| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Local Climate Zones for Urban Temperature Studies | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 2012 | 2,351 |
| 2 | City size and the urban heat island | Atmospheric Environment | 1973 | 1,702 |
| 3 | The energetic basis of the urban heat island | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1982 | 1,479 |
| 4 | Widespread Increase of Tree Mortality Rates in the Western United States | Science | 2009 | 1,465 |
| 5 | Forecasting life expectancy, years of life lost, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 250 causes of death: reference and alternative scenarios for 2016–40 for 195 countries and territories | Lancet, The | 2018 | 1,317 |
| 6 | Street design and urban canopy layer climate | Energy and Buildings | 1988 | 1,241 |
| 7 | Variegated neoliberalization: geographies, modalities, pathways | Global Networks | 2010 | 1,220 |
| 8 | Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 1,074 |
| 9 | Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities | Environmental Research Letters | 2011 | 1,021 |
| 10 | Canyon geometry and the nocturnal urban heat island: Comparison of scale model and field observations | Journal of Climatology | 1981 | 892 |
| 11 | Importance and vulnerability of the world’s water towers | Nature | 2020 | 885 |
| 12 | Mobilizing policy: Models, methods, and mutations | Geoforum | 2010 | 791 |
| 13 | Paraglacial Sedimentation: A Consideration of Fluvial Processes Conditioned by Glaciation | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1972 | 773 |
| 14 | Global assessment of experimental climate warming on tundra vegetation: heterogeneity over space and time | Ecology Letters | 2012 | 764 |
| 15 | Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation change and links to recent summer warming | Nature Climate Change | 2012 | 745 |
| 16 | Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 719 |
| 17 | The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data | Scientific Data | 2020 | 646 |
| 18 | Open-top designs for manipulating field temperature in high-latitude ecosystems | Global Change Biology | 1997 | 605 |
| 19 | Global Warming and Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Conceptual Framework for Analysis | BioScience | 2000 | 599 |
| 20 | Artists, Aestheticisation and the Field of Gentrification | Urban Studies | 2003 | 586 |
| 21 | Satellite-derived urban heat islands from three coastal cities and the utilization of such data in urban climatology | International Journal of Remote Sensing | 1989 | 573 |
| 22 | Material worlds? Resource geographies and the `matter of nature' | Progress in Human Geography | 2006 | 573 |
| 23 | The Right to Stay Put, Revisited: Gentrification and Resistance to Displacement in New York City | Urban Studies | 2006 | 572 |
| 24 | BED MATERIAL TRANSPORT AND THE MORPHOLOGY OF ALLUVIAL RIVER CHANNELS | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2006 | 555 |
| 25 | Simulation of surface urban heat islands under ?ideal? conditions at night part 2: Diagnosis of causation | Boundary-Layer Meteorology | 1991 | 533 |
| 26 | A systematic review and scientific critique of methodology in modern urban heat island literature | International Journal of Climatology | 2011 | 531 |
| 27 | Disequilibrium of Holocene sediment yield in glaciated British Columbia | Nature | 1989 | 480 |
| 28 | Neoliberalizing Nature? Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 2005 | 454 |
| 29 | Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome | Nature | 2018 | 451 |
| 30 | Calculation of monthly mean solar radiation for horizontal and inclined surfaces | Solar Energy | 1979 | 436 |
| 31 | Primitive accumulation, accumulation by dispossession, accumulation by ‘extra-economic’ means | Progress in Human Geography | 2006 | 418 |
| 32 | Geomorphic thresholds in riverine landscapes | Freshwater Biology | 2002 | 417 |
| 33 | Limiting global warming to 2 °C is unlikely to save most coral reefs | Nature Climate Change | 2013 | 410 |
| 34 | Evaluation of the ‘local climate zone’ scheme using temperature observations and model simulations | International Journal of Climatology | 2014 | 390 |
| 35 | A Simple Universal Equation for Grain Settling Velocity | Journal of Sedimentary Research | 2004 | 383 |
| 36 | Postneoliberalism and its Malcontents | Antipode | 2010 | 381 |
| 37 | Global change and arctic ecosystems: is lichen decline a function of increases in vascular plant biomass? | Journal of Ecology | 2001 | 360 |
| 38 | Rapid submarine melting of the calving faces of West Greenland glaciers | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 338 |
| 39 | Corn-based ethanol production compromises goal of reducing nitrogen export by the Mississippi River | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 333 |
| 40 | Alternative Explanations for Inner-City Gentrification: A Canadian Assessment | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 1986 | 331 |
| 41 | Tundra plants and climate change: the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) | Global Change Biology | 1997 | 324 |
| 42 | A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya | Science | 2021 | 304 |
| 43 | Comparison of approaches for spatial interpolation of daily air temperature in a large region with complex topography and highly variable station density | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2006 | 301 |
| 44 | The relative efficacy of fluvial and glacial erosion over modern to orogenic timescales | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 297 |
| 45 | Affective Quality Attributed to Environments | Environment and Behavior | 1981 | 294 |
| 46 | Health and climate related ecosystem services provided by street trees in the urban environment | Environmental Health | 2016 | 291 |
| 47 | Buried Epistemologies: The Politics of Nature in (Post)colonial British Columbia | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 1997 | 288 |
| 48 | Towards better scientific communication in urban climate | Theoretical and Applied Climatology | 2006 | 288 |
| 49 | The everywhere war | Geographical Journal | 2011 | 285 |
| 50 | Neoliberal Urbanism Redux? | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | 2013 | 285 |
