| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) | Autophagy | 2016 | 4,701 |
| 2 | Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003 | Nature | 2005 | 3,245 |
| 3 | On the separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and ecosystem respiration: review and improved algorithm | Global Change Biology | 2005 | 2,778 |
| 4 | Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate | Science | 2010 | 2,056 |
| 5 | Energy balance closure at FLUXNET sites | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2002 | 1,877 |
| 6 | Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply | Nature | 2010 | 1,771 |
| 7 | EURO-CORDEX: new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research | Regional Environmental Change | 2014 | 1,758 |
| 8 | Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests | Nature | 2000 | 1,438 |
| 9 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1 | Autophagy | 2021 | 1,430 |
| 10 | Climate extremes and the carbon cycle | Nature | 2013 | 1,357 |
| 11 | Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 1,254 |
| 12 | Towards a standardized processing of Net Ecosystem Exchange measured with eddy covariance technique: algorithms and uncertainty estimation | Biogeosciences | 2006 | 1,206 |
| 13 | Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2002 | 1,133 |
| 14 | Molecular mechanisms of micronucleus, nucleoplasmic bridge and nuclear bud formation in mammalian and human cells | Mutagenesis | 2011 | 943 |
| 15 | Global patterns of land-atmosphere fluxes of carbon dioxide, latent heat, and sensible heat derived from eddy covariance, satellite, and meteorological observations | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2011 | 933 |
| 16 | Reconciling Carbon-cycle Concepts, Terminology, and Methods | Ecosystems | 2006 | 904 |
| 17 | Forest response to elevated CO2 is conserved across a broad range of productivity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 880 |
| 18 | The human footprint in the carbon cycle of temperate and boreal forests | Nature | 2007 | 868 |
| 19 | CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database | Global Change Biology | 2007 | 863 |
| 20 | Reconciling the optimal and empirical approaches to modelling stomatal conductance | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 847 |
| 21 | Productivity overshadows temperature in determining soil and ecosystem respiration across European forests | Global Change Biology | 2001 | 843 |
| 22 | Genomic analyses provide insights into the history of tomato breeding | Nature Genetics | 2014 | 801 |
| 23 | Separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and respiration using a light response curve approach: critical issues and global evaluation | Global Change Biology | 2010 | 752 |
| 24 | Comprehensive comparison of gap-filling techniques for eddy covariance net carbon fluxes | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2007 | 744 |
| 25 | Consensus guidelines for the detection of immunogenic cell death | OncoImmunology | 2014 | 686 |
| 26 | A universal vaccine for serogroup B meningococcus | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 657 |
| 27 | Global data set of biogenic VOC emissions calculated by the MEGAN model over the last 30 years | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2014 | 648 |
| 28 | The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data | Scientific Data | 2020 | 646 |
| 29 | Stomatal conductance of forest species after long‐term exposure to elevated CO 2 concentration: a synthesis | New Phytologist | 2001 | 621 |
| 30 | The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution | Nature | 2013 | 612 |
| 31 | Metabolic and hormonal acclimation to heat stress in domesticated ruminants | Animal | 2010 | 580 |
| 32 | “Panta Rhei—Everything Flows”: Change in hydrology and society—The IAHS Scientific Decade 2013–2022 | Hydrological Sciences Journal | 2013 | 569 |
| 33 | Identification and validation of reference genes for quantitative RT-PCR normalization in wheat | BMC Molecular Biology | 2009 | 560 |
| 34 | An updated checklist of the vascular flora native to Italy | Plant Biosystems | 2018 | 508 |
| 35 | Modeling temporal and large-scale spatial variability of soil respiration from soil water availability, temperature and vegetation productivity indices | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2003 | 501 |
| 36 | Soil enzymology: classical and molecular approaches | Biology and Fertility of Soils | 2012 | 493 |
| 37 | Reduction of ecosystem productivity and respiration during the European summer 2003 climate anomaly: a joint flux tower, remote sensing and modelling analysis | Global Change Biology | 2007 | 486 |
| 38 | Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi act as biostimulants in horticultural crops | Scientia Horticulturae | 2015 | 483 |
| 39 | Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature | Nature | 2017 | 480 |
| 40 | Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective | Hydrological Sciences Journal | 2019 | 474 |
| 41 | A new assessment of European forests carbon exchanges by eddy fluxes and artificial neural network spatialization | Global Change Biology | 2003 | 465 |
| 42 | Interactive effects of drought and pathogens in forest trees | Annals of Forest Science | 2006 | 465 |
| 43 | Severe drought effects on ecosystem CO2 and H2 O fluxes at three Mediterranean evergreen sites: revision of current hypotheses? | Global Change Biology | 2002 | 460 |
| 44 | Influence of Body Condition Score on Relationships Between Metabolic Status and Oxidative Stress in Periparturient Dairy Cows | Journal of Dairy Science | 2005 | 460 |
| 45 | Impact of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on the Gut Microbiota | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 2017 | 459 |
| 46 | Biogeographical patterns and determinants of invasion by forest pathogens in Europe | New Phytologist | 2013 | 458 |
| 47 | Protein hydrolysates as biostimulants in horticulture | Scientia Horticulturae | 2015 | 455 |
| 48 | Proteomics applied on plant abiotic stresses: Role of heat shock proteins (HSP) | Journal of Proteomics | 2008 | 453 |
| 49 | Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites with regression algorithms | Biogeosciences | 2016 | 447 |
| 50 | Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial gross primary production: A review | Reviews of Geophysics | 2015 | 432 |
