| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The least-squares line and plane and the analysis of palaeomagnetic data | Geophysical Journal International | 1980 | 4,659 |
| 2 | Current plate motions | Geophysical Journal International | 1990 | 3,443 |
| 3 | Linear Models of Dissipation whose Q is almost Frequency Independent--II | Geophysical Journal International | 1967 | 3,079 |
| 4 | Traveltimes for global earthquake location and phase identification | Geophysical Journal International | 1991 | 3,011 |
| 5 | Constraints on seismic velocities in the Earth from traveltimes | Geophysical Journal International | 1995 | 2,775 |
| 6 | Active Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region | Geophysical Journal International | 1972 | 2,325 |
| 7 | Geologically current plate motions | Geophysical Journal International | 2010 | 2,076 |
| 8 | Processing seismic ambient noise data to obtain reliable broad-band surface wave dispersion measurements | Geophysical Journal International | 2007 | 1,705 |
| 9 | On the Relative Importance of the Driving Forces of Plate Motion | Geophysical Journal International | 1975 | 1,380 |
| 10 | A review of the adjoint-state method for computing the gradient of a functional with geophysical applications | Geophysical Journal International | 2006 | 1,357 |
| 11 | Seismic traveltime inversion for 2-D crustal velocity structure | Geophysical Journal International | 1992 | 1,338 |
| 12 | Gauss-Newton and full Newton methods in frequency-space seismic waveform inversion | Geophysical Journal International | 1998 | 1,255 |
| 13 | The Resolving Power of Gross Earth Data | Geophysical Journal International | 1968 | 1,245 |
| 14 | Classification of the reversal test in palaeomagnetism | Geophysical Journal International | 1990 | 1,234 |
| 15 | Geophysical inversion with a neighbourhood algorithm-I. Searching a parameter space | Geophysical Journal International | 1999 | 1,219 |
| 16 | Wave speeds and attenuation of elastic waves in material containing cracks | Geophysical Journal International | 1981 | 1,194 |
| 17 | Active tectonics of the Alpine--Himalayan belt: the Aegean Sea and surrounding regions | Geophysical Journal International | 1978 | 1,192 |
| 18 | The Rapid Calculation of Potential Anomalies | Geophysical Journal International | 1973 | 1,161 |
| 19 | Introduction to the spectral element method for three-dimensional seismic wave propagation | Geophysical Journal International | 1999 | 1,095 |
| 20 | Progressive failure on the North Anatolian fault since 1939 by earthquake stress triggering | Geophysical Journal International | 1997 | 1,061 |
| 21 | Speculations on the Consequences and Causes of Plate Motions | Geophysical Journal International | 1969 | 1,002 |
| 22 | Active tectonics of the Alpine--Himalayan Belt between western Turkey and Pakistan | Geophysical Journal International | 1984 | 973 |
| 23 | The Retrieval of Harmonics from a Covariance Function | Geophysical Journal International | 1973 | 913 |
| 24 | Present-day crustal deformation and plate kinematics in the Middle East constrained by GPS measurements in Iran and northern Oman | Geophysical Journal International | 2004 | 913 |
| 25 | International Geomagnetic Reference Field: the eleventh generation | Geophysical Journal International | 2010 | 907 |
| 26 | Computation of Synthetic Seismograms with the Reflectivity Method and Comparison with Observations | Geophysical Journal International | 1971 | 896 |
| 27 | S40RTS: a degree-40 shear-velocity model for the mantle from new Rayleigh wave dispersion, teleseismic traveltime and normal-mode splitting function measurements | Geophysical Journal International | 2011 | 877 |
| 28 | Active tectonics of the north and central Aegean Sea | Geophysical Journal International | 1991 | 869 |
| 29 | The magnetotelluric phase tensor | Geophysical Journal International | 2004 | 852 |
| 30 | Crustal thickening in Gansu-Qinghai, lithospheric mantle subduction, and oblique, strike-slip controlled growth of the Tibet plateau | Geophysical Journal International | 1998 | 833 |
| 31 | The relationship between plate motions and seismic moment tensors, and the rates of active deformation in the Mediterranean and Middle East | Geophysical Journal International | 1988 | 823 |
| 32 | Seismic tomography, adjoint methods, time reversal and banana-doughnut kernels | Geophysical Journal International | 2004 | 804 |
| 33 | Stress and temperature in the bending lithosphere as constrained by experimental rock mechanics | Geophysical Journal International | 1979 | 790 |
| 34 | Numerical Applications of a Formalism for Geophysical Inverse Problems | Geophysical Journal International | 1967 | 782 |
| 35 | Young tracks of hotspots and current plate velocities | Geophysical Journal International | 2002 | 781 |
| 36 | Surface-wave array tomography in SE Tibet from ambient seismic noise and two-station analysis - I. Phase velocity maps | Geophysical Journal International | 2006 | 777 |
| 37 | Finite difference computation of traveltimes in very contrasted velocity models: a massively parallel approach and its associated tools | Geophysical Journal International | 1991 | 766 |
| 38 | The Evolution of the Indian Ocean since the Late Cretaceous | Geophysical Journal International | 1971 | 749 |
| 39 | A thin viscous sheet model for continental deformation | Geophysical Journal International | 1982 | 739 |
| 40 | Spectral-element simulations of global seismic wave propagation-I. Validation | Geophysical Journal International | 2002 | 729 |
| 41 | Numerical Modelling of Instantaneous Plate Tectonics | Geophysical Journal International | 1974 | 726 |
| 42 | A study of geomagnetic storms | Geophysical Journal International | 1978 | 712 |
| 43 | Generation of Pseudotachylyte by Ancient Seismic Faulting | Geophysical Journal International | 1975 | 698 |
| 44 | Interpretation of Inaccurate, Insufficient and Inconsistent Data | Geophysical Journal International | 1972 | 697 |
| 45 | Velocity dispersion due to anelasticity; implications for seismology and mantle composition | Geophysical Journal International | 1976 | 687 |
| 46 | Raman spectroscopy of iron oxides and (oxy)hydroxides at low laser power and possible applications in environmental magnetic studies | Geophysical Journal International | 2009 | 687 |
| 47 | Magnetic properties of some synthetic sub-micron magnetites | Geophysical Journal International | 1988 | 679 |
| 48 | The Implications of Terrestrial Heat Flow Observations on Current Tectonic and Geochemical Models of the Crust and Upper Mantle of the Earth | Geophysical Journal International | 1970 | 676 |
| 49 | Geophysical inversion with a neighbourhood algorithm-II. Appraising the ensemble | Geophysical Journal International | 1999 | 676 |
| 50 | Foreland basins | Geophysical Journal International | 1981 | 658 |
