| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global and regional climate changes due to black carbon | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 2,932 |
| 2 | How a century of ammonia synthesis changed the world | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 2,909 |
| 3 | Tropical cyclones and climate change | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 2,533 |
| 4 | Mangroves among the most carbon-rich forests in the tropics | Nature Geoscience | 2011 | 1,950 |
| 5 | Sinking deltas due to human activities | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 1,823 |
| 6 | Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 1,746 |
| 7 | Recent Arctic amplification and extreme mid-latitude weather | Nature Geoscience | 2014 | 1,729 |
| 8 | Three decades of global methane sources and sinks | Nature Geoscience | 2013 | 1,649 |
| 9 | Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation | Nature Geoscience | 2013 | 1,627 |
| 10 | Seagrass ecosystems as a globally significant carbon stock | Nature Geoscience | 2012 | 1,406 |
| 11 | Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 1,254 |
| 12 | The boundless carbon cycle | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 1,223 |
| 13 | Atmospheric transport and deposition of microplastics in a remote mountain catchment | Nature Geoscience | 2019 | 1,193 |
| 14 | Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 1,192 |
| 15 | Biophysical controls on organic carbon fluxes in fluvial networks | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 1,102 |
| 16 | CO2 emissions from forest loss | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 1,095 |
| 17 | Deforestation driven by urban population growth and agricultural trade in the twenty-first century | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 1,070 |
| 18 | The impact of global warming on the tropical Pacific Ocean and El Niño | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 1,029 |
| 19 | Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss | Nature Geoscience | 2015 | 1,021 |
| 20 | Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia | Nature Geoscience | 2013 | 954 |
| 21 | Reduced sediment transport in the Yellow River due to anthropogenic changes | Nature Geoscience | 2016 | 948 |
| 22 | Arctic amplification dominated by temperature feedbacks in contemporary climate models | Nature Geoscience | 2014 | 946 |
| 23 | Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean | Nature Geoscience | 2013 | 937 |
| 24 | Acidification of subsurface coastal waters enhanced by eutrophication | Nature Geoscience | 2011 | 928 |
| 25 | Consistent geographical patterns of changes in high-impact European heatwaves | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 851 |
| 26 | The contribution of manure and fertilizer nitrogen to atmospheric nitrous oxide since 1860 | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 842 |
| 27 | Increase in hourly precipitation extremes beyond expectations from temperature changes | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 820 |
| 28 | Recent Antarctic ice mass loss from radar interferometry and regional climate modelling | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 819 |
| 29 | Drowning of the Mississippi Delta due to insufficient sediment supply and global sea-level rise | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 813 |
| 30 | Spatially variable response of Himalayan glaciers to climate change affected by debris cover | Nature Geoscience | 2011 | 812 |
| 31 | Signatures of the Antarctic ozone hole in Southern Hemisphere surface climate change | Nature Geoscience | 2011 | 781 |
| 32 | Closure of the meridional overturning circulation through Southern Ocean upwelling | Nature Geoscience | 2012 | 757 |
| 33 | A spatially resolved estimate of High Mountain Asia glacier mass balances from 2000 to 2016 | Nature Geoscience | 2017 | 755 |
| 34 | The biogeochemical cycle of iron in the ocean | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 750 |
| 35 | Widening of the tropical belt in a changing climate | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 744 |
| 36 | Nitrification driven by bacteria and not archaea in nitrogen-rich grassland soils | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 735 |
| 37 | Acceleration of Jakobshavn Isbræ triggered by warm subsurface ocean waters | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 716 |
| 38 | Contribution of cryptogamic covers to the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen | Nature Geoscience | 2012 | 711 |
| 39 | An update on Earth's energy balance in light of the latest global observations | Nature Geoscience | 2012 | 703 |
| 40 | Anthropogenic stresses on the world’s big rivers | Nature Geoscience | 2019 | 703 |
| 41 | Mega-heatwave temperatures due to combined soil desiccation and atmospheric heat accumulation | Nature Geoscience | 2014 | 694 |
| 42 | Asian dust transported one full circuit around the globe | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 689 |
| 43 | Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 686 |
| 44 | The impact of agricultural soil erosion on biogeochemical cycling | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 686 |
| 45 | Atmospheric circulation as a source of uncertainty in climate change projections | Nature Geoscience | 2014 | 667 |
| 46 | Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity | Nature Geoscience | 2015 | 647 |
| 47 | Wave attenuation over coastal salt marshes under storm surge conditions | Nature Geoscience | 2014 | 645 |
| 48 | An integrated perspective of the continuum between earthquakes and slow-slip phenomena | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 635 |
| 49 | Balancing green and grain trade | Nature Geoscience | 2015 | 634 |
| 50 | Global nitrogen deposition and carbon sinks | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 629 |
