| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems | Science | 2001 | 5,242 |
| 2 | Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification | Science | 2007 | 4,578 |
| 3 | Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 4,012 |
| 4 | Species Concepts and Species Delimitation | Systematic Biology | 2007 | 3,046 |
| 5 | PartitionFinder 2: New Methods for Selecting Partitioned Models of Evolution for Molecular and Morphological Phylogenetic Analyses | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2017 | 2,854 |
| 6 | A DNA barcode for land plants | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 2,120 |
| 7 | The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications | Nucleic Acids Research | 2019 | 2,072 |
| 8 | A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History | Science | 2008 | 1,767 |
| 9 | The Molecular Genetics of Crop Domestication | Cell | 2006 | 1,701 |
| 10 | Use of DNA barcodes to identify flowering plants | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 1,562 |
| 11 | No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide | Nature Communications | 2017 | 1,543 |
| 12 | Drought Sensitivity of the Amazon Rainforest | Science | 2009 | 1,443 |
| 13 | Manganese oxide minerals: Crystal structures and economic and environmental significance | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1999 | 1,435 |
| 14 | Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2007 | 1,253 |
| 15 | The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge | Science | 2008 | 1,215 |
| 16 | Systemic insecticides (neonicotinoids and fipronil): trends, uses, mode of action and metabolites | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2015 | 1,215 |
| 17 | The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates | Science | 2010 | 1,209 |
| 18 | Beta-Diversity in Tropical Forest Trees | Science | 2002 | 1,176 |
| 19 | A Two-Locus Global DNA Barcode for Land Plants: The Coding rbcL Gene Complements the Non-Coding trnH-psbA Spacer Region | PLoS ONE | 2007 | 1,083 |
| 20 | Spectroscopic Discovery of the Supernova 2003dh Associated with GRB 030329 | Astrophysical Journal | 2003 | 985 |
| 21 | A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents | Frontiers in Zoology | 2013 | 955 |
| 22 | Reference Samples for Electron Microprobe Analysis* | Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research | 1980 | 952 |
| 23 | Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas | Nature | 2012 | 909 |
| 24 | Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 850 |
| 25 | Chemical analyses of meteorites: A compilation of stony and iron meteorite analyses | Meteoritics | 1990 | 849 |
| 26 | Comet 81P/Wild 2 Under a Microscope | Science | 2006 | 848 |
| 27 | Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests | Nature | 2009 | 816 |
| 28 | A new subfamily classification of the Leguminosae based on a taxonomically comprehensive phylogeny: The Legume Phylogeny Working Group (LPWG) | Taxon | 2017 | 803 |
| 29 | Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis gen. et sp. nov., a Chytrid Pathogenic to Amphibians | Mycologia | 1999 | 801 |
| 30 | The Effects of Sample Treatment and Diagenesis on the Isotopic Integrity of Carbonate in Biogenic Hydroxylapatite | Journal of Archaeological Science | 1997 | 798 |
| 31 | Long-term decline of the Amazon carbon sink | Nature | 2015 | 796 |
| 32 | The earliest angiosperms: evidence from mitochondrial, plastid and nuclear genomes | Nature | 1999 | 791 |
| 33 | Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 739 |
| 34 | Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis gen. et sp. nov., a chytrid pathogenic to amphibians | Mycologia | 1999 | 738 |
| 35 | The seven impediments in invertebrate conservation and how to overcome them | Biological Conservation | 2011 | 728 |
| 36 | The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: A Perturbation of Carbon Cycle, Climate, and Biosphere with Implications for the Future | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2011 | 722 |
| 37 | Redesign of PCR primers for mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I for marine invertebrates and application in all‐taxa biotic surveys | Molecular Ecology Resources | 2013 | 696 |
| 38 | Global patterns in leaf 13 C discrimination and implications for studies of past and future climate | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 690 |
| 39 | The role of microbes in accretion, lamination and early lithification of modern marine stromatolites | Nature | 2000 | 689 |
| 40 | A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars | Science | 2014 | 687 |
| 41 | Phylogenetic Analysis of Cryptosporidium Parasites Based on the Small-Subunit rRNA Gene Locus | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1999 | 673 |
| 42 | Water and the Oxidation State of Subduction Zone Magmas | Science | 2009 | 668 |
| 43 | Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size | Nature | 2014 | 663 |
| 44 | The evolution of mutualisms: exploring the paths between conflict and cooperation | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 1999 | 658 |
| 45 | Prokaryotic Cells in the Hydrothermal Vent Tube Worm Riftia pachyptila Jones: Possible Chemoautotrophic Symbionts | Science | 1981 | 655 |
| 46 | XPS determination of Mn oxidation states in Mn (hydr)oxides | Applied Surface Science | 2016 | 654 |
| 47 | Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 652 |
| 48 | Phanerozoic Trends in the Global Diversity of Marine Invertebrates | Science | 2008 | 643 |
| 49 | Terrestrial Arthropod Assemblages: Their Use in Conservation Planning | Conservation Biology | 1993 | 640 |
| 50 | Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target invertebrates | Environmental Science and Pollution Research | 2015 | 639 |
