| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Nitrogen Cycles: Past, Present, and Future | Biogeochemistry | 2004 | 4,203 |
| 2 | Nitrogen limitation on land and in the sea: How can it occur? | Biogeochemistry | 1991 | 2,801 |
| 3 | C:N:P stoichiometry in soil: is there a “Redfield ratio” for the microbial biomass? | Biogeochemistry | 2007 | 1,720 |
| 4 | (null) | Biogeochemistry | 2000 | 1,684 |
| 5 | Regional nitrogen budgets and riverine N & P fluxes for the drainages to the North Atlantic Ocean: Natural and human influences | Biogeochemistry | 1996 | 1,300 |
| 6 | Dynamics of C, N, P and S in grassland soils: a model | Biogeochemistry | 1988 | 1,226 |
| 7 | Vegetation and soil respiration: Correlations and controls | Biogeochemistry | 2000 | 976 |
| 8 | The retention of organic matter in soils | Biogeochemistry | 1988 | 959 |
| 9 | A conceptual model of organo-mineral interactions in soils: self-assembly of organic molecular fragments into zonal structures on mineral surfaces | Biogeochemistry | 2007 | 898 |
| 10 | The distribution of soil nutrients with depth: Global patterns and the imprint of plants | Biogeochemistry | 2001 | 850 |
| 11 | Groundwater and pore water inputs to the coastal zone | Biogeochemistry | 2003 | 824 |
| 12 | Changes in soil carbon inventories following cultivation of previously untilled soils | Biogeochemistry | 1993 | 781 |
| 13 | SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source | Biogeochemistry | 2012 | 763 |
| 14 | Methane production and methane consumption: a review of processes underlying wetland methane fluxes | Biogeochemistry | 1998 | 743 |
| 15 | Litter decomposition: what controls it and how can we alter it to sequester more carbon in forest soils? | Biogeochemistry | 2010 | 725 |
| 16 | Towards an ecological understanding of biological nitrogen fixation | Biogeochemistry | 2002 | 719 |
| 17 | The fate of nitrogen and phosphorus at the land-sea margin of the North Atlantic Ocean | Biogeochemistry | 1996 | 711 |
| 18 | (null) | Biogeochemistry | 2000 | 705 |
| 19 | Measurement of bacterial sulfate reduction in sediments: Evaluation of a single-step chromium reduction method | Biogeochemistry | 1989 | 702 |
| 20 | Regulation of soil phosphatase and chitinase activityby N and P availability | Biogeochemistry | 2000 | 686 |
| 21 | Stabilization of Soil Organic Matter: Association with Minerals or Chemical Recalcitrance? | Biogeochemistry | 2006 | 681 |
| 22 | How does fire affect the nature and stability of soil organic nitrogen and carbon? A review | Biogeochemistry | 2007 | 656 |
| 23 | Management options for reducing CO2 emissions from agricultural soils | Biogeochemistry | 2000 | 643 |
| 24 | Will changes in soil organic carbon act as a positive or negative feedback on global warming? | Biogeochemistry | 2000 | 629 |
| 25 | Nutrient limitation and soil development: Experimental test of a biogeochemical theory | Biogeochemistry | 1997 | 626 |
| 26 | Soil carbon saturation: concept, evidence and evaluation | Biogeochemistry | 2007 | 623 |
| 27 | Influence of climate, soil moisture, and succession on forest carbon and nitrogen cycles | Biogeochemistry | 1986 | 618 |
| 28 | Aspects of the chemical structure of soil organic materials as revealed by solid-state13C NMR spectroscopy | Biogeochemistry | 1992 | 586 |
| 29 | Dinitrogen fixation in the world's oceans | Biogeochemistry | 2002 | 586 |
| 30 | Interpreting, measuring, and modeling soil respiration | Biogeochemistry | 2005 | 572 |
| 31 | Pattern and variation of C:N:P ratios in China’s soils: a synthesis of observational data | Biogeochemistry | 2010 | 562 |
| 32 | Agricultural management impacts on soil organic carbon storage under moist and dry climatic conditions of temperate and tropical regions | Biogeochemistry | 2005 | 538 |
| 33 | Escalating Worldwide use of Urea – A Global Change Contributing to Coastal Eutrophication | Biogeochemistry | 2006 | 533 |
| 34 | Challenges to incorporating spatially and temporally explicit phenomena (hotspots and hot moments) in denitrification models | Biogeochemistry | 2009 | 529 |
| 35 | (null) | Biogeochemistry | 2000 | 524 |
| 36 | (null) | Biogeochemistry | 2002 | 516 |
| 37 | Why do Tree Species Affect Soils? The Warp and Woof of Tree-soil Interactions | Biogeochemistry | 1998 | 514 |
| 38 | (null) | Biogeochemistry | 2001 | 514 |
| 39 | Colder soils in a warmer world: A snow manipulation study in a northern hardwood forest ecosystem | Biogeochemistry | 2001 | 501 |
| 40 | Nitrogen stable isotopic composition of leaves and soil: Tropical versus temperate forests | Biogeochemistry | 1999 | 490 |
| 41 | (null) | Biogeochemistry | 2002 | 456 |
| 42 | Calcium-mediated stabilisation of soil organic carbon | Biogeochemistry | 2018 | 456 |
| 43 | Litter mass loss rates in pine forests of Europe and Eastern United States: some relationships with climate and litter quality | Biogeochemistry | 1993 | 451 |
| 44 | Plant-soil Interactions in Deserts | Biogeochemistry | 1998 | 443 |
| 45 | Hydrological controls on dissolved organic carbon during snowmelt in the Snake River near Montezuma, Colorado | Biogeochemistry | 1994 | 442 |
| 46 | The biogeochemistry of calcium at Hubbard Brook | Biogeochemistry | 1998 | 438 |
| 47 | Environmental constraints on the production and removal of the climatically active gas dimethylsulphide (DMS) and implications for ecosystem modelling | Biogeochemistry | 2007 | 433 |
| 48 | Processes involved in formation and emission of methane in rice paddies | Biogeochemistry | 1989 | 429 |
| 49 | Beyond clay: towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content | Biogeochemistry | 2018 | 423 |
| 50 | Soil structural aspects of decomposition of organic matter by micro-organisms | Biogeochemistry | 1990 | 405 |
