| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Coral bleaching: causes and consequences | Coral Reefs | 1997 | 1,201 |
| 2 | Coral reef bleaching: ecological perspectives | Coral Reefs | 1993 | 852 |
| 3 | Bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef: differential susceptibilities among taxa | Coral Reefs | 2000 | 830 |
| 4 | Competition between corals and algae on coral reefs: a review of evidence and mechanisms | Coral Reefs | 2001 | 802 |
| 5 | Model of a coral reef ecosystem | Coral Reefs | 1984 | 673 |
| 6 | Coral bleaching: interpretation of thermal tolerance limits and thermal thresholds in tropical corals | Coral Reefs | 2001 | 637 |
| 7 | The importance of structural complexity in coral reef ecosystems | Coral Reefs | 2013 | 628 |
| 8 | Oxidative stress causes coral bleaching during exposure to elevated temperatures | Coral Reefs | 1997 | 529 |
| 9 | Response of Hawaiian and other Indo-Pacific reef corals to elevated temperature | Coral Reefs | 1990 | 527 |
| 10 | Macroalgae, nutrients and phase shifts on coral reefs: scientific issues and management consequences for the Great Barrier Reef | Coral Reefs | 1999 | 525 |
| 11 | Reefs since Columbus | Coral Reefs | 1997 | 495 |
| 12 | Patterns in the distribution of coral communities across the central Great Barrier Reef | Coral Reefs | 1982 | 490 |
| 13 | Assessing the ‘deep reef refugia’ hypothesis: focus on Caribbean reefs | Coral Reefs | 2010 | 485 |
| 14 | Larval retention and connectivity among populations of corals and reef fishes: history, advances and challenges | Coral Reefs | 2009 | 460 |
| 15 | Experimental evidence for high temperature stress as the cause of El Ni�o-coincident coral mortality | Coral Reefs | 1990 | 458 |
| 16 | Natural inducers for coral larval metamorphosis | Coral Reefs | 1999 | 458 |
| 17 | A comparison of the 1998 and 2002 coral bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef: spatial correlation, patterns, and predictions | Coral Reefs | 2004 | 440 |
| 18 | Bleaching in coral reef anthozoans: effects of irradiance, ultraviolet radiation, and temperature on the activities of protective enzymes against active oxygen | Coral Reefs | 1990 | 420 |
| 19 | Reproductive ecology of Caribbean reef corals | Coral Reefs | 1986 | 417 |
| 20 | The effects of prolonged ?bleaching? on the tissue biomass and reproduction of the reef coral Montastrea annularis | Coral Reefs | 1990 | 409 |
| 21 | Do fluctuating temperature environments elevate coral thermal tolerance? | Coral Reefs | 2011 | 397 |
| 22 | Disturbance and recovery of coral assemblages | Coral Reefs | 1997 | 395 |
| 23 | Community ecology of mesophotic coral reef ecosystems | Coral Reefs | 2010 | 386 |
| 24 | Exposure to solar radiation increases damage to both host tissues and algal symbionts of corals during thermal stress | Coral Reefs | 2004 | 374 |
| 25 | A unified theory of biogeography and relative species abundance and its application to tropical rain forests and coral reefs | Coral Reefs | 1997 | 367 |
| 26 | Diversity of bacteria associated with the Caribbean coral Montastraea franksi | Coral Reefs | 2001 | 361 |
| 27 | Biological destruction of coral reefs | Coral Reefs | 1986 | 351 |
| 28 | Coral disease following massive bleaching in 2005 causes 60% decline in coral cover on reefs in the US Virgin Islands | Coral Reefs | 2009 | 341 |
| 29 | Relationships between coral reef substrata and fish | Coral Reefs | 1997 | 337 |
| 30 | The predation gauntlet: early post-settlement mortality in reef fishes | Coral Reefs | 2006 | 336 |
| 31 | Ocean acidification and calcifying reef organisms: a mesocosm investigation | Coral Reefs | 2008 | 329 |
| 32 | Sexual reproduction, development and larval biology in scleractinian corals | Coral Reefs | 1983 | 325 |
| 33 | Connectivity, biodiversity conservation and the design of marine reserve networks for coral reefs | Coral Reefs | 2009 | 314 |
| 34 | Theme section on “Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems: Characterization, Ecology, and Management” | Coral Reefs | 2010 | 306 |
| 35 | Are aggregation-fisheries sustainable? Reef fish fisheries as a case study | Coral Reefs | 2005 | 301 |
| 36 | Corrected western Atlantic sea-level curve for the last 11,000�years based on calibrated 14C dates from Acropora palmata framework and intertidal mangrove peat | Coral Reefs | 2003 | 295 |
| 37 | Connectivity and resilience of coral reef metapopulations in marine protected areas: matching empirical efforts to predictive needs | Coral Reefs | 2009 | 290 |
| 38 | Large-scale bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef | Coral Reefs | 1999 | 288 |
| 39 | Three lines of evidence to link outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns seastar Acanthaster planci to the release of larval food limitation | Coral Reefs | 2010 | 279 |
| 40 | Monitoring coral bleaching using a colour reference card | Coral Reefs | 2006 | 274 |
| 41 | The geological effects of hurricanes on coral reefs and the interpretation of storm deposits | Coral Reefs | 1993 | 273 |
| 42 | Acropora palmata reef framework: A reliable indicator of sea level in the western atlantic for the past 10,000 years | Coral Reefs | 1982 | 270 |
| 43 | Effects of habitat, wave exposure, and marine protected area status on coral reef fish assemblages in the Hawaiian archipelago | Coral Reefs | 2003 | 263 |
| 44 | A biogeographic analysis and review of the far eastern Pacific coral reef region | Coral Reefs | 2000 | 262 |
| 45 | High diversity and host specificity observed among symbiotic dinoflagellates in reef coral communities from Hawaii | Coral Reefs | 2004 | 250 |
| 46 | Large-scale associations between macroalgal cover and grazer biomass on mid-depth reefs in the Caribbean | Coral Reefs | 2001 | 247 |
| 47 | Experience shapes the susceptibility of a reef coral to bleaching | Coral Reefs | 2002 | 246 |
| 48 | The 2014–2017 global-scale coral bleaching event: insights and impacts | Coral Reefs | 2019 | 246 |
| 49 | Seasonal and local spatial patterns in the upper thermal limits of corals on the inshore Central Great Barrier Reef | Coral Reefs | 1999 | 244 |
| 50 | Future coral reef habitat marginality: temporal and spatial effects of climate change in the Pacific basin | Coral Reefs | 2003 | 243 |
