| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | 'Globalizing' regional development: a global production networks perspective | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | 2004 | 1,073 |
| 2 | Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming | Nature | 2016 | 879 |
| 3 | Chains and networks, territories and scales: towards a relational framework for analysing the global economy | Global Networks | 2001 | 868 |
| 4 | Rates and drivers of mangrove deforestation in Southeast Asia, 2000–2012 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 713 |
| 5 | The vulnerability of Indo-Pacific mangrove forests to sea-level rise | Nature | 2015 | 606 |
| 6 | Rethinking relational economic geography | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | 2005 | 472 |
| 7 | A global comparative analysis of urban form: Applying spatial metrics and remote sensing | Landscape and Urban Planning | 2007 | 465 |
| 8 | Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests | Nature | 2020 | 439 |
| 9 | Spaces and scales of innovation | Progress in Human Geography | 2001 | 425 |
| 10 | Subsidence and carbon loss in drained tropical peatlands | Biogeosciences | 2012 | 409 |
| 11 | The future of Blue Carbon science | Nature Communications | 2019 | 406 |
| 12 | Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity | Progress in Human Geography | 2001 | 404 |
| 13 | The State of the World's Mangrove Forests: Past, Present, and Future | Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 2019 | 386 |
| 14 | Application of Remote Sensing in Flood Management with Special Reference to Monsoon Asia: A Review | Natural Hazards | 2004 | 382 |
| 15 | Toward a Dynamic Theory of Global Production Networks | Economic Geography | 2015 | 382 |
| 16 | Regional Development and the Competitive Dynamics of Global Production Networks: An East Asian Perspective | Regional Studies | 2009 | 361 |
| 17 | Impacts of climate change on mangrove ecosystems: a region by region overview | Ecosystem Health and Sustainability | 2016 | 355 |
| 18 | Temporal dynamics of the urban heat island of Singapore | International Journal of Climatology | 2006 | 347 |
| 19 | The Rubber Juggernaut | Science | 2009 | 347 |
| 20 | In Search of Permanent Homes: Singapore's House Churches and the Politics of Space | Urban Studies | 2002 | 321 |
| 21 | Spatial–temporal dynamics of urban green space in response to rapid urbanization and greening policies | Landscape and Urban Planning | 2011 | 317 |
| 22 | Review of urban climate research in (sub)tropical regions | International Journal of Climatology | 2007 | 302 |
| 23 | Critical geographies and the uses of sexuality: deconstructing queer space | Progress in Human Geography | 2008 | 295 |
| 24 | Recent changes of water discharge and sediment load in the Zhujiang (Pearl River) Basin, China | Global and Planetary Change | 2008 | 292 |
| 25 | Potential carbon emissions dominated by carbon dioxide from thawed permafrost soils | Nature Climate Change | 2016 | 288 |
| 26 | Basin-wide sediment trapping efficiency of emerging reservoirs along the Mekong | Geomorphology | 2010 | 279 |
| 27 | A conceptual model of preferential flow systems in forested hillslopes: evidence of self-organization | Hydrological Processes | 2001 | 270 |
| 28 | A variety of capitalism … with Chinese characteristics? | Journal of Economic Geography | 2013 | 265 |
| 29 | Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2013 | 264 |
| 30 | Blue carbon as a natural climate solution | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment | 2021 | 261 |
| 31 | Negotiating Public Space: Strategies and Styles of Migrant Female Domestic Workers in Singapore | Urban Studies | 1998 | 241 |
| 32 | Global carbon stocks and potential emissions due to mangrove deforestation from 2000 to 2012 | Nature Climate Change | 2018 | 238 |
| 33 | Water discharge and sediment flux changes over the past decades in the Lower Mekong River: possible impacts of the Chinese dams | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2006 | 234 |
| 34 | A rapid indicator of cultural ecosystem service usage at a fine spatial scale: Content analysis of social media photographs | Ecological Indicators | 2015 | 231 |
| 35 | Pollen-based biome reconstruction for southern Europe and Africa 18,000 yr bp | Journal of Biogeography | 2000 | 229 |
| 36 | Cultural economy: a critical review | Progress in Human Geography | 2005 | 228 |
| 37 | Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region | Nature Climate Change | 2019 | 225 |
| 38 | A global standard for monitoring coastal wetland vulnerability to accelerated sea-level rise | Nature Climate Change | 2013 | 217 |
| 39 | Capital, State and Space: Contesting the Borderless World | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | 1998 | 212 |
| 40 | Transnational families and their children's education: China's 'study mothers' in Singapore | Global Networks | 2005 | 208 |
| 41 | Pathways to global city formation: a view from the developmental city-state of Singapore | Review of International Political Economy | 2004 | 207 |
| 42 | Climate change and coastal vulnerability assessment: scenarios for integrated assessment | Sustainability Science | 2008 | 203 |
| 43 | Antibiotics in surface water of East and Southeast Asian countries: A focused review on contamination status, pollution sources, potential risks, and future perspectives | Science of the Total Environment | 2021 | 202 |
| 44 | Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests | Science | 2020 | 198 |
| 45 | The Irregular Migrant as Homo Sacer: Migration and Detention in Australia, Malaysia, and Thailand | International Migration | 2004 | 195 |
| 46 | Environmental Consequences of the Demise in Swidden Cultivation in Southeast Asia: Carbon Storage and Soil Quality | Human Ecology | 2009 | 194 |
| 47 | International Perspectives on the Effectiveness of Geography Fieldwork for Learning | Journal of Geography in Higher Education | 2006 | 189 |
| 48 | When the Light of the Home is Abroad: Unskilled Female Migration and the Filipino Family | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography | 2004 | 187 |
| 49 | Mangrove blue carbon strategies for climate change mitigation are most effective at the national scale | Biology Letters | 2018 | 182 |
| 50 | Taking young people as political actors seriously: opening the borders of political geography | Area | 2010 | 181 |
