| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Bio-mediated soil improvement | Ecological Engineering | 2010 | 1,177 |
| 2 | Application of bacteria as self-healing agent for the development of sustainable concrete | Ecological Engineering | 2010 | 1,041 |
| 3 | Microbial carbonate precipitation in construction materials: A review | Ecological Engineering | 2010 | 1,019 |
| 4 | Green roof performance towards management of runoff water quantity and quality: A review | Ecological Engineering | 2010 | 777 |
| 5 | Horizontal sub-surface flow and hybrid constructed wetlands systems for wastewater treatment | Ecological Engineering | 2005 | 678 |
| 6 | The potential for constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment and reuse in developing countries: a review | Ecological Engineering | 2001 | 673 |
| 7 | Microbial processes influencing performance of treatment wetlands: A review | Ecological Engineering | 2009 | 629 |
| 8 | Phytoremediation: An ecological solution to organic chemical contamination | Ecological Engineering | 2002 | 623 |
| 9 | Filter materials for phosphorus removal from wastewater in treatment wetlands—A review | Ecological Engineering | 2011 | 612 |
| 10 | Batch kinetics of nitrogen and phosphorus removal from synthetic wastewater by algae | Ecological Engineering | 2006 | 602 |
| 11 | Emergy-based indices and ratios to evaluate sustainability: monitoring economies and technology toward environmentally sound innovation | Ecological Engineering | 1997 | 551 |
| 12 | Ecological engineering for successful management and restoration of mangrove forests | Ecological Engineering | 2005 | 542 |
| 13 | Restoration of mined lands—using natural processes | Ecological Engineering | 1997 | 532 |
| 14 | Effect of temperature, HRT, vegetation and porous media on removal efficiency of pilot-scale horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands | Ecological Engineering | 2007 | 523 |
| 15 | Fixation and distribution of bacterial activity in sand to induce carbonate precipitation for ground reinforcement | Ecological Engineering | 2010 | 523 |
| 16 | Potential of using green adsorbent of heavy metal removal from aqueous solutions: Adsorption kinetics, isotherm, thermodynamic, mechanism and economic analysis | Ecological Engineering | 2016 | 509 |
| 17 | The use constructed wetlands with horizontal sub-surface flow for various types of wastewater | Ecological Engineering | 2009 | 474 |
| 18 | Constructed wetlands for treatment of industrial wastewaters: A review | Ecological Engineering | 2014 | 460 |
| 19 | Denitrifying bioreactors—An approach for reducing nitrate loads to receiving waters | Ecological Engineering | 2010 | 459 |
| 20 | Maxent modeling for predicting the potential distribution of medicinal plant, Justicia adhatoda L. in Lesser Himalayan foothills | Ecological Engineering | 2013 | 423 |
| 21 | How ecological engineering can serve in coastal protection | Ecological Engineering | 2011 | 411 |
| 22 | Plants for constructed wetland treatment systems — A comparison of the growth and nutrient uptake of eight emergent species | Ecological Engineering | 1996 | 401 |
| 23 | Spartina alterniflora invasions in the Yangtze River estuary, China: An overview of current status and ecosystem effects | Ecological Engineering | 2009 | 394 |
| 24 | The use of vertical flow constructed wetlands for on-site treatment of domestic wastewater: New Danish guidelines | Ecological Engineering | 2005 | 366 |
| 25 | Evaluating the ecological performance of wetland restoration in the Yellow River Delta, China | Ecological Engineering | 2009 | 355 |
| 26 | Cyanobacterial toxins, the perception of water quality, and the prioritisation of eutrophication control | Ecological Engineering | 2000 | 346 |
| 27 | Emergent plants used in free water surface constructed wetlands: A review | Ecological Engineering | 2013 | 344 |
| 28 | Potential soil reinforcement by biological denitrification | Ecological Engineering | 2010 | 341 |
| 29 | The use of sub-surface constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment in the Czech Republic: 10 years experience | Ecological Engineering | 2002 | 331 |
| 30 | Performance assessment of innovative constructed wetland-microbial fuel cell for electricity production and dye removal | Ecological Engineering | 2012 | 326 |
| 31 | Assessing and managing nutrient-enhanced eutrophication in estuarine and coastal waters: Interactive effects of human and climatic perturbations | Ecological Engineering | 2006 | 324 |
| 32 | Quantifying the effect of slope on extensive green roof stormwater retention | Ecological Engineering | 2007 | 317 |
| 33 | Management and restoration of European eel population (Anguilla anguilla): An impossible bargain | Ecological Engineering | 2002 | 311 |
| 34 | Constructed wetlands for livestock wastewater management | Ecological Engineering | 2000 | 306 |
| 35 | Wetlands for wastewater treatment: Opportunities and limitations | Ecological Engineering | 1999 | 303 |
| 36 | The inadequacy of first-order treatment wetland models | Ecological Engineering | 2000 | 297 |
| 37 | Ecological engineering: A field whose time has come | Ecological Engineering | 2003 | 291 |
| 38 | Using spontaneous succession for restoration of human-disturbed habitats: Experience from Central Europe | Ecological Engineering | 2001 | 288 |
| 39 | Biochar had effects on phosphorus sorption and desorption in three soils with differing acidity | Ecological Engineering | 2014 | 287 |
| 40 | Nutrient removal by floating aquatic macrophytes cultured in anaerobically digested flushed dairy manure wastewater | Ecological Engineering | 2004 | 281 |
| 41 | Mechanistic understanding and holistic approach of phytoremediation: A review on application and future prospects | Ecological Engineering | 2018 | 275 |
| 42 | Effect of a modular extensive green roof on stormwater runoff and water quality | Ecological Engineering | 2011 | 274 |
| 43 | Components of floating emergent macrophyte treatment wetlands influencing removal of stormwater pollutants | Ecological Engineering | 2011 | 267 |
| 44 | Clogging in subsurface-flow treatment wetlands: Occurrence and contributing factors | Ecological Engineering | 2011 | 265 |
| 45 | Developing success criteria and goals for evaluating oyster reef restoration: Ecological function or resource exploitation? | Ecological Engineering | 2000 | 263 |
| 46 | Efficiency of constructed wetlands in decontamination of water polluted by heavy metals | Ecological Engineering | 2002 | 260 |
| 47 | Ecosystem health and ecological engineering | Ecological Engineering | 2012 | 254 |
| 48 | Denitrification in constructed free-water surface wetlands: II. Effects of vegetation and temperature | Ecological Engineering | 1999 | 249 |
| 49 | Opportunities and challenges for managing nitrogen in urban stormwater: A review and synthesis | Ecological Engineering | 2010 | 247 |
| 50 | Critical source area controls on water quality in an agricultural watershed located in the Chesapeake Basin | Ecological Engineering | 2000 | 245 |
