| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-two years later | Human Ecology | 1990 | 918 |
| 2 | (null) | Human Ecology | 2003 | 503 |
| 3 | The ‘Design’ of Mediterranean Landscapes: A Millennial Story of Humans and Ecological Systems during the Historic Period | Human Ecology | 2006 | 448 |
| 4 | Human ecology and crime: A routine activity approach | Human Ecology | 1980 | 405 |
| 5 | Lévy Flights in Dobe Ju/’hoansi Foraging Patterns | Human Ecology | 2007 | 398 |
| 6 | Trust-building, Knowledge Generation and Organizational Innovations: The Role of a Bridging Organization for Adaptive Comanagement of a Wetland Landscape around Kristianstad, Sweden | Human Ecology | 2006 | 391 |
| 7 | Knowledge, Learning and the Evolution of Conservation Practice for Social-Ecological System Resilience | Human Ecology | 2006 | 358 |
| 8 | Food Versus Biofuels: Environmental and Economic Costs | Human Ecology | 2009 | 321 |
| 9 | Is a cultural ethology possible? | Human Ecology | 1975 | 309 |
| 10 | Primary production: Terrestrial ecosystems | Human Ecology | 1973 | 267 |
| 11 | What alpine peasants have in common: Observations on communal tenure in a Swiss village | Human Ecology | 1976 | 254 |
| 12 | Swidden Change in Southeast Asia: Understanding Causes and Consequences | Human Ecology | 2009 | 254 |
| 13 | Against Political Ecology | Human Ecology | 1999 | 253 |
| 14 | The lobster fiefs: Economic and ecological effects of territoriality in the maine lobster industry | Human Ecology | 1975 | 246 |
| 15 | Testing the ?ecologically noble savage? hypothesis: Interspecific prey choice by Piro hunters of Amazonian Peru | Human Ecology | 1993 | 235 |
| 16 | (null) | Human Ecology | 1997 | 233 |
| 17 | The adaptive significance of cultural behavior | Human Ecology | 1976 | 231 |
| 18 | Medicinal Plants in the Atlantic Forest (Brazil): Knowledge, Use, and Conservation | Human Ecology | 2002 | 227 |
| 19 | (null) | Human Ecology | 2003 | 225 |
| 20 | Female subsistence strategies among Ache hunter-gatherers of Eastern Paraguay | Human Ecology | 1985 | 224 |
| 21 | Climate Change and War Frequency in Eastern China over the Last Millennium | Human Ecology | 2007 | 224 |
| 22 | Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia | Human Ecology | 2009 | 222 |
| 23 | Progressive contextualization: Methods for research in human ecology | Human Ecology | 1983 | 212 |
| 24 | Swidden Transformations and Rural Livelihoods in Southeast Asia | Human Ecology | 2009 | 212 |
| 25 | “Garden hunting” in the American tropics | Human Ecology | 1976 | 205 |
| 26 | Endangered Forest, Endangered People: Environmentalist Representations of Indigenous Knowledge | Human Ecology | 1997 | 204 |
| 27 | Deforestation and land use in the Brazilian Amazon | Human Ecology | 1993 | 199 |
| 28 | Environmental Consequences of the Demise in Swidden Cultivation in Southeast Asia: Carbon Storage and Soil Quality | Human Ecology | 2009 | 194 |
| 29 | Burning the Seasonal Mosaic: Preventative Burning Strategies in the Wooded Savanna of Southern Mali | Human Ecology | 2002 | 190 |
| 30 | Cultural transmission and the evolution of cooperative behavior | Human Ecology | 1982 | 187 |
| 31 | Migration and Agricultural Change: The Case of Smallholder Agriculture in Highland Ecuador | Human Ecology | 2002 | 182 |
| 32 | Knowledge and Use Value of Plant Species in a Rarámuri Community: A Gender Perspective for Conservation | Human Ecology | 2008 | 177 |
| 33 | Marine Protected Areas: A Governance System Analysis | Human Ecology | 2007 | 176 |
| 34 | Biocultural Diversity: Moving Beyond the Realm of ‘Indigenous’ and ‘Local’ People | Human Ecology | 2006 | 173 |
| 35 | Assessing the Effects of Invasive Alien Species on Rural Livelihoods: Case Examples and a Framework from South Africa | Human Ecology | 2007 | 169 |
| 36 | Fire, People and Pixels: Linking Social Science and Remote Sensing to Understand Underlying Causes and Impacts of Fires in Indonesia | Human Ecology | 2005 | 167 |
| 37 | The ecological basis of hunter-gatherer subsistence in African Rain Forests: The Mbuti of Eastern Zaire | Human Ecology | 1986 | 166 |
| 38 | (null) | Human Ecology | 2003 | 166 |
| 39 | (null) | Human Ecology | 1997 | 165 |
| 40 | Fisheries and the evolution of resource management on the lower Amazon floodplain | Human Ecology | 1993 | 159 |
| 41 | Correlates of reproductive success in a Caribbean village | Human Ecology | 1986 | 158 |
| 42 | Ecology of Increasing Diseases: Population Growth and Environmental Degradation | Human Ecology | 2007 | 158 |
| 43 | The tropical rain forest: Is it a productive environment for human foragers? | Human Ecology | 1991 | 157 |
| 44 | An inquiry into the evolutionary status and apparent identity of San hunter-gatherers | Human Ecology | 1980 | 156 |
| 45 | (null) | Human Ecology | 2002 | 155 |
| 46 | Environmental Consequences of the Demise in Swidden Cultivation in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia: Hydrology and Geomorphology | Human Ecology | 2009 | 154 |
| 47 | Primary production: The biosphere and man | Human Ecology | 1973 | 153 |
| 48 | Milk, Manure, and Muscle Power. Livestock and the Transformation of Preindustrial Agriculture in Central Europe | Human Ecology | 2004 | 153 |
| 49 | The wild yam question: How well could independent hunter-gatherers live in a tropical rain forest ecosystem? | Human Ecology | 1987 | 149 |
| 50 | Human adaptation to levels of environmental stimulation | Human Ecology | 1974 | 148 |
