| Late Quaternary dynamics of southern Africa's winter rainfall zone BM Chase, ME Meadows Earth-Science Reviews 84 (3-4), 103-138, 2007 | 673 | 2007 |
| A record of rapid Holocene climate change preserved in hyrax middens from southwestern Africa BM Chase, ME Meadows, L Scott, DSG Thomas, E Marais, J Sealy, ... Geology 37 (8), 703-706, 2009 | 165 | 2009 |
| Building beyond land: An overview of coastal land reclamation in 16 global megacities D Sengupta, R Chen, ME Meadows Applied geography 90, 229-238, 2018 | 159 | 2018 |
| Desertification in the semi-arid Karoo, South Africa: review and reassessment WRJ Dean, MT Hoffinan, ME Meadows, SJ Milton Journal of Arid Environments 30 (3), 247-264, 1995 | 159 | 1995 |
| Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in arid zone South African flora: Environmental controls, chemotaxonomy and palaeoecological implications AS Carr, A Boom, HL Grimes, BM Chase, ME Meadows, A Harris Organic Geochemistry 67, 72-84, 2014 | 150 | 2014 |
| The nature, extent and causes of land degradation in South Africa: legacy of the past, lessons for the future? ME Meadows, MT Hoffman Area 34 (4), 428-437, 2002 | 146 | 2002 |
| Changing urban green spaces in Shanghai: Trends, drivers and policy implications Z Wu, R Chen, ME Meadows, D Sengupta, D Xu Land use policy 87, 104080, 2019 | 139 | 2019 |
| Special paper: a palaeoecological perspective on the origin of afromontane grasslands ME Meadows, HP Linder Journal of biogeography, 345-355, 1993 | 138 | 1993 |
| Quantification of climate change for the last 20,000 years from Wonderkrater, South Africa: Implications for the long-term dynamics of the Intertropical Convergence Zone L Truc, M Chevalier, C Favier, R Cheddadi, ME Meadows, L Scott, ... Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 386, 575-587, 2013 | 135 | 2013 |
| Evidence for progressive Holocene aridification in southern Africa recorded in Namibian hyrax middens: Implications for African Monsoon dynamics and the ‘‘African Humid Period’’ BM Chase, ME Meadows, AS Carr, PJ Reimer Quaternary Research 74 (1), 36-45, 2010 | 133 | 2010 |
| Rock hyrax middens: a palaeoenvironmental archive for southern African drylands BM Chase, L Scott, ME Meadows, G Gil-Romera, A Boom, AS Carr, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 56, 107-125, 2012 | 129 | 2012 |
| History of the Cape flora HP Linder, ME Meadows, RM Cowling The ecology of Fynbos: nutrients, fire and diversity, 113-134, 1992 | 128 | 1992 |
| Ecological restoration for sustainable development in China B Fu, Y Liu, ME Meadows National Science Review 10 (7), nwad033, 2023 | 125 | 2023 |
| A first Chinese building height estimate at 10 m resolution (CNBH-10 m) using multi-source earth observations and machine learning WB Wu, J Ma, E Banzhaf, ME Meadows, ZW Yu, FX Guo, D Sengupta, ... Remote Sensing of Environment 291, 113578, 2023 | 121 | 2023 |
| Geography education for sustainable development ME Meadows Geography and Sustainability 1 (1), 88-92, 2020 | 117 | 2020 |
| Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in the post-pandemic era W Zhao, C Yin, T Hua, ME Meadows, Y Li, Y Liu, F Cherubini, P Pereira, ... Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9 (1), 1-7, 2022 | 114 | 2022 |
| Land degradation and climate change in South Africa ME Meadows, TM Hoffman Geographical Journal 169 (2), 168-177, 2003 | 106 | 2003 |
| Late Quaternary palaeoenvironments of the southwestern Cape, South Africa: a regional synthesis ME Meadows, AJ Baxter Quaternary International 57, 193-206, 1999 | 106 | 1999 |
| Influence of tropical easterlies in southern Africa's winter rainfall zone during the Holocene BM Chase, S Lim, M Chevalier, A Boom, AS Carr, ME Meadows, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 107, 138-148, 2015 | 105 | 2015 |
| Precipitation variability in the winter rainfall zone of South Africa during the last 1400 yr linked to the austral westerlies JC Stager, PA Mayewski, J White, BM Chase, FH Neumann, ... Climate of the Past 8 (3), 877-887, 2012 | 102 | 2012 |