| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species | Conservation Biology | 2008 | 1,048 |
| 2 | Estimating overlap of daily activity patterns from camera trap data | Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics | 2009 | 805 |
| 3 | Targeting Global Protected Area Expansion for Imperiled Biodiversity | PLoS Biology | 2014 | 430 |
| 4 | Shortfalls and Solutions for Meeting National and Global Conservation Area Targets | Conservation Letters | 2015 | 350 |
| 5 | Governance and the loss of biodiversity | Nature | 2003 | 337 |
| 6 | Creation of forest edges has a global impact on forest vertebrates | Nature | 2017 | 323 |
| 7 | In pursuit of ecotourism | Biodiversity and Conservation | 1996 | 255 |
| 8 | Conserving large carnivores: dollars and fence | Ecology Letters | 2013 | 241 |
| 9 | Evaluating whether protected areas reduce tropical deforestation in Sumatra | Journal of Biogeography | 2009 | 229 |
| 10 | Predicting spatial aspects of human-elephant conflict | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2003 | 217 |
| 11 | How to ask sensitive questions in conservation: A review of specialized questioning techniques | Biological Conservation | 2015 | 217 |
| 12 | Tourism and flagship species in conservation | Biodiversity and Conservation | 2002 | 213 |
| 13 | Sustainable use and incentive-driven conservation: realigning human and conservation interests | Oryx | 2003 | 198 |
| 14 | Effects of Trophy Hunting on Lion and Leopard Populations in Tanzania | Conservation Biology | 2011 | 189 |
| 15 | Assessing the viability of tiger subpopulations in a fragmented landscape | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2006 | 183 |
| 16 | Toward a systematic approach for identifying conservation flagships | Conservation Letters | 2011 | 181 |
| 17 | Cattle ranchers' attitudes to conflicts with jaguar Panthera onca in the Pantanal of Brazil | Oryx | 2005 | 180 |
| 18 | Patterns and perceptions of wildlife crop raiding in and around Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra | Animal Conservation | 2007 | 179 |
| 19 | Patterns of species change in anthropogenically disturbed forests of Madagascar | Biological Conservation | 2010 | 179 |
| 20 | Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of southeastern Amazonia | Global Change Biology | 2008 | 162 |
| 21 | When to stop managing or surveying cryptic threatened species | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 161 |
| 22 | Estimating occupancy of a data deficient mammalian species living in tropical rainforests: Sun bears in the Kerinci Seblat region, Sumatra | Biological Conservation | 2007 | 150 |
| 23 | The many meanings of no net loss in environmental policy | Nature Sustainability | 2018 | 146 |
| 24 | A Global Mitigation Hierarchy for Nature Conservation | BioScience | 2018 | 143 |
| 25 | The Social Organisation of a Population of Sumatran Orang-Utans | Folia Primatologica | 2002 | 136 |
| 26 | Identifying Cinderella species: uncovering mammals with conservation flagship appeal | Conservation Letters | 2012 | 133 |
| 27 | The environmental impacts of palm oil in context | Nature Plants | 2020 | 133 |
| 28 | Factors affecting susceptibility of farms to crop raiding by African elephants: using a predictive model to mitigate conflict | Journal of Applied Ecology | 2005 | 130 |
| 29 | Let the locals lead | Nature | 2009 | 130 |
| 30 | Estimating the extent and structure of trade in horticultural orchids via social media | Conservation Biology | 2016 | 129 |
| 31 | Predicting the patterns, perceptions and causes of human–carnivore conflict in and around Machiara National Park, Pakistan | Biological Conservation | 2009 | 128 |
| 32 | Logging cuts the functional importance of invertebrates in tropical rainforest | Nature Communications | 2015 | 127 |
| 33 | Increased conservation marketing effort has major fundraising benefits for even the least popular species | Biological Conservation | 2017 | 125 |
| 34 | Assessing farm-based measures for mitigating human-elephant conflict in Transmara District, Kenya | Oryx | 2006 | 123 |
| 35 | Seasonal variation in environmental DNA in relation to population size and environmental factors | Scientific Reports | 2017 | 122 |
| 36 | Diet and Food Choice in Peruvian Red Uakaris (Cacajao calvus ucayalii): Selective or Opportunistic Seed Predation? | International Journal of Primatology | 2011 | 120 |
| 37 | The global extent of biodiversity offset implementation under no net loss policies | Nature Sustainability | 2018 | 120 |
| 38 | Local attitudes and perceptions toward crop‐raiding by orangutans (Pongo abelii) and other nonhuman primates in northern Sumatra, Indonesia | American Journal of Primatology | 2010 | 119 |
| 39 | Mitigation‐driven translocations: are we moving wildlife in the right direction? | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2015 | 116 |
| 40 | Birds as tourism flagship species: a case study of tropical islands | Animal Conservation | 2009 | 115 |
| 41 | Invasive pathogens threaten species recovery programs | Current Biology | 2008 | 113 |
| 42 | How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented? | Conservation Letters | 2021 | 113 |
| 43 | Understanding heterogeneous preference of tourists for big game species: implications for conservation and management | Animal Conservation | 2013 | 112 |
| 44 | Bring the captive closer to the wild: redefining the role of ex situ conservation | Oryx | 2012 | 111 |
| 45 | The ecological outcomes of biodiversity offsets under “no net loss” policies: A global review | Conservation Letters | 2019 | 108 |
| 46 | Developments in amphibian captive breeding and reintroduction programs | Conservation Biology | 2016 | 101 |
| 47 | Extinction of one of the world's largest freshwater fishes: Lessons for conserving the endangered Yangtze fauna | Science of the Total Environment | 2020 | 99 |
| 48 | Source–sink systems and conservation of hunted ungulates in the Lacandon Forest, Mexico | Biological Conservation | 2007 | 98 |
| 49 | Community Attitudes Toward Wildlife and Protected Areas in Ethiopia | Society and Natural Resources | 2010 | 97 |
| 50 | Quantifying the Biodiversity Value of Repeatedly Logged Rainforests | Advances in Ecological Research | 2013 | 97 |
