| Atlas of past and present pollen maps for Europe, 0-13,000 years ago B Huntley, HJB Birks Cambridge University Press, 1983 | 2341 | 1983 |
| Quaternary palaeoecology B HjB, HH Birks Edward Arnold: London, 1980 | 1598 | 1980 |
| Diatoms and pH reconstruction HJB Birks, CT Braak, JM Line, S Juggins, AC Stevenson Philosophical transactions of the royal society of London. B, Biological …, 1990 | 1275 | 1990 |
| Holocene moisture evolution in arid central Asia and its out-of-phase relationship with Asian monsoon history F Chen, Z Yu, M Yang, E Ito, S Wang, DB Madsen, X Huang, Y Zhao, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 27 (3-4), 351-364, 2008 | 1123 | 2008 |
| Quantitative palaeoenvironmental reconstructions HJB Birks Statistical modelling of quaternary science data. Technical guide 5, 161-254, 1995 | 1079 | 1995 |
| Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes JP Smol, AP Wolfe, HJB Birks, MSV Douglas, VJ Jones, A Korhola, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (12), 4397-4402, 2005 | 1028 | 2005 |
| DG Frey and ES Deevey Review 1: Numerical tools in palaeolimnology–Progress, potentialities, and problems HJB Birks, HJB Birks Journal of paleolimnology 20, 307-332, 1998 | 981 | 1998 |
| Numerical methods in Quaternary pollen analysis HJB Birks, AD Gordon Academic Press, 1984 | 961 | 1984 |
| Agroforestry: a refuge for tropical biodiversity? SA Bhagwat, KJ Willis, HJB Birks, RJ Whittaker Trends in ecology & evolution 23 (5), 261-267, 2008 | 926 | 2008 |
| East Asian summer monsoon precipitation variability since the last deglaciation F Chen, Q Xu, J Chen, HJB Birks, J Liu, S Zhang, L Jin, C An, RJ Telford, ... Scientific reports 5 (1), 1-11, 2015 | 716 | 2015 |
| Recent warming reverses long-term Arctic cooling DS Kaufman, DP Schneider, NP McKay, CM Ammann, RS Bradley, ... Science 325 (5945), 1236-1239, 2009 | 712 | 2009 |
| What is natural? The need for a long-term perspective in biodiversity conservation KJ Willis, HJB Birks science 314 (5803), 1261-1265, 2006 | 702 | 2006 |
| Modern diatom, cladocera, chironomid, and chrysophyte cyst assemblages as quantitative indicators for the reconstruction of past environmental conditions in the Alps. I. Climate AF Lotter, HJB Birks, W Hofmann, A Marchetto Journal of Paleolimnology 18, 395-420, 1997 | 629 | 1997 |
| The use of rarefaction analysis for estimating palynological richness from Quaternary pollen-analytical data HJB Birks, JM Line The Holocene 2 (1), 1-10, 1992 | 625 | 1992 |
| Past and present vegetation of the Isle of Skye HJB Birks | 532 | 1973 |
| Holocene isochrone maps and patterns of tree-spreading in the British Isles HJB Birks Journal of Biogeography, 503-540, 1989 | 530 | 1989 |
| Future uses of pollen analysis must include plant macrofossils HH Birks, HJB Birks Journal of biogeography, 31-35, 2000 | 465 | 2000 |
| Recent increases in species richness and shifts in altitudinal distributions of Norwegian mountain plants K Klanderud, HJB Birks The Holocene 13 (1), 1-6, 2003 | 454 | 2003 |
| Chironomid-inferred air temperatures from Lateglacial and Holocene sites in north-west Europe: progress and problems SJ Brooks, HJB Birks Quaternary Science Reviews 20 (16-17), 1723-1741, 2001 | 445 | 2001 |
| The intercept is a poor estimate of a calibrated radiocarbon age RJ Telford, E Heegaard, HJB Birks The Holocene 14 (2), 296-298, 2004 | 439 | 2004 |
