| Properties of concrete incorporating nano-silica | Construction and Building Materials | 2012 | 331 |
| Tuning Magnetism and Electronic Phase Transitions by Strain and Electric Field in Zigzag MoS2 Nanoribbons | Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters | 2012 | 202 |
| Synthesis of System Dynamics Tools for Holistic Conceptualization of Water Resources Problems | Water Resources Management | 2012 | 186 |
| An experimental study on durability properties of concrete containing zeolite as a highly reactive natural pozzolan | Construction and Building Materials | 2012 | 161 |
| Development of surrogate correlation models to predict trace organic contaminant oxidation and microbial inactivation during ozonation | Water Research | 2012 | 147 |
| Changing climatic conditions in the Colorado River Basin: Implications for water resources management | Journal of Hydrology | 2012 | 91 |
| The carbon footprint of water management policy options | Energy Policy | 2012 | 79 |
| Enhanced heat transfer performance of alumina sponge-like nano-porous structures through surface wettability control in nucleate pool boiling | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | 2012 | 78 |
| Orthorhombic carbon allotrope of compressed graphite: Ab initio calculations | Physical Review B | 2012 | 75 |
| Ensemble Streamflow Prediction: Climate signal weighting methods vs. Climate Forecast System Reanalysis | Journal of Hydrology | 2012 | 62 |
| A Generic Optical Router Design for Photonic Network-on-Chips | Journal of Lightwave Technology | 2012 | 60 |
| Impact of climate change on flood and drought events in Huaihe River Basin, China | | 2012 | 52 |
| Estimating annual precipitation for the Colorado River Basin using oceanic-atmospheric oscillations | Water Resources Research | 2012 | 51 |
| Modeling solar still production using local weather data and artificial neural networks | Renewable Energy | 2012 | 46 |
| Minimotif Miner 3.0: database expansion and significantly improved reduction of false-positive predictions from consensus sequences | Nucleic Acids Research | 2012 | 45 |
| Unexpectedly low indentation strength of WB3 and MoB3 from first principles | Physical Review B | 2012 | 42 |
| Impact of roof integrated PV orientation on the residential electricity peak demand | Applied Energy | 2012 | 40 |
| Indentation strength of ultraincompressible rhenium boride, carbide, and nitride from first-principles calculations | Physical Review B | 2012 | 40 |
| Survey of statewide public perceptions regarding water reuse in Arizona | | 2012 | 36 |
| Phase conversion from graphite toward a simple monoclinic sp3-carbon allotrope | Journal of Chemical Physics | 2012 | 36 |
| Study of energy absorption on solar cell using metamaterials | Solar Energy | 2012 | 35 |
| Study on heat transfer and pressure drop performances of ribbed channel in the high temperature heat exchanger | Applied Energy | 2012 | 34 |
| Air-entrained self-consolidating concrete: A study of admixture sources | Construction and Building Materials | 2012 | 34 |
| Panguite, (Ti4+,Sc,Al,Mg,Zr,Ca)1.8O3, a new ultra-refractory titania mineral from the Allende meteorite: Synchrotron micro-diffraction and EBSD | American Mineralogist | 2012 | 34 |
| A high-pressure far- and mid-infrared study of 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene | Journal of Applied Physics | 2012 | 34 |
