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Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ruidong Zhao
Xinjiang University
2
Chloe MacLaren
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
3
Tao Wang
First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University
4
Babak M. S. Arani
University of Groningen
5
Siyue Ren
Northwestern Polytechnical University
6
Qiang Xing
Chinese Academy of Sciences
7
Cong Zhu
Xinjiang University
8
Kishan Nandi Shoudho
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
9
Smita Deb
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
10
Simon Elias Bibri
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Rising Stars Papers

1
The synergistic interplay of artificial intelligence and digital twin in environmentally planning sustainable smart cities: A comprehensive systematic review
Environmental Science and Ecotechnology|2024
199 cit.
2
Biochar in global carbon cycle: Towards sustainable development goals
Current Research in Green and Sustainable Chemistry|2024
116 cit.
3
Intranational synergies and trade-offs reveal common and differentiated priorities of sustainable development goals in China
Nature Communications|2024
106 cit.
4
Artificial intelligence of things for synergizing smarter eco-city brain, metabolism, and platform: Pioneering data-driven environmental governance
Sustainable Cities and Society|2024
87 cit.
5
Simulating the interrelationships among population, water, ecology, and economy in urban agglomerations based on a system dynamics approach
Journal of Cleaner Production|2024
25 cit.
6
Improving Round Trip Efficiency (RTE) in liquid air energy storage by integration with external thermal energy sources
Computers & Chemical Engineering|2025
9 cit.
7
EchoGPT: An Interactive Cardiac Function Assessment Model for Echocardiogram Videos
Unknown Journal|2024
8 cit.
8
Narrowing the ecological yield gap to sustain crop yields with less inputs
Global Food Security|2025
8 cit.
9
Critical transitions in spatial systems induced by Ornstein–Uhlenbeck noise: spatial mutual information as a precursor
Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences|2024
5 cit.
10
Optimal sampling of spatial patterns improves deep learning-based early warning signals of critical transitions
Royal Society Open Science|2024
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Niklas Boers
University of Exeter
2
Rocío Gómez
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
3
Hanspeter Wieland
BOKU University
4
Yanhong Ma
Inner Mongolia Agricultural University
5
Jesse S. Sayles
University of Victoria
6
Tiantian Wang
Nanjing University of Finance and Economics
7
Paolo Prosperi
Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
8
Xiaofei Liu
Anhui University
9
Xuegang Cui
Shenzhen University
10
Vishwesha Guttal
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s
Nature Climate Change|2022
605 cit.
2
Empirical evidence for recent global shifts in vegetation resilience
Nature Climate Change|2022
268 cit.
3
Global vegetation resilience linked to water availability and variability
Nature Communications|2023
244 cit.
4
Deep Learning for Improving Numerical Weather Prediction of Heavy Rainfall
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems|2022
108 cit.
5
Remotely sensing potential climate change tipping points across scales
Nature Communications|2024
86 cit.
6
Theoretical and paleoclimatic evidence for abrupt transitions in the Earth system
Environmental Research Letters|2022
81 cit.
7
Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density
Nature Ecology & Evolution|2023
81 cit.
8
Physically constrained generative adversarial networks for improving precipitation fields from Earth system models
Nature Machine Intelligence|2022
77 cit.
9
The South American monsoon approaches a critical transition in response to deforestation
Science Advances|2023
69 cit.
10
Overshooting the critical threshold for the Greenland ice sheet
Nature|2023
66 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Geoffrey B. West
Santa Fe Institute
2
Sérgio Ulgiati
Parthenope University of Naples
3
Brian R. Walker
Newcastle University
4
Marten Scheffer
Wageningen University & Research
5
G.Q. Chen
Macau University of Science and Technology
6
Bin Chen
Beijing Normal University
7
Johan Rockström
University of Potsdam
8
Stephen R. Carpenter
University of Wisconsin System
9
Will Steffen
Australian National University
10
Chih‐hao Hsieh
National Taiwan University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
A safe operating space for humanity
Nature|2009
12.9k cit.
2
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
Science|2015
12.2k cit.
3
TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY
Ecology|2004
7.8k cit.
4
Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems
Nature|2001
7.3k cit.
5
Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity
Ecology and Society|2009
7k cit.
6
NONPOINT POLLUTION OF SURFACE WATERS WITH PHOSPHORUS AND NITROGEN
Ecological Applications|1998
5.8k cit.
7
A General Model for the Origin of Allometric Scaling Laws in Biology
Science|1997
5k cit.
8
Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability
Ecology and Society|2010
4.5k cit.
9
The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration
The Anthropocene Review|2015
3.8k cit.
10
From Metaphor to Measurement: Resilience of What to What?
Ecosystems|2001
3.4k cit.

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