| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | PAHs in the Fraser River basin: a critical appraisal of PAH ratios as indicators of PAH source and composition | Organic Geochemistry | 2002 | 3,412 |
| 2 | Organic geochemical proxies of paleoceanographic, paleolimnologic, and paleoclimatic processes | Organic Geochemistry | 1997 | 1,806 |
| 3 | A review of sterol markers for marine and terrigenous organic matter | Organic Geochemistry | 1986 | 1,655 |
| 4 | Lacustrine organic geochemistry—an overview of indicators of organic matter sources and diagenesis in lake sediments | Organic Geochemistry | 1993 | 1,469 |
| 5 | An overview of fast pyrolysis of biomass | Organic Geochemistry | 1999 | 1,434 |
| 6 | What happens to terrestrial organic matter in the ocean? | Organic Geochemistry | 1997 | 1,294 |
| 7 | Applications of organic geochemistry to paleolimnological reconstructions: a summary of examples from the Laurentian Great Lakes | Organic Geochemistry | 2003 | 1,257 |
| 8 | An n-alkane proxy for the sedimentary input of submerged/floating freshwater aquatic macrophytes | Organic Geochemistry | 2000 | 1,245 |
| 9 | Properties of fluorescent dissolved organic matter in the Gironde Estuary | Organic Geochemistry | 2009 | 1,235 |
| 10 | Role of the soil matrix and minerals in protecting natural organic materials against biological attack | Organic Geochemistry | 2000 | 1,147 |
| 11 | Microalgal biomarkers: A review of recent research developments | Organic Geochemistry | 1998 | 1,046 |
| 12 | Effect of organic-matter type and thermal maturity on methane adsorption in shale-gas systems | Organic Geochemistry | 2012 | 985 |
| 13 | Kerogen origin, evolution and structure | Organic Geochemistry | 2007 | 950 |
| 14 | Oxidation of black carbon by biotic and abiotic processes | Organic Geochemistry | 2006 | 942 |
| 15 | The role of DOM sorption to mineral surfaces in the preservation of organic matter in soils | Organic Geochemistry | 2000 | 834 |
| 16 | The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review | Organic Geochemistry | 2013 | 807 |
| 17 | Chemical composition and bioavailability of thermally altered Pinus resinosa (Red pine) wood | Organic Geochemistry | 2002 | 723 |
| 18 | FTIR study of the evolution of coal structure during the coalification process | Organic Geochemistry | 1996 | 702 |
| 19 | Lipids of aquatic organisms as potential contributors to lacustrine sediments—II | Organic Geochemistry | 1987 | 694 |
| 20 | Compound-specific isotopic analyses: A novel tool for reconstruction of ancient biogeochemical processes | Organic Geochemistry | 1990 | 694 |
| 21 | Dissolved organic matter fluorescence spectroscopy as a tool to estimate biological activity in a coastal zone submitted to anthropogenic inputs | Organic Geochemistry | 2000 | 670 |
| 22 | Effects of source, thermal maturity, and biodegradation on the distribution and isomerization of homohopanes in petroleum | Organic Geochemistry | 1991 | 640 |
| 23 | Comparative organic geochemistries of soils and marine sediments | Organic Geochemistry | 1997 | 626 |
| 24 | The molecularly-uncharacterized component of nonliving organic matter in natural environments | Organic Geochemistry | 2000 | 618 |
| 25 | Compound-specific δ 13C analyses of leaf lipids from plants with differing carbon dioxide metabolisms | Organic Geochemistry | 1994 | 614 |
| 26 | Isolation of hydrophilic organic acids from water using nonionic macroporous resins | Organic Geochemistry | 1992 | 588 |
| 27 | Anoxic environments and oil source bed genesis | Organic Geochemistry | 1980 | 581 |
| 28 | Occurrence and distribution of tetraether membrane lipids in soils: Implications for the use of the TEX86 proxy and the BIT index | Organic Geochemistry | 2006 | 576 |
| 29 | Maturity parameters based on aromatic hydrocarbons: Influence of the organic matter type | Organic Geochemistry | 1986 | 538 |
| 30 | Black carbon affects the cycling of non-black carbon in soil | Organic Geochemistry | 2010 | 530 |
| 31 | Quantification of methanogenic pathways using stable carbon isotopic signatures: a review and a proposal | Organic Geochemistry | 2005 | 528 |
| 32 | Fractionation of hydrogen isotopes in lipid biosynthesis | Organic Geochemistry | 1999 | 512 |
| 33 | Interactive priming of black carbon and glucose mineralisation | Organic Geochemistry | 2004 | 475 |
| 34 | Sensitivity of biomarker properties to depositional environment and/or source input in the Lower Toarcian of SW-Germany | Organic Geochemistry | 1986 | 469 |
| 35 | An improved method to determine the absolute abundance of glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids | Organic Geochemistry | 2006 | 469 |
| 36 | δD values of individual n-alkanes from terrestrial plants along a climatic gradient – Implications for the sedimentary biomarker record | Organic Geochemistry | 2006 | 455 |
| 37 | Variations in the sterane carbon number distributions of marine source rock derived crude oils through geological time | Organic Geochemistry | 1988 | 454 |
| 38 | Thermal cracking of kerogen in open and closed systems: determination of kinetic parameters and stoichiometric coefficients for oil and gas generation | Organic Geochemistry | 1997 | 426 |
| 39 | Analysis, structure and geochemical significance of organically-bound sulphur in the geosphere: State of the art and future research | Organic Geochemistry | 1990 | 424 |
| 40 | Experimental simulation in a confined system and kinetic modelling of kerogen and oil cracking | Organic Geochemistry | 1992 | 424 |
| 41 | Black carbon in soils: the use of benzenecarboxylic acids as specific markers | Organic Geochemistry | 1998 | 422 |
| 42 | The biogeochemistry of Ellesmere Lake, U.K.—I: source correlation of leaf wax inputs to the sedimentary lipid record | Organic Geochemistry | 1991 | 421 |
| 43 | Kerogen/asphaltene/sulfur relationships in sulfur-rich Monterey oils | Organic Geochemistry | 1986 | 405 |
| 44 | Black carbon in density fractions of anthropogenic soils of the Brazilian Amazon region | Organic Geochemistry | 2000 | 402 |
| 45 | A review of the geochemistry of methane in natural gas hydrate | Organic Geochemistry | 1995 | 391 |
| 46 | Use of 14 C and 13 C natural abundances for evaluating riverine, estuarine, and coastal DOC and POC sources and cycling: a review and synthesis | Organic Geochemistry | 2001 | 381 |
| 47 | Geochemistry of the extremely high thermal maturity Longmaxi shale gas, southern Sichuan Basin | Organic Geochemistry | 2014 | 377 |
| 48 | Methane oxidation in sediment and water column environments—Isotope evidence | Organic Geochemistry | 1986 | 362 |
| 49 | Stabilisation of soil organic matter by interactions with minerals as revealed by mineral dissolution and oxidative degradation | Organic Geochemistry | 2003 | 362 |
| 50 | Revised genetic diagrams for natural gases based on a global dataset of >20,000 samples | Organic Geochemistry | 2018 | 355 |
