Most cited papers in Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution
What are the most cited papers in Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution?
The most cited paper in Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution is "Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity" (Johan Rockström et al., 2009), with 7,171 citations. Next come "The Strategy of Ecosystem Development" (5,478) and "The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration" (3,936).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 352 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity Johan Rockström et al. · Ecology and Society | 2009 | 7,171 |
| 2 | The Strategy of Ecosystem Development Eugene P. Odum · Science | 18 Apr 1969 | 5,478 |
| 3 | The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration Will Steffen, Wendy J. Broadgate, Lisa Deutsch et al. · The Anthropocene Review | 16 Jan 2015 | 3,936 |
| 4 | Chaotic inflation Andrei D Linde · Physics Letters B | Sep 1983 | 3,306 |
| 5 | Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene Will Steffen, Johan Rockström, Katherine Anne Koren Richardson et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 6 Aug 2018 | 3,157 |
| 6 | Quintessence, Cosmic Coincidence, and the Cosmological Constant I.S. Zlatev, Li-Min Wang, Paul Joseph Steinhardt · Physical Review Letters | Feb 1999 | 2,718 |
| 7 | Gaia: A new look at life on earth James P. Lodge · Atmospheric Environment (1967) | 1980 | 2,445 |
| 8 | A Simple Biosphere Model (SIB) for Use within General Circulation Models P. J. Sellers, Yale Mintz, Yogesh C. Sud et al. · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | Mar 1986 | 2,186 |
| 9 | The Standard Model Higgs boson as the inflaton Fedor L. Bezrukov, Mikhail Shaposhnikov · Physics Letters B | 5 Dec 2007 | 2,100 |
| 10 | GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First Half of the Third Observing Run R. Abbott et al. · Physical Review X | 9 Jun 2021 | 2,075 |
| 11 | Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere Anthony D. Barnosky et al. · Nature | Jun 2012 | 1,978 |
| 12 | Essentials of k -essence Cristian Armendariz-Picon, Viatcheslav Mukhanov, Paul Joseph Steinhardt · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 24 Apr 2001 | 1,853 |
| 13 | The Theory of Open Systems in Physics and Biology Ludwig von Bertalanffy · Science | 13 Jan 1950 | 1,729 |
| 14 | The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship Will Steffen, Åsa Persson, Lisa Deutsch et al. · AMBIO | 11 Oct 2011 | 1,718 |
| 15 | The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society Stephen B. Miles, Norbert Wiener · Land Economics | Feb 1951 | 1,665 |
| 16 | Mathematical models for cellular interactions in development I. Filaments with one-sided inputs Aristid Lindenmayer · Journal of Theoretical Biology | Mar 1968 | 1,627 |
| 17 | Collective Flow and Viscosity in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions Ulrich Heinz, Raimond Snellings · Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science | 14 Jun 2013 | 1,350 |
| 18 | SETI@home David P. Anderson, Jeff Cobb, Eric J Korpela et al. · Communications of the ACM | Nov 2002 | 1,299 |
| 19 | Sustainable Development of the Biosphere William C. Clark, R. E. Munn, Gordon Conway · Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development | Nov 1987 | 1,298 |
| 20 | A hierarchical concept of ecosystems Brian A. Maurer · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 1987 | 1,241 |
| 21 | Tensions between the early and late Universe Licia Verde, Tommaso Treu, Adam G. Riess · Nature Astronomy | 27 Sep 2019 | 1,186 |
| 22 | Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts Edo Berger · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | 4 Jun 2014 | 1,111 |
| 23 | Slowing down as an early warning signal for abrupt climate change Vasilis Dakos, Marten Scheffer, Egbert H. van Nes et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 11 Sep 2008 | 1,070 |
| 24 | Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes William R. Wieder, Gordon B. Bonan, Steven Allison · Nature Climate Change | 26 Jul 2013 | 1,068 |
| 25 | Atmospheric homeostasis by and for the biosphere: the gaia hypothesis James Ephraim Lovelock, Lynn Margulis · Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography | 1974 | 1,009 |
| 26 | THEORY OF POPULATION GENETICS AND EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION Henry M. Wilbur, Joseph Travis · Evolution | Sep 1980 | 991 |
| 27 | Transdisciplinary global change research: the co-creation of knowledge for sustainability Wolfram Mauser, Gernot Klepper, Martin Rice et al. · Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 26 Jul 2013 | 981 |
| 28 | Regular pattern formation in real ecosystems Max Rietkerk, Johan van de Koppel · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 7 Feb 2008 | 919 |
| 29 | On spontaneous asymmetric synthesis Fritz Frank · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta | 1953 | 914 |
| 30 | Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass Emily Elhacham, Liad Ben-Uri, Jonathan Grozovski et al. · Nature | 9 Dec 2020 | 858 |
| 31 | Supercooled phase transitions in the very early universe Stephen William Hawking, Ian G. Moss · Physics Letters B | Mar 1982 | 842 |
| 32 | Three Hundred Years of Gravitation William Hunter McCrea · Physics Bulletin | Apr 1988 | 835 |
| 33 | Constraining the Maximum Mass of Neutron Stars from Multi-messenger Observations of GW170817 Ben Margalit, Brian D. Metzger · The Astrophysical Journal Letters | 21 Nov 2017 | 800 |
| 34 | Turning back from the brink: Detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it Reinette Biggs, Stephen R. Carpenter, William A. Brock · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 5 Jan 2009 | 731 |
| 35 | Tipping points in open systems: bifurcation, noise-induced and rate-dependent examples in the climate system Peter Ashwin, Sebastian Wieczorek, Renato Vitolo et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences | 30 Jan 2012 | 716 |
| 36 | The strongest cosmic magnets: soft gamma-ray repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars Sandro Mereghetti · The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review | Jul 2008 | 678 |
| 37 | Origin and propagation of extremely high-energy cosmic rays Pijushpani Bhattacharjee, Günter Sigl · Physics Reports | Apr 2000 | 651 |
| 38 | Gaia Data Release 2 A. Helmi et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | 24 Apr 2018 | 640 |
| 39 | Carbon cycling in earth systems—a soil science perspective Henry H. Janzen · Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment | 2 Jun 2004 | 639 |
| 40 | A Cyclic Model of the Universe Paul Joseph Steinhardt, Neil Turok · Science | 24 May 2002 | 617 |
| 41 | Millisecond Oscillations in X-Ray Binaries M. van der Klis · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics | Sep 2000 | 605 |
| 42 | Resilience indicators: prospects and limitations for early warnings of regime shifts Vasilis Dakos, Stephen R. Carpenter, Egbert H. van Nes et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 25 Nov 2014 | 600 |
| 43 | Production of atmospheric sulfur by oceanic plankton: biogeochemical, ecological and evolutionary links Rafel Simó · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Jun 2001 | 598 |
| 44 | The Spin of the Near‐Extreme Kerr Black Hole GRS 1915+105 Jeffrey E. McClintock, Rebecca Shafee, Ramesh Narayan et al. · The Astrophysical Journal | 15 Nov 2006 | 590 |
| 45 | Generalization of the Einstein Theory Peter Rastall · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Dec 1972 | 572 |
| 46 | Toward a Network Perspective of the Study of Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems Marco A. Janssen, Örjan Bodin, John Martin Anderies et al. · Ecology and Society | 2006 | 570 |
| 47 | The emergence and evolution of Earth System Science Will Steffen, Katherine Anne Koren Richardson, Johan Rockström et al. · Nature Reviews Earth & Environment | 13 Jan 2020 | 567 |
| 48 | Gaia as seen through the atmosphere James Ephraim Lovelock · Atmospheric Environment (1967) | Aug 1972 | 565 |
| 49 | Cosmological evolution of the rolling tachyon G.W Gibbons · Physics Letters B | Jun 2002 | 565 |
| 50 | Plausible and desirable futures in the Anthropocene: A new research agenda Xuemei Bai, Sander van der Leeuw, Karen L. O’Brien et al. · Global Environmental Change | 26 Oct 2015 | 557 |
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