| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Convergence history across Zagros (Iran): constraints from collisional and earlier deformation | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2005 | 816 |
| 2 | End-Permian to mid-Triassic termination of the accretionary processes of the southern Altaids: implications for the geodynamic evolution, Phanerozoic continental growth, and metallogeny of Central Asia | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2009 | 794 |
| 3 | Cenozoic geodynamic evolution of the Aegean | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2010 | 554 |
| 4 | Tectonic evolution of the South Tianshan orogen and adjacent regions, NW China: geochemical and age constraints of granitoid rocks | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2009 | 509 |
| 5 | The brittle-plastic transition and the depth of seismic faulting | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 1988 | 480 |
| 6 | An evaluation of quartzite flow laws based on comparisons between experimentally and naturally deformed rocks | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2001 | 465 |
| 7 | New models for evolution of magma-poor rifted margins based on a review of data and concepts from West Iberia and the Alps | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2004 | 385 |
| 8 | The final rifting evolution at deep magma-poor passive margins from Iberia-Newfoundland: a new point of view | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2009 | 347 |
| 9 | West African provenance for Saxo-Thuringia (Bohemian Massif): Did Armorica ever leave pre-Pangean Gondwana? ? U/Pb-SHRIMP zircon evidence and the Nd-isotopic record | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2004 | 316 |
| 10 | Transport of terrestrial organic carbon to the oceans by rivers: re-estimating flux- and burial rates | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2000 | 314 |
| 11 | Grain size reduction by dynamic recrystallization: can it result in major rheological weakening? | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2001 | 311 |
| 12 | Benthic carbonate factories of the Phanerozoic | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2003 | 291 |
| 13 | Possible refugia for reefs in times of environmental stress | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2003 | 291 |
| 14 | Zircon age and Nd–Hf isotopic composition of the Yunnan Tethyan belt, southwestern China | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2007 | 270 |
| 15 | Organization of pre-Variscan basement areas at the north-Gondwanan margin | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2002 | 263 |
| 16 | Neoproterozoic?Early Paleozoic evolution of peri-Gondwanan terranes: implications for Laurentia-Gondwana connections | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2004 | 263 |
| 17 | Carbonate systems along nutrient and temperature gradients: some sedimentological and geochemical constraints | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2003 | 261 |
| 18 | Geochronology of the Karadere basement (NW Turkey) and implications for the geological evolution of the Istanbul zone | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2002 | 257 |
| 19 | Marine cold seeps and their manifestations: geological control, biogeochemical criteria and environmental conditions | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2014 | 253 |
| 20 | Two-dimensional numerical modeling of tectonic and metamorphic histories at active continental margins | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2006 | 245 |
| 21 | Reconstructing the Alps–Carpathians–Dinarides as a key to understanding switches in subduction polarity, slab gaps and surface motion | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2015 | 244 |
| 22 | Zircon ages and Nd isotopic and chemical compositions of orthogneisses from the Black Forest, Germany: evidence for a Cambrian magmatic arc | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2000 | 243 |
| 23 | The future of coral reefs in an age of global change | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2001 | 241 |
| 24 | A few remarks on the kinetics of static grain growth in rocks | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2001 | 236 |
| 25 | Menderes Massif (Western Turkey): structural, metamorphic and magmatic evolution - a synthesis | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2001 | 229 |
| 26 | Early Permian plutons from the northern North China Block: constraints on continental arc evolution and convergent margin magmatism related to the Central Asian Orogenic Belt | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2009 | 226 |
| 27 | Physical weathering of marbles caused by anisotropic thermal expansion | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2000 | 222 |
| 28 | Palagonite – a review | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2002 | 217 |
| 29 | Cold seep deposits of Beauvoisin (Oxfordian; southeastern France) and Marmorito (Miocene; northern Italy): microbially induced authigenic carbonates | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 1999 | 214 |
| 30 | Epithermal deposits in North Xinjiang, NW China | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2012 | 209 |
| 31 | Geodynamic evolution of Central Asia in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2009 | 204 |
| 32 | Morphology and environment of cold-water coral carbonate mounds on the NW European margin | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2007 | 191 |
| 33 | The role of tectonic grain size reduction in the rheological stratification of the lithosphere | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 1988 | 190 |
| 34 | Monogenetic volcanism: personal views and discussion | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2015 | 190 |
| 35 | The Oligo-/Miocene Qom Formation (Iran): evidence for an early Burdigalian restriction of the Tethyan Seaway and closure of its Iranian gateways | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2009 | 188 |
| 36 | Evolution of calc-alkaline to alkaline magmatism through Carboniferous convergence to Permian transcurrent tectonics, western Chinese Tianshan | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2009 | 187 |
| 37 | Multistage exhumation of the Menderes Massif, western Anatolia (Turkey) | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2001 | 185 |
| 38 | The tectonics of the Strandja Massif: late-Variscan and mid-Mesozoic deformation and metamorphism in the northern Aegean | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2001 | 185 |
| 39 | The micro-scale simulation of maturation: outline of a new technique and its potential applications | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 1989 | 181 |
| 40 | Kinematics of the Southern Rhodope Core Complex (North Greece) | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2007 | 181 |
| 41 | Early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Chinese South Tianshan Orogen: constraints from SHRIMP zircon U–Pb geochronology and geochemistry of basaltic and dioritic rocks from Xiate, NW China | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2009 | 180 |
| 42 | Organic carbon isotope ratios (δ 13 C) of Arctic Amerasian Continental shelf sediments | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2000 | 176 |
| 43 | Oxygen isotope evolution of biogenic calcite and apatite during the Middle and Late Devonian | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2004 | 175 |
| 44 | Variscan amphibolite-facies rocks from the Kurtoğlu metamorphic complex (Gümüşhane area, Eastern Pontides, Turkey) | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2007 | 174 |
| 45 | Coastal erosion vs riverine sediment discharge in the Arctic Shelf seas | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2000 | 173 |
| 46 | The Río de la Plata Craton: a review of units, boundaries, ages and isotopic signature | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2011 | 172 |
| 47 | Post-collisional sediment budget history of the Alps: tectonic versus climatic control | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2002 | 168 |
| 48 | Sandstone diagenesis and porosity modification during basin evolution | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 1989 | 167 |
| 49 | Sedimentary aspects and paleoenvironmental evolution of a rift basin: Salta Group (Cretaceous–Paleogene), northwestern Argentina | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2005 | 164 |
| 50 | Geological, geochemical and mineralogical features of some bauxite deposits from Nurra (Western Sardinia, Italy): insights on conditions of formation and parental affinity | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2007 | 163 |
