| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD | Nature Geoscience | 2016 | 596 |
| 2 | Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming | Nature | 2018 | 580 |
| 3 | Unifying niche shift studies: insights from biological invasions | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 536 |
| 4 | The science and practice of river restoration | Water Resources Research | 2015 | 442 |
| 5 | Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity | Nature Geoscience | 2018 | 390 |
| 6 | The status and challenge of global fire modelling | Biogeosciences | 2016 | 274 |
| 7 | Isolating organic carbon fractions with varying turnover rates in temperate agricultural soils – A comprehensive method comparison | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2018 | 269 |
| 8 | Investigating the geomorphological potential of freely available and accessible structure‐from‐motion photogrammetry using a smartphone | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 2015 | 233 |
| 9 | Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 2019 | 233 |
| 10 | Defining the epoch we live in | Science | 2015 | 228 |
| 11 | Machine Learning Feature Selection Methods for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping | Mathematical Geosciences | 2014 | 209 |
| 12 | CO2 utilization in the perspective of industrial ecology, an overview | Journal of CO2 Utilization | 2015 | 205 |
| 13 | Holocene global mean surface temperature, a multi-method reconstruction approach | Scientific Data | 2020 | 183 |
| 14 | Guidelines on the use of structure‐from‐motion photogrammetry in geomorphic research | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 2019 | 178 |
| 15 | Semisupervised Transfer Component Analysis for Domain Adaptation in Remote Sensing Image Classification | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2015 | 171 |
| 16 | Assessment of climate change effects on mountain ecosystems through a cross-site analysis in the Alps and Apennines | Science of the Total Environment | 2018 | 169 |
| 17 | Sediment export, transient landscape response and catchment-scale connectivity following rapid climate warming and Alpine glacier recession | Geomorphology | 2017 | 168 |
| 18 | Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond | Nature Geoscience | 2018 | 166 |
| 19 | Vegetation of Eurasia from the last glacial maximum to present: Key biogeographic patterns | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2017 | 159 |
| 20 | The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions | Geoscientific Model Development | 2017 | 159 |
| 21 | The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 3: The last millennium, scientific objective, and experimental design for the PMIP4 <i>past1000</i> simulations | Geoscientific Model Development | 2017 | 155 |
| 22 | Human-induced erosion has offset one-third of carbon emissions from land cover change | Nature Climate Change | 2017 | 149 |
| 23 | Evaluating the temporal link between the Karoo LIP and climatic–biologic events of the Toarcian Stage with high-precision U–Pb geochronology | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2014 | 145 |
| 24 | Europe’s lost forests: a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 139 |
| 25 | Erosion by an Alpine glacier | Science | 2015 | 138 |
| 26 | The effects of river restoration on catchment scale flood risk and flood hydrology | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 2016 | 130 |
| 27 | Natural flood management | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water | 2017 | 129 |
| 28 | Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present | Earth-Science Reviews | 2018 | 129 |
| 29 | Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies | Earth-Science Reviews | 2020 | 123 |
| 30 | SoilTemp: A global database of near‐surface temperature | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 122 |
| 31 | Ideas and perspectives: Tracing terrestrial ecosystem water fluxes using hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopes – challenges and opportunities from an interdisciplinary perspective | Biogeosciences | 2018 | 115 |
| 32 | A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records | Scientific Data | 2020 | 112 |
| 33 | Role of Fungi in the Biomineralization of Calcite | Minerals (Basel, Switzerland) | 2016 | 110 |
| 34 | InterCarb: A Community Effort to Improve Interlaboratory Standardization of the Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer Using Carbonate Standards | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2021 | 110 |
| 35 | The rich sides of mountain summits – a pan‐European view on aspect preferences of alpine plants | Journal of Biogeography | 2016 | 107 |
| 36 | Measuring the relative effect of factors affecting species distribution model predictions | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 100 |
| 37 | Stormy geomorphology: geomorphic contributions in an age of climate extremes | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 2017 | 94 |
| 38 | Improving the Predictive Skill of a Distributed Hydrological Model by Calibration on Spatial Patterns With Multiple Satellite Data Sets | Water Resources Research | 2020 | 93 |
| 39 | Northward migration of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis revealed by OSL thermochronometry | Science | 2016 | 92 |
| 40 | Social tipping points in global groundwater management | Nature Human Behaviour | 2017 | 89 |
| 41 | Comparison of remote sensing based approaches for mapping bathymetry of shallow, clear water rivers | Geomorphology | 2019 | 88 |
| 42 | Less favourable climates constrain demographic strategies in plants | Ecology Letters | 2017 | 83 |
| 43 | Rate and mechanism of the photoreduction of birnessite (MnO 2 ) nanosheets | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 82 |
| 44 | WETCHIMP-WSL: intercomparison of wetland methane emissions models over West Siberia | Biogeosciences | 2015 | 81 |
| 45 | Archival photogrammetric analysis of river–floodplain systems using Structure from Motion (SfM) methods | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 2017 | 81 |
| 46 | The Soil Microbiome of GLORIA Mountain Summits in the Swiss Alps | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2019 | 78 |
| 47 | Iron sequestration by transferrin 1 mediates nutritional immunity in Drosophila melanogaster | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 78 |
| 48 | A transdisciplinary account of water research | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water | 2016 | 77 |
| 49 | Understanding snow hydrological processes through the lens of stable water isotopes | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water | 2018 | 76 |
| 50 | Innovations in (U–Th)/He, Fission Track, and Trapped Charge Thermochronometry with Applications to Earthquakes, Weathering, Surface‐Mantle Connections, and the Growth and Decay of Mountains | Tectonics | 2019 | 76 |
