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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Global scale climate–crop yield relationships and the impacts of recent warming	Environmental Research Letters	2007	1,494
2	A global inventory of small floating plastic debris	Environmental Research Letters	2015	1,113
3	Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities	Environmental Research Letters	2011	1,021
4	Monitoring and estimating tropical forest carbon stocks: making REDD a reality	Environmental Research Letters	2007	1,003
5	Robust negative impacts of climate change on African agriculture	Environmental Research Letters	2010	979
6	An assessment of deforestation and forest degradation drivers in developing countries	Environmental Research Letters	2012	861
7	Review of climate and cryospheric change in the Tibetan Plateau	Environmental Research Letters	2010	829
8	Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects	Environmental Research Letters	2018	823
9	Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature	Environmental Research Letters	2013	787
10	50 year trends in nitrogen use efficiency of world cropping systems: the relationship between yield and nitrogen input to cropland	Environmental Research Letters	2014	764
11	Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming	Environmental Research Letters	2016	761
12	A global analysis of soil acidification caused by nitrogen addition	Environmental Research Letters	2015	674
13	A new map of global urban extent from MODIS satellite data	Environmental Research Letters	2009	639
14	Comparative analysis of environmental impacts of agricultural production systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice	Environmental Research Letters	2017	604
15	Changing state of Arctic sea ice across all seasons	Environmental Research Letters	2018	594
16	‘White revolution’ to ‘white pollution’—agricultural plastic film mulch in China	Environmental Research Letters	2014	540
17	The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions	Environmental Research Letters	2017	539
18	Climate change impacts on crop productivity in Africa and South Asia	Environmental Research Letters	2012	535
19	The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: A systematic review of methods for nexus assessment	Environmental Research Letters	2018	533
20	Evidence of increasing drought severity caused by temperature rise in southern Europe	Environmental Research Letters	2014	506
21	Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis	Environmental Research Letters	2018	498
22	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	484
23	Spatially explicit global population scenarios consistent with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways	Environmental Research Letters	2016	476
24	Global crop yield response to extreme heat stress under multiple climate change futures	Environmental Research Letters	2014	474
25	Key indicators of Arctic climate change: 1971–2017	Environmental Research Letters	2019	471
26	Arctic sea ice thickness, volume, and multiyear ice coverage: losses and coupled variability (1958–2018)	Environmental Research Letters	2018	469
27	The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris	Environmental Research Letters	2020	469
28	Worldwide electricity used in data centers	Environmental Research Letters	2008	463
29	The last decade of global anthropogenic sulfur dioxide: 2000–2011 emissions	Environmental Research Letters	2013	461
30	Redefining agricultural yields: from tonnes to people nourished per hectare	Environmental Research Letters	2013	444
31	Operational water consumption and withdrawal factors for electricity generating technologies: a review of existing literature	Environmental Research Letters	2012	440
32	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	439
33	The FAOSTAT database of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture	Environmental Research Letters	2013	437
34	Biochar boosts tropical but not temperate crop yields	Environmental Research Letters	2017	436
35	A review of trends and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions by sector from 1990 to 2018	Environmental Research Letters	2021	421
36	Wheat yield loss attributable to heat waves, drought and water excess at the global, national and subnational scales	Environmental Research Letters	2017	420
37	Top ten European heatwaves since 1950 and their occurrence in the coming decades	Environmental Research Letters	2015	418
38	Quantitative maps of groundwater resources in Africa	Environmental Research Letters	2012	417
39	Evidence for a wavier jet stream in response to rapid Arctic warming	Environmental Research Letters	2015	417
40	The role of pasture and soybean in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon	Environmental Research Letters	2010	416
41	Effects of biofouling on the sinking behavior of microplastics	Environmental Research Letters	2017	413
42	Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include infrastructure and supply chains	Environmental Research Letters	2009	402
43	Arctic warming, increasing snow cover and widespread boreal winter cooling	Environmental Research Letters	2012	402
44	The effects of climate extremes on global agricultural yields	Environmental Research Letters	2019	382
45	Global premature mortality due to anthropogenic outdoor air pollution and the contribution of past climate change	Environmental Research Letters	2013	381
46	Origin, dynamics and evolution of ocean garbage patches from observed surface drifters	Environmental Research Letters	2012	380
47	Well-to-wheels energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of ethanol from corn, sugarcane and cellulosic biomass for US use	Environmental Research Letters	2012	379
48	Vulnerability to the impact of climate change on renewable groundwater resources: a global-scale assessment	Environmental Research Letters	2009	373
49	Cropland expansion outpaces agricultural and biofuel policies in the United States	Environmental Research Letters	2015	366
50	Global patterns of current and future road infrastructure	Environmental Research Letters	2018	361

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