| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Foraging ecology of southern elephant seals in relation to the bathymetry and productivity of the Southern Ocean | Antarctic Science | 1992 | 449 |
| 2 | Impacts of local human activities on the Antarctic environment | Antarctic Science | 2009 | 378 |
| 3 | ENSO-related impacts on Antarctic sea ice: a synthesis of phenomenon and mechanisms | Antarctic Science | 2004 | 343 |
| 4 | The role of grazing in structuring Southern Ocean pelagic ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles | Antarctic Science | 2004 | 268 |
| 5 | A revised inventory of Antarctic subglacial lakes | Antarctic Science | 2005 | 268 |
| 6 | Large scale importance of sea ice biology in the Southern Ocean | Antarctic Science | 2004 | 223 |
| 7 | Evolutionary origins of Antarctic microbiota: invasion, selection and endemism | Antarctic Science | 2000 | 222 |
| 8 | A two-dimensional model for the thermohaline circulation under an ice shelf | Antarctic Science | 1989 | 215 |
| 9 | Reproduction in Antarctic notothenioid fish | Antarctic Science | 1991 | 212 |
| 10 | Antarctic glacial isostatic adjustment: a new assessment | Antarctic Science | 2005 | 207 |
| 11 | Antarctic glacial history since the Last Glacial Maximum: an overview of the record on land | Antarctic Science | 1998 | 206 |
| 12 | A fourth inventory of Antarctic subglacial lakes | Antarctic Science | 2012 | 204 |
| 13 | Bottom water production and its links with the thermohaline circulation | Antarctic Science | 2004 | 201 |
| 14 | Trends in bird and seal populations as indicators of a system shift in the Southern Ocean | Antarctic Science | 2003 | 200 |
| 15 | Do Antarctic benthic invertebrates show an extended level of eurybathy? | Antarctic Science | 1996 | 196 |
| 16 | Antarctic climate change and the environment | Antarctic Science | 2009 | 195 |
| 17 | The dynamical balance, transport and circulation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current | Antarctic Science | 2004 | 189 |
| 18 | Benthic diatom flora of freshwater and saline lakes in the Larsemann Hills and Rauer Islands, East Antarctica | Antarctic Science | 2003 | 171 |
| 19 | Weaning mass and the future survival of juvenile southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, at Macquarie Island | Antarctic Science | 2000 | 166 |
| 20 | Review—The CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Programme | Antarctic Science | 1997 | 163 |
| 21 | Were the Larsemann Hills ice-free through the Last Glacial Maximum? | Antarctic Science | 2001 | 158 |
| 22 | A roadmap for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science for the next two decades and beyond | Antarctic Science | 2015 | 158 |
| 23 | Pup production and distribution of breeding Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) at South Georgia | Antarctic Science | 1993 | 146 |
| 24 | Population dynamics of marine benthic invertebrates in Antarctic and subantarctic environments: are there unique adaptations? | Antarctic Science | 1993 | 144 |
| 25 | Krill transport in the Scotia Sea and environs | Antarctic Science | 1998 | 143 |
| 26 | Satellite tracking of wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) in the South Atlantic | Antarctic Science | 1992 | 139 |
| 27 | Management of Southern Ocean fisheries: global forces and future sustainability | Antarctic Science | 2004 | 138 |
| 28 | Some aspects of the great success of lichens in Antarctica | Antarctic Science | 2000 | 137 |
| 29 | Gondwanan floristic and sedimentological trends during the Permian–Triassic transition: new evidence from the Amery Group, northern Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica | Antarctic Science | 1997 | 136 |
| 30 | The role of fish in the Antarctic marine food web: differences between inshore and offshore waters in the southern Scotia Arc and west Antarctic Peninsula | Antarctic Science | 2002 | 136 |
| 31 | Prospects for survival in the Southern Ocean: vulnerability of benthic species to temperature change | Antarctic Science | 2005 | 136 |
| 32 | A late Holocene lake sediment sequence from Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, with palaeoclimatic implications | Antarctic Science | 1991 | 135 |
| 33 | An inventory of Antarctic sub-glacial lakes | Antarctic Science | 1996 | 129 |
| 34 | Hydrologic response to extreme warm and cold summers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, East Antarctica | Antarctic Science | 2008 | 128 |
| 35 | Zircon ages and the distribution of Archaean and Proterozoic rocks in the Rauer Islands | Antarctic Science | 1993 | 127 |
| 36 | Evolution and diversity of the benthic fauna of the Southern Ocean continental shelf | Antarctic Science | 2004 | 127 |
| 37 | Co-variation in soil biodiversity and biogeochemistry in northern and southern Victoria Land, Antarctica | Antarctic Science | 2006 | 127 |
| 38 | Southern Ocean sea ice and its wider linkages: insights revealed from models and observations | Antarctic Science | 2004 | 125 |
| 39 | Decadal-scale changes in the climate and biota of the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, 1950s to the 1990s | Antarctic Science | 2005 | 125 |
| 40 | Opinion: Projecting the effects of environmental change on Antarctic seals | Antarctic Science | 2008 | 125 |
| 41 | Late Quaternary sediment facies in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica and their relationship to glacial advance onto the continental shelf | Antarctic Science | 1998 | 124 |
| 42 | Mapping the grounding zone of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica using InSAR, MODIS and ICESat | Antarctic Science | 2009 | 124 |
| 43 | Some “driving forces” structuring communities of the sublittoral Antarctic macrobenthos | Antarctic Science | 2000 | 121 |
| 44 | Glacial and marine geological evidence for the ice sheet configuration in the Weddell Sea–Antarctic Peninsula region during the Last Glacial Maximum | Antarctic Science | 1998 | 119 |
| 45 | Rapid dissolution of shells of weakly calcified Antarctic benthic macroorganisms indicates high vulnerability to ocean acidification | Antarctic Science | 2009 | 119 |
| 46 | A revised Archaean chronology for the Napier Complex, Enderby Land, from SHRIMP ion-microprobe studies | Antarctic Science | 1997 | 113 |
| 47 | Sponge associations in the eastern Weddell Sea | Antarctic Science | 1992 | 110 |
| 48 | Polyunsaturated fatty acids in Antarctic bacteria | Antarctic Science | 1993 | 109 |
| 49 | Annual warming episodes in seawater temperatures in McMurdo Sound in relationship to endogenous ice in notothenioid fish | Antarctic Science | 2003 | 109 |
| 50 | Diving depths of albatrosses | Antarctic Science | 1994 | 108 |
