| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Soil-Related Sustainable Development Goals: Four Concepts to Make Land Degradation Neutrality and Restoration Work | Land | 2018 | 463 |
| 2 | Impact of Agrochemicals on Soil Microbiota and Management: A Review | Land | 2020 | 397 |
| 3 | A Bibliometric Analysis on Land Degradation: Current Status, Development, and Future Directions | Land | 2020 | 222 |
| 4 | Applying Built-Up and Bare-Soil Indices from Landsat 8 to Cities in Dry Climates | Land | 2018 | 132 |
| 5 | Decolonising Conservation Policy: How Colonial Land and Conservation Ideologies Persist and Perpetuate Indigenous Injustices at the Expense of the Environment | Land | 2020 | 122 |
| 6 | Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Bale Mountain Eco-Region of Ethiopia during 1985 to 2015 | Land | 2016 | 105 |
| 7 | A Review on Remote Sensing of Urban Heat and Cool Islands | Land | 2017 | 100 |
| 8 | Forecasting Urban Land Use Change Based on Cellular Automata and the PLUS Model | Land | 2022 | 98 |
| 9 | Linking Land Cover Data and Crop Yields for Mapping and Assessment of Pollination Services in Europe | Land | 2013 | 97 |
| 10 | Land-Use and Land-Cover (LULC) Change Detection in Wami River Basin, Tanzania | Land | 2019 | 95 |
| 11 | Lawns in Cities: From a Globalised Urban Green Space Phenomenon to Sustainable Nature-Based Solutions | Land | 2020 | 95 |
| 12 | Drivers and Implications of Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in Finchaa Catchment, Northwestern Ethiopia | Land | 2020 | 89 |
| 13 | Land Use Transitions: Progress, Challenges and Prospects | Land | 2021 | 85 |
| 14 | Design and Interpretation of Intensity Analysis Illustrated by Land Change in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia | Land | 2013 | 84 |
| 15 | Not Simply Green: Nature-Based Solutions as a Concept and Practical Approach for Sustainability Studies and Planning Agendas in Cities | Land | 2020 | 84 |
| 16 | Land Use Transition and Its Eco-Environmental Effects in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Urban Agglomeration: A Production–Living–Ecological Perspective | Land | 2020 | 83 |
| 17 | Prospects for Agricultural Sustainable Intensification: A Review of Research | Land | 2019 | 82 |
| 18 | Green Infrastructure Planning Principles: An Integrated Literature Review | Land | 2020 | 82 |
| 19 | Physical and Anthropogenic Factors Related to Landslide Activity in the Northern Peloponnese, Greece | Land | 2018 | 81 |
| 20 | Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Estimate Soil Organic Carbon Variability with Environmental Variables and Soil Nutrient Indicators in an Alluvial Soil | Land | 2020 | 81 |
| 21 | U-Net-STN: A Novel End-to-End Lake Boundary Prediction Model | Land | 2023 | 80 |
| 22 | Potentials, Limitations, Co-Benefits, and Trade-Offs of Biochar Applications to Soils for Climate Change Mitigation | Land | 2019 | 79 |
| 23 | Planning of Urban Green Spaces: An Ecological Perspective on Human Benefits | Land | 2021 | 78 |
| 24 | The Integration of New-Type Urbanization and Rural Revitalization Strategies in China: Origin, Reality and Future Trends | Land | 2021 | 78 |
| 25 | Modeling Future Land Cover Changes and Their Effects on the Land Surface Temperatures in the Saudi Arabian Eastern Coastal City of Dammam | Land | 2017 | 76 |
| 26 | Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Changes and Their Effects on Biodiversity in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia | Land | 2018 | 74 |
| 27 | Impact of Power on Uneven Development: Evaluating Built-Up Area Changes in Chengdu Based on NPP-VIIRS Images (2015–2019) | Land | 2022 | 74 |
| 28 | Agricultural Land Conversion, Land Economic Value, and Sustainable Agriculture: A Case Study in East Java, Indonesia | Land | 2018 | 73 |
| 29 | The Fall and Rise Again of Plantations in Tropical Asia: History Repeated? | Land | 2014 | 72 |
| 30 | Land Use and Land Cover Changes and Their Effects on the Landscape of Abaya-Chamo Basin, Southern Ethiopia | Land | 2018 | 72 |
| 31 | Combating Land Degradation and Desertification: The Land-Use Planning Quandary | Land | 2019 | 72 |
| 32 | Restoring the Unrestored: Strategies for Restoring Global Land during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UN-DER) | Land | 2021 | 72 |
| 33 | How Land Concessions Affect Places Elsewhere: Telecoupling, Political Ecology, and Large-Scale Plantations in Southern Laos and Northeastern Cambodia | Land | 2015 | 69 |
| 34 | Spatiotemporal Variation in Land Use Land Cover in the Response to Local Climate Change Using Multispectral Remote Sensing Data | Land | 2022 | 69 |
| 35 | Fuelwood Savings and Carbon Emission Reductions by the Use of Improved Cooking Stoves in an Afromontane Forest, Ethiopia | Land | 2014 | 68 |
| 36 | Environmental Justice in Accessibility to Green Infrastructure in Two European Cities | Land | 2018 | 68 |
| 37 | Rural-Urban Migration and its Effect on Land Transfer in Rural China | Land | 2020 | 68 |
| 38 | Monitoring House Vacancy Dynamics in The Pearl River Delta Region: A Method Based on NPP-VIIRS Night-Time Light Remote Sensing Images | Land | 2023 | 68 |
| 39 | Collective Land Ownership in the 21st Century: Overview of Global Trends | Land | 2018 | 67 |
| 40 | Mapping Urban Green Infrastructure: A Novel Landscape-Based Approach to Incorporating Land Use and Land Cover in the Mapping of Human-Dominated Systems | Land | 2018 | 66 |
| 41 | Effectiveness of Cover Crops to Reduce Loss of Soil Organic Matter in a Rainfed Vineyard | Land | 2020 | 66 |
| 42 | Cropland Abandonment in South African Smallholder Communal Lands: Land Cover Change (1950–2010) and Farmer Perceptions of Contributing Factors | Land | 2018 | 65 |
| 43 | Land Use Change, Spatial Interaction, and Sustainable Development in the Metropolitan Urban Areas, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia | Land | 2020 | 65 |
| 44 | Factors Influencing Perceptions and Use of Urban Nature: Surveys of Park Visitors in Delhi | Land | 2017 | 64 |
| 45 | Using Historical Maps within a GIS to Analyze Two Centuries of Rural Landscape Changes in Southern Italy | Land | 2017 | 64 |
| 46 | Assessing the Effect of Land Use Change on Surface Runoff in a Rapidly Urbanized City: A Case Study of the Central Area of Beijing | Land | 2020 | 64 |
| 47 | A Modified Bare Soil Index to Identify Bare Land Features during Agricultural Fallow-Period in Southeast Asia Using Landsat 8 | Land | 2021 | 64 |
| 48 | Conceptualizing Company Response to Community Protest: Principles to Achieve a Social License to Operate | Land | 2019 | 63 |
| 49 | Constraining the Deforestation History of Europe: Evaluation of Historical Land Use Scenarios with Pollen-Based Land Cover Reconstructions | Land | 2017 | 62 |
| 50 | Spatial Modeling of Soil Erosion Risk and Its Implication for Conservation Planning: the Case of the Gobele Watershed, East Hararghe Zone, Ethiopia | Land | 2018 | 62 |
