| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 | Lancet, The | 2012 | 9,397 |
| 2 | Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015 | Lancet, The | 2017 | 4,187 |
| 3 | The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis | Nature | 1997 | 3,519 |
| 4 | High-resolution mapping of global surface water and its long-term changes | Nature | 2016 | 2,847 |
| 5 | Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment | Journal of Environmental Management | 2009 | 2,163 |
| 6 | The Scherrer equation versus the 'Debye-Scherrer equation' | Nature Nanotechnology | 2011 | 2,117 |
| 7 | Global assessment of nitrogen deposition effects on terrestrial plant diversity: a synthesis | Ecological Applications | 2010 | 2,063 |
| 8 | Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate | Science | 2010 | 2,056 |
| 9 | Historical (1850–2000) gridded anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of reactive gases and aerosols: methodology and application | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2010 | 2,020 |
| 10 | Cancer incidence and mortality patterns in Europe: Estimates for 40 countries and 25 major cancers in 2018 | European Journal of Cancer | 2018 | 1,789 |
| 11 | An overview of the chemical composition of biomass | Fuel | 2010 | 1,686 |
| 12 | A quantitative review of the effects of biochar application to soils on crop productivity using meta-analysis | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2011 | 1,632 |
| 13 | Determination of Deforestation Rates of the World's Humid Tropical Forests | Science | 2002 | 1,630 |
| 14 | Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2014 | 1,599 |
| 15 | A Quantitative Model-Independent Method for Global Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output | Technometrics | 1999 | 1,521 |
| 16 | Making best use of model evaluations to compute sensitivity indices | Computer Physics Communications | 2002 | 1,466 |
| 17 | Importance measures in global sensitivity analysis of nonlinear models | Reliability Engineering and System Safety | 1996 | 1,442 |
| 18 | An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion | Nature Communications | 2017 | 1,398 |
| 19 | An effective screening design for sensitivity analysis of large models | Environmental Modelling and Software | 2007 | 1,354 |
| 20 | Smart cities of the future | European Physical Journal: Special Topics | 2012 | 1,348 |
| 21 | Speciation of Heavy Metals in Soils and Sediments. An Account of the Improvement and Harmonization of Extraction Techniques Undertaken Under the Auspices of the BCR of the Commission of the European Communities | International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry | 1993 | 1,318 |
| 22 | A strategy for structuring and reporting a read-across prediction of toxicity | Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology | 2015 | 1,125 |
| 23 | The global nitrogen cycle in the twenty-first century | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2013 | 1,114 |
| 24 | The significance of soils and soil science towards realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals | Soil | 2016 | 1,077 |
| 25 | Historical (1750–2014) anthropogenic emissions of reactive gases and aerosols from the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS) | Geoscientific Model Development | 2018 | 1,058 |
| 26 | Heavy metals in agricultural soils of the European Union with implications for food safety | Environment International | 2016 | 1,053 |
| 27 | Impacts of Atmospheric Anthropogenic Nitrogen on the Open Ocean | Science | 2008 | 964 |
| 28 | Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions | Nature Food | 2021 | 964 |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | EU-wide monitoring survey on emerging polar organic contaminants in wastewater treatment plant effluents | Water Research | 2013 | 932 |
| 31 | Emissions of primary aerosol and precursor gases in the years 2000 and 1750 prescribed data-sets for AeroCom | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2006 | 912 |
| 32 | Biogenically driven organic contribution to marine aerosol | Nature | 2004 | 890 |
| 33 | Ambient Air Pollution Exposure Estimation for the Global Burden of Disease 2013 | Environmental Science & Technology | 2016 | 886 |
| 34 | Sensitivity Analysis for Importance Assessment | Risk Analysis | 2002 | 864 |
| 35 | Biogas: Developments and perspectives in Europe | Renewable Energy | 2018 | 858 |
| 36 | Nitrogen and sulfur deposition on regional and global scales: A multimodel evaluation | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2006 | 846 |
| 37 | Radiation effects in crystalline ceramics for the immobilization of high-level nuclear waste and plutonium | Journal of Materials Research | 1998 | 842 |
| 38 | EU-wide survey of polar organic persistent pollutants in European river waters | Environmental Pollution | 2009 | 842 |
| 39 | Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2011 | 839 |
| 40 | Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy | | 1990 | 835 |
| 41 | The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe | Environmental Science and Policy | 2015 | 825 |
| 42 | A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks | Nature | 2020 | 814 |
| 43 | A European aerosol phenomenology—2: chemical characteristics of particulate matter at kerbside, urban, rural and background sites in Europe | Atmospheric Environment | 2004 | 801 |
| 44 | Anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions: 1850–2005 | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2011 | 801 |
| 45 | Consensus statement for stability assessment and reporting for perovskite photovoltaics based on ISOS procedures | Nature Energy | 2020 | 797 |
| 46 | Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean | Nature Climate Change | 2018 | 776 |
| 47 | 50 year trends in nitrogen use efficiency of world cropping systems: the relationship between yield and nitrogen input to cropland | Environmental Research Letters | 2014 | 764 |
| 48 | The European Water Framework Directive at the age of 10: A critical review of the achievements with recommendations for the future | Science of the Total Environment | 2010 | 756 |
| 49 | Emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases over Asian regions during 2000–2008: Regional Emission inventory in ASia (REAS) version 2 | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2013 | 744 |
| 50 | MSWEP: 3-hourly 0.25° global gridded precipitation (1979–2015) by merging gauge, satellite, and reanalysis data | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2017 | 742 |
