| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Evaluation of the potential of hyperion for fire danger assessment by comparison to the airborne visible/infrared imaging spectrometer | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2003 | 192 |
| 2 | Forgetting the Forest: Assessing Medicinal Plant Erosion in Eastern Brazil | Economic Botany | 2004 | 186 |
| 3 | Are women reservoirs of traditional plant knowledge? Gender, ethnobotany and globalization in northeast Brazil | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography | 2007 | 185 |
| 4 | Tropical Forest Healers and Habitat Preference | Economic Botany | 1996 | 160 |
| 5 | Reframing disaster policy: the global evolution of vulnerable communities | Environmental Hazards | 1999 | 158 |
| 6 | Modeling the Geographic Distribution of Bacillus anthracis, the Causative Agent of Anthrax Disease, for the Contiguous United States using Predictive Ecologic Niche Modeling | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2007 | 140 |
| 7 | The biogeography of invasive alien plants in California: an application of GIS and spatial regression analysis | Diversity and Distributions | 2004 | 126 |
| 8 | Spatial Patterns of Immigrant Assimilation∗ | Professional Geographer | 1996 | 123 |
| 9 | Variable impact of late-Quaternary megafaunal extinction in causing ecological state shifts in North and South America | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 113 |
| 10 | Constructing gazetteers from volunteered Big Geo-Data based on Hadoop | Computers, Environment and Urban Systems | 2017 | 110 |
| 11 | Personal Contacts, Subcontracting Linkages, and Development in the Hong Kong-Zhujiang Delta Region | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 1993 | 107 |
| 12 | Water security: A review of place-based research | Environmental Science and Policy | 2018 | 99 |
| 13 | Sea surface temperature related to rain in Ceará, north-eastern Brazil | Nature | 1977 | 98 |
| 14 | Spatiotemporal problems with detecting and mapping mosaic fire regimes with coarse-resolution satellite data in savanna environments | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2005 | 95 |
| 15 | Inferences about winter temperatures and summer rains from the late Quaternary record of C4 perennial grasses and C3 desert shrubs in the northern Chihuahuan Desert | Journal of Quaternary Science | 2007 | 86 |
| 16 | Experimenting with Active Learning in Geography: Dispelling the Myths that Perpetuate Resistance | Journal of Geography in Higher Education | 2008 | 84 |
| 17 | Economic consequences of optimized water management for a prolonged, severe drought in California | Water Resources Research | 2010 | 84 |
| 18 | Animals for the Gods: Magical and Religious Faunal Use and Trade in Brazil | Human Ecology | 2012 | 83 |
| 19 | Globalizing Shanghai: foreign investment and urban restructuring | Habitat International | 2006 | 80 |
| 20 | Modeling the geographic distribution of Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax disease, for the contiguous United States using predictive ecological [corrected] niche modeling | American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2007 | 77 |
| 21 | Production and R&D networks of foreign ventures in China: Implications for technological dynamism and regional development | Applied Geography | 2012 | 76 |
| 22 | Modeling seasonal changes in live fuel moisture and equivalent water thickness using a cumulative water balance index | Remote Sensing of Environment | 2003 | 74 |
| 23 | Commentary: Towards A Geography of the Gay Community | Journal of Cultural Geography | 1981 | 73 |
| 24 | The use and application of freshwater midges (Chironomidae: Insecta: Diptera) in geographical research | Progress in Physical Geography | 2003 | 73 |
| 25 | Sources of Innovation in China's Manufacturing Sector: Imported or Developed in-House? | Environment and Planning A | 2002 | 69 |
| 26 | Simulating the causal elements of urban heat islands | Boundary-Layer Meteorology | 1980 | 68 |
| 27 | The use and application of freshwater midges (Chironomidae: Insecta: Diptera) in geographical research | Progress in Physical Geography | 2003 | 68 |
| 28 | Determinants of foreign patents in China | World Patent Information | 2003 | 65 |
| 29 | The nexus: reconsidering environmental security and adaptive capacity | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 2016 | 58 |
| 30 | Insights on rock abrasion and ventifact formation from laboratory and field analog studies with applications to Mars | Planetary and Space Science | 2004 | 54 |
| 31 | Distinguishing high and low anopheline-producing rice fields using remote sensing and GIS technologies | Preventive Veterinary Medicine | 1991 | 51 |
| 32 | Landscape legacies of the African diaspora in Brazil | Progress in Human Geography | 2003 | 49 |
| 33 | A 36,000-yr vegetation history from the Peloncillo Mountains, southeastern Arizona, USA | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 2006 | 49 |
| 34 | Humanizing Savanna Biogeography: Linking Human Practices with Ecological Patterns in a Frequently Burned Savanna of Southern Mali | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 2011 | 48 |
| 35 | Pedestrian flow-path modeling to support tsunami evacuation and disaster relief planning in the U.S. Pacific Northwest | International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction | 2016 | 47 |
| 36 | Reproductive ecology of the piassava palm (Attalea funifera) of Bahia, Brazil | Journal of Tropical Ecology | 2002 | 44 |
| 37 | Why worry? Community water system managers’ perceptions of climate vulnerability | Global Environmental Change | 2007 | 44 |
| 38 | Homelessness, Travel Behavior, and the Politics of Transportation Mobilities in Long Beach, California | Environment and Planning A | 2010 | 43 |
| 39 | Community clusters of tsunami vulnerability in the US Pacific Northwest | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 43 |
| 40 | Political ecology of emotion and sacred space: The Winnemem Wintu struggles with California water policy | Emotion, Space and Society | 2013 | 41 |
| 41 | Late-Quaternary summer temperature changes in the northern-European tree-line region | Quaternary Research | 2008 | 40 |
| 42 | Source Regions and Composition of Illegal Mexican Immigration to California | International Migration Review | 1975 | 40 |
| 43 | Land management explains major trends in forest structure and composition over the last millennium in California’s Klamath Mountains | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2022 | 39 |
| 44 | Rapid formation of rock varnish and other rock coatings on slag deposits near Fontana, California | Earth Surface Processes and Landforms | 1995 | 38 |
| 45 | Virtual Globes: Serving Science and Society | Information (Switzerland) | 2012 | 38 |
| 46 | TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON VENTIFACT DEVELOPMENT, MOJAVE DESERT, CALIFORNIA | Physical Geography | 1987 | 37 |
| 47 | The Effect of Gender on Stress Factors: An Exploratory Study among University Students | Social Sciences | 2015 | 37 |
| 48 | THE MOST ETHNICALLY DIVERSE URBAN PLACES IN THE UNITED STATES | Urban Geography | 1989 | 36 |
| 49 | Regional Population Change in Kazakhstan during the 1990s and the Impact of Nationality Population Patterns: Results from the Recent Census of Kazakhstan | Post-Soviet Geography and Economics | 2001 | 36 |
| 50 | The Cultural Value of Invasive Species: A Case Study from Semi–Arid Northeastern Brazil | Economic Botany | 2014 | 36 |
