| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Climate Change Will Affect the Asian Water Towers | Science | 2010 | 2,812 |
| 2 | Multivariable geostatistics in S: the gstat package | Computers and Geosciences | 2004 | 2,188 |
| 3 | Ground water and climate change | Nature Climate Change | 2013 | 1,513 |
| 4 | A stratigraphic framework for abrupt climatic changes during the Last Glacial period based on three synchronized Greenland ice-core records: refining and extending the INTIMATE event stratigraphy | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2014 | 1,436 |
| 5 | Global depletion of groundwater resources | Geophysical Research Letters | 2010 | 1,378 |
| 6 | Multimodel assessment of water scarcity under climate change | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 1,282 |
| 7 | Water balance of global aquifers revealed by groundwater footprint | Nature | 2012 | 1,058 |
| 8 | Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 971 |
| 9 | Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers | Nature | 2020 | 885 |
| 10 | Mountains of the world, water towers for humanity: Typology, mapping, and global significance | Water Resources Research | 2007 | 839 |
| 11 | Consistent increase in High Asia's runoff due to increasing glacier melt and precipitation | Nature Climate Change | 2014 | 818 |
| 12 | Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 795 |
| 13 | Fully Convolutional Networks for Multisource Building Extraction From an Open Aerial and Satellite Imagery Data Set | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2019 | 758 |
| 14 | Global drivers of future river flood risk | Nature Climate Change | 2016 | 661 |
| 15 | Hyperresolution global land surface modeling: Meeting a grand challenge for monitoring Earth's terrestrial water | Water Resources Research | 2011 | 634 |
| 16 | Hydrological droughts in the 21st century, hotspots and uncertainties from a global multimodel ensemble experiment | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 583 |
| 17 | Large-scale monitoring of snow cover and runoff simulation in Himalayan river basins using remote sensing | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2009 | 580 |
| 18 | Synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental events in the North Atlantic region during the Last Termination: a revised protocol recommended by the INTIMATE group | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2008 | 558 |
| 19 | Formal definition and dating of the GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) for the base of the Holocene using the Greenland NGRIP ice core, and selected auxiliary records | Journal of Quaternary Science | 2009 | 552 |
| 20 | Global modeling of withdrawal, allocation and consumptive use of surface water and groundwater resources | Earth System Dynamics | 2014 | 549 |
| 21 | Water scarcity assessments in the past, present, and future | Earth's Future | 2017 | 545 |
| 22 | Impact of a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius on Asia’s glaciers | Nature | 2017 | 525 |
| 23 | Nonsustainable groundwater sustaining irrigation: A global assessment | Water Resources Research | 2012 | 517 |
| 24 | Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH) – a community perspective | Hydrological Sciences Journal | 2019 | 474 |
| 25 | LISEM: A SINGLE-EVENT PHYSICALLY BASED HYDROLOGICAL AND SOIL EROSION MODEL FOR DRAINAGE BASINS. I: THEORY, INPUT AND OUTPUT | Hydrological Processes | 1996 | 426 |
| 26 | Mississippi Delta subsidence primarily caused by compaction of Holocene strata | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 421 |
| 27 | Fuzzy mathematical methods for soil survey and land evaluation | Journal of Soil Science | 1989 | 397 |
| 28 | Rising river flows throughout the twenty-first century in two Himalayan glacierized watersheds | Nature Geoscience | 2013 | 391 |
| 29 | High-resolution monitoring of Himalayan glacier dynamics using unmanned aerial vehicles | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2014 | 382 |
| 30 | Global models underestimate large decadal declining and rising water storage trends relative to GRACE satellite data | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 376 |
| 31 | Hydrological response to climate change in a glacierized catchment in the Himalayas | Climatic Change | 2012 | 373 |
| 32 | Environmental flow limits to global groundwater pumping | Nature | 2019 | 360 |
| 33 | Global monthly water stress: 1. Water balance and water availability | Water Resources Research | 2011 | 350 |
| 34 | Global monthly water stress: 2. Water demand and severity of water stress | Water Resources Research | 2011 | 342 |
| 35 | Real-time automatic interpolation of ambient gamma dose rates from the Dutch radioactivity monitoring network | Computers and Geosciences | 2009 | 333 |
| 36 | Global riverine N and P transport to ocean increased during the 20th century despite increased retention along the aquatic continuum | Biogeosciences | 2016 | 329 |
| 37 | A framework for global river flood risk assessments | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2013 | 327 |
| 38 | Sustainability of global water use: past reconstruction and future projections | Environmental Research Letters | 2014 | 312 |
| 39 | Time Series Analysis of Landslide Dynamics Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) | Remote Sensing | 2015 | 309 |
| 40 | PCR-GLOBWB 2: a 5 arcmin global hydrological and water resources model | Geoscientific Model Development | 2018 | 307 |
| 41 | A view on some hydrological triggering systems in landslides | Geomorphology | 1999 | 305 |
| 42 | A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya | Science | 2021 | 304 |
| 43 | Multimodel projections and uncertainties of irrigation water demand under climate change | Geophysical Research Letters | 2013 | 302 |
| 44 | The effectiveness of spectral similarity measures for the analysis of hyperspectral imagery | International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation | 2006 | 300 |
| 45 | Prediction of alluvial channel pattern of perennial rivers | Geomorphology | 1995 | 287 |
| 46 | Mapping of heavy metal pollution in stream sediments using combined geochemistry, field spectroscopy, and hyperspectral remote sensing: A case study of the Rodalquilar mining area, SE Spain | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2008 | 286 |
| 47 | The imbalance of the Asian water tower | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment | 2022 | 286 |
| 48 | Assessing flood risk at the global scale: model setup, results, and sensitivity | Environmental Research Letters | 2013 | 279 |
| 49 | Modelling global water stress of the recent past: on the relative importance of trends in water demand and climate variability | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2011 | 275 |
| 50 | Fuzzy classification methods for determining land suitability from soil profile observations and topography | Journal of Soil Science | 1992 | 268 |
