| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests | Science | 2011 | 5,393 |
| 2 | Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change | Science | 2008 | 3,783 |
| 3 | Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback | Nature | 2015 | 2,369 |
| 4 | Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO 2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2007 | 1,770 |
| 5 | Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 1,746 |
| 6 | Natural climate solutions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2017 | 1,709 |
| 7 | Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward | Global Change Biology | 2011 | 1,143 |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | The 2010 Amazon Drought | Science | 2011 | 912 |
| 10 | Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas | Nature | 2012 | 909 |
| 11 | Mapping forest canopy height globally with spaceborne lidar | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2011 | 855 |
| 12 | A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks | Nature | 2020 | 814 |
| 13 | Cracking Brazil's Forest Code | Science | 2014 | 767 |
| 14 | Forest health and global change | Science | 2015 | 697 |
| 15 | The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 681 |
| 16 | Global Carbon Budget 2021 | Earth System Science Data | 2022 | 663 |
| 17 | Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought–fire interactions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 576 |
| 18 | The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions | Nature Sustainability | 2020 | 571 |
| 19 | Update on CO2 emissions | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 561 |
| 20 | Global patterns of drought recovery | Nature | 2017 | 560 |
| 21 | Compensatory water effects link yearly global land CO2 sink changes to temperature | Nature | 2017 | 480 |
| 22 | RCP8.5 tracks cumulative CO 2 emissions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 465 |
| 23 | Decoupling of deforestation and soy production in the southern Amazon during the late 2000s | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 462 |
| 24 | Importance of biomass in the global carbon cycle | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2009 | 447 |
| 25 | Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites with regression algorithms | Biogeosciences | 2016 | 447 |
| 26 | Amazonia revealed: forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2007 | 439 |
| 27 | The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon | Science | 2009 | 425 |
| 28 | Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes | Nature Climate Change | 2021 | 425 |
| 29 | Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather | Nature Climate Change | 2020 | 424 |
| 30 | Flux and age of dissolved organic carbon exported to the Arctic Ocean: A carbon isotopic study of the five largest arctic rivers | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2007 | 413 |
| 31 | Global and regional fluxes of carbon from land use and land cover change 1850–2015 | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2017 | 362 |
| 32 | A synthesis of current knowledge on forests and carbon storage in the United States | | 2011 | 354 |
| 33 | The FLUXCOM ensemble of global land-atmosphere energy fluxes | Scientific Data | 2019 | 337 |
| 34 | Natural climate solutions for the United States | Science Advances | 2018 | 333 |
| 35 | Dissolved organic carbon and chromophoric dissolved organic matter properties of rivers in the USA | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2012 | 323 |
| 36 | Pathways of mineral‐associated soil organic matter formation: Integrating the role of plant carbon source, chemistry, and point of entry | Global Change Biology | 2019 | 323 |
| 37 | Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach | Biogeosciences | 2020 | 323 |
| 38 | Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy | Nature Communications | 2020 | 302 |
| 39 | Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world | Nature Climate Change | 2019 | 301 |
| 40 | Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils | Nature | 2019 | 293 |
| 41 | Laser remote sensing of canopy habitat heterogeneity as a predictor of bird species richness in an eastern temperate forest, USA | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2007 | 290 |
| 42 | Potential carbon emissions dominated by carbon dioxide from thawed permafrost soils | Nature Climate Change | 2016 | 288 |
| 43 | Lightning as a major driver of recent large fire years in North American boreal forests | Nature Climate Change | 2017 | 285 |
| 44 | The hydrology of the humid tropics | Nature Climate Change | 2012 | 284 |
| 45 | Changes in forest productivity across Alaska consistent with biome shift | Ecology Letters | 2011 | 283 |
| 46 | Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers | Journal of Ecology | 2020 | 281 |
| 47 | Mapping and monitoring deforestation and forest degradation in Sumatra (Indonesia) using Landsat time series data sets from 1990 to 2010 | Environmental Research Letters | 2012 | 278 |
| 48 | Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth | Nature | 2020 | 278 |
| 49 | Expansion of Industrial Logging in Central Africa | Science | 2007 | 274 |
| 50 | Mapping and monitoring carbon stocks with satellite observations: a comparison of methods | Carbon Balance and Management | 2009 | 274 |
