| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Fluorometric Determination of Chlorophyll | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1965 | 2,073 |
| 2 | On the interrelationships between natural mortality, growth parameters, and mean environmental temperature in 175 fish stocks | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1980 | 1,814 |
| 3 | The Use of Radio-active Carbon (C14) for Measuring Organic Production in the Sea | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1952 | 1,797 |
| 4 | On Conditions for the Vernal Blooming of Phytoplankton | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1953 | 1,732 |
| 5 | Impacts of ocean acidification on marine fauna and ecosystem processes | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2008 | 1,578 |
| 6 | The effects of fishing on sharks, rays, and chimaeras (chondrichthyans), and the implications for marine ecosystems | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2000 | 1,203 |
| 7 | Global change and eutrophication of coastal waters | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2009 | 835 |
| 8 | Small pelagics in upwelling systems: patterns of interaction and structural changes in “wasp-waist” ecosystems | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2000 | 826 |
| 9 | Ecopath, Ecosim, and Ecospace as tools for evaluating ecosystem impact of fisheries | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2000 | 779 |
| 10 | Fishing, selection, and phenotypic evolution | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2000 | 710 |
| 11 | Standardized diet compositions and trophic levels of sharks | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1999 | 702 |
| 12 | Variations and Fluctuations of the Number of Individuals in Animal Species living together | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1928 | 701 |
| 13 | In hot water: zooplankton and climate change | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2008 | 647 |
| 14 | A consistent approach to definitions and symbols in fisheries acoustics | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2002 | 592 |
| 15 | Resolving the effect of climate change on fish populations | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2009 | 537 |
| 16 | The Influence of Egg Size on Herring Larvae (Clupea harengus L.) | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1963 | 519 |
| 17 | Seabirds as monitors of the marine environment | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1997 | 504 |
| 18 | Marine litter within the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2013 | 491 |
| 19 | Diet composition and trophic levels of marine mammals | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1998 | 476 |
| 20 | BOFFFFs: on the importance of conserving old-growth age structure in fishery populations | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2014 | 456 |
| 21 | Variability in Atlantic water temperature and transport at the entrance to the Arctic Ocean, 1997–2010 | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2012 | 425 |
| 22 | Using size-based indicators to evaluate the ecosystem effects of fishing | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2005 | 423 |
| 23 | Interpreting catch per unit effort data to assess the status of individual stocks and communities | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2006 | 403 |
| 24 | Design of operational management strategies for achieving fishery ecosystem objectives | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2000 | 390 |
| 25 | The response of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) to future climate change | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2005 | 377 |
| 26 | Diet studies of seabirds: a review and recommendations | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2007 | 376 |
| 27 | Ecosystem approach to fisheries: a review of implementation guidelines1 | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2005 | 362 |
| 28 | Continental slope and deep-sea fisheries: implications for a fragile ecosystem | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2000 | 355 |
| 29 | Normalization of heavy-metal data from estuarine and coastal sediments | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1991 | 354 |
| 30 | A framework for selecting a suite of indicators for fisheries management | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2005 | 341 |
| 31 | Implementing effective fisheries-management systems – management strategy evaluation and the Australian partnership approach | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1999 | 324 |
| 32 | Scientific tools to support the practical implementation of ecosystem-based fisheries management | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2007 | 322 |
| 33 | Climate impacts on eastern Bering Sea foodwebs: a synthesis of new data and an assessment of the Oscillating Control Hypothesis | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2011 | 321 |
| 34 | Synchronous ecological regime shifts in the central Baltic and the North Sea in the late 1980s | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2005 | 318 |
| 35 | Which ecological indicators can robustly detect effects of fishing? | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2005 | 310 |
| 36 | Cod Growth and Temperature | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1958 | 309 |
| 37 | The impacts of deep-sea fisheries on benthic communities: a review | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2016 | 302 |
| 38 | Evaluating the predictive performance of empirical estimators of natural mortality rate using information on over 200 fish species | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2015 | 301 |
| 39 | Risk assessment of the environmental impact of Norwegian Atlantic salmon farming | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2015 | 299 |
| 40 | Impact of fishing on size composition and diversity of demersal fish communities | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2000 | 298 |
| 41 | Fluctuations in the year classes of important food fishes | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1926 | 297 |
| 42 | Experiences in the evaluation and implementation of management procedures | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1999 | 287 |
| 43 | Impact of cage farming of fish on the seabed in three Mediterranean coastal areas | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2000 | 287 |
| 44 | Possible ecosystem impacts of applying MSY policies from single-species assessment | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2005 | 283 |
| 45 | A versatile new stock-recruitment relationship for fisheries, and the construction of sustainable yield curves | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1982 | 281 |
| 46 | The Determination of Organic Carbon in Marine Muds | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1957 | 277 |
| 47 | The Island Mass Effect | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 1956 | 271 |
| 48 | Application of a sequential regime shift detection method to the Bering Sea ecosystem | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2005 | 269 |
| 49 | Managing fisheries to conserve the Antarctic marine ecosystem: practical implementation of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2000 | 267 |
| 50 | Effort distribution and catch patterns adjacent to temperate MPAs | ICES Journal of Marine Science | 2005 | 267 |
