| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Subcommission on geochronology: Convention on the use of decay constants in geo- and cosmochronology | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1977 | 8,648 |
| 2 | Approximation of terrestrial lead isotope evolution by a two-stage model | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1975 | 7,717 |
| 3 | Some remarks on the development of sedimentary basins | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1978 | 3,498 |
| 4 | Zircon saturation revisited: temperature and composition effects in a variety of crustal magma types | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1983 | 3,363 |
| 5 | Trace element and isotopic effects of combined wallrock assimilation and fractional crystallization | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1981 | 2,965 |
| 6 | Tectonic setting of basic volcanic rocks determined using trace element analyses | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1973 | 2,955 |
| 7 | Chemical differentiation of the Earth: the relationship between mantle, continental crust, and oceanic crust | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1988 | 2,891 |
| 8 | The Lu-Hf isotope geochemistry of chondrites and the evolution of the mantle-crust system | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1997 | 2,854 |
| 9 | The Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd isotopic composition of CHUR: Constraints from unequilibrated chondrites and implications for the bulk composition of terrestrial planets | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2008 | 2,427 |
| 10 | The 176Lu decay constant determined by Lu–Hf and U–Pb isotope systematics of Precambrian mafic intrusions | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2004 | 2,304 |
| 11 | Major and trace element composition of the depleted MORB mantle (DMM) | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2005 | 2,237 |
| 12 | A plate tectonic model for the Paleozoic and Mesozoic constrained by dynamic plate boundaries and restored synthetic oceanic isochrons | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2002 | 2,162 |
| 13 | Cosmic ray labeling of erosion surfaces: in situ nuclide production rates and erosion models | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1991 | 2,149 |
| 14 | Least squares fitting of a straight line with correlated errors | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1968 | 1,971 |
| 15 | Experimentally based water budgets for dehydrating slabs and consequences for arc magma generation | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1998 | 1,907 |
| 16 | Ti-V plots and the petrogenesis of modern and ophiolitic lavas | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1982 | 1,878 |
| 17 | The application of a ThHfTa diagram to problems of tectonomagmatic classification and to establishing the nature of crustal contamination of basaltic lavas of the British Tertiary Volcanic Province | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1980 | 1,791 |
| 18 | Sm-Nd isotopic evolution of chondrites | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1980 | 1,762 |
| 19 | Computation of phase equilibria by linear programming: A tool for geodynamic modeling and its application to subduction zone decarbonation | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2005 | 1,728 |
| 20 | A Sm-Nd isotopic study of atmospheric dusts and particulates from major river systems | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1984 | 1,553 |
| 21 | A high-resolution, absolute-dated Holocene and deglacial Asian monsoon record from Dongge Cave, China | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2005 | 1,510 |
| 22 | Carbon isotope fractionation between dissolved bicarbonate and gaseous carbon dioxide | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1974 | 1,466 |
| 23 | Nb and Pb in oceanic basalts: new constraints on mantle evolution | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1986 | 1,459 |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | Mantle plumes from ancient oceanic crust | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1982 | 1,367 |
| 26 | Slab breakoff: A model of lithosphere detachment and its test in the magmatism and deformation of collisional orogens | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1995 | 1,337 |
| 27 | Nature and significance of the Early Cretaceous giant igneous event in eastern China | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2005 | 1,260 |
| 28 | Viscosity of magmatic liquids: A model | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2008 | 1,257 |
| 29 | Geochemical and geodynamical constraints on subduction zone magmatism | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1991 | 1,248 |
| 30 | The stable isotopic composition of modern soil carbonate and its relationship to climate | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1984 | 1,225 |
| 31 | Use of U–Pb ages of detrital zircons to infer maximum depositional ages of strata: A test against a Colorado Plateau Mesozoic database | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2009 | 1,128 |
| 32 | The Lhasa Terrane: Record of a microcontinent and its histories of drift and growth | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2011 | 1,096 |
| 33 | Implications of mantle plume structure for the evolution of flood basalts | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1990 | 1,091 |
| 34 | African climate change and faunal evolution during the Pliocene–Pleistocene | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2004 | 1,071 |
| 35 | 238U234U230Th232Th systematics and the precise measurement of time over the past 500,000 years | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1987 | 1,068 |
| 36 | Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2013 | 1,007 |
| 37 | The origin of ocean island basalt end-member compositions: trace element and isotopic constraints | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1991 | 1,006 |
| 38 | Ore lead isotope ratios in a continuously changing earth | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1975 | 966 |
| 39 | Distributional variations in marine crenarchaeotal membrane lipids: a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea water temperatures? | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2002 | 963 |
| 40 | Lunar initial 143Nd/144Nd: Differential evolution of the lunar crust and mantle | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1978 | 952 |
| 41 | A novel proxy for terrestrial organic matter in sediments based on branched and isoprenoid tetraether lipids | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2004 | 939 |
| 42 | Relationships between Lu–Hf and Sm–Nd isotopic systems in the global sedimentary system | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1999 | 936 |
| 43 | The astronomical theory of climate and the age of the Brunhes-Matuyama magnetic reversal | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1994 | 932 |
| 44 | Three distinct types of hotspots in the Earth’s mantle | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2003 | 932 |
| 45 | Age of initiation of collision between India and Asia: A review of stratigraphic data | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1996 | 929 |
| 46 | Adakites without slab melting: High pressure differentiation of island arc magma, Mindanao, the Philippines | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2006 | 924 |
| 47 | Oceanographic distributions of cadmium, zinc, nickel, and copper in the North Pacific | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1980 | 922 |
| 48 | SHRIMP U–Pb zircon geochronological and geochemical evidence for Neoproterozoic arc-magmatism along the western margin of the Yangtze Block, South China | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2002 | 911 |
| 49 | A general mixing equation with applications to Icelandic basalts | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1978 | 895 |
| 50 | U/Pb zircon ages constrain the architecture of the ultrahigh-pressure Qinling–Dabie Orogen, China | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1998 | 877 |
