| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment | Nature | 2010 | 5,299 |
| 2 | Historical (1850–2000) gridded anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of reactive gases and aerosols: methodology and application | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2010 | 2,020 |
| 3 | Accessibility evaluation of land-use and transport strategies: review and research directions | Journal of Transport Geography | 2004 | 1,857 |
| 4 | Defining Uncertainty: A Conceptual Basis for Uncertainty Management in Model-Based Decision Support | Integrated Assessment: an International Journal | 2003 | 1,431 |
| 5 | DENITRIFICATION ACROSS LANDSCAPES AND WATERSCAPES: A SYNTHESIS | | 2006 | 1,326 |
| 6 | CO2 emissions from forest loss | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 1,095 |
| 7 | Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands | Climatic Change | 2011 | 1,080 |
| 8 | The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human‐induced global land‐use change over the past 12,000 years | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2011 | 970 |
| 9 | Modeling global residential sector energy demand for heating and air conditioning in the context of climate change | Energy Policy | 2009 | 843 |
| 10 | Black Carbon as an Additional Indicator of the Adverse Health Effects of Airborne Particles Compared with PM 10 and PM 2.5 | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2011 | 829 |
| 11 | N2O and NO emission from agricultural fields and soils under natural vegetation: summarizing available measurement data and modeling of global annual emissions | Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems | 2006 | 815 |
| 12 | Evolution of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of air pollutants at global and regional scales during the 1980–2010 period | Climatic Change | 2011 | 740 |
| 13 | Indicators for energy security | Energy Policy | 2009 | 708 |
| 14 | The impacts of roads and other infrastructure on mammal and bird populations: A meta-analysis | Biological Conservation | 2010 | 693 |
| 15 | Comparing the input, output, and validation maps for several models of land change | Annals of Regional Science | 2008 | 685 |
| 16 | Do the Health Benefits of Cycling Outweigh the Risks? | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2010 | 679 |
| 17 | Anthropogenic transformation of the biomes, 1700 to 2000 | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2010 | 641 |
| 18 | Climate benefits of changing diet | Climatic Change | 2009 | 640 |
| 19 | Global river nutrient export: A scenario analysis of past and future trends | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2010 | 597 |
| 20 | Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change | Holocene | 2011 | 452 |
| 21 | Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study | Geophysical Research Letters | 2009 | 444 |
| 22 | Climate change and food safety: An emerging issue with special focus on Europe | Food and Chemical Toxicology | 2009 | 437 |
| 23 | The importance of the Montreal Protocol in protecting climate | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 417 |
| 24 | Human alteration of the global nitrogen and phosphorus soil balances for the period 1970–2050 | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2009 | 404 |
| 25 | Scenarios of freshwater fish extinctions from climate change and water withdrawal | Global Change Biology | 2005 | 394 |
| 26 | Global and regional evolution of short-lived radiatively-active gases and aerosols in the Representative Concentration Pathways | Climatic Change | 2011 | 393 |
| 27 | Transport impacts on atmosphere and climate: Metrics | Atmospheric Environment | 2010 | 358 |
| 28 | The large contribution of projected HFC emissions to future climate forcing | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 319 |
| 29 | Risk of increased food insecurity under stringent global climate change mitigation policy | Nature Climate Change | 2018 | 319 |
| 30 | Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world | Nature Climate Change | 2019 | 301 |
| 31 | Global nitrogen and phosphate in urban wastewater for the period 1970 to 2050 | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2009 | 289 |
| 32 | Exploring changes in world ruminant production systems | Agricultural Systems | 2005 | 274 |
| 33 | The feasibility of low CO2 concentration targets and the role of bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) | Climatic Change | 2010 | 251 |
| 34 | Costs and Benefits of Nitrogen for Europe and Implications for Mitigation | Environmental Science & Technology | 2013 | 242 |
| 35 | Trajectories of land use change in Europe: a model-based exploration of rural futures | Landscape Ecology | 2010 | 239 |
| 36 | Net-zero emission targets for major emitting countries consistent with the Paris Agreement | Nature Communications | 2021 | 233 |
| 37 | When Does Nitrate Become a Risk for Humans? | Journal of Environmental Quality | 2008 | 232 |
| 38 | Scenarios in Global Environmental Assessments: Key characteristics and lessons for future use | Global Environmental Change | 2012 | 225 |
| 39 | Estimation of global river transport of sediments and associated particulate C, N, and P | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2005 | 222 |
| 40 | Denitrification in Agricultural Soils: Summarizing Published Data and Estimating Global Annual Rates | Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems | 2005 | 208 |
| 41 | Effects of Precipitation Uncertainty on Discharge Calculations for Main River Basins | Journal of Hydrometeorology | 2009 | 195 |
| 42 | Soil nutrient maps of Sub-Saharan Africa: assessment of soil nutrient content at 250 m spatial resolution using machine learning | Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems | 2017 | 195 |
| 43 | Projecting Global Biodiversity Indicators under Future Development Scenarios | Conservation Letters | 2016 | 182 |
| 44 | Global modeling of the fate of nitrogen from point and nonpoint sources in soils, groundwater, and surface water | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2003 | 173 |
| 45 | Widening the scope of policies to address climate change: directions for mainstreaming | Environmental Science and Policy | 2007 | 169 |
| 46 | Social Impacts of Transport: Literature Review and the State of the Practice of Transport Appraisal in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom | Transport Reviews | 2009 | 166 |
| 47 | What would have happened to the ozone layer if chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) had not been regulated? | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2009 | 165 |
| 48 | Lessons from temporal and spatial patterns in global use of N and P fertilizer on cropland | Scientific Reports | 2017 | 165 |
| 49 | Effects of lowering nitrogen and phosphorus surpluses in agriculture on the quality of groundwater and surface water in the Netherlands | Journal of Hydrology | 2005 | 164 |
| 50 | Conceptualizing sustainable development | Ecological Economics | 2009 | 164 |
