| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C | Nature | 2016 | 2,397 |
| 2 | Natural climate solutions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2017 | 1,709 |
| 3 | Overcoming the tragedy of super wicked problems: constraining our future selves to ameliorate global climate change | Policy Sciences | 2012 | 1,157 |
| 4 | Pollution and health: a progress update | Lancet Planetary Health, The | 2022 | 548 |
| 5 | The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013 | Science Advances | 2017 | 543 |
| 6 | One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity | Conservation Biology | 2009 | 468 |
| 7 | Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes | Nature Climate Change | 2021 | 425 |
| 8 | Missing Food, Missing Data? A Critical Review of Global Food Losses and Food Waste Data | Environmental Science & Technology | 2017 | 413 |
| 9 | Dangerous targets? Unresolved issues and ideological clashes around marine protected areas | Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems | 2003 | 399 |
| 10 | A Pilot Global Assessment of Environmental Water Requirements and Scarcity | Water International | 2004 | 376 |
| 11 | When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration | Ambio | 2016 | 341 |
| 12 | Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world | Nature Climate Change | 2019 | 301 |
| 13 | Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth | Nature | 2020 | 278 |
| 14 | A Policy‐Driven Knowledge Agenda for Global Forest and Landscape Restoration | Conservation Letters | 2017 | 265 |
| 15 | Reduced Ratio of Male to Female Births in Several Industrial Countries | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1998 | 263 |
| 16 | Democratic decentralisation of natural resources: institutional choice and discretionary power transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa | Public Administration and Development | 2003 | 249 |
| 17 | ECOLOGY: Managing Water for People and Nature | Science | 2001 | 218 |
| 18 | Dynamic World, Near real-time global 10 m land use land cover mapping | Scientific Data | 2022 | 213 |
| 19 | Anthropogenic modification of forests means only 40% of remaining forests have high ecosystem integrity | Nature Communications | 2020 | 188 |
| 20 | Building Resilience to Climate Change in Informal Settlements | One Earth | 2020 | 174 |
| 21 | Quantifying changes in the rates of forest clearing in Indonesia from 1990 to 2005 using remotely sensed data sets | Environmental Research Letters | 2009 | 173 |
| 22 | Climate change and soil salinity: The case of coastal Bangladesh | Ambio | 2015 | 170 |
| 23 | Fire, People and Pixels: Linking Social Science and Remote Sensing to Understand Underlying Causes and Impacts of Fires in Indonesia | Human Ecology | 2005 | 167 |
| 24 | Water pollution and human health in China. | Environmental Health Perspectives | 1999 | 159 |
| 25 | Reductions in emissions from deforestation from Indonesia’s moratorium on new oil palm, timber, and logging concessions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 159 |
| 26 | Food systems for sustainable development: proposals for a profound four-part transformation | Agronomy for Sustainable Development | 2018 | 157 |
| 27 | Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2021 | 147 |
| 28 | A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units | Nature | 2021 | 146 |
| 29 | A research roadmap for quantifying non-state and subnational climate mitigation action | Nature Climate Change | 2019 | 121 |
| 30 | Exposures from indoor spraying of chlorpyrifos pose greater health risks to children than currently estimated. | Environmental Health Perspectives | 1998 | 109 |
| 31 | Incorporating Land Tenure Security into Conservation | Conservation Letters | 2018 | 106 |
| 32 | Criteria for effective zero-deforestation commitments | Global Environmental Change | 2019 | 105 |
| 33 | Disentangling the numbers behind agriculture-driven tropical deforestation | Science | 2022 | 105 |
| 34 | Combating deforestation: From satellite to intervention | Science | 2018 | 103 |
| 35 | The Global 2000-2020 Land Cover and Land Use Change Dataset Derived From the Landsat Archive: First Results | Frontiers in Remote Sensing | 2022 | 102 |
| 36 | Modeling denitrification in a tile-drained, corn and soybean agroecosystem of Illinois, USA | Biogeochemistry | 2009 | 95 |
| 37 | Structuring economic incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation within Indonesia | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 95 |
| 38 | Using Remote Sensing to Assess Russian Forest Fire Carbon Emissions | Climatic Change | 2002 | 93 |
| 39 | The Role and Need for Space-Based Forest Biomass-Related Measurements in Environmental Management and Policy | Surveys in Geophysics | 2019 | 92 |
| 40 | Global Trends of Forest Loss Due to Fire From 2001 to 2019 | Frontiers in Remote Sensing | 2022 | 91 |
| 41 | Consensus building on the development of a stress-based indicator for LCA-based impact assessment of water consumption: outcome of the expert workshops | International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment | 2015 | 84 |
| 42 | Are the G20 economies making enough progress to meet their NDC targets? | Energy Policy | 2019 | 84 |
| 43 | Scaling up farmer‐managed natural regeneration in Africa to restore degraded landscapes | Biotropica | 2016 | 83 |
| 44 | Forest disturbance alerts for the Congo Basin using Sentinel-1 | Environmental Research Letters | 2021 | 81 |
| 45 | Sterilization of Workers from Pesticide Exposure: The Causes and Consequences of DBCP-Induced Damage in Costa Rica and beyond | International Journal of Health Services | 1991 | 80 |
| 46 | Increasing participation in incentive programs for biodiversity conservation | Ecological Applications | 2013 | 79 |
| 47 | Estimating aboveground net biomass change for tropical and subtropical forests: Refinement of IPCC default rates using forest plot data | Global Change Biology | 2019 | 78 |
| 48 | Accounting for Environmental Assets | Scientific American | 1992 | 75 |
| 49 | A World Ecoregions Map for Resource Reporting | Environmental Conservation | 1986 | 74 |
| 50 | Observing climate impacts on tea yield in Assam, India | Applied Geography | 2016 | 73 |
