| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters | Science | 2018 | 1,707 |
| 2 | Ocean Deoxygenation in a Warming World | Annual Review of Marine Science | 2010 | 1,277 |
| 3 | Global Carbon Budget 2019 | Earth System Science Data | 2019 | 1,159 |
| 4 | Microplastics as vector for heavy metal contamination from the marine environment | Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science | 2016 | 1,040 |
| 5 | Global Carbon Budget 2016 | Earth System Science Data | 2016 | 905 |
| 6 | Nitrosopumilus maritimus genome reveals unique mechanisms for nitrification and autotrophy in globally distributed marine crenarchaea | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 853 |
| 7 | Decline in global oceanic oxygen content during the past five decades | Nature | 2017 | 829 |
| 8 | A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks | Nature | 2020 | 814 |
| 9 | Global Carbon Budget 2017 | Earth System Science Data | 2018 | 801 |
| 10 | Ocean Circulation and Tropical Variability in the Coupled Model ECHAM5/MPI-OM | Journal of Climate | 2006 | 788 |
| 11 | Enhanced biological carbon consumption in a high CO2 ocean | Nature | 2007 | 739 |
| 12 | Global Carbon Budget 2021 | Earth System Science Data | 2022 | 663 |
| 13 | Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector | Nature | 2008 | 633 |
| 14 | Global Carbon Budget 2015 | Earth System Science Data | 2015 | 616 |
| 15 | Diversity, structure and convergent evolution of the global sponge microbiome | Nature Communications | 2016 | 594 |
| 16 | Enhanced warming over the global subtropical western boundary currents | Nature Climate Change | 2012 | 564 |
| 17 | MPI-DING reference glasses for in situ microanalysis: New reference values for element concentrations and isotope ratios | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2006 | 563 |
| 18 | Impact of partial steps and momentum advection schemes in a global ocean circulation model at eddy-permitting resolution | Ocean Dynamics | 2006 | 550 |
| 19 | A global survey of perfluorinated acids in oceans | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2005 | 540 |
| 20 | The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO 2 from 1994 to 2007 | Science | 2019 | 505 |
| 21 | Subduction erosion along the Middle America convergent margin | Nature | 2000 | 494 |
| 22 | Bias Correction, Quantile Mapping, and Downscaling: Revisiting the Inflation Issue | Journal of Climate | 2013 | 493 |
| 23 | The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean | Nature | 2006 | 471 |
| 24 | Global carbon budget 2014 | Earth System Science Data | 2015 | 463 |
| 25 | Why the Western Pacific Subtropical High Has Extended Westward since the Late 1970s | Journal of Climate | 2009 | 456 |
| 26 | The sponge holobiont in a changing ocean: from microbes to ecosystems | Microbiome | 2018 | 426 |
| 27 | The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project version 2 (GLODAPv2) – an internally consistent data product for the world ocean | Earth System Science Data | 2016 | 424 |
| 28 | A multi-decade record of high-quality <i>f</i>CO<sub>2</sub> data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO<sub>2</sub> Atlas (SOCAT) | Earth System Science Data | 2016 | 413 |
| 29 | Large-scale distribution of Atlantic nitrogen fixation controlled by iron availability | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 396 |
| 30 | Strong and deep Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last glacial cycle | Nature | 2015 | 385 |
| 31 | How may tropical cyclones change in a warmer climate? | Tellus, Series A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography | 2007 | 361 |
| 32 | Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate | Nature | 2021 | 359 |
| 33 | Species-specific responses of calcifying algae to changing seawater carbonate chemistry | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2006 | 356 |
| 34 | Methodological Underestimation of Oceanic Nitrogen Fixation Rates | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 354 |
| 35 | El Niño variability off Peru during the last 20,000 years | Paleoceanography | 2005 | 346 |
| 36 | The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean | Science Advances | 2018 | 339 |
| 37 | A sea change in our view of overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic | Science | 2019 | 333 |
| 38 | Atmospheric and marine controls on aerosol iron solubility in seawater | Marine Chemistry | 2010 | 330 |
| 39 | Pacific origin of the abrupt increase in Indian Ocean heat content during the warming hiatus | Nature Geoscience | 2015 | 327 |
| 40 | Evolution in an acidifying ocean | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 324 |
| 41 | North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part I: Mean states | Ocean Modelling | 2014 | 320 |
| 42 | The abundance of seafloor massive sulfide deposits | Geology | 2011 | 319 |
| 43 | Lagrangian ocean analysis: Fundamentals and practices | Ocean Modelling | 2018 | 313 |
| 44 | Marine hypoxia/anoxia as a source of CH<sub>4</sub> and N<sub>2</sub>O | Biogeosciences | 2010 | 311 |
| 45 | Will Extratropical Storms Intensify in a Warmer Climate? | Journal of Climate | 2009 | 304 |
| 46 | Nitrogen cycling driven by organic matter export in the South Pacific oxygen minimum zone | Nature Geoscience | 2013 | 295 |
| 47 | Solar forcing for CMIP6 (v3.2) | Geoscientific Model Development | 2017 | 293 |
| 48 | Experimental strategies to assess the biological ramifications of multiple drivers of global ocean change—A review | Global Change Biology | 2018 | 285 |
| 49 | Arctic Ocean Warming Contributes to Reduced Polar Ice Cap | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 2010 | 284 |
| 50 | Assessing Symbiodinium diversity in scleractinian corals via next‐generation sequencing‐based genotyping of the ITS2 rDNA region | Molecular Ecology | 2014 | 284 |
