| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record | Science | 2008 | 873 |
| 2 | A Drinking Water Crisis in Lake Taihu, China: Linkage to Climatic Variability and Lake Management | Environmental Management | 2010 | 778 |
| 3 | Palaeoclimatic changes in the Qinghai Lake area during the last 18,000 years | Quaternary International | 2005 | 624 |
| 4 | Long-term dynamics of phytoplankton assemblages: Microcystis-domination in Lake Taihu, a large shallow lake in China | Journal of Plankton Research | 2003 | 570 |
| 5 | Allied attack: climate change and eutrophication | Inland Waters | 2011 | 548 |
| 6 | Mitigating cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms in aquatic ecosystems impacted by climate change and anthropogenic nutrients | Harmful Algae | 2016 | 453 |
| 7 | Glacial-Interglacial Indian Summer Monsoon Dynamics | Science | 2011 | 385 |
| 8 | Palaeovegetation of China: a pollen data-based synthesis for the mid-Holocene and last glacial maximum | Journal of Biogeography | 2000 | 382 |
| 9 | Effects of the Three Gorges Dam on Yangtze River flow and river interaction with Poyang Lake, China: 2003–2008 | Journal of Hydrology | 2012 | 340 |
| 10 | China’s lakes at present: Number, area and spatial distribution | Science China Earth Sciences | 2011 | 331 |
| 11 | Effect of draw solution concentration and operating conditions on forward osmosis and pressure retarded osmosis performance in a spiral wound module | Journal of Membrane Science | 2010 | 306 |
| 12 | Tropical climates at the Last Glacial Maximum: a new synthesis of terrestrial palaeoclimate data. I. Vegetation, lake-levels and geochemistry | Climate Dynamics | 1999 | 300 |
| 13 | Observed trends of annual maximum water level and streamflow during past 130 years in the Yangtze River basin, China | Journal of Hydrology | 2006 | 291 |
| 14 | Bacterioplankton Community Composition along a Salinity Gradient of Sixteen High-Mountain Lakes Located on the Tibetan Plateau, China | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 282 |
| 15 | Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) observations of cyanobacteria blooms in Taihu Lake, China | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2010 | 280 |
| 16 | Possible influence of ENSO on annual maximum streamflow of the Yangtze River, China | Journal of Hydrology | 2007 | 274 |
| 17 | Aquatic color radiometry remote sensing of coastal and inland waters: Challenges and recommendations for future satellite missions | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2015 | 254 |
| 18 | Recent trends in observed temperature and precipitation extremes in the Yangtze River basin, China | Theoretical and Applied Climatology | 2006 | 234 |
| 19 | Mid-holocene climates and environments in China | Global and Planetary Change | 1993 | 232 |
| 20 | Spatial distribution, ecological risk assessment and source identification for heavy metals in surface sediments from Dongping Lake, Shandong, East China | Catena | 2015 | 227 |
| 21 | Dynamics of sediment resuspension and the conceptual schema of nutrient release in the large shallow Lake Taihu, China | Science Bulletin | 2004 | 224 |
| 22 | Reconstruction of the 30–40 ka bp enhanced Indian monsoon climate based on geological records from the Tibetan Plateau | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 2001 | 219 |
| 23 | Microbial response to salinity change in Lake Chaka, a hypersaline lake on Tibetan plateau | Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 210 |
| 24 | Spatial justice and the land politics of renewables: Dispossessing vulnerable communities through solar energy mega-projects | Geoforum | 2016 | 204 |
| 25 | Phytoliths as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in China I: phytolith-based transfer functions | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2006 | 203 |
| 26 | Observed monthly precipitation trends in China 1951?2002 | Theoretical and Applied Climatology | 2004 | 200 |
| 27 | Optical types of inland and coastal waters | Limnology and Oceanography | 2018 | 196 |
| 28 | Ecosystem respiration: Drivers of daily variability and background respiration in lakes around the globe | Limnology and Oceanography | 2013 | 195 |
| 29 | Changing properties of precipitation concentration in the Pearl River basin, China | Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment | 2009 | 191 |
| 30 | Spatial distribution and source analysis of heavy metals in soils influenced by industrial enterprise distribution: Case study in Jiangsu Province | Science of the Total Environment | 2020 | 167 |
| 31 | Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in fishes from Taihu Lake, China | Journal of Environmental Sciences | 2007 | 163 |
| 32 | Using multiple archives to understand past and present climate–human–environment interactions: the lake Erhai catchment, Yunnan Province, China | Journal of Paleolimnology | 2008 | 163 |
| 33 | Climate changes and their impacts on water resources in the arid regions: a case study of the Tarim River basin, China | Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment | 2010 | 162 |
| 34 | Geochemistry of Daihai Lake sediments, Inner Mongolia, north China: Implications for provenance, sedimentary sorting, and catchment weathering | Geomorphology | 2006 | 161 |
| 35 | Nitrogen dynamics and microbial food web structure during a summer cyanobacterial bloom in a subtropical, shallow, well-mixed, eutrophic lake (Lake Taihu, China) | Hydrobiologia | 2007 | 158 |
| 36 | Recent declines in China’s largest freshwater lake: trend or regime shift? | Environmental Research Letters | 2013 | 158 |
| 37 | Palaeovegetation in China during the late Quaternary: Biome reconstructions based on a global scheme of plant functional types | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 2010 | 155 |
| 38 | The Holocene vegetation history of Lake Erhai, Yunnan province southwestern China: the role of climate and human forcings | Holocene | 2006 | 153 |
| 39 | Late Cenozoic climate changes in China's western interior: a review of research on Lake Qinghai and comparison with other records | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2007 | 153 |
| 40 | A global database of lake surface temperatures collected by in situ and satellite methods from 1985–2009 | Scientific Data | 2015 | 153 |
| 41 | Estimating surface temperature changes of lakes in the Tibetan Plateau using MODIS LST data | Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres | 2014 | 150 |
| 42 | Southwest monsoon changes indicated by oxygen isotope of ostracode shells from sediments in Qinghai Lake since the late Glacial | Science Bulletin | 2007 | 144 |
| 43 | Modern pollen samples from alpine vegetation on the Tibetan Plateau | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2001 | 138 |
| 44 | Earlier and warmer springs increase cyanobacterial (Microcystis spp.) blooms in subtropical Lake Taihu, China | Freshwater Biology | 2014 | 138 |
| 45 | Distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) residues in several tissues of edible fishes from the largest freshwater lake in China, Poyang Lake, and associated human health risk assessment | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | 2014 | 138 |
| 46 | Changes in monthly precipitation and flood hazard in the Yangtze River Basin, China | International Journal of Climatology | 2008 | 133 |
| 47 | A vertical-compressed three-dimensional ecological model in Lake Taihu, China | Ecological Modelling | 2006 | 132 |
| 48 | Carbon burial by shallow lakes on the Yangtze floodplain and its relevance to regional carbon sequestration | Global Change Biology | 2012 | 128 |
| 49 | Morphological Response of Microcystis aeruginosa to Grazing by Different Sorts of Zooplankton | Hydrobiologia | 2006 | 126 |
| 50 | Distinct Principal Modes of Early and Late Summer Rainfall Anomalies in East Asia* | Journal of Climate | 2009 | 123 |
