Most cited papers in Environmental law and policy

The most cited paper in Environmental law and policy is "The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change" (Philippe Sands, 1992), with 3,629 citations. Next come "Reconceiving Environmental Justice: Global Movements And Political Theories" (1,446) and "The “Commons” Versus the “Commodity”: Alter‐globalization, Anti‐privatization and the Human Right to Water in the Global South" (770).

Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 136 citations is listed.

Citations are OpenAlex's own counts, from its 2026-09-23 snapshot, so the ranking can differ from Google Scholar or Web of Science. A paper is listed for a field when OpenAlex files it under one of the field's topics; retracted papers and papers whose citation count cannot be traced to citing works are left out, and a preprint and the article it became are shown once. Release dates are OpenAlex's: where a source gave only a month or a year, that is what is shown. How the lists are chosen.