| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Indirect effects of COVID-19 on the environment | Science of the Total Environment | 2020 | 905 |
| 2 | Trends in Total and Extreme South American Rainfall in 1960–2000 and Links with Sea Surface Temperature | Journal of Climate | 2006 | 535 |
| 3 | Context-Aware Recommender Systems for Learning: A Survey and Future Challenges | IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies | 2012 | 411 |
| 4 | Measurement of reactive oxygen intermediate production in haemocytes of the penaeid shrimp, Penaeus vannamei | Aquaculture | 2000 | 335 |
| 5 | Selection of probiotic bacteria and study of their immunostimulatory effect in Penaeus vannamei | Aquaculture | 2004 | 243 |
| 6 | A Critical Review of Sustainable Energy Policies for the Promotion of Renewable Energy Sources | Sustainability | 2020 | 176 |
| 7 | Environmental impacts, life cycle assessment and potential improvement measures for cement production: a literature review | Journal of Cleaner Production | 2016 | 174 |
| 8 | Life cycle assessment of geopolymer concrete | Construction and Building Materials | 2018 | 172 |
| 9 | Effects of germination on the nutritive value and bioactive compounds of brown rice breads | Food Chemistry | 2015 | 137 |
| 10 | NGOs’ Initiatives to Enhance Social Sustainability in the Supply Chain: Poverty Alleviation through Supplier Development Programs | Journal of Supply Chain Management | 2016 | 120 |
| 11 | Antifungal films based on starch-gelatin blend, containing essential oils | Food Hydrocolloids | 2016 | 118 |
| 12 | Testing environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis in Peru: The role of renewable electricity, petroleum and dry natural gas | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2018 | 110 |
| 13 | Soil properties and agronomic factors affecting cadmium concentrations in cacao beans: A nationwide survey in Ecuador | Science of the Total Environment | 2019 | 108 |
| 14 | DARE: Adaptive Data Replication for Efficient Cluster Scheduling | Science of the Total Environment | 2011 | 105 |
| 15 | Research Trends in Geotourism: A Bibliometric Analysis Using the Scopus Database | Geosciences (Switzerland) | 2020 | 101 |
| 16 | A Siting and Sizing Optimization Approach for PV–Battery–Diesel Hybrid Systems | IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications | 2018 | 100 |
| 17 | PirVP genes causing AHPND identified in a new Vibrio species (Vibrio punensis) within the commensal Orientalis clade | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 96 |
| 18 | Examining the influence of customer-to-customer electronic word-of-mouth on purchase intention in social networking sites | Asia Pacific Management Review | 2019 | 96 |
| 19 | Minimal geometric deformation decoupling in $$2+1$$ 2 + 1 dimensional space–times | European Physical Journal C | 2018 | 92 |
| 20 | Worldwide Research on Geoparks through Bibliometric Analysis | Sustainability | 2021 | 92 |
| 21 | Spatiotemporal clustering, climate periodicity, and social-ecological risk factors for dengue during an outbreak in Machala, Ecuador, in 2010 | BMC Infectious Diseases | 2014 | 88 |
| 22 | Quantitative Analysis of Learning Object Repositories | IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies | 2009 | 81 |
| 23 | Minimal Geometric Deformation: the inverse problem | European Physical Journal C | 2018 | 79 |
| 24 | Design and evaluation of a gamified system for ERP training | Computers in Human Behavior | 2016 | 78 |
| 25 | Exposure to probiotics and β-1,3/1,6-glucans in larviculture modifies the immune response of Penaeus vannamei juveniles and both the survival to White Spot Syndrome Virus challenge and pond culture | Aquaculture | 2007 | 76 |
| 26 | Academic student satisfaction and perceived performance in the e-learning environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence across ten countries | PLoS ONE | 2021 | 76 |
| 27 | Review: Prevalence and dynamics of Helicobacter pylori infection during childhood | Helicobacter | 2017 | 75 |
| 28 | LGHD: A feature descriptor for matching across non-linear intensity variations | Helicobacter | 2015 | 74 |
| 29 | A Chirality-Based Quantum Leap | ACS Nano | 2022 | 74 |
| 30 | Scaling mangrove aboveground biomass from site‐level to continental‐scale | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2016 | 73 |
| 31 | Automatic evaluation of metadata quality in digital repositories | International Journal on Digital Libraries | 2009 | 71 |
| 32 | Federated learning enables big data for rare cancer boundary detection | Nature Communications | 2022 | 71 |
| 33 | Do Extrinsic Incentives Undermine Social Norms? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Energy Conservation | Environmental and Resource Economics | 2017 | 70 |
| 34 | Physicochemical and nutritional characteristics of banana flour during ripening | Food Chemistry | 2018 | 70 |
| 35 | Urban Heat Island intensity and buildings’ energy needs in Duran, Ecuador: Simulation studies and proposal of mitigation strategies | Sustainable Cities and Society | 2020 | 70 |
| 36 | Influence of germination time of brown rice in relation to flour and gluten free bread quality | Journal of Food Science and Technology | 2015 | 68 |
| 37 | Competing models of entrepreneurial intentions: the influence of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and attitudes | International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business | 2011 | 67 |
| 38 | Subducted oceanic relief locks the shallow megathrust in central Ecuador | Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth | 2017 | 66 |
| 39 | Assessment of groundwater vulnerability in the Daule aquifer, Ecuador, using the susceptibility index method | Science of the Total Environment | 2017 | 64 |
| 40 | Gamification through leaderboards: An empirical study in engineering education | Computer Applications in Engineering Education | 2019 | 64 |
| 41 | Continuous elimination of Pb2+, Cu2+, Zn2+, H+ and NH4+ from acidic waters by ionic exchange on natural zeolites | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2009 | 63 |
| 42 | A Systematic Review on the Contributions of Edible Plant and Animal Biodiversity to Human Diets | EcoHealth | 2011 | 63 |
| 43 | A social-ecological analysis of community perceptions of dengue fever and Aedes aegypti in Machala, Ecuador | BMC Public Health | 2014 | 62 |
| 44 | Antarctic Pseudomonas spp. promote wheat germination and growth at low temperatures | Polar Biology | 2018 | 60 |
| 45 | Global ecological footprint and spatial dependence between countries | Journal of Environmental Management | 2020 | 60 |
| 46 | Bayesian belief network models to analyse and predict ecological water quality in rivers | Ecological Modelling | 2015 | 59 |
| 47 | Landslides in the Central Coalfield (Cantabrian Mountains, NW Spain): Geomorphological features, conditioning factors and methodological implications in susceptibility assessment | Geomorphology | 2007 | 57 |
| 48 | Draft genome sequence of pathogenic bacteria Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain Ba94C2, associated with acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease isolate from South America | Genomics Data | 2016 | 57 |
| 49 | Geotourism and Local Development Based on Geological and Mining Sites Utilization, Zaruma-Portovelo, Ecuador | Geosciences (Switzerland) | 2018 | 57 |
| 50 | Temporal variations of water flow between the Venetian lagoon and the open sea | Journal of Marine Systems | 2004 | 56 |
