Among the published studies, an article with exceptional visibility is Prăvălie R., et al. 2024. A unifying modelling of multiple land degradation pathways in Europe. Nature Communications 15, which featured the project’s most significant scientific results and generated widespread global recognition. The paper is ranked in the top 19 most influential articles of similar age in Nature Communications (according to the journal’s metrics data) and was also included in a special journal collection in 2024 (Top 25 Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Articles of 2024). Furthermore, the paper is ranked among the top 1% most-cited papers worldwide on the Web of Science (WoS) platform in the Environment/Ecology category (according to WoS).
Additionally, it is noteworthy that the study ranks in the 99th percentile of global impact, placing 359th out of over 370,000 articles of the same age monitored across all journals included in the global Altmetric database. Moreover, the paper achieved an exceptional social media impact, reaching a potential audience of over 4.6 million followers on the X (Twitter) network.
At the same time, the study’s results are featured and promoted by prestigious international mass-media publications, such as the French daily Libération. The geospatial results of this study were also disseminated and supported by the European Commission, which hosts the datasets on the Joint Research Centre’s ESDAC platform.