| Enriching the earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the transformation of world food production V Smil MIT press, 2004 | 2038 | 2004 |
| PHOSPHORUS IN THE ENVIRONMENT: Natural Flows and Human Interferences V Smil Annual review of energy and the environment 25 (1), 53-88, 2000 | 1509 | 2000 |
| Nitrogen in crop production: An account of global flows V Smil Global biogeochemical cycles 13 (2), 647-662, 1999 | 1255 | 1999 |
| Energy at the crossroads: global perspectives and uncertainties V Smil Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003 | 1171 | 2003 |
| Energy in world history V Smil Routledge, 2019 | 993 | 2019 |
| Feeding the world: A challenge for the twenty-first century V Smil MIT press, 2001 | 864 | 2001 |
| Detonator of the population explosion V Smil Nature 400 (6743), 415-415, 1999 | 846 | 1999 |
| Energy in nature and society: general energetics of complex systems V Smil MIT press, 2007 | 833 | 2007 |
| Energy transitions: history, requirements, prospects V Smil ABC-CLIO, 2010 | 739 | 2010 |
| China's environmental crisis: an inquiry into the limits of national development V Smil Routledge, 2016 | 693 | 2016 |
| Energy and civilization: a history V Smil MIT press, 2018 | 673* | 2018 |
| Energy Transitions: History, Requirements V Smil Prospects 1, 919-931, 2010 | 637 | 2010 |
| Nitrogen and food production: proteins for human diets V Smil AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 31 (2), 126-131, 2002 | 621 | 2002 |
| Losing the links between livestock and land R Naylor, H Steinfeld, W Falcon, J Galloway, V Smil, E Bradford, J Alder, ... Science 310 (5754), 1621-1622, 2005 | 508 | 2005 |
| Global population and the nitrogen cycle V Smil Scientific American 277 (1), 76-81, 1997 | 426 | 1997 |
| General energetics: energy in the biosphere and civilization V Smil Wiley, 1991 | 422 | 1991 |
| Crop Residues: Agriculture's Largest Harvest: Crop residues incorporate more than half of the world's agricultural phytomass V Smil Bioscience 49 (4), 299-308, 1999 | 414 | 1999 |
| The bad earth: Environmental degradation in China V Smil Routledge, 2015 | 413 | 2015 |
| Creating the twentieth century: Technical innovations of 1867-1914 and their lasting impact V Smil Oxford University Press, 2005 | 371 | 2005 |
| Energy transitions: global and national perspectives V Smil ABC-CLIO, 2016 | 363 | 2016 |
