| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers | Oikos | 1994 | 4,197 |
| 2 | Entropy and diversity | Oikos | 2006 | 3,340 |
| 3 | Let the concept of trait be functional! | Oikos | 2007 | 3,193 |
| 4 | How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals? | Oikos | 2011 | 2,328 |
| 5 | Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Birds and Mammals in Landscapes with Different Proportions of Suitable Habitat: A Review | Oikos | 1994 | 2,260 |
| 6 | Variation in trophic shift for stable isotope ratios of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur | Oikos | 2003 | 2,149 |
| 7 | Carbon/Nutrient Balance of Boreal Plants in Relation to Vertebrate Herbivory | Oikos | 1983 | 2,062 |
| 8 | Trade-offs in evolutionary immunology: just what is the cost of immunity? | Oikos | 2000 | 1,690 |
| 9 | Connectivity Is a Vital Element of Landscape Structure | Oikos | 1993 | 1,688 |
| 10 | Ecological Processes That Affect Populations in Complex Landscapes | Oikos | 1992 | 1,514 |
| 11 | Functional richness, functional evenness and functional divergence: the primary components of functional diversity | Oikos | 2005 | 1,475 |
| 12 | Climate, Leaf Litter Chemistry and Leaf Litter Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Triangular Relationship | Oikos | 1997 | 1,375 |
| 13 | Intraspecific Variation in Body Size and Fecundity in Insects: A General Relationship | Oikos | 1993 | 1,353 |
| 14 | New perspectives for estimating body condition from mass/length data: the scaled mass index as an alternative method | Oikos | 2009 | 1,334 |
| 15 | Latitudinal Gradients in Species Diversity: The Search for the Primary Cause | Oikos | 1992 | 1,261 |
| 16 | A consistent metric for nestedness analysis in ecological systems: reconciling concept and measurement | Oikos | 2008 | 1,261 |
| 17 | Arguments for rejecting the sequential Bonferroni in ecological studies | Oikos | 2003 | 1,244 |
| 18 | Diversity and the Coevolution of Competitors, or the Ghost of Competition Past | Oikos | 1980 | 1,210 |
| 19 | Sex versus Non-Sex versus Parasite | Oikos | 1980 | 1,198 |
| 20 | Are There General Laws in Ecology? | Oikos | 1999 | 1,175 |
| 21 | Costs of Reproduction: An Evaluation of the Empirical Evidence | Oikos | 1985 | 1,174 |
| 22 | Species-Energy Theory: An Extension of Species-Area Theory | Oikos | 1983 | 1,123 |
| 23 | Statistics and Partitioning of Species Diversity, and Similarity among Multiple Communities | Oikos | 1996 | 1,102 |
| 24 | What Is the Allee Effect? | Oikos | 1999 | 1,079 |
| 25 | Elton Revisited: A Review of Evidence Linking Diversity and Invasibility | Oikos | 1999 | 1,070 |
| 26 | Improving indicator species analysis by combining groups of sites | Oikos | 2010 | 1,041 |
| 27 | Estimating Fitness: A Comparison of Body Condition Indices | Oikos | 1996 | 993 |
| 28 | Characterizing ecosystem-level consequences of biological invasions: the role of ecosystem engineers | Oikos | 2002 | 989 |
| 29 | A Consumer's Guide to Evenness Indices | Oikos | 1996 | 980 |
| 30 | The Plant Vigor Hypothesis and Herbivore Attack | Oikos | 1991 | 974 |
| 31 | Chlorophyll a Determination: Improvements in Methodology | Oikos | 1978 | 949 |
| 32 | Compensatory Plant Growth as a Response to Herbivory | Oikos | 1983 | 946 |
| 33 | Dynamics of Regional Distribution: The Core and Satellite Species Hypothesis | Oikos | 1982 | 944 |
| 34 | Multiple Scales of Patchiness and Patch Structure: A Hierarchical Framework for the Study of Heterogeneity | Oikos | 1990 | 928 |
| 35 | Long-distance migration: evolution and determinants | Oikos | 2003 | 906 |
| 36 | A Functional Group Approach to the Structure of Algal-Dominated Communities | Oikos | 1994 | 886 |
| 37 | Rings, circles, and null-models for point pattern analysis in ecology | Oikos | 2004 | 886 |
| 38 | On the usage and measurement of landscape connectivity | Oikos | 2000 | 883 |
| 39 | A Comparative Analysis of Soil Fauna Populations and Their Role in Decomposition Processes | Oikos | 1982 | 855 |
| 40 | Ecological Mechanisms and Landscape Ecology | Oikos | 1993 | 851 |
| 41 | Decomposition dynamics in mixed-species leaf litter | Oikos | 2004 | 832 |
| 42 | Mollusks as ecosystem engineers: the role of shell production in aquatic habitats | Oikos | 2003 | 811 |
| 43 | Implementing false discovery rate control: increasing your power | Oikos | 2005 | 807 |
| 44 | Endophyte: The Evolution of a Term, and Clarification of Its Use and Definition | Oikos | 1995 | 799 |
| 45 | Are plant populations seed-limited? A review of seed sowing experiments | Oikos | 2000 | 787 |
| 46 | Biological Invasions and Ecosystem Processes: Towards an Integration of Population Biology and Ecosystem Studies | Oikos | 1990 | 771 |
| 47 | Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: recent theoretical advances | Oikos | 2000 | 767 |
| 48 | Tactics, Strategies and Templets | Oikos | 1988 | 758 |
| 49 | When is a maternal effect adaptive? | Oikos | 2007 | 692 |
| 50 | Integrated Screening Validates Primary Axes of Specialisation in Plants | Oikos | 1997 | 691 |
