| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital | Nature | 1997 | 15,321 |
| 2 | Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 | Nature Biotechnology | 2019 | 11,167 |
| 3 | A safe operating space for humanity | Nature | 2009 | 8,638 |
| 4 | The worldwide leaf economics spectrum | Nature | 2004 | 6,489 |
| 5 | Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome | Nature | 2011 | 5,800 |
| 6 | Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems | Nature | 2001 | 5,656 |
| 7 | Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems | Lancet, The | 2019 | 5,421 |
| 8 | Emerging applications of stimuli-responsive polymer materials | Nature Materials | 2010 | 5,007 |
| 9 | Changes in the global value of ecosystem services | Global Environmental Change | 2014 | 4,101 |
| 10 | Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity | Ecology and Society | 2009 | 3,867 |
| 11 | Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers | Nature | 2013 | 3,641 |
| 12 | Cpf1 Is a Single RNA-Guided Endonuclease of a Class 2 CRISPR-Cas System | Cell | 2015 | 3,558 |
| 13 | Cross-talk between Akkermansia muciniphila and intestinal epithelium controls diet-induced obesity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 3,474 |
| 14 | Early-warning signals for critical transitions | Nature | 2009 | 3,286 |
| 15 | The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology | Molecular Plant Pathology | 2012 | 3,270 |
| 16 | Pretreatments to enhance the digestibility of lignocellulosic biomass | Bioresource Technology | 2009 | 3,031 |
| 17 | Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth | Science | 2011 | 3,030 |
| 18 | New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide | Australian Journal of Botany | 2013 | 2,818 |
| 19 | Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2004 | 2,674 |
| 20 | Going back to the roots: the microbial ecology of the rhizosphere | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2013 | 2,669 |
| 21 | Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making | Ecological Complexity | 2010 | 2,537 |
| 22 | European phenological response to climate change matches the warming pattern | Global Change Biology | 2006 | 2,412 |
| 23 | antiSMASH 5.0: updates to the secondary metabolite genome mining pipeline | Nucleic Acids Research | 2019 | 2,410 |
| 24 | Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning | Nature | 2014 | 2,371 |
| 25 | Parallel Declines in Pollinators and Insect-Pollinated Plants in Britain and the Netherlands | Science | 2006 | 2,359 |
| 26 | Primer3Plus, an enhanced web interface to Primer3 | Nucleic Acids Research | 2007 | 2,323 |
| 27 | Transfer of Intestinal Microbiota From Lean Donors Increases Insulin Sensitivity in Individuals With Metabolic Syndrome | Gastroenterology | 2012 | 2,287 |
| 28 | The Global Burden of Cancer 2013 | JAMA Oncology | 2015 | 2,269 |
| 29 | Catastrophic regime shifts in ecosystems: linking theory to observation | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2003 | 2,206 |
| 30 | Nature and Health | Annual Review of Public Health | 2014 | 2,181 |
| 31 | Small CRISPR RNAs Guide Antiviral Defense in Prokaryotes | Science | 2008 | 2,138 |
| 32 | Deciphering the Rhizosphere Microbiome for Disease-Suppressive Bacteria | Science | 2011 | 2,135 |
| 33 | The use of chlorophyll fluorescence nomenclature in plant stress physiology | Photosynthesis Research | 1990 | 2,085 |
| 34 | An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2015 | 2,081 |
| 35 | Evolution and classification of the CRISPR–Cas systems | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2011 | 2,078 |
| 36 | Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development | Science | 2007 | 2,072 |
| 37 | Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis | Ecological Applications | 2010 | 2,063 |
| 38 | Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta‐analysis | New Phytologist | 2009 | 2,056 |
| 39 | Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate | Science | 2010 | 2,056 |
| 40 | Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta‐analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control | New Phytologist | 2012 | 2,012 |
| 41 | TRY – a global database of plant traits | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 2,002 |
| 42 | Deep Learning in Remote Sensing: A Comprehensive Review and List of Resources | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine | 2017 | 1,976 |
| 43 | Mechanisms of membrane toxicity of hydrocarbons | Microbiological Reviews | 1995 | 1,947 |
| 44 | Strigolactone inhibition of shoot branching | Nature | 2008 | 1,910 |
| 45 | The genome of the mesopolyploid crop species Brassica rapa | Nature Genetics | 2011 | 1,893 |
| 46 | Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 1,832 |
| 47 | Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 1,818 |
| 48 | Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units | Ecosystem Services | 2012 | 1,801 |
| 49 | Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2014 | 1,793 |
| 50 | antiSMASH 3.0—a comprehensive resource for the genome mining of biosynthetic gene clusters | Nucleic Acids Research | 2015 | 1,764 |
