| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Mapping ecosystem service supply, demand and budgets | Ecological Indicators | 2012 | 1,620 |
| 2 | A measure of spatial stratified heterogeneity | Ecological Indicators | 2016 | 1,192 |
| 3 | An overview of sustainability assessment methodologies | Ecological Indicators | 2009 | 1,146 |
| 4 | Veterinary antibiotics in the aquatic and terrestrial environment | Ecological Indicators | 2008 | 1,129 |
| 5 | Heavy metal pollution in surface water and sediment: A preliminary assessment of an urban river in a developing country | Ecological Indicators | 2015 | 1,037 |
| 6 | Challenges in the development and use of ecological indicators | Ecological Indicators | 2001 | 1,013 |
| 7 | Sustainable Development Goals: A need for relevant indicators | Ecological Indicators | 2016 | 1,011 |
| 8 | Three hundred ways to assess Europe's surface waters: An almost complete overview of biological methods to implement the Water Framework Directive | Ecological Indicators | 2012 | 834 |
| 9 | Testing Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis in Asian countries | Ecological Indicators | 2015 | 802 |
| 10 | How to understand and measure environmental sustainability: Indicators and targets | Ecological Indicators | 2012 | 744 |
| 11 | Testing environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis: The role of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption and trade in OECD countries | Ecological Indicators | 2016 | 712 |
| 12 | Integrating Ecological, Carbon and Water footprint into a “Footprint Family” of indicators: Definition and role in tracking human pressure on the planet | Ecological Indicators | 2012 | 677 |
| 13 | A comparative assessment of support vector regression, artificial neural networks, and random forests for predicting and mapping soil organic carbon stocks across an Afromontane landscape | Ecological Indicators | 2015 | 617 |
| 14 | Analysis of the potentials of multi criteria decision analysis methods to conduct sustainability assessment | Ecological Indicators | 2014 | 616 |
| 15 | Assessing heavy metal contamination in Sado Estuary sediment: An index analysis approach | Ecological Indicators | 2005 | 615 |
| 16 | Investigating the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis by utilizing the ecological footprint as an indicator of environmental degradation | Ecological Indicators | 2015 | 603 |
| 17 | A conceptual framework for selecting environmental indicator sets | Ecological Indicators | 2008 | 596 |
| 18 | Single and combined effects of microplastics and pyrene on juveniles (0+ group) of the common goby Pomatoschistus microps (Teleostei, Gobiidae) | Ecological Indicators | 2013 | 582 |
| 19 | Relationships among carbon emissions, economic growth, energy consumption and population growth: Testing Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis for Brazil, China, India and Indonesia | Ecological Indicators | 2016 | 561 |
| 20 | Accounting for demand and supply of the biosphere's regenerative capacity: The National Footprint Accounts’ underlying methodology and framework | Ecological Indicators | 2013 | 525 |
| 21 | Spatial indicators for the assessment of ecosystem services: Providing, benefiting and connecting areas and landscape metrics | Ecological Indicators | 2012 | 514 |
| 22 | A review of water quality index models and their use for assessing surface water quality | Ecological Indicators | 2021 | 506 |
| 23 | Parsimony in landscape metrics: Strength, universality, and consistency | Ecological Indicators | 2008 | 483 |
| 24 | Remote sensing for conservation monitoring: Assessing protected areas, habitat extent, habitat condition, species diversity, and threats | Ecological Indicators | 2013 | 464 |
| 25 | An empirical review of cultural ecosystem service indicators | Ecological Indicators | 2013 | 462 |
| 26 | Measuring the sustainability of cities: An analysis of the use of local indicators | Ecological Indicators | 2010 | 460 |
| 27 | Mapping ecosystem services demand: A review of current research and future perspectives | Ecological Indicators | 2015 | 457 |
| 28 | Trade-offs across value-domains in ecosystem services assessment | Ecological Indicators | 2014 | 434 |
| 29 | A new methodology to infer the singing activity of an avian community: The Acoustic Complexity Index (ACI) | Ecological Indicators | 2011 | 432 |
| 30 | A critical review of selected tools for assessing community resilience | Ecological Indicators | 2016 | 420 |
| 31 | How do ecologists select and use indicator species to monitor ecological change? Insights from 14 years of publication in Ecological Indicators | Ecological Indicators | 2016 | 414 |
| 32 | Categorization of indicators for sustainable manufacturing | Ecological Indicators | 2013 | 404 |
| 33 | Urban green space availability in European cities | Ecological Indicators | 2016 | 399 |
| 34 | Use of the water quality index and dissolved oxygen deficit as simple indicators of watersheds pollution | Ecological Indicators | 2007 | 393 |
| 35 | Environmental and ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in sediments of Nador lagoon, Morocco | Ecological Indicators | 2015 | 393 |
| 36 | www.freshwaterecology.info – An online tool that unifies, standardises and codifies more than 20,000 European freshwater organisms and their ecological preferences | Ecological Indicators | 2015 | 390 |
| 37 | Mapping cultural ecosystem services: A framework to assess the potential for outdoor recreation across the EU | Ecological Indicators | 2014 | 384 |
| 38 | Community stakeholders’ knowledge in landscape assessments – Mapping indicators for landscape services | Ecological Indicators | 2012 | 378 |
| 39 | Economic growth, electricity consumption, urbanization and environmental degradation relationship in United Arab Emirates | Ecological Indicators | 2014 | 372 |
| 40 | When to use what: Methods for weighting and aggregating sustainability indicators | Ecological Indicators | 2017 | 372 |
| 41 | Exploring the relationship between urbanization and the eco-environment—A case study of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region | Ecological Indicators | 2014 | 367 |
| 42 | Trends in the use of landscape spatial metrics as landscape indicators: A review | Ecological Indicators | 2013 | 361 |
| 43 | Application of fuzzy VIKOR for evaluation of green supply chain management practices | Ecological Indicators | 2015 | 361 |
| 44 | Framework for systematic indicator selection to assess effects of land management on ecosystem services | Ecological Indicators | 2012 | 360 |
| 45 | Heavy metal bioaccumulation by the organs of Phragmites australis (common reed) and their potential use as contamination indicators | Ecological Indicators | 2010 | 358 |
| 46 | Environmental Kuznets curve for CO2 emissions in China: A spatial panel data approach | Ecological Indicators | 2016 | 353 |
| 47 | The role of renewable energy and agriculture in reducing CO 2 emissions: Evidence for North Africa countries | Ecological Indicators | 2017 | 353 |
| 48 | The impact of trade openness on global carbon dioxide emissions: Evidence from the top ten emitters among developing countries | Ecological Indicators | 2016 | 349 |
| 49 | Integrative freshwater ecology and biodiversity conservation | Ecological Indicators | 2011 | 348 |
| 50 | Deadwood as a surrogate for forest biodiversity: Meta-analysis of correlations between deadwood volume and species richness of saproxylic organisms | Ecological Indicators | 2011 | 343 |
