| 1 | Global scale climate–crop yield relationships and the impacts of recent warming | Environmental Research Letters | 2007 | 1,350 |
| 2 | A global inventory of small floating plastic debris | Environmental Research Letters | 2015 | 1,158 |
| 3 | Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities | Environmental Research Letters | 2011 | 1,031 |
| 4 | Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects | Environmental Research Letters | 2018 | 941 |
| 5 | Monitoring and estimating tropical forest carbon stocks: making REDD a reality | Environmental Research Letters | 2007 | 916 |
| 6 | Review of climate and cryospheric change in the Tibetan Plateau | Environmental Research Letters | 2010 | 886 |
| 7 | A global analysis of soil acidification caused by nitrogen addition | Environmental Research Letters | 2015 | 866 |
| 8 | 50 year trends in nitrogen use efficiency of world cropping systems: the relationship between yield and nitrogen input to cropland | Environmental Research Letters | 2014 | 844 |
| 9 | Robust negative impacts of climate change on African agriculture | Environmental Research Letters | 2010 | 815 |
| 10 | An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries | Environmental Research Letters | 2012 | 814 |
| 11 | A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018 | Environmental Research Letters | 2021 | 747 |
| 12 | Changing state of Arctic sea ice across all seasons | Environmental Research Letters | 2018 | 674 |
| 13 | Comparative analysis of environmental impacts of agricultural production systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice | Environmental Research Letters | 2017 | 628 |
| 14 | The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A systematic review of methods for nexus assessment | Environmental Research Letters | 2018 | 606 |
| 15 | The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris | Environmental Research Letters | 2020 | 598 |
| 16 | Spatially explicit global population scenarios consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways | Environmental Research Letters | 2016 | 581 |
| 17 | Arctic sea ice thickness, volume, and multiyear ice coverage: losses and coupled variability (1958–2018) | Environmental Research Letters | 2018 | 559 |
| 18 | Evidence of increasing drought severity caused by temperature rise in southern Europe | Environmental Research Letters | 2014 | 556 |
| 19 | Mapping global urban boundaries from the global artificial impervious area (GAIA) data | Environmental Research Letters | 2020 | 554 |
| 20 | A new map of global urban extent from MODIS satellite data | Environmental Research Letters | 2009 | 546 |
| 21 | Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis | Environmental Research Letters | 2018 | 543 |
| 22 | The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields | Environmental Research Letters | 2019 | 542 |
| 23 | Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the
scientific literature | Environmental Research Letters | 2013 | 538 |
| 24 | Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway | Environmental Research Letters | 2020 | 535 |
| 25 | The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions | Environmental Research Letters | 2017 | 533 |
| 26 | Top ten European heatwaves since 1950 and their occurrence in the coming decades | Environmental Research Letters | 2015 | 532 |
| 27 | Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017 | Environmental Research Letters | 2019 | 525 |
| 28 | Global patterns of current and future road infrastructure | Environmental Research Letters | 2018 | 520 |
| 29 | Effects of biofouling on the sinking behavior of microplastics | Environmental Research Letters | 2017 | 501 |
| 30 | Biochar boosts tropical but not temperate crop yields | Environmental Research Letters | 2017 | 497 |
| 31 | Wheat yield loss attributable to heat waves, drought and water excess at the global, national and subnational scales | Environmental Research Letters | 2017 | 494 |
| 32 | Climate change impacts on crop productivity in Africa and South Asia | Environmental Research Letters | 2012 | 493 |
| 33 | A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights | Environmental Research Letters | 2020 | 482 |
| 34 | Global crop yield response to extreme heat stress under multiple climate change futures | Environmental Research Letters | 2014 | 481 |
| 35 | International comparison of health care carbon footprints | Environmental Research Letters | 2019 | 470 |
| 36 | An index-based framework for assessing patterns and trends in river fragmentation and flow regulation by global dams at multiple scales | Environmental Research Letters | 2015 | 431 |
| 37 | The FAOSTAT database of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture | Environmental Research Letters | 2013 | 428 |
| 38 | Quantitative maps of groundwater resources in Africa | Environmental Research Letters | 2012 | 423 |
| 39 | Evidence for a wavier jet stream in response to rapid Arctic warming | Environmental Research Letters | 2015 | 417 |
| 40 | Readily implementable techniques can cut annual CO
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emissions from the production of concrete by over 20% | Environmental Research Letters | 2016 | 413 |
| 41 | Operational water consumption and withdrawal factors for electricity generating technologies: a review of existing literature | Environmental Research Letters | 2012 | 411 |
| 42 | The last decade of global anthropogenic sulfur dioxide: 2000–2011 emissions | Environmental Research Letters | 2013 | 399 |
| 43 | Arctic warming, increasing snow cover and widespread boreal winter cooling | Environmental Research Letters | 2012 | 398 |
| 44 | The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon | Environmental Research Letters | 2010 | 396 |
| 45 | Impacts of European livestock production: nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus and greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, water eutrophication and biodiversity | Environmental Research Letters | 2015 | 389 |
| 46 | Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California | Environmental Research Letters | 2020 | 388 |
| 47 | A 30 m global map of elevation with forests and buildings removed | Environmental Research Letters | 2022 | 386 |
| 48 | Quantifying the potential for climate change mitigation of consumption options | Environmental Research Letters | 2020 | 379 |
| 49 | Global crop exposure to critical high temperatures in the reproductive period: historical trends and future projections | Environmental Research Letters | 2013 | 376 |
| 50 | Atmospheric new particle formation and growth: review of field observations | Environmental Research Letters | 2018 | 375 |
