | 71 |
| 42 | Impact of Land Cover Change on Ecosystem Services in a Tropical Forested Landscape | Resources | 2019 | 70 |
| 43 | Material Flow Cost Accounting as an Approach to Improve Resource Efficiency in Manufacturing Companies | Resources | 2013 | 68 |
| 44 | Rights of Nature: Rivers That Can Stand in Court | Resources | 2018 | 65 |
| 45 | A Critical Assessment of the Resource Depletion Potential of Current and Future Lithium-Ion Batteries | Resources | 2016 | 64 |
| 46 | Biodiversity of Food Species of the Solanaceae Family: A Preliminary Taxonomic Inventory of Subfamily Solanoideae | Resources | 2015 | 63 |
| 47 | Examination of Short Supply Chains Based on Circular Economy and Sustainability Aspects | Resources | 2019 | 63 |
| 48 | Resource Use in the Production and Consumption System—The MIPS Approach | Resources | 2014 | 62 |
| 49 | Potential of Renewable Energy Resources with an Emphasis on Solar Power in Iraq: An Outlook | Resources | 2019 | 62 |
| 50 | Transitions in Theory and Practice: Managing Metals in the Circular Economy | Resources | 2014 | 61 |
