| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | European Seasonal and Annual Temperature Variability, Trends, and Extremes Since 1500 | Science | 2004 | 1,535 |
| 2 | Microplastics in Swiss Floodplain Soils | Environmental Science & Technology | 2018 | 910 |
| 3 | Mountains of the world, water towers for humanity: Typology, mapping, and global significance | Water Resources Research | 2007 | 889 |
| 4 | Principles for knowledge co-production in sustainability research | Nature Sustainability | 2020 | 805 |
| 5 | High-Resolution Greenland Ice Core Data Show Abrupt Climate Change Happens in Few Years | Science | 2008 | 769 |
| 6 | Framing vulnerability, risk and societal responses: the MOVE framework | Natural Hazards | 2013 | 719 |
| 7 | Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition | Ecology Letters | 2015 | 622 |
| 8 | High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects | Holocene | 2009 | 602 |
| 9 | North Atlantic Oscillation – Concepts And Studies | Surveys in Geophysics | 2001 | 581 |
| 10 | Glacier and lake-level variations in west-central Europe over the last 3500 years | Holocene | 2005 | 539 |
| 11 | Wet season Mediterranean precipitation variability: influence of large-scale dynamics and trends | Climate Dynamics | 2004 | 529 |
| 12 | Challenges of analyzing multi-hazard risk: a review | Natural Hazards | 2012 | 517 |
| 13 | Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: Improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2019 | 499 |
| 14 | Arctic and boreal ecosystems of western North America as components of the climate system | Global Change Biology | 2000 | 497 |
| 15 | Harmonization of global land use change and management for the period 850–2100 (LUH2) for CMIP6 | Geoscientific Model Development | 2020 | 496 |
| 16 | Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions in Regional Studies | Regional Studies | 2012 | 465 |
| 17 | Ages and magnetic structures of the South China Sea constrained by deep tow magnetic surveys and IODP Expedition 349 | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2014 | 443 |
| 18 | Doubled length of western European summer heat waves since 1880 | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2007 | 411 |
| 19 | Five hundred years of gridded high-resolution precipitation reconstructions over Europe and the connection to large-scale circulation | Climate Dynamics | 2006 | 395 |
| 20 | Reconstruction of sea level pressure fields over the Eastern North Atlantic and Europe back to 1500 | Climate Dynamics | 2002 | 380 |
| 21 | Storylines: an alternative approach to representing uncertainty in physical aspects of climate change | Climatic Change | 2018 | 372 |
| 22 | Global monthly water stress: 2. Water demand and severity of water stress | Water Resources Research | 2011 | 366 |
| 23 | Land-atmosphere energy exchange in Arctic tundra and boreal forest: available data and feedbacks to climate | Global Change Biology | 2000 | 361 |
| 24 | Indices for daily temperature and precipitation extremes in Europe analyzed for the period 1901–2000 | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2006 | 355 |
| 25 | Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice | Earth's Future | 2017 | 349 |
| 26 | An indicator framework for assessing livelihood resilience in the context of social–ecological dynamics | Global Environmental Change | 2014 | 328 |
| 27 | Long‐term drought severity variations in Morocco | Geophysical Research Letters | 2007 | 323 |
| 28 | Understanding and managing connected extreme events | Nature Climate Change | 2020 | 322 |
| 29 | Phenological response to climate change in China: a meta‐analysis | Global Change Biology | 2015 | 319 |
| 30 | Temperature and precipitation variability in the European Alps since 1500 | International Journal of Climatology | 2005 | 307 |
| 31 | Mediterranean summer air temperature variability and its connection to the large-scale atmospheric circulation and SSTs | Climate Dynamics | 2003 | 304 |
| 32 | European climate response to tropical volcanic eruptions over the last half millennium | Geophysical Research Letters | 2007 | 301 |
| 33 | No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era | Nature | 2019 | 296 |
| 34 | Blocking and its Response to Climate Change | Current Climate Change Reports | 2018 | 289 |
| 35 | Summer heat waves over western Europe 1880–2003, their relationship to large-scale forcings and predictability | Climate Dynamics | 2007 | 278 |
| 36 | Heat wave changes in the eastern Mediterranean since 1960 | Geophysical Research Letters | 2010 | 277 |
| 37 | Nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (nitro-PAHs) in the environment – A review | Science of the Total Environment | 2017 | 271 |
| 38 | The hydrological significance of mountains: from regional to global scale | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2004 | 269 |
| 39 | Places and Spaces of Sustainability Transitions: Geographical Contributions to an Emerging Research and Policy Field | European Planning Studies | 2012 | 258 |
| 40 | European spring and autumn temperature variability and change of extremes over the last half millennium | Geophysical Research Letters | 2005 | 256 |
| 41 | Consistent multidecadal variability in global temperature reconstructions and simulations over the Common Era | Nature Geoscience | 2019 | 254 |
| 42 | Reconstruction of monthly NAO and EU indices back to AD 1675 | Geophysical Research Letters | 1999 | 250 |
| 43 | Warm Conveyor Belts in the ERA-Interim Dataset (1979–2010). Part I: Climatology and Potential Vorticity Evolution | Journal of Climate | 2014 | 243 |
| 44 | Timing and duration of European larch growing season along altitudinal gradients in the Swiss Alps | Tree Physiology | 2010 | 241 |
| 45 | The influence of sampling design on tree‐ring‐based quantification of forest growth | Global Change Biology | 2014 | 234 |
| 46 | Six modes of co-production for sustainability | Nature Sustainability | 2021 | 227 |
| 47 | Holocene global mean surface temperature, a multi-method reconstruction approach | Scientific Data | 2020 | 217 |
| 48 | Temperate and boreal forest tree phenology: from organ-scale processes to terrestrial ecosystem models | Annals of Forest Science | 2016 | 200 |
| 49 | Ten facts about land systems for sustainability | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2022 | 199 |
| 50 | ENSO influence on Europe during the last centuries | Climate Dynamics | 2006 | 198 |
