Most Cited Publications
The following journal articles with GISS authors or co-authors have collected a large number of citations by other articles since their publication. We list here in descending order by citation count the 75 most cited articles, according to the ISI Web of Knowledge database as of July 2018.
Rockström, J., W. Steffen, K. Noone, Å. Persson, F.S. Chapin, III, E.F. Lambin, T.M. Lenton, M. Scheffer, C. Folke, H.J. Schellnhuber, B. Nykvist, C.A. de Wit, T. Hughes, S. van der Leeuw, H. Rodhe, S. Sörlin, P.K. Snyder, R. Costanza, U. Svedin, M. Falkenmark, L. Karlberg, R.W. Corell, V.J. Fabry, A safe operating space for humanity. Nature, 461, 472-475, doi:10.1038/461472a.
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