| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Recent and Future Climate Change in Northwest China | Climatic Change | 2007 | 749 |
| 2 | Nitrogen deposition and its ecological impact in China: An overview | Environmental Pollution | 2011 | 652 |
| 3 | Natural gas from shale formation – The evolution, evidences and challenges of shale gas revolution in United States | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2014 | 590 |
| 4 | Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in global lakes: A review and meta-analysis | Environment International | 2018 | 474 |
| 5 | Vegetation dynamics and responses to climate change and human activities in Central Asia | Science of the Total Environment | 2017 | 417 |
| 6 | Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 368 |
| 7 | Comparing bias correction methods in downscaling meteorological variables for a hydrologic impact study in an arid area in China | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2015 | 347 |
| 8 | Drought losses in China might double between the 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 328 |
| 9 | The rapid and massive urban and industrial land expansions in China between 1990 and 2010: A CLUD-based analysis of their trajectories, patterns, and drivers | Landscape and Urban Planning | 2016 | 314 |
| 10 | Plastics in the marine environment are reservoirs for antibiotic and metal resistance genes | Environment International | 2019 | 305 |
| 11 | Genome re-sequencing reveals the history of apple and supports a two-stage model for fruit enlargement | Nature Communications | 2017 | 286 |
| 12 | Biomineralization based remediation of As(III) contaminated soil by Sporosarcina ginsengisoli | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2012 | 282 |
| 13 | Heavy metal contamination of urban soil in an old industrial city (Shenyang) in Northeast China | Geoderma | 2013 | 278 |
| 14 | Temperature Changes in Central Asia from 1979 to 2011 Based on Multiple Datasets* | Journal of Climate | 2014 | 262 |
| 15 | Regional differences of lake evolution across China during 1960s–2015 and its natural and anthropogenic causes | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2019 | 252 |
| 16 | Salinity Is a Key Determinant for Soil Microbial Communities in a Desert Ecosystem | MSystems | 2019 | 238 |
| 17 | Rhizosphere Microbiome Assembly and Its Impact on Plant Growth | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry | 2020 | 238 |
| 18 | Change in deep soil microbial communities due to long-term fertilization | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2014 | 232 |
| 19 | Holocene moisture evolution across the Mongolian Plateau and its surrounding areas: A synthesis of climatic records | Earth-Science Reviews | 2013 | 220 |
| 20 | Water-use strategy of three central Asian desert shrubs and their responses to rain pulse events | Plant and Soil | 2006 | 216 |
| 21 | Progress and prospects of climate change impacts on hydrology in the arid region of northwest China | Environmental Research | 2015 | 216 |
| 22 | Coordinated variation in leaf and root traits across multiple spatial scales in Chinese semi‐arid and arid ecosystems | New Phytologist | 2010 | 213 |
| 23 | Large‐scale pattern of biomass partitioning across China's grasslands | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2010 | 210 |
| 24 | Spatial and temporal characteristics of droughts in Central Asia during 1966–2015 | Science of the Total Environment | 2018 | 210 |
| 25 | Remediation of copper-contaminated soil by Kocuria flava CR1, based on microbially induced calcite precipitation | Ecological Engineering | 2011 | 206 |
| 26 | Have GRACE satellites overestimated groundwater depletion in the Northwest India Aquifer? | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 202 |
| 27 | Spatial distribution and contamination assessment of heavy metals in urban road dusts from Urumqi, NW China | Microchemical Journal | 2009 | 201 |
| 28 | Deriving scaling factors using a global hydrological model to restore GRACE total water storage changes for China's Yangtze River Basin | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2015 | 201 |
| 29 | Significant soil acidification across northern China's grasslands during 1980s–2000s | Global Change Biology | 2012 | 200 |
| 30 | Influences of recent climate change and human activities on water storage variations in Central Asia | Journal of Hydrology | 2017 | 197 |
| 31 | Why does precipitation in northwest China show a significant increasing trend from 1960 to 2010? | Atmospheric Research | 2016 | 196 |
| 32 | A comparison of methods for estimating fractional vegetation cover in arid regions | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2011 | 195 |
| 33 | Changes in Central Asia’s Water Tower: Past, Present and Future | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 195 |
| 34 | Potential impacts of climate change on vegetation dynamics in Central Asia | Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres | 2015 | 193 |
| 35 | Divergent accumulation of microbial necromass and plant lignin components in grassland soils | Nature Communications | 2018 | 192 |
| 36 | Characterization of Urease and Carbonic Anhydrase Producing Bacteria and Their Role in Calcite Precipitation | Current Microbiology | 2011 | 191 |
| 37 | Arabidopsis AtbHLH112 regulates the expression of genes involved in abiotic stress tolerance by binding to their E‐box and GCG‐box motifs | New Phytologist | 2015 | 189 |
| 38 | CO2 absorption by alkaline soils and its implication to the global carbon cycle | Environmental Geology | 2009 | 187 |
| 39 | Early assessment of Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement over China | Atmospheric Research | 2016 | 186 |
| 40 | ZnO and CuO nanoparticles: a threat to soil organisms, plants, and human health | Environmental Geochemistry and Health | 2020 | 186 |
| 41 | Weakening temperature control on the interannual variations of spring carbon uptake across northern lands | Nature Climate Change | 2017 | 183 |
| 42 | A robust but variable lake expansion on the Tibetan Plateau | Science Bulletin | 2019 | 182 |
| 43 | Global methane and nitrous oxide emissions from terrestrial ecosystems due to multiple environmental changes | Ecosystem Health and Sustainability | 2015 | 180 |
| 44 | The microstructure of microbiotic crust and its influence on wind erosion for a sandy soil surface in the Gurbantunggut Desert of Northwestern China | Geoderma | 2006 | 179 |
| 45 | Effects of zinc-oxide nanoparticles on soil, plants, animals and soil organisms: A review | Environmental Nanotechnology, Monitoring and Management | 2018 | 178 |
| 46 | Vegetation dynamics and responses to recent climate change in Xinjiang using leaf area index as an indicator | Ecological Indicators | 2015 | 174 |
| 47 | Impacts of Climate Change and Human Activities on the Surface Runoff in the Tarim River Basin over the Last Fifty Years | Water Resources Management | 2008 | 169 |
| 48 | Soil carbon stock and its changes in northern China's grasslands from 1980s to 2000s | Global Change Biology | 2010 | 169 |
| 49 | Changes of nitrogen deposition in China from 1980 to 2018 | Environment International | 2020 | 169 |
| 50 | Ecophysiological response and morphological adjustment of two Central Asian desert shrubs towards variation in summer precipitation | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2007 | 161 |
