| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The composition of the Earth | Chemical Geology | 1995 | 11,094 |
| 2 | Geochemical discrimination of different magma series and their differentiation products using immobile elements | Chemical Geology | 1977 | 4,226 |
| 3 | The application of laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry to in situ U–Pb zircon geochronology | Chemical Geology | 2004 | 4,097 |
| 4 | Plešovice zircon — A new natural reference material for U–Pb and Hf isotopic microanalysis | Chemical Geology | 2008 | 3,858 |
| 5 | Correction of common lead in U–Pb analyses that do not report 204Pb | Chemical Geology | 2002 | 3,664 |
| 6 | In situ analysis of major and trace elements of anhydrous minerals by LA-ICP-MS without applying an internal standard | Chemical Geology | 2008 | 3,342 |
| 7 | The chemical composition of subducting sediment and its consequences for the crust and mantle | Chemical Geology | 1998 | 3,091 |
| 8 | Trace metals as paleoredox and paleoproductivity proxies: An update | Chemical Geology | 2006 | 2,806 |
| 9 | Carbon and hydrogen isotope systematics of bacterial formation and oxidation of methane | Chemical Geology | 1999 | 2,464 |
| 10 | Global silicate weathering and CO2 consumption rates deduced from the chemistry of large rivers | Chemical Geology | 1999 | 2,300 |
| 11 | Preservation of elemental and isotopic source identification of sedimentary organic matter | Chemical Geology | 1994 | 2,248 |
| 12 | 87Sr/86Sr, δ13C and δ18O evolution of Phanerozoic seawater | Chemical Geology | 1999 | 2,246 |
| 13 | Zircon trace element geochemistry: partitioning with garnet and the link between U–Pb ages and metamorphism | Chemical Geology | 2002 | 2,230 |
| 14 | Hf isotopic compositions of the standard zircons and baddeleyites used in U–Pb geochronology | Chemical Geology | 2006 | 2,230 |
| 15 | TEMORA 1: a new zircon standard for Phanerozoic U–Pb geochronology | Chemical Geology | 2003 | 2,017 |
| 16 | Chemical composition and evolution of the upper continental crust: Contrasting results from surface samples and shales | Chemical Geology | 1993 | 1,896 |
| 17 | The age curves of sulfur and oxygen isotopes in marine sulfate and their mutual interpretation | Chemical Geology | 1980 | 1,651 |
| 18 | Comparison of geochemical indices used for the interpretation of palaeoredox conditions in ancient mudstones | Chemical Geology | 1994 | 1,583 |
| 19 | Intercalibration of standards, absolute ages and uncertainties in 40Ar/39Ar dating | Chemical Geology | 1998 | 1,545 |
| 20 | Reaction between slab-derived melts and peridotite in the mantle wedge: experimental constraints at 3.8 GPa | Chemical Geology | 1999 | 1,497 |
| 21 | Improved 206Pb/238U microprobe geochronology by the monitoring of a trace-element-related matrix effect; SHRIMP, ID–TIMS, ELA–ICP–MS and oxygen isotope documentation for a series of zircon standards | Chemical Geology | 2004 | 1,472 |
| 22 | A method of discriminating between different types of mid-ocean ridge basalts and continental tholeiites with the Nb1bZr1bY diagram | Chemical Geology | 1986 | 1,465 |
| 23 | JNdi-1: a neodymium isotopic reference in consistency with LaJolla neodymium | Chemical Geology | 2000 | 1,418 |
| 24 | An improved model calculating CO2 solubility in pure water and aqueous NaCl solutions from 273 to 533 K and from 0 to 2000 bar | Chemical Geology | 2003 | 1,289 |
| 25 | Trace-element behavior and redox facies in core shales of Upper Pennsylvanian Kansas-type cyclothems | Chemical Geology | 2004 | 1,230 |
| 26 | Provenance signatures of sandstone-mudstone suites determined using discriminant function analysis of major-element data | Chemical Geology | 1988 | 1,226 |
| 27 | The use of chromium reduction in the analysis of reduced inorganic sulfur in sediments and shales | Chemical Geology | 1986 | 1,173 |
| 28 | Precise analysis of copper and zinc isotopic compositions by plasma-source mass spectrometry | Chemical Geology | 1999 | 1,142 |
| 29 | A-type granites in northeastern China: age and geochemical constraints on their petrogenesis | Chemical Geology | 2002 | 1,114 |
| 30 | Zircon U–Pb chemical abrasion (“CA-TIMS”) method: Combined annealing and multi-step partial dissolution analysis for improved precision and accuracy of zircon ages | Chemical Geology | 2005 | 1,112 |
| 31 | On the visualisation of detrital age distributions | Chemical Geology | 2012 | 1,082 |
| 32 | The half-lives of uranium-234 and thorium-230 | Chemical Geology | 2000 | 1,072 |
| 33 | A classification of volcanic and plutonic rocks using R 1 R 2 -diagram and major-element analyses — Its relationships with current nomenclature | Chemical Geology | 1980 | 1,044 |
| 34 | Environmental analysis of paleoceanographic systems based on molybdenum–uranium covariation | Chemical Geology | 2009 | 1,042 |
| 35 | Methane hydrate — A major reservoir of carbon in the shallow geosphere? | Chemical Geology | 1988 | 1,005 |
| 36 | Collision of the North China and Yangtse Blocks and formation of coesite-bearing eclogites: Timing and processes | Chemical Geology | 1993 | 981 |
| 37 | Rare-earth element mobility during hydrothermal and metamorphic fluid-rock interaction and the significance of the oxidation state of europium | Chemical Geology | 1991 | 975 |
| 38 | Pb diffusion in zircon | Chemical Geology | 2001 | 966 |
| 39 | The effect of time on the weathering of silicate minerals: why do weathering rates differ in the laboratory and field? | Chemical Geology | 2003 | 940 |
| 40 | Development of a sequential extraction procedure for iron: implications for iron partitioning in continentally derived particulates | Chemical Geology | 2005 | 932 |
| 41 | Interpreting carbon-isotope excursions: carbonates and organic matter | Chemical Geology | 1999 | 900 |
| 42 | Composition-volume relationships of metasomatism | Chemical Geology | 1967 | 881 |
| 43 | Petrogenetic interpretation of granitoid rock series using multicationic parameters | Chemical Geology | 1985 | 863 |
| 44 | Crust–mantle interaction induced by deep subduction of the continental crust: geochemical and Sr–Nd isotopic evidence from post-collisional mafic–ultramafic intrusions of the northern Dabie complex, central China | Chemical Geology | 1999 | 860 |
| 45 | Simultaneous determinations of U–Pb age, Hf isotopes and trace element compositions of zircon by excimer laser-ablation quadrupole and multiple-collector ICP-MS | Chemical Geology | 2008 | 829 |
| 46 | Zircon saturation re-revisited | Chemical Geology | 2013 | 822 |
| 47 | Zircon Hf-isotope analysis with an excimer laser, depth profiling, ablation of complex geometries, and concomitant age estimation | Chemical Geology | 2004 | 813 |
| 48 | Characterization of spinel peridotites by olivine-spinel compositional relationships: Review and interpretation | Chemical Geology | 1994 | 805 |
| 49 | Zircon U–Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic constraints on petrogenesis of the Gangdese batholith, southern Tibet | Chemical Geology | 2009 | 793 |
| 50 | Factors influencing organic carbon preservation in marine sediments | Chemical Geology | 1994 | 789 |
