| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A new model for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated porous media | Water Resources Research | 1976 | 5,892 |
| 2 | The use of DAPI for identifying and counting aquatic microflora1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1980 | 4,472 |
| 3 | Electromagnetic determination of soil water content: Measurements in coaxial transmission lines | Water Resources Research | 1980 | 4,020 |
| 4 | (null) | Journal of Paleolimnology | 2001 | 3,646 |
| 5 | Evaluating the use of “goodness-of-fit” Measures in hydrologic and hydroclimatic model validation | Water Resources Research | 1999 | 3,352 |
| 6 | DETERMINATION OF AMMONIA IN NATURAL WATERS BY THE PHENOLHYPOCHLORITE METHOD 1 1 This research was fully supported by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Contract No. ATS (11‐1) GEN 10, P.A. 20. | Limnology and Oceanography | 1969 | 3,195 |
| 7 | DETERMINATION OF CHLOROPHYLL AND PHEO‐PIGMENTS: SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC EQUATIONS1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1967 | 3,134 |
| 8 | SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC DETERMINATION OF HYDROGEN SULFIDE IN NATURAL WATERS1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1969 | 3,095 |
| 9 | MEASUREMENT OF THE APPARENT DISSOCIATION CONSTANTS OF CARBONIC ACID IN SEAWATER AT ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1973 | 2,903 |
| 10 | A trophic state index for lakes1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1977 | 2,870 |
| 11 | Climate change, coral bleaching and the future of the world's coral reefs | Marine and Freshwater Research | 1999 | 2,783 |
| 12 | Effective and efficient global optimization for conceptual rainfall-runoff models | Water Resources Research | 1992 | 2,584 |
| 13 | UPTAKE OF NEW AND REGENERATED FORMS OF NITROGEN IN PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1967 | 2,311 |
| 14 | Photosynthetic rates derived from satellite‐based chlorophyll concentration | Limnology and Oceanography | 1997 | 2,270 |
| 15 | Spectrofluorometric characterization of dissolved organic matter for indication of precursor organic material and aromaticity | Limnology and Oceanography | 2001 | 2,239 |
| 16 | Techniques of trend analysis for monthly water quality data | Water Resources Research | 1982 | 2,159 |
| 17 | Macropores and water flow in soils | Water Resources Research | 1982 | 2,128 |
| 18 | Fluorometric analysis of chlorophyll a in the presence of chlorophyll b and pheopigments | Limnology and Oceanography | 1994 | 2,112 |
| 19 | Absorption spectral slopes and slope ratios as indicators of molecular weight, source, and photobleaching of chromophoric dissolved organic matter | Limnology and Oceanography | 2008 | 2,071 |
| 20 | Carbon to volume relationships for dinoflagellates, diatoms, and other protist plankton | Limnology and Oceanography | 2000 | 2,017 |
| 21 | Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate | Limnology and Oceanography | 2009 | 1,977 |
| 22 | Characterizing dissolved organic matter fluorescence with parallel factor analysis: a tutorial | Limnology and Oceanography: Methods | 2008 | 1,969 |
| 23 | Empirical equations for some soil hydraulic properties | Water Resources Research | 1978 | 1,965 |
| 24 | Analysis of variations in ocean color1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1977 | 1,946 |
| 25 | Response of mean annual evapotranspiration to vegetation changes at catchment scale | Water Resources Research | 2001 | 1,944 |
| 26 | A new method for the determination of flow directions and upslope areas in grid digital elevation models | Water Resources Research | 1997 | 1,813 |
| 27 | Model for predicting evaporation from a row crop with incomplete cover | Water Resources Research | 1972 | 1,789 |
| 28 | Validity of Cubic Law for fluid flow in a deformable rock fracture | Water Resources Research | 1980 | 1,785 |
| 29 | Developing joint probability distributions of soil water retention characteristics | Water Resources Research | 1988 | 1,772 |
| 30 | Mathematical formulation of the relationship between photosynthesis and light for phytoplankton | Limnology and Oceanography | 1976 | 1,666 |
| 31 | A critical review of data on field-scale dispersion in aquifers | Water Resources Research | 1992 | 1,529 |
| 32 | A global boom in hydropower dam construction | Aquatic Sciences | 2015 | 1,512 |
| 33 | Canonical correspondence analysis and related multivariate methods in aquatic ecology | Aquatic Sciences | 1995 | 1,509 |
| 34 | Variation in δ15N and δ13C trophic fractionation: Implications for aquatic food web studies | Limnology and Oceanography | 2001 | 1,506 |
| 35 | Canopy temperature as a crop water stress indicator | Water Resources Research | 1981 | 1,462 |
| 36 | Three‐dimensional stochastic analysis of macrodispersion in aquifers | Water Resources Research | 1983 | 1,447 |
| 37 | Landslide triggering by rain infiltration | Water Resources Research | 2000 | 1,443 |
| 38 | EFFECTS OF SIZE AND CONCENTRATION OF FOOD PARTICLES ON THE FEEDING BEHAVIOR OF THE MARINE PLANKTONIC COPEPOD CALANUS PACIFICUS1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1972 | 1,431 |
| 39 | The global abundance and size distribution of lakes, ponds, and impoundments | Limnology and Oceanography | 2006 | 1,426 |
| 40 | A simple and efficient method for the solid‐phase extraction of dissolved organic matter (SPE‐DOM) from seawater | Limnology and Oceanography: Methods | 2008 | 1,329 |
| 41 | A general mass‐conservative numerical solution for the unsaturated flow equation | Water Resources Research | 1990 | 1,322 |
| 42 | Reliability, resiliency, and vulnerability criteria for water resource system performance evaluation | Water Resources Research | 1982 | 1,315 |
| 43 | Lakes as sentinels of climate change | Limnology and Oceanography | 2009 | 1,314 |
| 44 | A Statistical Exploration of the Relationships of Soil Moisture Characteristics to the Physical Properties of Soils | Water Resources Research | 1984 | 1,297 |
| 45 | How much wetland has the world lost? Long-term and recent trends in global wetland area | Marine and Freshwater Research | 2014 | 1,280 |
| 46 | Primary Production in Flowing Waters1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1956 | 1,265 |
| 47 | A Nonparametric Trend Test for Seasonal Data With Serial Dependence | Water Resources Research | 1984 | 1,261 |
| 48 | Absorption by dissolved organic matter of the sea (yellow substance) in the UV and visible domains1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1981 | 1,258 |
| 49 | A physically based model for the topographic control on shallow landsliding | Water Resources Research | 1994 | 1,206 |
| 50 | Artificial Neural Network Modeling of the Rainfall-Runoff Process | Water Resources Research | 1995 | 1,198 |
| 51 | Toward improved calibration of hydrologic models: Multiple and noncommensurable measures of information | Water Resources Research | 1998 | 1,154 |
| 52 | Reservoir Management and Operations Models: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review | Water Resources Research | 1985 | 1,152 |
| 53 | ESTIMATING THE ORGANIC CARBON CONTENT OF PHYTOPLANKTON FROM CELL VOLUME OR PLASMA VOLUME1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1967 | 1,140 |
| 54 | Nitrogen as the limiting nutrient for eutrophication in coastal marine ecosystems: Evolving views over three decades | Limnology and Oceanography | 2006 | 1,124 |
| 55 | Macroalgal blooms in shallow estuaries: Controls and ecophysiological and ecosystem consequences | Limnology and Oceanography | 1997 | 1,118 |
| 56 | Carbon and nitrogen determinations of carbonate‐containing solids1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1984 | 1,110 |
| 57 | Denitrification in freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems: Ecological and geochemical significance | Limnology and Oceanography | 1988 | 1,086 |
| 58 | THE SIZE DISTRIBUTION OF PARTICLES IN THE OCEAN1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1972 | 1,076 |
| 59 | A distributed hydrology-vegetation model for complex terrain | Water Resources Research | 1994 | 1,052 |
| 60 | Drag, turbulence, and diffusion in flow through emergent vegetation | Water Resources Research | 1999 | 1,019 |
| 61 | Floods, channel change, and the hyporheic zone | Water Resources Research | 1999 | 1,018 |
| 62 | A natural gradient experiment on solute transport in a sand aquifer: Spatial variability of hydraulic conductivity and its role in the dispersion process | Water Resources Research | 1986 | 1,017 |
| 63 | The phosphorus‐chlorophyll relationship in lakes1,2 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1974 | 999 |
| 64 | An oxygen microsensor with a guard cathode | Limnology and Oceanography | 1989 | 998 |
| 65 | A detachment-limited model of drainage basin evolution | Water Resources Research | 1994 | 992 |
| 66 | Application of a fractional advection-dispersion equation | Water Resources Research | 2000 | 989 |
| 67 | Stochastic simulation of daily precipitation, temperature, and solar radiation | Water Resources Research | 1981 | 983 |
| 68 | PREPARATION OF ARTIFICIAL SEAWATER1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1967 | 982 |
| 69 | Pelagic ecosystem structure: Heterotrophic compartments of the plankton and their relationship to plankton size fractions 1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1978 | 977 |
| 70 | The Millennium Drought in southeast Australia (2001–2009): Natural and human causes and implications for water resources, ecosystems, economy, and society | Water Resources Research | 2013 | 977 |
| 71 | Review of Parameter Identification Procedures in Groundwater Hydrology: The Inverse Problem | Water Resources Research | 1986 | 974 |
| 72 | A dual-porosity model for simulating the preferential movement of water and solutes in structured porous media | Water Resources Research | 1993 | 972 |
| 73 | Accuracy of scaled GRACE terrestrial water storage estimates | Water Resources Research | 2012 | 972 |
| 74 | HALF‐SATURATION CONSTANTS FOR UPTAKE OF NITRATE AND AMMONIUM BY MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1969 | 970 |
| 75 | Interpolating the isotopic composition of modern meteoric precipitation | Water Resources Research | 2003 | 968 |
| 76 | Fluorescence spectroscopy opens new windows into dissolved organic matter dynamics in freshwater ecosystems: A review | Limnology and Oceanography | 2010 | 961 |
| 77 | THE MEASUREMENT OF TOTAL PHOSPHORUS IN SEAWATER BASED ON THE LIBERATION OF ORGANICALLY BOUND FRACTIONS BY PERSULFATE OXIDATION1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1965 | 960 |
| 78 | Probability weighted moments: Definition and relation to parameters of several distributions expressable in inverse form | Water Resources Research | 1979 | 956 |
| 79 | Phytoplankton growth, microzooplankton grazing, and carbon cycling in marine systems | Limnology and Oceanography | 2004 | 948 |
| 80 | Harmful algal blooms: Their ecophysiology and general relevance to phytoplankton blooms in the sea | Limnology and Oceanography | 1997 | 944 |
| 81 | Development of a sequential extraction method for different forms of phosphorus in marine sediments | Limnology and Oceanography | 1992 | 926 |
| 82 | Oxygen solubility in seawater: Better fitting equations | Limnology and Oceanography | 1992 | 925 |
| 83 | Partial Area Contributions to Storm Runoff in a Small New England Watershed | Water Resources Research | 1970 | 920 |
| 84 | Phylogenetic diversity of aggregate‐attached vs. free‐living marine bacterial assemblages | Limnology and Oceanography | 1993 | 917 |
| 85 | A Shuffled Complex Evolution Metropolis algorithm for optimization and uncertainty assessment of hydrologic model parameters | Water Resources Research | 2003 | 914 |
| 86 | Nutrient limitation of phytoplankton in freshwater and marine environments: A review of recent evidence on the effects of enrichment | Limnology and Oceanography | 1988 | 911 |
| 87 | Noah, Joseph, and Operational Hydrology | Water Resources Research | 1968 | 910 |
| 88 | Resolving the variability in dissolved organic matter fluorescence in a temperate estuary and its catchment using PARAFAC analysis | Limnology and Oceanography | 2005 | 908 |
| 89 | An experimentally determined carbon : volume ratio for marine “oligotrichous” ciliates from estuarine and coastal waters | Limnology and Oceanography | 1989 | 903 |
| 90 | How much complexity is warranted in a rainfall-runoff model? | Water Resources Research | 1993 | 896 |
| 91 | The role of sedimentary organic matter in bacterial sulfate reduction: The G model tested1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1984 | 889 |
| 92 | Relationship between wind speed and gas exchange over the ocean revisited | Limnology and Oceanography: Methods | 2014 | 889 |
| 93 | Getting the right answers for the right reasons: Linking measurements, analyses, and models to advance the science of hydrology | Water Resources Research | 2006 | 881 |
| 94 | Porous media equivalents for networks of discontinuous fractures | Water Resources Research | 1982 | 880 |
| 95 | A stochastic‐conceptual analysis of one‐dimensional groundwater flow in nonuniform homogeneous media | Water Resources Research | 1975 | 866 |
| 96 | Atmospheric transport of iron and its deposition in the ocean | Limnology and Oceanography | 1991 | 866 |
| 97 | Bacterial utilization of different size classes of dissolved organic matter | Limnology and Oceanography | 1996 | 860 |
| 98 | Evaluation of automated techniques for base flow and recession analyses | Water Resources Research | 1990 | 851 |
| 99 | Recent advances in the understanding and management of eutrophication | Limnology and Oceanography | 2006 | 850 |
| 100 | The geomorphologic structure of hydrologic response | Water Resources Research | 1979 | 849 |
