Subfield · Environmental Engineering
Most cited papers in Environmental Engineering
What are the most cited papers in Environmental Engineering?
The most cited paper in Environmental Engineering is "A Closed‐form Equation for Predicting the Hydraulic Conductivity of Unsaturated Soils" (Martinus Th. van Genuchten, 1980), with 27,905 citations. Next come "River flow forecasting through conceptual models part I — A discussion of principles" (24,392) and "Comparing the Areas under Two or More Correlated Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves: A Nonparametric Approach" (23,031).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 3,207 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Closed‐form Equation for Predicting the Hydraulic Conductivity of Unsaturated Soils Martinus Th. van Genuchten · Soil Science Society of America Journal | Sep 1980 | 27,905 |
| 2 | River flow forecasting through conceptual models part I — A discussion of principles J.E. Nash, John V. Sutcliffe · Journal of Hydrology | Apr 1970 | 24,392 |
| 3 | Comparing the Areas under Two or More Correlated Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves: A Nonparametric Approach Elizabeth R. DeLong, David M. DeLong, Daniel L. Clarke‐Pearson · Biometrics | Sep 1988 | 23,031 |
| 4 | The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital Robert Costanza, Ralph C. d’Arge, R.S. de Groot et al. · Nature | May 1997 | 22,491 |
| 5 | Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Nasser M. Nasrabadi · Journal of Electronic Imaging | 2007 | 22,033 |
| 6 | Two-equation eddy-viscosity turbulence models for engineering applications Florian R. Menter · AIAA Journal | Aug 1994 | 21,460 |
| 7 | WorldClim 2: new 1‐km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas Stephen E. Fick, Robert J. Hijmans · International Journal of Climatology | 15 May 2017 | 17,637 |
| 8 | Refinement of Macromolecular Structures by the Maximum-Likelihood Method Garib N. Murshudov, Alexey A. Vagin, E. J. Dodson · Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography | May 1997 | 15,006 |
| 9 | Model Evaluation Guidelines for Systematic Quantification of Accuracy in Watershed Simulations Daniel N. Moriasi, Jeffery G. Arnold, Mike W. Van Liew et al. · Transactions of the ASABE | 2007 | 13,590 |
| 10 | Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship Michael E. Porter, Claas van der Linde · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Nov 1995 | 13,204 |
| 11 | Overview of the radiometric and biophysical performance of the MODIS vegetation indices ALFREDO R. HUETE, Kamel Didan, Tomoaki Miura et al. · Remote Sensing of Environment | Nov 2002 | 9,991 |
| 12 | System identification—Theory for the user Naresh K. Sinha · Automatica | May 1989 | 9,234 |
| 13 | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics: From Air Pollution to Climate Change John H. Seinfeld, Spyros Ν. Pandis, K. Birgitta Noone · Physics Today | Oct 1998 | 9,041 |
| 14 | The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission T. G. Farr, P. A. Rosen, E.R. Caro et al. · Reviews of Geophysics | 19 May 2007 | 8,992 |
| 15 | STATISTICS FOR SPATIAL DATA Noel Cressie · Terra Nova | Sep 1992 | 8,945 |
| 16 | A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems Элинор Остром · Science | 23 Jul 2009 | 8,610 |
| 17 | General Diagnostic Tests for Cross Section Dependence in Panels M. Hashem Pesaran · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2004 | 8,497 |
| 18 | Stable isotopes in precipitation W. Dansgaard · Tellus | Nov 1964 | 8,441 |
| 19 | Powering the planet: Chemical challenges in solar energy utilization Nathan S. Lewis, Daniel G. Nocera · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 17 Oct 2006 | 8,344 |
| 20 | TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY James H. Brown, James F. Gillooly, Andrew P. Allen et al. · Ecology | Jul 2004 | 7,970 |
| 21 | A review of assessing the accuracy of classifications of remotely sensed data Russell G. Congalton · Remote Sensing of Environment | Jul 1991 | 7,763 |
| 22 | Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture David Tilman, Christian Balzer, Jason Hill et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 21 Nov 2011 | 7,718 |
| 23 | Resilience: The emergence of a perspective for social–ecological systems analyses Carl Folke · Global Environmental Change | 22 Jul 2006 | 7,678 |
| 24 | Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems Marten Scheffer, Stephen R. Carpenter, Jonathan A. Foley et al. · Nature | Oct 2001 | 7,525 |
| 25 | NDWI—A normalized difference water index for remote sensing of vegetation liquid water from space Bo‐Cai Gao · Remote Sensing of Environment | Dec 1996 | 7,034 |
| 26 | Health Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Lines that Connect C. Arden Pope, Douglas W. Dockery · Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association | Jun 2006 | 6,809 |
| 27 | Convolutional LSTM Network: A Machine Learning Approach for Precipitation Nowcasting Xingjian Shi, Zhourong Chen, Hao Wang et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) | 13 Jun 2015 | 6,650 |
| 28 | Positive matrix factorization: A non‐negative factor model with optimal utilization of error estimates of data values Pentti Paatero, Unto Tapper · Environmetrics | Jun 1994 | 6,452 |
| 29 | Microbial Fuel Cells: Methodology and Technology Bruce E. Logan, Hubertus V. M. Hamelers, René A. Rozendal et al. · Environmental Science & Technology | 14 Jul 2006 | 6,091 |
| 30 | Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers Joseph Poore, Thomas Nemecek · Science | Jun 2018 | 6,084 |
| 31 | A new k-ϵ eddy viscosity model for high reynolds number turbulent flows Tsan-Hsing Shih, William W. Liou, Aamir Shabbir et al. · Computers & Fluids | Mar 1995 | 6,067 |
| 32 | Quantitative analysis of watershed geomorphology Arthur N. Strahler · Transactions American Geophysical Union | Dec 1957 | 6,044 |
| 33 | Modification of normalised difference water index (NDWI) to enhance open water features in remotely sensed imagery Hanqiu Xu · International Journal of Remote Sensing | 7 Jul 2006 | 6,019 |
| 34 | Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne, T. Corti, Édouard L. Davin et al. · Earth-Science Reviews | 15 Feb 2010 | 5,855 |
| 35 | The Global Land Data Assimilation System Matthew Rodell, Paul R. Houser, U. Jambor et al. · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Mar 2004 | 5,841 |
| 36 | The World Reference Base for Soil Resources Otto C. Spaargaren, Jozef Deckers | 1998 | 5,631 |
| 37 | Dispersion on a Sphere Ronald Aylmer Fisher · Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences | 7 May 1953 | 5,586 |
| 38 | Locally Weighted Regression: An Approach to Regression Analysis by Local Fitting William S. Cleveland, Susan J. Devlin · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Sep 1988 | 5,569 |
| 39 | Permanent scatterers in SAR interferometry A. Ferretti, C. Prati, F. Rocca · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2001 | 5,555 |
| 40 | The ecoinvent database version 3 (part I): overview and methodology Gregor Wernet, Christian Bauer, Bernhard R.P. Steubing et al. · The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment | 21 Apr 2016 | 5,553 |
| 41 | VERIFICATION OF FORECASTS EXPRESSED IN TERMS OF PROBABILITY Glenn W. Brier · Monthly Weather Review | 1950 | 5,528 |
| 42 | The Strategy of Ecosystem Development Eugene P. Odum · Science | 18 Apr 1969 | 5,478 |
| 43 | A new algorithm for surface deformation monitoring based on small baseline differential SAR interferograms P. Berardino, G. Fornaro, Riccardo Lanari et al. · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | Nov 2002 | 5,287 |
| 44 | THE VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOIL ORGANIC CARBON AND ITS RELATION TO CLIMATE AND VEGETATION Esteban Gabriel Jobbagy, Robert B. Jackson · Ecological Applications | Apr 2000 | 5,237 |
| 45 | Statistics for Spatial Data. Mike Rees, Noel Cressie · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) | 1993 | 5,171 |
| 46 | Input-output analysis foundations and extensions Ronald Earle Miller, Peter D. Blair | 2009 | 5,111 |
| 47 | Early-warning signals for critical transitions Marten Scheffer, Jordi Bascompte, William A. Brock et al. · Nature | 2 Sep 2009 | 4,946 |
| 48 | CONDENSATION—Conditional Density Propagation for Visual Tracking Michael Isard, Andrew Blake · International Journal of Computer Vision | Aug 1998 | 4,900 |
| 49 | SoilGrids250m: Global gridded soil information based on machine learning Tomislav Hengl, Jorge Mendes de Jesus, G.B.M. Heuvelink et al. · PLoS ONE | 16 Feb 2017 | 4,890 |
| 50 | High secondary aerosol contribution to particulate pollution during haze events in China Ru‐Jin Huang et al. · Nature | 16 Sep 2014 | 4,848 |
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