| A guide to the natural history of freshwater lake bacteria | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2011 | 914 |
| Three-dimensional high-density hierarchical nanowire architecture for high-performance photoelectrochemical electrodes | Nano Letters | 2011 | 210 |
| Modification and Validation of Linear Amplitude Sweep Test for Binder Fatigue Specification | Transportation Research Record | 2011 | 209 |
| New abundant microbial groups in aquatic hypersaline environments | Scientific Reports | 2011 | 205 |
| Measuring the Effect of Moisture on Asphalt–Aggregate Bond with the Bitumen Bond Strength Test | Transportation Research Record | 2011 | 143 |
| Evaluating sustainable retrofits in existing buildings under uncertainty | Energy and Buildings | 2011 | 139 |
| mathFISH, a web tool that uses thermodynamics-based mathematical models for in silico evaluation of oligonucleotide probes for fluorescence in situ hybridization | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2011 | 121 |
| Resistance, resilience and recovery: aquatic bacterial dynamics after water column disturbance | Environmental Microbiology | 2011 | 96 |
| Fate of allochthonous dissolved organic carbon in lakes: a quantitative approach | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 79 |
| Microbiology of 'Candidatus Accumulibacter' in activated sludge | Microbial Biotechnology | 2011 | 74 |
| A temperature compensation method for CDOM fluorescence sensors in freshwater | Limnology and Oceanography: Methods | 2011 | 71 |
| Identification of frost-susceptible recycled concrete aggregates for durability of concrete | Construction and Building Materials | 2011 | 67 |
| Seasonal differences in bacterial community composition following nutrient additions in a eutrophic lake | Environmental Microbiology | 2011 | 66 |
| Fate of prions in soil: a review | Journal of Environmental Quality | 2011 | 63 |
| 'Candidatus Accumulibacter' gene expression in response to dynamic EBPR conditions | ISME Journal | 2011 | 56 |
| Groundwater controls on vegetation composition and patterning in mountain meadows | Water Resources Research | 2011 | 50 |
| Phage encoded H-NS: a potential achilles heel in the bacterial defence system | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 41 |
| Effects of changing channel morphology on vegetation, groundwater, and soil moisture regimes in groundwater-dependent ecosystems | Geomorphology | 2011 | 40 |
| Sources of excess urban carbonaceous aerosol in the Pearl River Delta Region, China | Atmospheric Environment | 2011 | 36 |
| Estimating the Effect of Recycled Asphalt Pavements and Asphalt Shingles on Fresh Binder, Low-Temperature Properties without Extraction and Recovery | Transportation Research Record | 2011 | 29 |
| Genetic diversity of cyanobacteria in four eutrophic lakes | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 2011 | 25 |
| How evaporative water losses vary between wet and dry water years as a function of elevation in the Sierra Nevada, California, and critical factors for modeling | Water Resources Research | 2011 | 24 |
| Bacterial production of free fatty acids from freshwater macroalgal cellulose | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2011 | 24 |
| Decision-making tools for evaluating the impact of materials selection on the carbon footprint of buildings | Carbon Management | 2011 | 24 |
| Effect of moisture on the aging behavior of asphalt binder | International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials | 2011 | 21 |
