| THEMIS observations of an earthward-propagating dipolarization front | Geophysical Research Letters | 2009 | 469 |
| A global view of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary | Science | 2009 | 297 |
| THE LICK AGN MONITORING PROJECT: BROAD-LINE REGION RADII AND BLACK HOLE MASSES FROM REVERBERATION MAPPING OF Hβ | Astrophysical Journal | 2009 | 294 |
| Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Southeast China Block: New insights from basin analysis | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences | 2009 | 288 |
| The Hadean Crust: Evidence from >4 Ga Zircons | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2009 | 262 |
| Persistent currents in normal metal rings | Science | 2009 | 236 |
| Geomagnetic field for 0–3 ka: 2. A new series of time-varying global models | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2009 | 230 |
| Greatly expanded tropical warm pool and weakened Hadley circulation in the early Pliocene | Science | 2009 | 209 |
| MESSENGER observations of magnetic reconnection in Mercury's magnetosphere | Science | 2009 | 206 |
| Kinetic structure of the sharp injection/dipolarization front in the flow-braking region | Geophysical Research Letters | 2009 | 202 |
| Galaxy Zoo: ‘Hanny's Voorwerp’, a quasar light echo? | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2009 | 162 |
| Evolution of electron fluxes in the outer radiation belt computed with the VERB code | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2009 | 160 |
| The Transition to Strong Convection | Journals of the Atmospheric Sciences | 2009 | 155 |
| THEMIS observation of multiple dipolarization fronts and associated wave characteristics in the near-Earth magnetotail | Geophysical Research Letters | 2009 | 151 |
| Geomagnetic field for 0–3 ka: 1. New data sets for global modeling | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2009 | 142 |
| Quantifying connectivity in the coastal ocean with application to the Southern California Bight | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2009 | 141 |
| Postseismic deformation due to the Mw 6.0 2004 Parkfield earthquake: Stress-driven creep on a fault with spatially variable rate-and-state friction parameters | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2009 | 137 |
| The Canary Eddy Corridor: A major pathway for long-lived eddies in the subtropical North Atlantic | Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers | 2009 | 120 |
| Dependence of the quasi-linear scattering rates on the wave normal distribution of chorus waves | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2009 | 119 |
| Generation of a strong magnetic field using uniform heat flux at the surface of the core | Nature Geoscience | 2009 | 109 |
| High-pressure highly reduced nitrides and oxides from chromitite of a Tibetan ophiolite | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 109 |
| ION CYCLOTRON WAVES IN THE SOLAR WIND OBSERVED BY STEREO NEAR 1 AU | Astrophysical Journal | 2009 | 106 |
| A state-of-the-art picture of substorm-associated evolution of the near-Earth magnetotail obtained from superposed epoch analysis | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2009 | 96 |
| Mapping the grounding zone of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica using InSAR, MODIS and ICESat | Antarctic Science | 2009 | 95 |
| Experimentally determined Si isotope fractionation between silicate and Fe metal and implications for Earth's core formation | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2009 | 95 |
