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Named after the University of Sankore in Timbuktu — one of the world’s oldest centres of learning. Every figure here is computed from work-level records in our own graph, never copied from a source’s summary count.

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Safe and just Earth system boundaries

2023NatureJournalOpen access

10.1038/s41586-023-06083-8 Full text1,362 citations

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51 authors across 43 institutions in 18 countries.

Johan RockströmFirst authorCorresponding
Joyeeta Gupta
Dahe Qin
Steven J. LadeCorresponding
Jesse F. Abrams
Lauren S. Andersen
David I. Armstrong McKay
Xuemei Bai
Govindasamy Bala
Stuart E. Bunn
Daniel Ciobanu
Fabrice DeClerck

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Ecosystem dynamics and resiliencelevel 3 · 1.00
Climate Change Policy and Economicslevel 3 · 0.99
Sustainability and Climate Change Governancelevel 3 · 0.98

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openalexseen September 8, 2026
2023 · Nature · 1,362 citations
https://openalex.org/W4378905467

Christopher Gordon

University of Ghana (GH)

Norichika Kanie

Timothy M. Lenton

Diana M. Liverman

Nebojsa Nakicenovic

Coastal Oceans Research and Development in the Indian Ocean (KE)

Klaudia Prodani

Boris Sakschewski

Joeri Scholtens

Ben Stewart-Koster

Thejna Tharammal

Detlef van Vuuren

Peter H. Verburg

Ricarda Winkelmann

Elena M. Bennett

Stefan Bringezu

Wendy Broadgate

Pamela A. Green

Christopher Ndehedehe

Marten Scheffer

Lena Schulte-Uebbing

Noelia Zafra-Calvo

Xin ZhangSenior author

Safe and just Earth system boundaries · Sankore