| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Anthropocene: Are Humans Now Overwhelming the Great Forces of Nature | Ambio | 2007 | 2,318 |
| 2 | Resilience and Sustainable Development: Building Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations | Ambio | 2002 | 1,790 |
| 3 | Agroecosystems, Nitrogen-use Efficiency, and Nitrogen Management | Ambio | 2002 | 1,251 |
| 4 | The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship | Ambio | 2011 | 1,175 |
| 5 | Reactive Nitrogen and The World: 200 Years of Change | Ambio | 2002 | 1,107 |
| 6 | Methylmercury Exposure and Health Effects in Humans: A Worldwide Concern | Ambio | 2007 | 979 |
| 7 | Leverage points for sustainability transformation | Ambio | 2017 | 838 |
| 8 | Effects of Environmental Methylmercury on the Health of Wild Birds, Mammals, and Fish | Ambio | 2007 | 787 |
| 9 | Connecting Diverse Knowledge Systems for Enhanced Ecosystem Governance: The Multiple Evidence Base Approach | Ambio | 2014 | 776 |
| 10 | A Quantitative Review of Urban Ecosystem Service Assessments: Concepts, Models, and Implementation | Ambio | 2014 | 758 |
| 11 | Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation | Ambio | 2011 | 719 |
| 12 | A Synthesis of Progress and Uncertainties in Attributing the Sources of Mercury in Deposition | Ambio | 2007 | 711 |
| 13 | Sustainable intensification of agriculture for human prosperity and global sustainability | Ambio | 2017 | 653 |
| 14 | Nitrogen in Aquatic Ecosystems | Ambio | 2002 | 618 |
| 15 | Coupled Human and Natural Systems | Ambio | 2007 | 601 |
| 16 | The Value of Coastal Wetlands for Hurricane Protection | Ambio | 2008 | 528 |
| 17 | From Multifunctionality to Multiple Ecosystem Services? A Conceptual Framework for Multifunctionality in Green Infrastructure Planning for Urban Areas | Ambio | 2014 | 503 |
| 18 | A review of global environmental mercury processes in response to human and natural perturbations: Changes of emissions, climate, and land use | Ambio | 2018 | 500 |
| 19 | Reserves, Resilience and Dynamic Landscapes | Ambio | 2003 | 480 |
| 20 | Reconnecting Cities to the Biosphere: Stewardship of Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecosystem Services | Ambio | 2014 | 480 |
| 21 | The Globalization of Nitrogen Deposition: Consequences for Terrestrial Ecosystems | Ambio | 2002 | 471 |
| 22 | Urban Transitions: On Urban Resilience and Human-Dominated Ecosystems | Ambio | 2010 | 461 |
| 23 | Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in China: Causes and Mitigation Measures | Ambio | 2012 | 431 |
| 24 | Reconnecting to the Biosphere | Ambio | 2011 | 420 |
| 25 | Societal transformation in response to global environmental change: A review of emerging concepts | Ambio | 2015 | 409 |
| 26 | How Warm Was the Medieval Warm Period? | Ambio | 2000 | 399 |
| 27 | Scientists’ warning to humanity on the freshwater biodiversity crisis | Ambio | 2021 | 387 |
| 28 | Internal Ecosystem Feedbacks Enhance Nitrogen-fixing Cyanobacteria Blooms and Complicate Management in the Baltic Sea | Ambio | 2007 | 382 |
| 29 | Sources, Fate, and Toxic Hazards of Oxygenated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) at PAH- contaminated Sites | Ambio | 2007 | 378 |
| 30 | Night-time Imagery as a Tool for Global Mapping of Socioeconomic Parameters and Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Ambio | 2000 | 366 |
| 31 | Origins and Biological Accumulation of Small Plastic Particles in Fur Seals from Macquarie Island | Ambio | 2003 | 359 |
| 32 | Coping with Complexity, Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Risk Governance: A Synthesis | Ambio | 2011 | 356 |
| 33 | Nitrogen and Food Production: Proteins for Human Diets | Ambio | 2002 | 353 |
| 34 | When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration | Ambio | 2016 | 341 |
| 35 | Fog as a Fresh-Water Resource: Overview and Perspectives | Ambio | 2012 | 340 |
| 36 | Nitrogen Use in the United States from 1961–2000 and Potential Future Trends | Ambio | 2002 | 334 |
| 37 | Fish Migration, Dams, and Loss of Ecosystem Services in the Mekong Basin | Ambio | 2010 | 322 |
| 38 | Habitat Loss, the Dynamics of Biodiversity, and a Perspective on Conservation | Ambio | 2011 | 321 |
| 39 | Contribution of Ecosystem Services to Air Quality and Climate Change Mitigation Policies: The Case of Urban Forests in Barcelona, Spain | Ambio | 2014 | 319 |
| 40 | Reconstructing the Development of Baltic Sea Eutrophication 1850–2006 | Ambio | 2012 | 313 |
| 41 | Spatio-temporal Patterns and Driving Forces of Urban Land Expansion in China during the Economic Reform Era | Ambio | 2005 | 306 |
| 42 | Silicon Retention in River Basins: Far-reaching Effects on Biogeochemistry and Aquatic Food Webs in Coastal Marine Environments | Ambio | 2000 | 301 |
| 43 | Error Cascades in the Biological Sciences: The Unwanted Consequences of Using Bad Taxonomy in Ecology | Ambio | 2008 | 301 |
| 44 | Cacao Cultivation and the Conservation of Biological Diversity | Ambio | 2000 | 298 |
| 45 | Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Amazon Rainfall | Ambio | 2001 | 276 |
| 46 | Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere | Ambio | 2021 | 275 |
| 47 | Impact of the Mekong River Flow Alteration on the Tonle Sap Flood Pulse | Ambio | 2008 | 272 |
| 48 | From first generation biofuels to advanced solar biofuels | Ambio | 2016 | 270 |
| 49 | A Review of the Elements of Human Well-Being with an Emphasis on the Contribution of Ecosystem Services | Ambio | 2012 | 268 |
| 50 | Migration, Remittances, Livelihood Trajectories, and Social Resilience | Ambio | 2002 | 264 |
