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Most cited papers from United States Geological Survey
United States Geological Survey
What are the most cited papers from United States Geological Survey?
The most cited paper from United States Geological Survey is "High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change" (Matthew C. Hansen, Peter V. Potapov, Rebecca Moore et al., 2013), with 11,936 citations. Next come "EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE" (8,101) and "Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999−2000: A National Reconnaissance" (7,962).
Showing 50 of 60 papers. Every paper with more than 2,019 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change Matthew C. Hansen, Peter V. Potapov, Rebecca Moore et al. · Science | 14 Nov 2013 | 11,936 |
| 2 | EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE David U. Hooper, F. Stuart Chapin, John J. Ewel et al. · Ecological Monographs | Feb 2005 | 8,101 |
| 3 | Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999−2000: A National Reconnaissance Dana W. Kolpin, Edward T. Furlong, Michael T. Meyer et al. · Environmental Science & Technology | Mar 2002 | 7,962 |
| 4 | A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests Craig D. Allen, Alison K. Macalady, Haroun Chenchouni et al. · Forest Ecology and Management | 22 Oct 2009 | 7,876 |
| 5 | Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy, Andrew Gonzalez et al. · Nature | Jun 2012 | 7,502 |
| 6 | Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Michael Xavier Kirby, Wolfgang Berger et al. · Science | 27 Jul 2001 | 6,683 |
| 7 | Fluorescence Excitation−Emission Matrix Regional Integration to Quantify Spectra for Dissolved Organic Matter Wen Chen, Paul K. Westerhoff, Jerry A. Leenheer et al. · Environmental Science & Technology | 15 Nov 2003 | 6,382 |
| 8 | Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity A. L. Westerling, Hugo G. Hidalgo, Daniel R. Cayan et al. · Science | 6 Jul 2006 | 5,311 |
| 9 | RANDOM FORESTS FOR CLASSIFICATION IN ECOLOGY D. Richard Cutler, Thomas C. Edwards, Karen H. Beard et al. · Ecology | Nov 2007 | 4,967 |
| 10 | Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines Stuart H. M. Butchart et al. · Science | 29 Apr 2010 | 4,942 |
| 11 | Characterizing aquatic dissolved organic matter. Jerry A Leenheer, Jean-Philippe Croué · PubMed | 2003 | 4,916 |
| 12 | Evaluation of Specific Ultraviolet Absorbance as an Indicator of the Chemical Composition and Reactivity of Dissolved Organic Carbon James L. Weishaar, George R. Aiken, Brian A. Bergamaschi et al. · Environmental Science & Technology | 17 Sep 2003 | 4,655 |
| 13 | ESTIMATING SITE OCCUPANCY RATES WHEN DETECTION PROBABILITIES ARE LESS THAN ONE Darryl I. MacKenzie, James David Nichols, Gideon B. Lachman et al. · Ecology | Aug 2002 | 4,502 |
| 14 | Plumbing the Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Inland Waters into the Terrestrial Carbon Budget J. J. Cole, Yves T. Prairie, N. F. Caraco et al. · Ecosystems | Feb 2007 | 4,079 |
| 15 | A moment magnitude scale Thomas C. Hanks, Hiroo Kanamori · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres | 10 May 1979 | 4,068 |
| 16 | Friction of rocks James D. Byerlee · Pure and Applied Geophysics | Jul 1978 | 4,060 |
| 17 | Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback Edward A. G. Schuur, Anthony David McGuire, Christina Schädel et al. · Nature | Apr 2015 | 3,927 |
| 18 | The Last Glacial Maximum Peter U. Clark, Arthur S. Dyke, Jeremy D. Shakun et al. · Science | 7 Aug 2009 | 3,661 |
| 19 | Traveltimes for global earthquake location and phase identification Brian L. N. Kennett, Eric Robert Engdahl · Geophysical Journal International | May 1991 | 3,643 |
| 20 | A Double-Difference Earthquake Location Algorithm: Method and Application to the Northern Hayward Fault, California F. Waldhauser · Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | Dec 2000 | 3,631 |
| 21 | Constraints on seismic velocities in the Earth from traveltimes Brian L. N. Kennett, Eric Robert Engdahl, R. Buland · Geophysical Journal International | Jul 1995 | 3,512 |
| 22 | Fire in the Earth System David M. J. S. Bowman et al. · Science | 23 Apr 2009 | 3,400 |
| 23 | Development and Evaluation of Consensus-Based Sediment Quality Guidelines for Freshwater Ecosystems Donald D. MacDonald, Christopher G. Ingersoll, Tobias Berger · Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology | 30 Jun 2000 | 3,356 |
| 24 | A global perspective on the use, sales, exposure pathways, occurrence, fate and effects of veterinary antibiotics (VAs) in the environment Ajit Kumar Sarmah, Michael T. Meyer, Alistair B. A. Boxall · Chemosphere | 9 May 2006 | 3,337 |
| 25 | The Phanerozoic Record of Global Sea-Level Change Kenneth G. Miller, Michelle A. Kominz, James V. Browning et al. · Science | 25 Nov 2005 | 3,256 |
| 26 | Status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world using earth observation satellite data Chandra P. Giri, Enock Odera Ochieng, Larry L. Tieszen et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography | 17 Aug 2010 | 3,200 |
| 27 | Unconventional shale-gas systems: The Mississippian Barnett Shale of north-central Texas as one model for thermogenic shale-gas assessment Daniel M. Jarvie, Ronald J. Hill, Tim E. Ruble et al. · AAPG Bulletin | 14 Mar 2007 | 3,149 |
| 28 | Summary of current radiometric calibration coefficients for Landsat MSS, TM, ETM+, and EO-1 ALI sensors Gyanesh Chander, Brian L. Markham, Dennis L. Helder · Remote Sensing of Environment | 27 Feb 2009 | 3,131 |
| 29 | Fungal endophytes: diversity and functional roles Rusty J. Rodriguez, James Francis White, A. Elizabeth Arnold et al. · New Phytologist | 19 Feb 2009 | 3,015 |
| 30 | Our evolving conceptual model of the coastal eutrophication problem James E. Cloern · Marine Ecology Progress Series | 2001 | 2,910 |
| 31 | Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate Lars J. Tranvik et al. · Limnology and Oceanography | Nov 2009 | 2,812 |
| 32 | Climate Warming and Disease Risks for Terrestrial and Marine Biota C. Drew Harvell, Charles E. Mitchell, Jessica R. Ward et al. · Science | 21 Jun 2002 | 2,767 |
| 33 | Multichannel analysis of surface waves Choon B. Park, Richard D. Miller, Jianghai Xia · Geophysics | Jun 1999 | 2,764 |
| 34 | On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die‐off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene Craig D. Allen, David D. Breshears, Nate G. McDowell · Ecosphere | Aug 2015 | 2,697 |
| 35 | Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research David P. Roy et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | 4 Mar 2014 | 2,682 |
| 36 | Ground water and climate change Richard G. Taylor et al. · Nature Climate Change | 23 Nov 2012 | 2,643 |
| 37 | Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters Peter A. Raymond, Jens Hartmann, Ronny Lauerwald et al. · Nature | 19 Nov 2013 | 2,630 |
| 38 | Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scale Robert L. Sinsabaugh et al. · Ecology Letters | 25 Sep 2008 | 2,610 |
| 39 | Fire as a global ‘herbivore’: the ecology and evolution of flammable ecosystems William John Bond, Jon E. Keeley · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 5 May 2005 | 2,500 |
| 40 | Injection-Induced Earthquakes William L. Ellsworth · Science | 11 Jul 2013 | 2,496 |
| 41 | Biogeochemical Hot Spots and Hot Moments at the Interface of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems Michael E. McClain, Elizabeth W. Boyer, C. Lisa Dent et al. · Ecosystems | Jun 2003 | 2,441 |
| 42 | Environmental Chemistry of Soils William R. Roy · Journal of Environmental Quality | 1995 | 2,438 |
| 43 | Evidence for intensification of the global water cycle: Review and synthesis Thomas G. Huntington · Journal of Hydrology | 23 Aug 2005 | 2,433 |
| 44 | Novel Mode of Microbial Energy Metabolism: Organic Carbon Oxidation Coupled to Dissimilatory Reduction of Iron or Manganese Derek R. Lovley, Elizabeth Jane Phillips · Applied and Environmental Microbiology | Jun 1988 | 2,416 |
| 45 | A method of sampling coarse river‐bed material M. Gordon Wolman · Transactions American Geophysical Union | Dec 1954 | 2,393 |
| 46 | Global pattern of trends in streamflow and water availability in a changing climate Paul C. D. Milly, K. A. Dunne, Aldo V. Vecchia · Nature | Nov 2005 | 2,352 |
| 47 | TEMORA 1: a new zircon standard for Phanerozoic U–Pb geochronology L. P. Black, Sandra L. Kamo, Charlotte M. Allen et al. · Chemical Geology | 9 Jun 2003 | 2,311 |
| 48 | Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: a brief review and suggested usage Jon E. Keeley · International Journal of Wildland Fire | 17 Feb 2009 | 2,297 |
| 49 | ADVANCED SPECTRAL METHODS FOR CLIMATIC TIME SERIES Michael Ghil, M. R. Allen, Michael D. Dettinger et al. · Reviews of Geophysics | Feb 2002 | 2,272 |
| 50 | Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought David D. Breshears, Neil S. Cobb, Paul M. Rich et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 10 Oct 2005 | 2,241 |
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