| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation | Nature Geoscience | 2013 | 1,627 |
| 2 | An astronomically dated record of Earth’s climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years | Science | 2020 | 791 |
| 3 | Review and revision of Cenozoic tropical planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and calibration to the geomagnetic polarity and astronomical time scale | Earth-Science Reviews | 2011 | 747 |
| 4 | Temporal Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N | Science | 2007 | 718 |
| 5 | Subaqueous sediment density flows: Depositional processes and deposit types | Sedimentology | 2012 | 714 |
| 6 | Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs): Their past, present and future contributions to the advancement of marine geoscience | Marine Geology | 2014 | 669 |
| 7 | Future response of global coastal wetlands to sea-level rise | Nature | 2018 | 615 |
| 8 | CO2, the greenhouse effect and global warming: from the pioneering work of Arrhenius and Callendar to today's Earth System Models | Endeavour | 2016 | 598 |
| 9 | Submarine landslides: processes, triggers and hazard prediction | Philosophical Transactions Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences | 2006 | 594 |
| 10 | Slowing of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at 25° N | Nature | 2005 | 561 |
| 11 | Impact of partial steps and momentum advection schemes in a global ocean circulation model at eddy-permitting resolution | Ocean Dynamics | 2006 | 550 |
| 12 | The Heartbeat of the Oligocene Climate System | Science | 2006 | 530 |
| 13 | Effects of natural and human-induced hypoxia on coastal benthos | Biogeosciences | 2009 | 525 |
| 14 | An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence | Reviews of Geophysics | 2020 | 498 |
| 15 | Marine Litter Distribution and Density in European Seas, from the Shelves to Deep Basins | PLoS ONE | 2014 | 495 |
| 16 | Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years | Nature | 2014 | 487 |
| 17 | Rapid coupling between ice volume and polar temperature over the past 150,000 years | Nature | 2012 | 477 |
| 18 | Observations beneath Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica and implications for its retreat | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 475 |
| 19 | A review of calcareous nannofossil astrobiochronology encompassing the past 25 million years☆ | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2006 | 474 |
| 20 | UKESM1: Description and Evaluation of the U.K. Earth System Model | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 2019 | 448 |
| 21 | Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: Improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis system | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 2019 | 441 |
| 22 | Impacts of climate change on marine ecosystem production in societies dependent on fisheries | Nature Climate Change | 2014 | 434 |
| 23 | Antarctic temperature and global sea level closely coupled over the past five glacial cycles | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 432 |
| 24 | First insights into the biodiversity and biogeography of the Southern Ocean deep sea | Nature | 2007 | 417 |
| 25 | ICOADS Release 2.5: extensions and enhancements to the surface marine meteorological archive | International Journal of Climatology | 2011 | 407 |
| 26 | How important is intraspecific genetic admixture to the success of colonising populations? | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2014 | 401 |
| 27 | Global probabilistic projections of extreme sea levels show intensification of coastal flood hazard | Nature Communications | 2018 | 397 |
| 28 | The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages | Science | 2019 | 385 |
| 29 | High bacterivory by the smallest phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean | Nature | 2008 | 380 |
| 30 | Fifteen years of ocean observations with the global Argo array | Nature Climate Change | 2016 | 380 |
| 31 | Skill assessment for coupled biological/physical models of marine systems | Journal of Marine Systems | 2009 | 365 |
| 32 | The significance of nitrification for oceanic new production | Nature | 2007 | 354 |
| 33 | Impacts of nutrient enrichment on coral reefs: new perspectives and implications for coastal management and reef survival | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability | 2014 | 354 |
| 34 | Continuous, Array-Based Estimates of Atlantic Ocean Heat Transport at 26.5°N | Journal of Climate | 2011 | 352 |
| 35 | High rates of sea-level rise during the last interglacial period | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 351 |
| 36 | Twenty-first century ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and upper-ocean nutrient and primary production decline from CMIP6 model projections | Biogeosciences | 2020 | 348 |
| 37 | New Data Systems and Products at the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level | Journal of Coastal Research | 2012 | 346 |
| 38 | A 40-million-year history of atmospheric CO 2 | Philosophical Transactions Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences | 2013 | 344 |
| 39 | A reduced estimate of the strength of the ocean's biological carbon pump | Geophysical Research Letters | 2011 | 338 |
| 40 | Global patterns in efficiency of particulate organic carbon export and transfer to the deep ocean | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2012 | 338 |
| 41 | A sea change in our view of overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic | Science | 2019 | 333 |
| 42 | Bringing physics to life at the submesoscale | Geophysical Research Letters | 2012 | 327 |
| 43 | The Met Office Global Coupled Model 3.0 and 3.1 (GC3.0 and GC3.1) Configurations | Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems | 2018 | 327 |
| 44 | Detection and Processing of bistatically reflected GPS signals from low Earth orbit for the purpose of ocean remote sensing | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | 2005 | 326 |
| 45 | Sea-level variability over five glacial cycles | Nature Communications | 2014 | 325 |
| 46 | Global Patterns of Predator Diversity in the Open Oceans | Science | 2005 | 324 |
| 47 | Sources of Metals and Fluids in Orogenic Gold Deposits: Insights from the Otago and Alpine Schists, New Zealand | Economic Geology | 2006 | 324 |
| 48 | Deep-Sea Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 321 |
| 49 | Freshwater and its role in the Arctic Marine System: Sources, disposition, storage, export, and physical and biogeochemical consequences in the Arctic and global oceans | Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences | 2016 | 317 |
| 50 | Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates | Earth System Science Data | 2012 | 315 |
