| 2500 years of European climate variability and human susceptibility U Büntgen, W Tegel, K Nicolussi, M McCormick, D Frank, V Trouet, ... Science 331 (6017), 578-582, 2011 | 911 | 2011 |
| Persistent positive North Atlantic Oscillation mode dominated the medieval climate anomaly V Trouet, J Esper, NE Graham, A Baker, JD Scourse, DC Frank science 324 (5923), 78-80, 2009 | 829 | 2009 |
| Climate extremes and the carbon cycle M Reichstein, M Bahn, P Ciais, D Frank, MD Mahecha, SI Seneviratne, ... Nature 500 (7462), 287-295, 2013 | 749 | 2013 |
| Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle B Poulter, D Frank, P Ciais, RB Myneni, N Andela, J Bi, G Broquet, ... Nature 509 (7502), 600, 2014 | 561 | 2014 |
| The twentieth century was the wettest period in northern Pakistan over the past millennium K Treydte, GH Schleser, G Helle, DC Frank, M Winiger, GH Haug, J Esper Nature 440, 1179-1182, 2006 | 493 | 2006 |
| Summer temperature variations in the European Alps, AD 755–2004 U Büntgen, DC Frank, D Nievergelt, J Esper | 384 | 2006 |
| Long‐term drought severity variations in Morocco J Esper, D Frank, U Büntgen, A Verstege, J Luterbacher, E Xoplaki Geophysical research letters 34 (17), 2007 | 301 | 2007 |
| Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts D Frank, M Reichstein, M Bahn, K Thonicke, D Frank, MD Mahecha, ... Global Change Biology 21 (8), 2861-2880, 2015 | 264 | 2015 |
| Ensemble reconstruction constraints on the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate DC Frank, J Esper, CC Raible, U Büntgen, V Trouet, B Stocker, F Joos Nature 463 (7280), 527, 2010 | 263 | 2010 |
| A 1052-year tree-ring proxy for Alpine summer temperatures U Büntgen, J Esper, DC Frank, K Nicolussi, M Schmidhalter Climate Dynamics 25 (2-3), 141-153, 2005 | 253 | 2005 |
| Characterization and climate response patterns of a high-elevation, multi-species tree-ring network in the European Alps D Frank, J Esper Dendrochronologia 22 (2), 107-121, 2005 | 241 | 2005 |
| Orbital forcing of tree-ring data J Esper, DC Frank, M Timonen, E Zorita, RJS Wilson, J Luterbacher, ... Nature Climate Change 2 (12), 862, 2012 | 227 | 2012 |
| Site‐and species‐specific responses of forest growth to climate across the E uropean continent F Babst, B Poulter, V Trouet, K Tan, B Neuwirth, R Wilson, M Carrer, ... Global Ecology and Biogeography 22 (6), 706-717, 2013 | 224 | 2013 |
| Effect of scaling and regression on reconstructed temperature amplitude for the past millennium J Esper, DC Frank, RJS Wilson, KR Briffa Geophysical Research Letters 32 (7), 2005 | 205 | 2005 |
| Growth responses to climate in a multi-species tree-ring network in the Western Carpathian Tatra Mountains, Poland and Slovakia U Büntgen, DC Frank, RJ Kaczka, A Verstege, T Zwijacz-Kozica, J Esper Tree physiology 27 (5), 689-702, 2007 | 203 | 2007 |
| 1738 years of Mongolian temperature variability inferred from a tree‐ring width chronology of Siberian pine R D'Arrigo, G Jacoby, D Frank, N Pederson, E Cook, B Buckley, B Nachin, ... Geophysical Research Letters 28 (3), 543-546, 2001 | 199 | 2001 |
| Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene DC Frank, B Poulter, M Saurer, J Esper, C Huntingford, G Helle, K Treydte, ... Nature Climate Change 5 (6), 579-583, 2015 | 183 | 2015 |
| Timing and duration of European larch growing season along altitudinal gradients in the Swiss Alps L Moser, P Fonti, U Büntgen, J Esper, J Luterbacher, J Franzen, D Frank Tree physiology 30 (2), 225-233, 2009 | 183 | 2009 |
| Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era ER Cook, R Seager, Y Kushnir, KR Briffa, U Büntgen, D Frank, PJ Krusic, ... Science Advances 1 (10), e1500561, 2015 | 181 | 2015 |
| 1200 years of regular outbreaks in alpine insects J Esper, U Büntgen, DC Frank, D Nievergelt, A Liebhold Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1610), 671-679, 2006 | 179 | 2006 |