| Status and ecological effects of the world’s largest carnivores WJ Ripple, JA Estes, RL Beschta, CC Wilmers, EG Ritchie, ... Science 343 (6167), 1241484, 2014 | 3861 | 2014 |
| Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals WJ Ripple, K Abernethy, MG Betts, G Chapron, R Dirzo, M Galetti, T Levi, ... Royal Society open science 3 (10), 160498, 2016 | 662 | 2016 |
| Summoning compassion to address the challenges of conservation AD Wallach, M Bekoff, C Batavia, MP Nelson, D Ramp Conservation Biology 32 (6), 1255-1265, 2018 | 297 | 2018 |
| Saving the world's terrestrial megafauna WJ Ripple, G Chapron, JV López-Bao, SM Durant, DW Macdonald, ... BioScience 66 (10), 807-812, 2016 | 279 | 2016 |
| Predator control promotes invasive dominated ecological states AD Wallach, CN Johnson, EG Ritchie, AJ O’Neill Ecology letters 13 (8), 1008-1018, 2010 | 228 | 2010 |
| Are we eating the world's megafauna to extinction? WJ Ripple, C Wolf, TM Newsome, MG Betts, G Ceballos, F Courchamp, ... Conservation Letters 12 (3), e12627, 2019 | 204 | 2019 |
| What is an apex predator? AD Wallach, I Izhaki, JD Toms, WJ Ripple, U Shanas Oikos 124 (11), 1453-1461, 2015 | 199 | 2015 |
| Novel trophic cascades: apex predators enable coexistence AD Wallach, WJ Ripple, SP Carroll Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30 (3), 146-153, 2015 | 153 | 2015 |
| More than mere numbers: the impact of lethal control on the social stability of a top-order predator AD Wallach, EG Ritchie, J Read, AJ O'Neill PLoS One 4 (9), e6861, 2009 | 145 | 2009 |
| Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions EJ Lundgren, D Ramp, J Rowan, O Middleton, SD Schowanek, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (14), 7871-7878, 2020 | 113 | 2020 |
| Promoting predators and compassionate conservation AD Wallach, M Bekoff, MP Nelson, D Ramp Conservation Biology 29 (5), 1481-1484, 2015 | 113 | 2015 |
| Resolving the value of the dingo in ecological restoration TM Newsome, GA Ballard, MS Crowther, JA Dellinger, PJS Fleming, ... Restoration Ecology 23 (3), 201-208, 2015 | 102 | 2015 |
| The elephant (head) in the room: A critical look at trophy hunting C Batavia, MP Nelson, CT Darimont, PC Paquet, WJ Ripple, AD Wallach Conservation Letters 12 (1), e12565, 2019 | 101 | 2019 |
| Introduced megafauna are rewilding the Anthropocene EJ Lundgren, D Ramp, WJ Ripple, AD Wallach Ecography 41 (6), 857-866, 2018 | 100 | 2018 |
| Recognizing animal personhood in compassionate conservation AD Wallach, C Batavia, M Bekoff, S Alexander, L Baker, D Ben‐Ami, ... Conservation Biology 34 (5), 1097-1106, 2020 | 97 | 2020 |
| A moral panic over cats WS Lynn, F Santiago‐Ávila, J Lindenmayer, J Hadidian, A Wallach, ... Conservation Biology 33 (4), 769-776, 2019 | 77 | 2019 |
| Taxonomic status of the Australian dingo: the case for Canis dingo Meyer, 1793 BP Smith, KM Cairns, JW Adams, TM Newsome, M Fillios, EC Deaux, ... Zootaxa 4564 (1), 173-197, 2019 | 75 | 2019 |
| Conserving the world's megafauna and biodiversity: the fierce urgency of now WJ Ripple, G Chapron, JV López-Bao, SM Durant, DW Macdonald, ... Bioscience 67 (3), 197-200, 2017 | 72 | 2017 |
| Equids engineer desert water availability EJ Lundgren, D Ramp, JC Stromberg, J Wu, NC Nieto, M Sluk, KT Moeller, ... Science 372 (6541), 491-495, 2021 | 68 | 2021 |
| Can threatened species survive where the top predator is absent? AD Wallach, BR Murray, AJ O’Neill Biological Conservation 142 (1), 43-52, 2009 | 67 | 2009 |