Table 3.

The top 10 most-cited documents

No.	Title	Source title	Related SDG	TC	NC	Ref
1	Mapping synergies and trade-offs between energy and the Sustainable Development Goals	Nature Energy	7	372	6.03	Nerini et al. (2018)
2	The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals	Nature Communications	9	286	10.01	Vinuesa et al. (2020)
3	Global governance by goal-setting: the novel approach of the UN Sustainable Development Goals	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability	16	283	3.17	Biermann et al. (2017)
4	Social determinants of mental disorders and the Sustainable Development Goals: a systematic review of reviews	Lancet Psychiatry	3	259	4.20	Lund et al. (2018)
5	Health in the sustainable development goals: ready for a paradigm shift?	Globalization and Health	3	181	1.00	Buse and Hawkes (2015)
6	A literature-based review on potentials and constraints in the implementation of the sustainable development goals	Journal of Cleaner Production	17	166	2.69	Caiado et al. (2018)
7	Investing in non-communicable disease prevention and management to advance the Sustainable Development Goals	Lancet	3	153	2.48	Nugent et al. (2018)
8	Connecting the sustainable development goals by their energy inter-linkages	Environmental Research Letters	7	152	2.46	McCollum et al. (2018)
9	Advancing global health and strengthening the HIV response in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals: the International AIDS Society-Lancet Commission	Lancet	3	149	2.41	Bekker et al. (2018)
10	Initial progress in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): a review of evidence from countries	Sustainability Science	17	148	2.40	(Allen et al. 2018)
10	Physical water scarcity metrics for monitoring progress towards SDG target 6.4: An evaluation of indicator 6.4.2 “Level of water stress”	Science of The Total Environment	6	148	2.40	(Vanham et al. 2018)

SDG, sustainable development goals; TC, total citations; NC, normalized citations