| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A roster of world cities | Cities | 1999 | 702 |
| 2 | Robust adaptation to climate change | Weather | 2010 | 635 |
| 3 | Allowable CO2 emissions based on regional and impact-related climate targets | Nature | 2016 | 491 |
| 4 | Variability of the North Atlantic Oscillation over the past 5,200 years | Nature Geoscience | 2012 | 394 |
| 5 | The earliest record of human activity in northern Europe | Nature | 2005 | 390 |
| 6 | Transnational elites in global cities: British expatriates in Singapore's financial district | Geoforum | 2002 | 380 |
| 7 | Sustainable water management under future uncertainty with eco-engineering decision scaling | Nature Climate Change | 2016 | 357 |
| 8 | Scenario-neutral approach to climate change impact studies: Application to flood risk | Journal of Hydrology | 2010 | 349 |
| 9 | World-City Network: A New Metageography? | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 2000 | 344 |
| 10 | Spatiality and the New Social Studies of Childhood | Sociology | 2000 | 331 |
| 11 | Ecology under lake ice | Ecology Letters | 2017 | 320 |
| 12 | Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change | Climatic Change | 2018 | 317 |
| 13 | Grain size along two gravel-bed rivers: statistical variation, spatial pattern and sedimentary links | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 1998 | 259 |
| 14 | Evaluating the impact and risk of pluvial flash flood on intra-urban road network: A case study in the city center of Shanghai, China | Journal of Hydrology | 2016 | 257 |
| 15 | The Statistical DownScaling Model: insights from one decade of application | International Journal of Climatology | 2013 | 246 |
| 16 | Inter‐disciplinary perspectives on processes in the hyporheic zone | Ecohydrology | 2011 | 245 |
| 17 | Hierarchical Tendencies and Regional Patterns in the World City Network: A Global Urban Analysis of 234 Cities | Regional Studies | 2003 | 235 |
| 18 | Relation between century-scale Holocene arid intervals in tropical and temperate zones | Nature | 1995 | 234 |
| 19 | A review of climate risk information for adaptation and development planning | International Journal of Climatology | 2009 | 231 |
| 20 | Very high rates of bedload sediment transport by ephemeral desert rivers | Nature | 1993 | 221 |
| 21 | World cities and territorial states under conditions of contemporary globalization | Political Geography | 2000 | 216 |
| 22 | Timing of the Younger Dryas event in East Africa from lake-level changes | Nature | 1993 | 212 |
| 23 | Looking forward through the past: identification of 50 priority research questions in palaeoecology | Journal of Ecology | 2014 | 212 |
| 24 | External Urban Relational Process: Introducing Central Flow Theory to Complement Central Place Theory | Urban Studies | 2010 | 211 |
| 25 | Catastrophic Drought in the Afro-Asian Monsoon Region During Heinrich Event 1 | Science | 2011 | 211 |
| 26 | High‐latitude dust in the Earth system | Reviews of Geophysics | 2016 | 207 |
| 27 | Submarine glacial landforms and rates of ice-stream collapse | Geology | 2008 | 206 |
| 28 | Communicating the deadly consequences of global warming for human heat stress | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2017 | 198 |
| 29 | Finding oneself, losing oneself: the lesbian and gay 'scene' as a paradoxical space | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | 2003 | 197 |
| 30 | Global geographies of higher education: The perspective of world university rankings | Geoforum | 2013 | 196 |
| 31 | Abrupt Holocene climate change as an important factor for human migration in West Greenland | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 191 |
| 32 | Engaged pedagogy and responsibility: A postcolonial analysis of international students | Geoforum | 2009 | 189 |
| 33 | Aeolian-fluvial interactions in dryland environments: examples, concepts and Australia case study | Progress in Physical Geography | 2003 | 188 |
| 34 | Which tributaries disrupt downstream fining along gravel-bed rivers? | Geomorphology | 1998 | 186 |
| 35 | Cyberkids? Exploring Children’s Identities and Social Networks in On-line and Off-line Worlds | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 2002 | 184 |
| 36 | A restatement of the natural science evidence concerning catchment-based ‘natural’ flood management in the UK | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences | 2017 | 184 |
| 37 | Rethinking responsibility and care for a postcolonial world | Geoforum | 2009 | 183 |
| 38 | The geomorphology of the Anthropocene: emergence, status and implications | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 2017 | 183 |
| 39 | A lacustrine GDGT-temperature calibration from the Scandinavian Arctic to Antarctic: Renewed potential for the application of GDGT-paleothermometry in lakes | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 2011 | 182 |
| 40 | Lake eutrophication and its implications for organic carbon sequestration in Europe | Global Change Biology | 2014 | 180 |
| 41 | Making space for sex work: female street prostitution and the production of urban space | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | 2003 | 179 |
| 42 | Desire/disgust: mapping the moral contours of heterosexuality | Progress in Human Geography | 2000 | 176 |
| 43 | Asynchronous glaciation at Nanga Parbat, northwestern Himalaya Mountains, Pakistan | Geology | 2000 | 175 |
| 44 | Global change revealed by palaeolimnological records from remote lakes: a review | Journal of Paleolimnology | 2013 | 173 |
| 45 | Mechanisms of Holocene palaeoenvironmental change in the Antarctic Peninsula region | Holocene | 2009 | 167 |
| 46 | Pathways of Change: Shifting Connectivities in the World City Network, 2000—08 | Urban Studies | 2010 | 167 |
| 47 | An alternate approach to assessing climate risks | Eos | 2012 | 165 |
| 48 | Paleolimnological evidence of the effects on lakes of energy and mass transfer from climate and humans | Limnology and Oceanography | 2009 | 163 |
| 49 | Tansley Review No. 115 | New Phytologist | 2000 | 162 |
| 50 | The ecology of the planktonic diatom Cyclotella and its implications for global environmental change studies | Biological Reviews | 2015 | 162 |
