| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social-ecological Systems | Ecology and Society | 2004 | 4,244 |
| 2 | Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity | Ecology and Society | 2009 | 3,867 |
| 3 | Resilience Thinking: Integrating Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability | Ecology and Society | 2010 | 2,469 |
| 4 | Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multilevel World | Ecology and Society | 2006 | 1,390 |
| 5 | A Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Social-ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective | Ecology and Society | 2004 | 975 |
| 6 | Trade-offs across Space, Time, and Ecosystem Services | Ecology and Society | 2006 | 951 |
| 7 | What is Social Learning? | Ecology and Society | 2010 | 931 |
| 8 | Focusing the Meaning(s) of Resilience: Resilience as a Descriptive Concept and a Boundary Object | Ecology and Society | 2007 | 921 |
| 9 | Shooting the Rapids: Navigating Transitions to Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems | Ecology and Society | 2006 | 920 |
| 10 | Public Participation in Scientific Research: a Framework for Deliberate Design | Ecology and Society | 2012 | 851 |
| 11 | Effects of Roads on Animal Abundance: an Empirical Review and Synthesis | Ecology and Society | 2009 | 840 |
| 12 | Governance and the Capacity to Manage Resilience in Regional Social-Ecological Systems | Ecology and Society | 2006 | 817 |
| 13 | A Handful of Heuristics and Some Propositions for Understanding Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems | Ecology and Society | 2006 | 813 |
| 14 | Social-ecological system framework: initial changes and continuing challenges | Ecology and Society | 2014 | 767 |
| 15 | A Review of Design Principles for Community-based Natural Resource Management | Ecology and Society | 2010 | 757 |
| 16 | Social Learning and Water Resources Management | Ecology and Society | 2007 | 755 |
| 17 | Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas: perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action | Ecology and Society | 2016 | 753 |
| 18 | Does Adaptive Management of Natural Resources Enhance Resilience to Climate Change? | Ecology and Society | 2004 | 724 |
| 19 | Scale Mismatches in Social-Ecological Systems: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions | Ecology and Society | 2006 | 692 |
| 20 | Framing Sustainability in a Telecoupled World | Ecology and Society | 2013 | 673 |
| 21 | Ecosystem Services in Biologically Diversified versus Conventional Farming Systems: Benefits, Externalities, and Trade-Offs | Ecology and Society | 2012 | 656 |
| 22 | Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science | Ecology and Society | 2016 | 616 |
| 23 | Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Literature Review and Prospects for Future Research | Ecology and Society | 2013 | 606 |
| 24 | Social-Ecological Transformation for Ecosystem Management: the Development of Adaptive Co-management of a Wetland Landscape in Southern Sweden | Ecology and Society | 2004 | 595 |
| 25 | Mental Models: An Interdisciplinary Synthesis of Theory and Methods | Ecology and Society | 2011 | 589 |
| 26 | Resilience and Vulnerability: Complementary or Conflicting Concepts? | Ecology and Society | 2010 | 584 |
| 27 | Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries | Ecology and Society | 2017 | 576 |
| 28 | Adaptive Water Governance: Assessing the Institutional Prescriptions of Adaptive (Co-)Management from a Governance Perspective and Defining a Research Agenda | Ecology and Society | 2009 | 570 |
| 29 | Cultural Keystone Species: Implications for Ecological Conservation and Restoration | Ecology and Society | 2004 | 531 |
| 30 | The Politics of Social-ecological Resilience and Sustainable Socio-technical Transitions | Ecology and Society | 2010 | 529 |
| 31 | Restoring Environmental Flows by Modifying Dam Operations | Ecology and Society | 2007 | 508 |
| 32 | Citizen Science as a Tool for Conservation in Residential Ecosystems | Ecology and Society | 2007 | 499 |
| 33 | Resilience (Republished) | Ecology and Society | 2016 | 486 |
| 34 | A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems | Ecology and Society | 2013 | 478 |
| 35 | Comparison of Frameworks for Analyzing Social-ecological Systems | Ecology and Society | 2013 | 478 |
| 36 | The Problem of Fit between Ecosystems and Institutions: Ten Years Later | Ecology and Society | 2007 | 463 |
| 37 | Sustainability transformations: a resilience perspective | Ecology and Society | 2014 | 445 |
| 38 | Unpacking “Participation” in the Adaptive Management of Social–ecological Systems: a Critical Review | Ecology and Society | 2006 | 444 |
| 39 | A decade of adaptive governance scholarship: synthesis and future directions | Ecology and Society | 2014 | 422 |
| 40 | Social Networks in Natural Resource Management: What Is There to Learn from a Structural Perspective? | Ecology and Society | 2006 | 418 |
| 41 | Bridging the Science–Management Divide: Moving from Unidirectional Knowledge Transfer to Knowledge Interfacing and Sharing | Ecology and Society | 2006 | 417 |
| 42 | Empirically Based, Agent-based models | Ecology and Society | 2006 | 406 |
| 43 | Combining Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Monitoring Populations for Co-Management | Ecology and Society | 2004 | 399 |
| 44 | Mapping the World's Intact Forest Landscapes by Remote Sensing | Ecology and Society | 2008 | 399 |
| 45 | Diversified Farming Systems: An Agroecological, Systems-based Alternative to Modern Industrial Agriculture | Ecology and Society | 2012 | 399 |
| 46 | The role of Indigenous peoples and local communities in effective and equitable conservation | Ecology and Society | 2021 | 384 |
| 47 | The Dark Side of Light: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda for Light Pollution Policy | Ecology and Society | 2010 | 375 |
| 48 | Managing Change toward Adaptive Water Management through Social Learning | Ecology and Society | 2007 | 359 |
| 49 | Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human Development | Ecology and Society | 2008 | 359 |
| 50 | Toward a Network Perspective of the Study of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems | Ecology and Society | 2006 | 349 |
