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|---|
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| 2 | A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests | Forest Ecology and Management | 2010 | 5,535 |
| 3 | Cellulose nanomaterials review: structure, properties and nanocomposites | Chemical Society Reviews | 2011 | 5,132 |
| 4 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 5 | Evaluating collaborative filtering recommender systems | ACM Transactions on Information Systems | 2004 | 4,379 |
| 6 | Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property | Nature | 2011 | 4,243 |
| 7 | Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning | Lecture Notes in Computer Science | 2000 | 3,642 |
| 8 | The value of estuarine and coastal ecosystem services | Ecological Monographs | 2011 | 3,639 |
| 9 | Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems | Ecology Letters | 2007 | 3,460 |
| 10 | Daily High-Resolution-Blended Analyses for Sea Surface Temperature | Journal of Climate | 2007 | 3,371 |
| 11 | Climate Forcing by Anthropogenic Aerosols | Science | 1992 | 3,196 |
| 12 | A new method which gives an objective measure of colonization of roots by vesicular—arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi | New Phytologist | 1990 | 3,058 |
| 13 | Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth | Science | 2011 | 3,030 |
| 14 | Age Dating and the Orbital Theory of the Ice Ages: Development of a High-Resolution 0 to 300,000-Year Chronostratigraphy | Quaternary Research | 1987 | 3,022 |
| 15 | Efficient Inverse Modeling of Barotropic Ocean Tides | Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | 2002 | 2,947 |
| 16 | MEASUREMENT OF THE APPARENT DISSOCIATION CONSTANTS OF CARBONIC ACID IN SEAWATER AT ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1973 | 2,903 |
| 17 | Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking | Nature Biotechnology | 2016 | 2,802 |
| 18 | Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems | Science | 2007 | 2,705 |
| 19 | The Last Glacial Maximum | Science | 2009 | 2,678 |
| 20 | Approximate Statistical Tests for Comparing Supervised Classification Learning Algorithms | Neural Computation | 1998 | 2,651 |
| 21 | DNA methylation arrays as surrogate measures of cell mixture distribution | BMC Bioinformatics | 2012 | 2,563 |
| 22 | The contentious nature of soil organic matter | Nature | 2015 | 2,418 |
| 23 | Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores | Science | 2014 | 2,390 |
| 24 | Effect of aquaculture on world fish supplies | Nature | 2000 | 2,310 |
| 25 | Physiographically sensitive mapping of climatological temperature and precipitation across the conterminous United States | International Journal of Climatology | 2008 | 2,307 |
| 26 | Dynamic Molecular Structure of Plant Biomass-Derived Black Carbon (Biochar) | Environmental Science & Technology | 2010 | 2,267 |
| 27 | Poppr: an R package for genetic analysis of populations with clonal, partially clonal, and/or sexual reproduction | PeerJ | 2014 | 2,224 |
| 28 | A Statistical-Topographic Model for Mapping Climatological Precipitation over Mountainous Terrain | Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology | 1994 | 2,190 |
| 29 | Building Brand Community | Journal of Marketing | 2002 | 2,156 |
| 30 | (null) | Journal of Marketing | 2000 | 2,150 |
| 31 | microRNA-Directed Phasing during Trans-Acting siRNA Biogenesis in Plants | Cell | 2005 | 2,091 |
| 32 | Solving the multiple instance problem with axis-parallel rectangles | Artificial Intelligence | 1997 | 2,043 |
| 33 | Determination of Total Monomeric Anthocyanin Pigment Content of Fruit Juices, Beverages, Natural Colorants, and Wines by the pH Differential Method: Collaborative Study | Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL | 2005 | 1,908 |
| 34 | High Dielectric Constant in ACu3Ti4O12 and ACu3Ti3FeO12 Phases | Journal of Solid State Chemistry | 2000 | 1,901 |
| 35 | Energy balance closure at FLUXNET sites | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2002 | 1,877 |
| 36 | Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity | Nature | 2006 | 1,873 |
| 37 | A typology of social entrepreneurs: Motives, search processes and ethical challenges | Journal of Business Venturing | 2009 | 1,868 |
| 38 | A hierarchical framework for stream habitat classification: Viewing streams in a watershed context | Environmental Management | 1986 | 1,845 |
| 39 | Sirt1 promotes fat mobilization in white adipocytes by repressing PPAR-γ | Nature | 2004 | 1,799 |
| 40 | Grains and grain boundaries in single-layer graphene atomic patchwork quilts | Nature | 2011 | 1,790 |
| 41 | Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply | Nature | 2010 | 1,771 |
| 42 | The Uncultured Microbial Majority | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2003 | 1,679 |
| 43 | Control of leaf morphogenesis by microRNAs | Nature | 2003 | 1,676 |
| 44 | Role of MicroRNAs in Plant and Animal Development | Science | 2003 | 1,659 |
| 45 | Psychological and Physical Well-Being During Unemployment: A Meta-Analytic Study. | Journal of Applied Psychology | 2005 | 1,651 |
| 46 | Bias caused by template annealing in the amplification of mixtures of 16S rRNA genes by PCR | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1996 | 1,646 |
| 47 | Linking Crystallographic Model and Data Quality | Science | 2012 | 1,637 |
| 48 | Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny | Nature | 2006 | 1,625 |
| 49 | Genetic diversity in Sargasso Sea bacterioplankton | Nature | 1990 | 1,600 |
| 50 | Submarine Thermal Springs on the Galápagos Rift | Science | 1979 | 1,592 |
