| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Ecological responses to recent climate change | Nature | 2002 | 7,926 |
| 2 | Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2009 | 4,134 |
| 3 | Large losses of total ozone in Antarctica reveal seasonal ClOx/NOx interaction | Nature | 1985 | 3,109 |
| 4 | The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2011 | 2,785 |
| 5 | Orbital and Millennial Antarctic Climate Variability over the Past 800,000 Years | Science | 2007 | 1,880 |
| 6 | Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays | ELife | 2014 | 1,400 |
| 7 | A Reconciled Estimate of Ice-Sheet Mass Balance | Science | 2012 | 1,246 |
| 8 | The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates | Science | 2010 | 1,209 |
| 9 | Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses | Nature | 1996 | 1,180 |
| 10 | Scaling of metabolic rate with body mass and temperature in teleost fish | Journal of Animal Ecology | 1999 | 1,104 |
| 11 | Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves | Nature | 2012 | 1,051 |
| 12 | Recent Rapid Regional Climate Warming on the Antarctic Peninsula | Climatic Change | 2003 | 1,009 |
| 13 | Long-term decline in krill stock and increase in salps within the Southern Ocean | Nature | 2004 | 975 |
| 14 | Antarctic climate change during the last 50 years | International Journal of Climatology | 2005 | 948 |
| 15 | A 60 000 year Greenland stratigraphic ice core chronology | Climate of the Past | 2008 | 910 |
| 16 | Extensive dynamic thinning on the margins of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets | Nature | 2009 | 827 |
| 17 | Timing and climate forcing of volcanic eruptions for the past 2,500 years | Nature | 2015 | 824 |
| 18 | Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer | Nature | 2007 | 736 |
| 19 | Retreating Glacier Fronts on the Antarctic Peninsula over the Past Half-Century | Science | 2005 | 711 |
| 20 | Rapid climate change in the ocean west of the Antarctic Peninsula during the second half of the 20th century | Geophysical Research Letters | 2005 | 669 |
| 21 | Satellite Radar Interferometry for Monitoring Ice Sheet Motion: Application to an Antarctic Ice Stream | Science | 1993 | 637 |
| 22 | Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2007 | 593 |
| 23 | Geochemistry and tectonic significance of peridotites from the South Sandwich arc-basin system, South Atlantic | Contributions To Mineralogy and Petrology | 2000 | 592 |
| 24 | The Greenland Ice Core Chronology 2005, 15–42ka. Part 1: constructing the time scale | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2006 | 591 |
| 25 | High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects | Holocene | 2009 | 588 |
| 26 | Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core | Nature | 2008 | 587 |
| 27 | Invasions by marine life on plastic debris | Nature | 2002 | 584 |
| 28 | Biological invasions in the Antarctic: extent, impacts and implications | Biological Reviews | 2005 | 577 |
| 29 | The role of mantle plumes in continental breakup: case histories from Gondwanaland | Nature | 1995 | 572 |
| 30 | BEDMAP: A new ice thickness and subglacial topographic model of Antarctica | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2001 | 572 |
| 31 | Timescale for radiation belt electron acceleration by whistler mode chorus waves | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2005 | 561 |
| 32 | An overview of snow photochemistry: evidence, mechanisms and impacts | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2007 | 554 |
| 33 | A decade of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN): scientific achievements, new techniques and future directions | Surveys in Geophysics | 2007 | 554 |
| 34 | Global Seabird Response to Forage Fish Depletion—One-Third for the Birds | Science | 2011 | 550 |
| 35 | A meta‐analysis of plant responses to dark septate root endophytes | New Phytologist | 2011 | 547 |
| 36 | Absence of 21st century warming on Antarctic Peninsula consistent with natural variability | Nature | 2016 | 538 |
| 37 | BedMachine v3: Complete Bed Topography and Ocean Bathymetry Mapping of Greenland From Multibeam Echo Sounding Combined With Mass Conservation | Geophysical Research Letters | 2017 | 536 |
| 38 | Potential waves for relativistic electron scattering and stochastic acceleration during magnetic storms | Geophysical Research Letters | 1998 | 529 |
| 39 | Microplastics in the Antarctic marine system: An emerging area of research | Science of the Total Environment | 2017 | 519 |
| 40 | Recent atmospheric warming and retreat of ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula | Nature | 1996 | 518 |
| 41 | Management of Multispecies Fisheries | Science | 1979 | 515 |
| 42 | Wave acceleration of electrons in the Van Allen radiation belts | Nature | 2005 | 505 |
| 43 | Stronger ocean circulation and increased melting under Pine Island Glacier ice shelf | Nature Geoscience | 2011 | 505 |
| 44 | Why does metabolism scale with temperature? | Functional Ecology | 2004 | 486 |
| 45 | Southern Ocean sea-ice extent, productivity and iron flux over the past eight glacial cycles | Nature | 2006 | 482 |
| 46 | The large-scale freshwater cycle of the Arctic | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2006 | 478 |
| 47 | Observations beneath Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica and implications for its retreat | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 475 |
| 48 | Reversible interconversion of carbon dioxide and formate by an electroactive enzyme | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 472 |
| 49 | One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity | Conservation Biology | 2009 | 468 |
| 50 | Wind-driven trends in Antarctic sea-ice drift | Nature Geoscience | 2012 | 468 |
