| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global Carbon Budget 2020 | Earth System Science Data | 2020 | 1,477 |
| 2 | The Global Methane Budget 2000–2017 | Earth System Science Data | 2020 | 1,199 |
| 3 | Global Carbon Budget 2018 | Earth System Science Data | 2018 | 1,167 |
| 4 | Global fire emissions estimates during 1997–2016 | Earth System Science Data | 2017 | 1,159 |
| 5 | Global Carbon Budget 2019 | Earth System Science Data | 2019 | 1,159 |
| 6 | ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications | Earth System Science Data | 2021 | 1,083 |
| 7 | Global Carbon Budget 2016 | Earth System Science Data | 2016 | 905 |
| 8 | The global methane budget 2000–2012 | Earth System Science Data | 2016 | 824 |
| 9 | Global Carbon Budget 2017 | Earth System Science Data | 2018 | 801 |
| 10 | Global CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from cement production | Earth System Science Data | 2018 | 762 |
| 11 | The 30 m annual land cover dataset and its dynamics in China from 1990 to 2019 | Earth System Science Data | 2021 | 738 |
| 12 | A description of the global land-surface precipitation data products of the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre with sample applications including centennial (trend) analysis from 1901–present | Earth System Science Data | 2013 | 681 |
| 13 | Global Carbon Budget 2021 | Earth System Science Data | 2022 | 663 |
| 14 | Global Carbon Budget 2015 | Earth System Science Data | 2015 | 616 |
| 15 | Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene – HYDE 3.2 | Earth System Science Data | 2017 | 587 |
| 16 | The global carbon budget 1959–2011 | Earth System Science Data | 2013 | 527 |
| 17 | 1 km monthly temperature and precipitation dataset for China from 1901 to 2017 | Earth System Science Data | 2019 | 499 |
| 18 | Global Carbon Budget 2022 | Earth System Science Data | 2022 | 492 |
| 19 | Global carbon budget 2014 | Earth System Science Data | 2015 | 463 |
| 20 | Gridded emissions of air pollutants for the period 1970–2012 within EDGAR v4.3.2 | Earth System Science Data | 2018 | 449 |
| 21 | Global nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use for agriculture production in the past half century: shifted hot spots and nutrient imbalance | Earth System Science Data | 2017 | 445 |
| 22 | A long-term record of blended satellite and in situ sea-surface temperature for climate monitoring, modeling and environmental studies | Earth System Science Data | 2016 | 431 |
| 23 | The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project version 2 (GLODAPv2) – an internally consistent data product for the world ocean | Earth System Science Data | 2016 | 424 |
| 24 | A multi-decade record of high-quality <i>f</i>CO<sub>2</sub> data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO<sub>2</sub> Atlas (SOCAT) | Earth System Science Data | 2016 | 413 |
| 25 | Global sea-level budget 1993–present | Earth System Science Data | 2018 | 409 |
| 26 | GLC_FCS30: global land-cover product with fine classification system at 30 m using time-series Landsat imagery | Earth System Science Data | 2021 | 381 |
| 27 | The Open-source Data Inventory for Anthropogenic CO<sub>2</sub>, version 2016 (ODIAC2016): a global monthly fossil fuel CO<sub>2</sub> gridded emissions data product for tracer transport simulations and surface flux inversions | Earth System Science Data | 2018 | 360 |
| 28 | EDGAR v4.3.2 Global Atlas of the three major greenhouse gas emissions for the period 1970–2012 | Earth System Science Data | 2019 | 345 |
| 29 | Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology | Earth System Science Data | 2019 | 331 |
| 30 | Global CO<sub>2</sub> emissions from cement production, 1928–2018 | Earth System Science Data | 2019 | 327 |
| 31 | The MPI-Mainz UV/VIS Spectral Atlas of Gaseous Molecules of Atmospheric Interest | Earth System Science Data | 2013 | 323 |
| 32 | Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates | Earth System Science Data | 2012 | 315 |
| 33 | Global carbon budget 2013 | Earth System Science Data | 2014 | 311 |
| 34 | An extended time series (2000–2018) of global NPP-VIIRS-like nighttime light data from a cross-sensor calibration | Earth System Science Data | 2021 | 286 |
| 35 | A new global interior ocean mapped climatology: the 1° × 1° GLODAP version 2 | Earth System Science Data | 2016 | 284 |
| 36 | A sudden stratospheric warming compendium | Earth System Science Data | 2017 | 266 |
| 37 | The Northern Circumpolar Soil Carbon Database: spatially distributed datasets of soil coverage and soil carbon storage in the northern permafrost regions | Earth System Science Data | 2013 | 253 |
| 38 | Country-level and gridded estimates of wastewater production, collection, treatment and reuse | Earth System Science Data | 2021 | 233 |
| 39 | A long-term and reproducible passive microwave sea ice concentration data record for climate studies and monitoring | Earth System Science Data | 2013 | 230 |
| 40 | Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN): structure and data description (1992–2017) | Earth System Science Data | 2018 | 229 |
| 41 | The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction | Earth System Science Data | 2019 | 227 |
| 42 | An update of IPCC climate reference regions for subcontinental analysis of climate model data: definition and aggregated datasets | Earth System Science Data | 2020 | 210 |
| 43 | A global anthropogenic emission inventory of atmospheric pollutants from sector- and fuel-specific sources (1970–2017): an application of the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS) | Earth System Science Data | 2020 | 209 |
| 44 | Technical details concerning development of a 1200 yr proxy index for global volcanism | Earth System Science Data | 2013 | 206 |
| 45 | Picophytoplankton biomass distribution in the global ocean | Earth System Science Data | 2012 | 197 |
| 46 | A long-term Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent data record for climate studies and monitoring | Earth System Science Data | 2015 | 195 |
| 47 | An improved Antarctic dataset for high resolution numerical ice sheet models (ALBMAP v1) | Earth System Science Data | 2010 | 193 |
| 48 | Gross and net land cover changes in the main plant functional types derived from the annual ESA CCI land cover maps (1992–2015) | Earth System Science Data | 2018 | 193 |
| 49 | The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use | Earth System Science Data | 2019 | 189 |
| 50 | A global diatom database – abundance, biovolume and biomass in the world ocean | Earth System Science Data | 2012 | 183 |
