| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Global observations of nonlinear mesoscale eddies | Progress in Oceanography | 2011 | 1,745 |
| 2 | The monsoon circulation of the Indian Ocean | Progress in Oceanography | 2001 | 1,325 |
| 3 | Empirical evidence for North Pacific regime shifts in 1977 and 1989 | Progress in Oceanography | 2000 | 1,268 |
| 4 | Characteristics, dynamics and significance of marine snow | Progress in Oceanography | 1988 | 1,205 |
| 5 | A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves | Progress in Oceanography | 2016 | 1,081 |
| 6 | The “great salinity anomaly” in the Northern North Atlantic 1968–1982 | Progress in Oceanography | 1988 | 1,068 |
| 7 | Upper-level circulation in the South Atlantic Ocean | Progress in Oceanography | 1991 | 901 |
| 8 | Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) in aquatic environments | Progress in Oceanography | 2002 | 887 |
| 9 | Circulation, mixing, and production of Antarctic Bottom Water | Progress in Oceanography | 1999 | 858 |
| 10 | North Atlantic–Nordic Seas exchanges | Progress in Oceanography | 2000 | 811 |
| 11 | Rapid warming of Large Marine Ecosystems | Progress in Oceanography | 2009 | 735 |
| 12 | The 2004–2008 mean and annual cycle of temperature, salinity, and steric height in the global ocean from the Argo Program | Progress in Oceanography | 2009 | 734 |
| 13 | Role of large particles in the transport of elements and organic compounds through the oceanic water column | Progress in Oceanography | 1986 | 726 |
| 14 | Coastal upwelling in the California current system | Progress in Oceanography | 1983 | 671 |
| 15 | The California current system—hypotheses and facts | Progress in Oceanography | 1979 | 670 |
| 16 | Oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) in the modern ocean | Progress in Oceanography | 2009 | 646 |
| 17 | The circulation of the eastern tropical Pacific: A review | Progress in Oceanography | 2006 | 619 |
| 18 | Zooplankton fecal pellets, marine snow, phytodetritus and the ocean’s biological pump | Progress in Oceanography | 2015 | 618 |
| 19 | The monsoon currents in the north Indian Ocean | Progress in Oceanography | 2002 | 602 |
| 20 | A numerical investigation of dynamics, thermodynamics and mixed-layer processes in the Indian Ocean | Progress in Oceanography | 1993 | 601 |
| 21 | River discharges of water and nutrients to the Mediterranean and Black Sea: Major drivers for ecosystem changes during past and future decades? | Progress in Oceanography | 2009 | 595 |
| 22 | Long-term coordinated changes in the convective activity of the North Atlantic | Progress in Oceanography | 1996 | 572 |
| 23 | Primary production in the eastern tropical Pacific: A review | Progress in Oceanography | 2006 | 571 |
| 24 | Hydrography of the eastern tropical Pacific: A review | Progress in Oceanography | 2006 | 554 |
| 25 | Ecosystem dynamics of the Pacific-influenced Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas in the Amerasian Arctic | Progress in Oceanography | 2006 | 539 |
| 26 | A comparison of Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystems | Progress in Oceanography | 2009 | 532 |
| 27 | The biological pump: Profiles of plankton production and consumption in the upper ocean | Progress in Oceanography | 1989 | 511 |
| 28 | Particulate organic carbon fluxes to the ocean interior and factors controlling the biological pump: A synthesis of global sediment trap programs since 1983 | Progress in Oceanography | 2008 | 510 |
| 29 | Continued increases in Arctic Ocean primary production | Progress in Oceanography | 2015 | 506 |
| 30 | Light and marine photosynthesis: a spectral model with geochemical and climatological implications | Progress in Oceanography | 1991 | 503 |
| 31 | Oxygen minimum zones in the eastern tropical Atlantic and Pacific oceans | Progress in Oceanography | 2008 | 498 |
| 32 | Glacial to interglacial changes in ocean chemistry | Progress in Oceanography | 1982 | 491 |
| 33 | Seasonal cycles of pelagic production and consumption | Progress in Oceanography | 1995 | 487 |
| 34 | The North Sea regime shift: Evidence, causes, mechanisms and consequences | Progress in Oceanography | 2004 | 480 |
| 35 | The electrification of the atmosphere by particles from bubbles in the sea | Progress in Oceanography | 1963 | 465 |
| 36 | Patterns and processes in the California Current System | Progress in Oceanography | 2009 | 464 |
| 37 | Wave modelling – The state of the art | Progress in Oceanography | 2007 | 425 |
| 38 | A review of ocean color remote sensing methods and statistical techniques for the detection, mapping and analysis of phytoplankton blooms in coastal and open oceans | Progress in Oceanography | 2014 | 424 |
| 39 | The transition zone chlorophyll front, a dynamic global feature defining migration and forage habitat for marine resources | Progress in Oceanography | 2001 | 416 |
| 40 | Nutrient gradients from the eutrophic Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary to the oligotrophic Kuroshio waters and re-evaluation of budgets for the East China Sea Shelf | Progress in Oceanography | 2007 | 412 |
| 41 | Mesoscale eddies off Peru in altimeter records: Identification algorithms and eddy spatio-temporal patterns | Progress in Oceanography | 2008 | 409 |
| 42 | Food webs and physical–biological coupling on pan-Arctic shelves: Unifying concepts and comprehensive perspectives | Progress in Oceanography | 2006 | 407 |
| 43 | “Great Salinity Anomalies” in the North Atlantic | Progress in Oceanography | 1998 | 400 |
| 44 | Understanding the export of biogenic particles in oceanic waters: Is there consensus? | Progress in Oceanography | 2007 | 394 |
| 45 | Marine ecosystems’ responses to climatic and anthropogenic forcings in the Mediterranean | Progress in Oceanography | 2011 | 385 |
| 46 | The trace element geochemistry of marine biogenic particulate matter | Progress in Oceanography | 1984 | 381 |
| 47 | Food webs and carbon flux in the Barents Sea | Progress in Oceanography | 2006 | 380 |
| 48 | The role of atmospheric deposition in the biogeochemistry of the Mediterranean Sea | Progress in Oceanography | 1999 | 370 |
| 49 | Consequences of changing sea-ice cover for primary and secondary producers in the European Arctic shelf seas: Timing, quantity, and quality | Progress in Oceanography | 2011 | 370 |
| 50 | Carbon and nitrogen cycling within the Bering/Chukchi Seas: Source regions for organic matter effecting AOU demands of the Arctic Ocean | Progress in Oceanography | 1989 | 368 |
