| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A safe operating space for humanity | Nature | 2009 | 8,638 |
| 2 | Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback | Nature | 2015 | 2,369 |
| 3 | TRY – a global database of plant traits | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 2,002 |
| 4 | Eutrophication and harmful algal blooms: A scientific consensus | Harmful Algae | 2008 | 1,582 |
| 5 | Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Northern Alaska and Other Arctic Regions | Climatic Change | 2005 | 1,219 |
| 6 | Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming | Science | 2005 | 1,186 |
| 7 | Increasing shrub abundance in the Arctic | Nature | 2001 | 1,122 |
| 8 | Estimated stocks of circumpolar permafrost carbon with quantified uncertainty ranges and identified data gaps | Biogeosciences | 2014 | 1,079 |
| 9 | The Role of Big 6 Auditors in the Credible Reporting of Accruals | Auditing | 1999 | 1,049 |
| 10 | A Reconciled Estimate of Glacier Contributions to Sea Level Rise: 2003 to 2009 | Science | 2013 | 1,044 |
| 11 | Ecological Dynamics Across the Arctic Associated with Recent Climate Change | Science | 2009 | 1,043 |
| 12 | Permafrost is warming at a global scale | Nature Communications | 2019 | 1,039 |
| 13 | TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 1,038 |
| 14 | The evidence for shrub expansion in Northern Alaska and the Pan-Arctic | Global Change Biology | 2006 | 1,035 |
| 15 | Development of obesity in transgenic mice after genetic ablation of brown adipose tissue | Nature | 1993 | 1,003 |
| 16 | Reconciling Carbon-cycle Concepts, Terminology, and Methods | Ecosystems | 2006 | 904 |
| 17 | Ecosystem carbon storage in arctic tundra reduced by long-term nutrient fertilization | Nature | 2004 | 898 |
| 18 | The Randolph Glacier Inventory: a globally complete inventory of glaciers | Journal of Glaciology | 2014 | 895 |
| 19 | Methane bubbling from Siberian thaw lakes as a positive feedback to climate warming | Nature | 2006 | 890 |
| 20 | The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) Version 3.0 | Geophysical Research Letters | 2012 | 888 |
| 21 | Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests | Science | 2016 | 864 |
| 22 | Reduced growth of Alaskan white spruce in the twentieth century from temperature-induced drought stress | Nature | 2000 | 849 |
| 23 | New developments in museum-based informatics and applications in biodiversity analysis | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2004 | 848 |
| 24 | The Circumpolar Arctic vegetation map | Journal of Vegetation Science | 2005 | 846 |
| 25 | Energy coupling between the solar wind and the magnetosphere | Space Science Reviews | 1981 | 771 |
| 26 | Bank ownership and efficiency in China: What will happen in the world’s largest nation? | Journal of Banking and Finance | 2009 | 759 |
| 27 | Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2010 | 744 |
| 28 | A Major Ecosystem Shift in the Northern Bering Sea | Science | 2006 | 729 |
| 29 | Experimental determination of thermal conductivity of three nanofluids and development of new correlations | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | 2009 | 721 |
| 30 | Citizen science can improve conservation science, natural resource management, and environmental protection | Biological Conservation | 2017 | 703 |
| 31 | Global-scale hydrological response to future glacier mass loss | Nature Climate Change | 2018 | 675 |
| 32 | African dust aerosols as atmospheric ice nuclei | Geophysical Research Letters | 2003 | 659 |
| 33 | GPS measurements of present-day convergence across the Nepal Himalaya | Nature | 1997 | 641 |
| 34 | Permafrost thermal state in the polar Northern Hemisphere during the international polar year 2007–2009: a synthesis | Permafrost and Periglacial Processes | 2010 | 625 |
| 35 | Land Surface Temperature Retrieval Methods From Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor Data | IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters | 2014 | 621 |
| 36 | Climate-induced boreal forest change: Predictions versus current observations | Global and Planetary Change | 2007 | 619 |
| 37 | Massive Phytoplankton Blooms Under Arctic Sea Ice | Science | 2012 | 606 |
| 38 | Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison | Science | 2004 | 601 |
| 39 | Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2007 | 593 |
| 40 | Greater role for Atlantic inflows on sea-ice loss in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean | Science | 2017 | 576 |
| 41 | Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents | Science | 2015 | 572 |
| 42 | A multidisciplinary effort to assign realistic source parameters to models of volcanic ash-cloud transport and dispersion during eruptions | Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research | 2009 | 561 |
| 43 | An overview of snow photochemistry: evidence, mechanisms and impacts | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2007 | 554 |
| 44 | Ecosystem dynamics of the Pacific-influenced Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas in the Amerasian Arctic | Progress in Oceanography | 2006 | 539 |
| 45 | Transport of Asian air pollution to North America | Geophysical Research Letters | 1999 | 534 |
| 46 | Pan-Arctic ice-wedge degradation in warming permafrost and its influence on tundra hydrology | Nature Geoscience | 2016 | 527 |
| 47 | The Tree of Life and a New Classification of Bony Fishes | PLOS Currents | 2013 | 526 |
| 48 | Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Alaska Native Ways of Knowing | Anthropology and Education Quarterly | 2005 | 520 |
| 49 | Snow–Shrub Interactions in Arctic Tundra: A Hypothesis with Climatic Implications | Journal of Climate | 2001 | 512 |
| 50 | Arctic Lakes and Streams as Gas Conduits to the Atmosphere: Implications for Tundra Carbon Budgets | Science | 1991 | 504 |
