| Four billion people facing severe water scarcity MM Mekonnen, AY Hoekstra Science advances 2 (2), e1500323, 2016 | 4489 | 2016 |
| The water footprint assessment manual: Setting the global standard A Hoekstra, AK Chapagain, MM Aldaya, MM Mekonnen Routledge, 2012 | 4017 | 2012 |
| The green, blue and grey water footprint of crops and derived crop products MM Mekonnen, AY Hoekstra Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 15 (5), 1577-1600, 2011 | 2792 | 2011 |
| The water footprint of humanity AY Hoekstra, MM Mekonnen Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 109 (9), 3232-3237, 2012 | 2543 | 2012 |
| Water footprints of nations: water use by people as a function of their consumption pattern AY Hoekstra, AK Chapagain Integrated assessment of water resources and global change: A north-south …, 2007 | 2339 | 2007 |
| Virtual water trade: A quantification of virtual water flows between nations in relation to international crop trade H Ay Proceedings of the International Expert Meeting on Virtual Water Trade 12 …, 2003 | 2035 | 2003 |
| Yield gap analysis with local to global relevance—a review MK Van Ittersum, KG Cassman, P Grassini, J Wolf, P Tittonell, Z Hochman Field Crops Research 143, 4-17, 2013 | 1795 | 2013 |
| A global assessment of the water footprint of farm animal products MM Mekonnen, AY Hoekstra Ecosystems 15 (3), 401-415, 2012 | 1703 | 2012 |
| Globalization of water: Sharing the planet's freshwater resources AY Hoekstra, AK Chapagain John Wiley & Sons, 2011 | 1496 | 2011 |
| Bedrock incision, rock uplift and threshold hillslopes in the northwestern Himalayas DW Burbank, J Leland, E Fielding, RS Anderson, N Brozovic, MR Reid, ... Nature 379 (6565), 505-510, 1996 | 1320 | 1996 |
| Virtual water trade AY Hoekstra, PQ Hung Proceedings of the international expert meeting on virtual water trade 12, 1-244, 2003 | 1179 | 2003 |
| The water footprint of cotton consumption: An assessment of the impact of worldwide consumption of cotton products on the water resources in the cotton producing countries AK Chapagain, AY Hoekstra, HHG Savenije, R Gautam Ecological economics 60 (1), 186-203, 2006 | 1149 | 2006 |
| Global monthly water scarcity: blue water footprints versus blue water availability AY Hoekstra, MM Mekonnen, AK Chapagain, RE Mathews, BD Richter PloS one 7 (2), e32688, 2012 | 1134 | 2012 |
| Water footprints of nations AK Chapagain, AY Hoekstra UNESCO-IHE Institute for water education, 2004 | 1096 | 2004 |
| Humanity’s unsustainable environmental footprint AY Hoekstra, TO Wiedmann Science 344 (6188), 1114-1117, 2014 | 1094 | 2014 |
| Globalisation of water resources: international virtual water flows in relation to crop trade AY Hoekstra, PQ Hung Global environmental change 15 (1), 45-56, 2005 | 1046 | 2005 |
| National water footprint accounts: the green, blue and grey water footprint of production and consumption. Volume 2: appendices M Mekonnen, AY Hoekstra | 1008 | 2011 |
| The water footprint of bioenergy W Gerbens-Leenes, AY Hoekstra, TH van der Meer Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (25), 10219-10223, 2009 | 1003 | 2009 |
| The challenges of wastewater irrigation in developing countries M Qadir, D Wichelns, L Raschid-Sally, PG McCornick, P Drechsel, A Bahri, ... Agricultural water management 97 (4), 561-568, 2010 | 954 | 2010 |
| Distinguishing between yield advances and yield plateaus in historical crop production trends P Grassini, KM Eskridge, KG Cassman Nature communications 4 (1), 2918, 2013 | 904 | 2013 |
