| The Anthropocene: are humans now overwhelming the great forces of nature W Steffen, PJ Crutzen, JR McNeill Ambio-Journal of Human Environment Research and Management 36 (8), 614-621, 2007 | 5281 | 2007 |
| The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives W Steffen, J Grinevald, P Crutzen, J McNeill Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, physical …, 2011 | 3512 | 2011 |
| Something new under the sun: An environmental history of the twentieth-century world (the global century series) JR McNeill WW Norton & Company, 2001 | 3119 | 2001 |
| The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene CN Waters, J Zalasiewicz, C Summerhayes, AD Barnosky, C Poirier, ... Science 351 (6269), aad2622, 2016 | 2636 | 2016 |
| The great acceleration: An environmental history of the Anthropocene since 1945 JR McNeill, P Engelke Harvard University Press, 2016 | 1575 | 2016 |
| When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, M Williams, AD Barnosky, A Cearreta, ... Quaternary international 383, 196-203, 2015 | 1085 | 2015 |
| The human web: a bird's-eye view of world history JR McNeill, WH McNeill WW Norton & Company, 2003 | 1021 | 2003 |
| The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, JAI Do Sul, PL Corcoran, AD Barnosky, ... Anthropocene 13, 4-17, 2016 | 929 | 2016 |
| Mosquito empires: ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 JR McNeill Cambridge University Press, 2010 | 924 | 2010 |
| Observations on the nature and culture of environmental history JR McNeill History and theory 42 (4), 5-43, 2003 | 632 | 2003 |
| The mountains of the Mediterranean world JR McNeill Cambridge University Press, 2003 | 629 | 2003 |
| The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, CP Summerhayes, AP Wolfe, AD Barnosky, ... Anthropocene 19, 55-60, 2017 | 537 | 2017 |
| Bronze Age world system cycles [and comments and reply] AG Frank, G Algaze, JA Barceló, C Chase-Dunn, C Edens, J Friedman, ... Current Anthropology 34 (4), 383-429, 1993 | 424 | 1993 |
| Rethinking environmental history: world-system history and global environmental change A Hornborg, JR McNeill, JM Alier Rowman Altamira, 2007 | 406 | 2007 |
| Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene W Steffen, R Leinfelder, J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, M Williams, ... Earth's Future 4 (8), 324-345, 2016 | 315 | 2016 |
| Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, CN Waters, AD Barnosky, J Palmesino, ... The Anthropocene Review 4 (1), 9-22, 2017 | 310 | 2017 |
| Algo nuevo bajo el sol: historia medioambiental del mundo en el siglo XX JR McNeill Alianza editorial, 2003 | 264 | 2003 |
| Breaking the sod: Humankind, history, and soil JR McNeill, V Winiwarter Science 304 (5677), 1627-1629, 2004 | 257 | 2004 |
| Can nuclear weapons fallout mark the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch? CN Waters, JPM Syvitski, A Gałuszka, GJ Hancock, J Zalasiewicz, ... Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 71 (3), 46-57, 2015 | 233 | 2015 |
| Environmental histories of the Cold War JR McNeill, CR Unger Cambridge University Press, 2010 | 214 | 2010 |
