| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The knowns, known unknowns and unknowns of sequestration of soil organic carbon | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2013 | 1,143 |
| 2 | Starch Retrogradation: A Comprehensive Review | Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety | 2015 | 1,049 |
| 3 | Pesticide Residues and Bees – A Risk Assessment | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 615 |
| 4 | The dimensions of soil security | Geoderma | 2014 | 560 |
| 5 | Neglecting legumes has compromised human health and sustainable food production | Nature Plants | 2016 | 529 |
| 6 | Molecular disassembly of starch granules during gelatinization and its effect on starch digestibility: a review | Food and Function | 2013 | 464 |
| 7 | OCO-2 advances photosynthesis observation from space via solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence | Science | 2017 | 438 |
| 8 | Digital soil mapping: A brief history and some lessons | Geoderma | 2016 | 403 |
| 9 | Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO2 and temperature | Global Change Biology | 2012 | 365 |
| 10 | Sensitivity of plants to changing atmospheric CO2 concentration: from the geological past to the next century | New Phytologist | 2013 | 336 |
| 11 | Neanderthal medics? Evidence for food, cooking, and medicinal plants entrapped in dental calculus | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2012 | 315 |
| 12 | Increasing water‐use efficiency directly through genetic manipulation of stomatal density | New Phytologist | 2015 | 270 |
| 13 | Stable isotopes in leaf water of terrestrial plants | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2016 | 256 |
| 14 | GlobalSoilMap | Advances in Agronomy | 2014 | 246 |
| 15 | How does biomass distribution change with size and differ among species? An analysis for 1200 plant species from five continents | New Phytologist | 2015 | 239 |
| 16 | Mega-fires, tipping points and ecosystem services: Managing forests and woodlands in an uncertain future | Forest Ecology and Management | 2013 | 235 |
| 17 | Prospects of doubling global wheat yields | Food and Energy Security | 2013 | 207 |
| 18 | phoD Alkaline Phosphatase Gene Diversity in Soil | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2015 | 206 |
| 19 | Soluble Carbohydrates Regulate Auxin Biosynthesis via PIF Proteins in Arabidopsis | Plant Cell | 2013 | 205 |
| 20 | Molecular Evolution of Grass Stomata | Trends in Plant Science | 2017 | 202 |
| 21 | POLARIS: A 30-meter probabilistic soil series map of the contiguous United States | Geoderma | 2016 | 197 |
| 22 | Fungal Planet description sheets: 469-557 | Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi | 2016 | 196 |
| 23 | Promoting consumption of fruit and vegetables for better health. Have campaigns delivered on the goals? | Appetite | 2014 | 195 |
| 24 | Legumes are different: Leaf nitrogen, photosynthesis, and water use efficiency | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 195 |
| 25 | Citric acid assisted phytoremediation of copper by Brassica napus L. | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | 2015 | 191 |
| 26 | Biochar carbon stability in four contrasting soils | European Journal of Soil Science | 2014 | 190 |
| 27 | New constraints on atmospheric CO2 concentration for the Phanerozoic | Geophysical Research Letters | 2014 | 189 |
| 28 | NEXAFS and XPS characterisation of carbon functional groups of fresh and aged biochars | Organic Geochemistry | 2014 | 188 |
| 29 | How Does Leaf Anatomy Influence Water Transport outside the Xylem? | Plant Physiology | 2015 | 177 |
| 30 | Global soil organic carbon assessment | Global Food Security | 2015 | 176 |
| 31 | Contamination of the Aquatic Environment with Neonicotinoids and its Implication for Ecosystems | Frontiers in Environmental Science | 2016 | 175 |
| 32 | Effects of elevated carbon dioxide and increased temperature on methane and nitrous oxide fluxes: evidence from field experiments | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2012 | 172 |
| 33 | The trouble with neonicotinoids | Science | 2014 | 169 |
| 34 | Effect of temperature on biochar priming effects and its stability in soils | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2015 | 161 |
| 35 | Evolutionary Conservation of ABA Signaling for Stomatal Closure | Plant Physiology | 2017 | 158 |
| 36 | Citric acid improves lead (pb) phytoextraction in brassica napus L. by mitigating pb-induced morphological and biochemical damages | Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety | 2014 | 145 |
| 37 | Volatile isoprenoid emissions from plastid to planet | New Phytologist | 2013 | 142 |
| 38 | Total soil organic carbon and carbon sequestration potential in Nigeria | Geoderma | 2016 | 142 |
| 39 | Effect of high temperature on the reproductive development of chickpea genotypes under controlled environments | Functional Plant Biology | 2012 | 141 |
| 40 | Development and stabilisation of soil structure via interactions between organic matter, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plant roots | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2013 | 139 |
| 41 | Optimal allocation of leaf epidermal area for gas exchange | New Phytologist | 2016 | 139 |
| 42 | Effect of environmental conditions on the relationship between solar‐induced fluorescence and gross primary productivity at an OzFlux grassland site | Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences | 2017 | 139 |
| 43 | Climate determines vascular traits in the ecologically diverse genus Eucalyptus | Ecology Letters | 2016 | 137 |
| 44 | Fungal Planet description sheets: 371–399 | Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi | 2015 | 133 |
| 45 | Most stomatal closure in woody species under moderate drought can be explained by stomatal responses to leaf turgor | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2016 | 133 |
| 46 | Testing the generality of above‐ground biomass allometry across plant functional types at the continent scale | Global Change Biology | 2016 | 133 |
| 47 | Soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in forests along an altitudinal gradient in the eastern Himalayas and a meta‐analysis of global data | Global Change Biology | 2016 | 129 |
| 48 | Impacts of warming and elevated CO2 on a semi‐arid grassland are non‐additive, shift with precipitation, and reverse over time | Ecology Letters | 2016 | 127 |
| 49 | The contributions of apoplastic, symplastic and gas phase pathways for water transport outside the bundle sheath in leaves | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2015 | 126 |
| 50 | An assessment of model averaging to improve predictive power of portable vis-NIR and XRF for the determination of agronomic soil properties | Geoderma | 2016 | 124 |
