| Our evolving conceptual model of the coastal eutrophication problem JE Cloern Marine ecology progress series 210, 223-253, 2001 | 3691 | 2001 |
| Phytoplankton bloom dynamics in coastal ecosystems: a review with some general lessons from sustained investigation of San Francisco Bay, California JE Cloern Reviews of Geophysics 34 (2), 127-168, 1996 | 1007 | 1996 |
| Turbidity as a control on phytoplankton biomass and productivity in estuaries JE Cloern Continental shelf research 7 (11-12), 1367-1381, 1987 | 951 | 1987 |
| Does the benthos control phytoplankton biomass in south San Francisco Bay. JE Cloern Marine ecology progress series. Oldendorf 9 (2), 191-202, 1982 | 901 | 1982 |
| A comment on the use of flushing time, residence time, and age as transport time scales NE Monsen, JE Cloern, LV Lucas, SG Monismith Limnology and oceanography 47 (5), 1545-1553, 2002 | 854 | 2002 |
| The modification of an estuary FH Nichols, JE Cloern, SN Luoma, DH Peterson Science 231 (4738), 567-573, 1986 | 854 | 1986 |
| Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of aquatic and terrestrial plants of the San Francisco Bay estuarine system JE Cloern, EA Canuel, D Harris Limnology and oceanography 47 (3), 713-729, 2002 | 821 | 2002 |
| Phytoplankton primary production in the world's estuarine-coastal ecosystems JE Cloern, SQ Foster, AE Kleckner Biogeosciences 11 (9), 2477-2501, 2014 | 793 | 2014 |
| Trophic interactions and direct physical effects control phytoplankton biomass and production in an estuary AE Alpine, JE Cloern Limnology and oceanography 37 (5), 946-955, 1992 | 791 | 1992 |
| Nutrient pollution of coastal rivers, bays, and seas RW Howarth, DB Anderson, JE Cloern, C Elfring, CS Hopkinson, ... Issues in ecology, 1-16, 2000 | 635 | 2000 |
| An empirical model of the phytoplankton chlorophyll: carbon ratio‐the conversion factor between productivity and growth rate JE Cloern, C Grenz, L Vidergar‐Lucas Limnology and Oceanography 40 (7), 1313-1321, 1995 | 593 | 1995 |
| Isohaline position as a habitat indicator for estuarine populations AD Jassby, WJ Kimmerer, SG Monismith, C Armor, JE Cloern, TM Powell, ... Ecological applications 5 (1), 272-289, 1995 | 542 | 1995 |
| Human activities and climate variability drive fast‐paced change across the world's estuarine–coastal ecosystems JE Cloern, PC Abreu, J Carstensen, L Chauvaud, R Elmgren, J Grall, ... Global change biology 22 (2), 513-529, 2016 | 535 | 2016 |
| Drivers of change in estuarine‐coastal ecosystems: Discoveries from four decades of study in San Francisco Bay JE Cloern, AD Jassby Reviews of Geophysics 50 (4), 2012 | 437 | 2012 |
| The relative importance of light and nutrient limitation of phytoplankton growth: a simple index of coastal ecosystem sensitivity to nutrient enrichment JE Cloern Aquatic ecology 33, 3-15, 1999 | 419 | 1999 |
| Phytoplankton community ecology: principles applied in San Francisco Bay JE Cloern, R Dufford Marine Ecology Progress Series 285, 11-28, 2005 | 407 | 2005 |
| Patterns and scales of phytoplankton variability in estuarine–coastal ecosystems JE Cloern, AD Jassby Estuaries and coasts 33, 230-241, 2010 | 387 | 2010 |
| Tidal stirring and phytoplankton bloom dynamics in an estuary JE Cloern | 370 | 1991 |
| The annual cycles of phytoplankton biomass M Winder, JE Cloern Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365 …, 2010 | 361 | 2010 |
| Projected evolution of California's San Francisco Bay-Delta-River system in a century of climate change JE Cloern, N Knowles, LR Brown, D Cayan, MD Dettinger, TL Morgan, ... PloS one 6 (9), e24465, 2011 | 331 | 2011 |