| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global estimates of the value of ecosystems and their services in monetary units | Ecosystem Services | 2012 | 1,801 |
| 2 | Twenty years of ecosystem services: How far have we come and how far do we still need to go? | Ecosystem Services | 2017 | 1,665 |
| 3 | The ecosystem services agenda:bridging the worlds of natural science and economics, conservation and development, and public and private policy | Ecosystem Services | 2012 | 771 |
| 4 | Exploring connections among nature, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being: Opportunities to enhance health and biodiversity conservation | Ecosystem Services | 2015 | 767 |
| 5 | Mapping ecosystem services for policy support and decision making in the European Union | Ecosystem Services | 2012 | 732 |
| 6 | A blueprint for mapping and modelling ecosystem services | Ecosystem Services | 2013 | 565 |
| 7 | A comparative assessment of decision-support tools for ecosystem services quantification and valuation | Ecosystem Services | 2013 | 535 |
| 8 | Linkages between biodiversity attributes and ecosystem services: A systematic review | Ecosystem Services | 2014 | 491 |
| 9 | Dynamic changes in the value of China’s ecosystem services | Ecosystem Services | 2017 | 450 |
| 10 | Conceptualising cultural ecosystem services: A novel framework for research and critical engagement | Ecosystem Services | 2016 | 444 |
| 11 | An indicator framework for assessing ecosystem services in support of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 | Ecosystem Services | 2016 | 418 |
| 12 | The impact of land use/land cover change on ecosystem services in the central highlands of Ethiopia | Ecosystem Services | 2017 | 416 |
| 13 | Spatial dynamics of ecosystem service flows: A comprehensive approach to quantifying actual services | Ecosystem Services | 2013 | 407 |
| 14 | Payments for ecosystem services: A review and comparison of developing and industrialized countries | Ecosystem Services | 2013 | 387 |
| 15 | Empirical PPGIS/PGIS mapping of ecosystem services: A review and evaluation | Ecosystem Services | 2015 | 365 |
| 16 | Cultural ecosystem services provided by landscapes: Assessment of heritage values and identity | Ecosystem Services | 2012 | 352 |
| 17 | Distilling the role of ecosystem services in the Sustainable Development Goals | Ecosystem Services | 2018 | 339 |
| 18 | Resilience of and through urban ecosystem services | Ecosystem Services | 2015 | 337 |
| 19 | A review of urban ecosystem services: six key challenges for future research | Ecosystem Services | 2015 | 315 |
| 20 | Ecosystem service values for mangroves in Southeast Asia: A meta-analysis and value transfer application | Ecosystem Services | 2012 | 312 |
| 21 | National Parks, buffer zones and surrounding lands: Mapping ecosystem service flows | Ecosystem Services | 2013 | 308 |
| 22 | Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead | Ecosystem Services | 2017 | 306 |
| 23 | A new valuation school: Integrating diverse values of nature in resource and land use decisions | Ecosystem Services | 2016 | 302 |
| 24 | The indicator side of ecosystem services | Ecosystem Services | 2012 | 238 |
| 25 | Mapping forest ecosystem services: From providing units to beneficiaries | Ecosystem Services | 2013 | 237 |
| 26 | When we cannot have it all: Ecosystem services trade-offs in the context of spatial planning | Ecosystem Services | 2018 | 231 |
| 27 | Integrating supply and social demand in ecosystem services assessment: A review | Ecosystem Services | 2017 | 227 |
| 28 | The uptake of the ecosystem services concept in planning discourses of European and American cities | Ecosystem Services | 2015 | 221 |
| 29 | Estimating the impacts of land use/land cover changes on Ecosystem Service Values: The case of the Andassa watershed in the Upper Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia | Ecosystem Services | 2018 | 221 |
| 30 | Mapping ecosystem services' values: Current practice and future prospects | Ecosystem Services | 2013 | 218 |
| 31 | The future value of ecosystem services: Global scenarios and national implications | Ecosystem Services | 2017 | 204 |
| 32 | Cultural ecosystem services as a gateway for improving urban sustainability | Ecosystem Services | 2015 | 203 |
| 33 | Ecosystem service bundles along the urban-rural gradient: Insights for landscape planning and management | Ecosystem Services | 2017 | 202 |
| 34 | Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Latin America: Analysing the performance of 40 case studies | Ecosystem Services | 2016 | 195 |
| 35 | Valuing ecosystem services from blue forests: A systematic review of the valuation of salt marshes, sea grass beds and mangrove forests | Ecosystem Services | 2018 | 194 |
| 36 | Future impacts of changing land-use and climate on ecosystem services of mountain grassland and their resilience | Ecosystem Services | 2017 | 193 |
| 37 | Aesthetic and spiritual values of ecosystems: Recognising the ontological and axiological plurality of cultural ecosystem ‘services’ | Ecosystem Services | 2016 | 189 |
| 38 | Ecosystem services: The economics debate | Ecosystem Services | 2012 | 188 |
| 39 | Civic ecology practices: Participatory approaches to generating and measuring ecosystem services in cities | Ecosystem Services | 2014 | 186 |
| 40 | Review of decision support tools to operationalize the ecosystem services concept | Ecosystem Services | 2017 | 185 |
| 41 | Evaluation of cultural ecosystem services: A review of methods | Ecosystem Services | 2019 | 185 |
| 42 | Understanding the relationships between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: A conceptual framework | Ecosystem Services | 2014 | 183 |
| 43 | The Multiscale Integrated Model of Ecosystem Services (MIMES): Simulating the interactions of coupled human and natural systems | Ecosystem Services | 2015 | 183 |
| 44 | Scale and context dependence of ecosystem service providing units | Ecosystem Services | 2015 | 179 |
| 45 | Integrated valuation of a nature-based solution for water pollution control. Highlighting hidden benefits | Ecosystem Services | 2016 | 179 |
| 46 | Integrating ecosystem services and disservices: insights from plant invasions | Ecosystem Services | 2017 | 179 |
| 47 | Adoption of the ecosystem services concept in EU policies | Ecosystem Services | 2018 | 177 |
| 48 | Between markets and hierarchies: The challenge of governing ecosystem services | Ecosystem Services | 2012 | 176 |
| 49 | Ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: A review of the empirical links | Ecosystem Services | 2015 | 175 |
| 50 | Mapping water provisioning services to support the ecosystem–water–food–energy nexus in the Danube river basin | Ecosystem Services | 2016 | 174 |
