| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data | Nature Methods | 2010 | 31,818 |
| 2 | Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 7,425 |
| 3 | Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 3,738 |
| 4 | Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 3,268 |
| 5 | Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soil | ISME Journal | 2010 | 3,154 |
| 6 | Towards a unified paradigm for sequence‐based identification of fungi | Molecular Ecology | 2013 | 2,997 |
| 7 | Bacterial Community Variation in Human Body Habitats Across Space and Time | Science | 2009 | 2,713 |
| 8 | Using network analysis to explore co-occurrence patterns in soil microbial communities | ISME Journal | 2012 | 2,051 |
| 9 | Observational Contrains on the Global Atmospheric Co2 Budget | Science | 1990 | 1,981 |
| 10 | Bulk Parameterization of Air–Sea Fluxes: Updates and Verification for the COARE Algorithm | Journal of Climate | 2003 | 1,878 |
| 11 | Observational Evidence of Recent Change in the Northern High-Latitude Environment | Climatic Change | 2000 | 1,690 |
| 12 | Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea | Nature Biotechnology | 2017 | 1,512 |
| 13 | Arctic sea ice decline: Faster than forecast | Geophysical Research Letters | 2007 | 1,459 |
| 14 | Comparative metagenomic, phylogenetic and physiological analyses of soil microbial communities across nitrogen gradients | ISME Journal | 2012 | 1,405 |
| 15 | A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil | Science | 2018 | 1,386 |
| 16 | The Arctic’s rapidly shrinking sea ice cover: a research synthesis | Climatic Change | 2012 | 1,277 |
| 17 | Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 1,260 |
| 18 | Global Carbon Budget 2019 | Earth System Science Data | 2019 | 1,159 |
| 19 | Post-processing removal of correlated errors in GRACE data | Geophysical Research Letters | 2006 | 1,155 |
| 20 | Examining the global distribution of dominant archaeal populations in soil | ISME Journal | 2011 | 1,112 |
| 21 | Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 1,023 |
| 22 | International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the 12th generation | Earth, Planets and Space | 2015 | 1,015 |
| 23 | A comprehensive survey of soil acidobacterial diversity using pyrosequencing and clone library analyses | ISME Journal | 2009 | 984 |
| 24 | IAHS Decade on Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB), 2003–2012: Shaping an exciting future for the hydrological sciences | Hydrological Sciences Journal | 2003 | 982 |
| 25 | The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 980 |
| 26 | Bacterial phylogeny structures soil resistomes across habitats | Nature | 2014 | 973 |
| 27 | Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 957 |
| 28 | Biophysical and Biochemical Sources of Variability in Canopy Reflectance | Remote Sensing of Environment | 1998 | 948 |
| 29 | The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness | Science Advances | 2016 | 948 |
| 30 | Tropospheric ozone and its precursors from the urban to the global scale from air quality to short-lived climate forcer | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2015 | 942 |
| 31 | Global Climatic Anomalies Associated with Extremes in the Southern Oscillation | Journal of Climate | 1989 | 938 |
| 32 | Surface Melt-Induced Acceleration of Greenland Ice-Sheet Flow | Science | 2002 | 938 |
| 33 | The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 2020 | 935 |
| 34 | Moving pictures of the human microbiome | Genome Biology | 2011 | 934 |
| 35 | The emergence of surface-based Arctic amplification | Cryosphere | 2009 | 923 |
| 36 | Creating usable science: Opportunities and constraints for climate knowledge use and their implications for science policy | Global Environmental Change | 2011 | 885 |
| 37 | The Arctic Amplification Debate | Climatic Change | 2006 | 883 |
| 38 | Trends in Arctic sea ice extent from CMIP5, CMIP3 and observations | Geophysical Research Letters | 2012 | 817 |
| 39 | Cohabiting family members share microbiota with one another and with their dogs | ELife | 2013 | 801 |
| 40 | Optimization of hydrolytic and oxidative enzyme methods for ecosystem studies | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2011 | 794 |
| 41 | Influence of the seasonal snow cover on the ground thermal regime: An overview | Reviews of Geophysics | 2005 | 787 |
| 42 | Scattering of GPS signals from the ocean with wind remote sensing application | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2000 | 751 |
| 43 | A New Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (TOF-AMS)—Instrument Description and First Field Deployment | Aerosol Science and Technology | 2005 | 719 |
| 44 | Volatile chemical products emerging as largest petrochemical source of urban organic emissions | Science | 2018 | 716 |
| 45 | A generalised method for the extraction of chemically resolved mass spectra from Aerodyne aerosol mass spectrometer data | Journal of Aerosol Science | 2004 | 702 |
| 46 | Surface Climate Variations over the North Atlantic Ocean during Winter: 1900–1989 | Journal of Climate | 1993 | 701 |
| 47 | On Postglacial Sea Level | Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society | 0 | 700 |
| 48 | Climate-change–driven accelerated sea-level rise detected in the altimeter era | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 700 |
| 49 | The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 2019 | 692 |
| 50 | Budget of organic carbon in a polluted atmosphere: Results from the New England Air Quality Study in 2002 | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2005 | 689 |
