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|---|
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| 2 | Green fluorescent protein as a marker for gene expression | Science | 1994 | 6,353 |
| 3 | IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0–50,000 Years cal BP | Radiocarbon | 2009 | 4,009 |
| 4 | Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms | Nature | 2005 | 3,772 |
| 5 | Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2Problem | Annual Review of Marine Science | 2009 | 3,246 |
| 6 | Culture of Phytoplankton for Feeding Marine Invertebrates | | 1975 | 2,717 |
| 7 | Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison | Journal of Climate | 2006 | 2,647 |
| 8 | Archaea in coastal marine environments. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1992 | 2,541 |
| 9 | Isolation of an autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing marine archaeon | Nature | 2005 | 2,489 |
| 10 | Diffusion of ions in sea water and in deep-sea sediments | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1974 | 2,478 |
| 11 | The Community Climate System Model Version 4 | Journal of Climate | 2011 | 2,428 |
| 12 | Fire in the Earth System | Science | 2009 | 2,330 |
| 13 | Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter | Nature | 2013 | 2,239 |
| 14 | Major and trace element composition of the depleted MORB mantle (DMM) | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2005 | 2,237 |
| 15 | Harmful algal blooms and eutrophication: Nutrient sources, composition, and consequences | Estuaries and Coasts | 2002 | 2,199 |
| 16 | Classical tidal harmonic analysis including error estimates in MATLAB using T_TIDE | Computers and Geosciences | 2002 | 2,125 |
| 17 | Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems | Annual Review of Marine Science | 2012 | 2,117 |
| 18 | The Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3) | Journal of Climate | 2006 | 2,075 |
| 19 | Primary structure of the Aequorea victoria green-fluorescent protein | Gene | 1992 | 1,979 |
| 20 | Bulk Parameterization of Air–Sea Fluxes: Updates and Verification for the COARE Algorithm | Journal of Climate | 2003 | 1,878 |
| 21 | Southward Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Through the Holocene | Science | 2001 | 1,852 |
| 22 | Sea-level and deep water temperature changes derived from benthic foraminifera isotopic records | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2002 | 1,823 |
| 23 | Sinking deltas due to human activities | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 1,823 |
| 24 | Collapse and rapid resumption of Atlantic meridional circulation linked to deglacial climate changes | Nature | 2004 | 1,753 |
| 25 | Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 1,746 |
| 26 | Magnetotactic bacteria | Science | 1975 | 1,633 |
| 27 | Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation | Nature Geoscience | 2013 | 1,627 |
| 28 | Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Eutrophication in the Coastal Marine Environment | Science | 1971 | 1,598 |
| 29 | Submarine Thermal Springs on the Galápagos Rift | Science | 1979 | 1,592 |
| 30 | Eutrophication and harmful algal blooms: A scientific consensus | Harmful Algae | 2008 | 1,582 |
| 31 | Reaction between slab-derived melts and peridotite in the mantle wedge: experimental constraints at 3.8 GPa | Chemical Geology | 1999 | 1,497 |
| 32 | Water in the oceanic upper mantle: implications for rheology, melt extraction and the evolution of the lithosphere | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1996 | 1,423 |
| 33 | A mesoscale phytoplankton bloom in the polar Southern Ocean stimulated by iron fertilization | Nature | 2000 | 1,417 |
| 34 | Underwater acoustic communication channels: Propagation models and statistical characterization | IEEE Communications Magazine | 2009 | 1,378 |
| 35 | Improved Bacterial 16S rRNA Gene (V4 and V4-5) and Fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer Marker Gene Primers for Microbial Community Surveys | MSystems | 2016 | 1,364 |
| 36 | Photosynthesis and Fish Production in the Sea | Science | 1969 | 1,307 |
| 37 | Mesoscale Iron Enrichment Experiments 1993-2005: Synthesis and Future Directions | Science | 2007 | 1,250 |
| 38 | Multiple stressors of ocean ecosystems in the 21st century: projections with CMIP5 models | Biogeosciences | 2013 | 1,191 |
| 39 | Plastics on the Sargasso Sea Surface | Science | 1972 | 1,142 |
| 40 | Methane-consuming archaebacteria in marine sediments | Nature | 1999 | 1,135 |
| 41 | Genome divergence in two Prochlorococcus ecotypes reflects oceanic niche differentiation | Nature | 2003 | 1,086 |
| 42 | Marine04 Marine Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 0–26 Cal Kyr Bp | Radiocarbon | 2004 | 1,040 |
| 43 | Ocean forecasting in terrain-following coordinates: Formulation and skill assessment of the Regional Ocean Modeling System | Journal of Computational Physics | 2008 | 1,032 |
| 44 | Phylogenetic relationships ofThiomicrospira species and their identification in deep-sea hydrothermal vent samples by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis of 16S rDNA fragments | Archives of Microbiology | 1995 | 1,031 |
| 45 | Plastic Accumulation in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre | Science | 2010 | 1,024 |
| 46 | The Genome of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus | Science | 2006 | 1,018 |
| 47 | Genome sequence of the metazoan plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita | Nature Biotechnology | 2008 | 1,012 |
| 48 | Projecting Coral Reef Futures Under Global Warming and Ocean Acidification | Science | 2011 | 1,001 |
| 49 | Spatial Variability of Turbulent Mixing in the Abyssal Ocean | Science | 1997 | 973 |
| 50 | THE MEASUREMENT OF TOTAL PHOSPHORUS IN SEAWATER BASED ON THE LIBERATION OF ORGANICALLY BOUND FRACTIONS BY PERSULFATE OXIDATION1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1965 | 960 |
