| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Age, spreading rates, and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2008 | 1,539 |
| 2 | Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200Ma | Earth-Science Reviews | 2012 | 1,459 |
| 3 | Late Quaternary ice sheet history of northern Eurasia | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2004 | 1,279 |
| 4 | Further Characterisation of the 91500 Zircon Crystal | Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research | 2004 | 1,142 |
| 5 | Use of LIDAR in landslide investigations: a review | Natural Hazards | 2012 | 789 |
| 6 | Continental break-up and collision in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic — A tale of Baltica and Laurentia | Earth-Science Reviews | 1996 | 710 |
| 7 | Background and threshold: critical comparison of methods of determination | Science of the Total Environment | 2005 | 639 |
| 8 | Long-Term Sea-Level Fluctuations Driven by Ocean Basin Dynamics | Science | 2008 | 610 |
| 9 | Distinguishing between natural and anthropogenic sources for elements in the environment: regional geochemical surveys versus enrichment factors | Science of the Total Environment | 2005 | 562 |
| 10 | Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: A review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution | Journal of African Earth Sciences | 2013 | 561 |
| 11 | Geochemical background—concept and reality | Science of the Total Environment | 2005 | 547 |
| 12 | Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates | Nature | 2017 | 522 |
| 13 | Normal and lognormal data distribution in geochemistry: death of a myth. Consequences for the statistical treatment of geochemical and environmental data | Environmental Geology | 2000 | 518 |
| 14 | Factor analysis applied to regional geochemical data: problems and possibilities | Applied Geochemistry | 2002 | 452 |
| 15 | EMAG2: A 2–arc min resolution Earth Magnetic Anomaly Grid compiled from satellite, airborne, and marine magnetic measurements | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2009 | 452 |
| 16 | Deglaciation of Fennoscandia | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2016 | 447 |
| 17 | Plume Generation Zones at the margins of Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces on the core–mantle boundary | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2008 | 422 |
| 18 | GPlates: Building a Virtual Earth Through Deep Time | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2018 | 392 |
| 19 | Reassessing the evidence for the earliest traces of life | Nature | 2002 | 358 |
| 20 | Univariate statistical analysis of environmental (compositional) data: Problems and possibilities | Science of the Total Environment | 2009 | 354 |
| 21 | Submarine landforms and the reconstruction of fast-flowing ice streams within a large Quaternary ice sheet: The 2500-km-long Norwegian-Svalbard margin (57°–80°N) | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 2005 | 351 |
| 22 | Slope failure dynamics and impacts from seafloor and shallow sub-seafloor geophysical data: case studies from the COSTA project | Marine Geology | 2004 | 348 |
| 23 | The East European Craton (Baltica) before and during the assembly of Rodinia | Precambrian Research | 2008 | 348 |
| 24 | Multivariate outlier detection in exploration geochemistry | Computers and Geosciences | 2005 | 329 |
| 25 | Maximum extent of the Eurasian ice sheets in the Barents and Kara Sea region during the Weichselian | Boreas | 1999 | 322 |
| 26 | Chemical Elements in the Environment | | 1998 | 321 |
| 27 | The Scandinavian Caledonides: event chronology, palaeogeographic settings and likely modern analogues | Tectonophysics | 2003 | 321 |
| 28 | Microdiamond in high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Western Gneiss region, Norway | Geology | 1995 | 311 |
| 29 | Cluster analysis applied to regional geochemical data: Problems and possibilities | Applied Geochemistry | 2008 | 297 |
| 30 | Large igneous provinces generated from the margins of the large low-velocity provinces in the deep mantle | Geophysical Journal International | 2006 | 280 |
| 31 | Major Australian-Antarctic Plate Reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor Bend Time | Science | 2007 | 264 |
| 32 | GEOLOGY: Enhanced: The Rodinia Jigsaw Puzzle | Science | 2003 | 245 |
| 33 | Origin of anomalous subsidence along the Northern South China Sea margin and its relationship to dynamic topography | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2006 | 242 |
| 34 | Europe's rare earth element resource potential: An overview of REE metallogenetic provinces and their geodynamic setting | Ore Geology Reviews | 2016 | 239 |
| 35 | Middle Eocene rodents from Peruvian Amazonia reveal the pattern and timing of caviomorph origins and biogeography | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2012 | 234 |
| 36 | Suboxic deep seawater in the late Paleoproterozoic: Evidence from hematitic chert and iron formation related to seafloor-hydrothermal sulfide deposits, central Arizona, USA | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2007 | 228 |
| 37 | Breakup and early seafloor spreading between India and Antarctica | Geophysical Journal International | 2007 | 223 |
| 38 | Quaternary glaciations in southern Fennoscandia: evidence from southwestern Norway and the northern North Sea region | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2000 | 219 |
| 39 | Mid-Cenozoic post-breakup deformation in the ‘passive’ margins bordering the Norwegian–Greenland Sea | Marine and Petroleum Geology | 2002 | 213 |
| 40 | Absolute plate motions and true polar wander in the absence of hotspot tracks | Nature | 2008 | 213 |
| 41 | Lamellar magnetism in the haematite–ilmenite series as an explanation for strong remanent magnetization | Nature | 2002 | 207 |
| 42 | Drinking water quality in the Ethiopian section of the East African Rift Valley I—data and health aspects | Science of the Total Environment | 2003 | 207 |
| 43 | Submarine glacial landforms and rates of ice-stream collapse | Geology | 2008 | 206 |
| 44 | Paleomagnetism and geochronology of the Malani Igneous Suite, Northwest India: Implications for the configuration of Rodinia and the assembly of Gondwana | Precambrian Research | 2009 | 200 |
| 45 | Extreme 13Ccarb enrichment in ca. 2.0 Ga magnesite–stromatolite–dolomite–`red beds' association in a global context: a case for the world-wide signal enhanced by a local environment | Earth-Science Reviews | 1999 | 198 |
| 46 | Constraints on the Late Saalian to early Middle Weichselian ice sheet of Eurasia from field data and rebound modelling | Boreas | 2006 | 193 |
| 47 | Baltica. A synopsis of vendian-permian palaeomagnetic data and their palaeotectonic implications | Earth-Science Reviews | 1992 | 192 |
| 48 | Isotopic Evidence for Massive Oxidation of Organic Matter Following the Great Oxidation Event | Science | 2011 | 190 |
| 49 | The geological history of northwestern South America: from Pangaea to the early collision of the Caribbean Large Igneous Province (290–75Ma) | Gondwana Research | 2015 | 190 |
| 50 | Next-generation plate-tectonic reconstructions using GPlates | | 2011 | 188 |
