| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Rapid Calculation of Potential Anomalies | Geophysical Journal International | 1973 | 1,161 |
| 2 | The North Pacific: an Example of Tectonics on a Sphere | Nature | 1967 | 695 |
| 3 | Extent, duration and speed of the 2004 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake imaged by the Hi-Net array | Nature | 2005 | 574 |
| 4 | A catalogue of deep mantle plumes: New results from finite-frequency tomography | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2006 | 567 |
| 5 | The complete (3-D) surface displacement field in the epicentral area of the 1999MW7.1 Hector Mine Earthquake, California, from space geodetic observations | Geophysical Research Letters | 2001 | 458 |
| 6 | An Active Subglacial Water System in West Antarctica Mapped from Space | Science | 2007 | 406 |
| 7 | Three-dimensional deformation caused by the Bam, Iran, earthquake and the origin of shallow slip deficit | Nature | 2005 | 403 |
| 8 | Interseismic strain accumulation and the earthquake potential on the southern San Andreas fault system | Nature | 2006 | 340 |
| 9 | A new tide model for the Antarctic ice shelves and seas | Annals of Glaciology | 2002 | 331 |
| 10 | Eolian dunes: Computer simulations and attractor interpretation | Geology | 1995 | 302 |
| 11 | An inventory of active subglacial lakes in Antarctica detected by ICESat (2003–2008) | Journal of Glaciology | 2009 | 291 |
| 12 | New Perspectives on Ancient Mars | Science | 2005 | 265 |
| 13 | Global mapping of topography on the 660-km discontinuity | Nature | 1992 | 258 |
| 14 | A microbial ecosystem beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet | Nature | 2014 | 255 |
| 15 | Shear and compressional velocity models of the mantle from cluster analysis of long-period waveforms | Geophysical Journal International | 2008 | 251 |
| 16 | Crustal Thickness on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Bull's-Eye Gravity Anomalies and Focused Accretion | Science | 1993 | 241 |
| 17 | Seismic imaging of upper-mantle structure with new evidence for a 520-km discontinuity | Nature | 1990 | 233 |
| 18 | Dependence of ridge-axis morphology on magma supply and spreading rate | Nature | 1993 | 223 |
| 19 | Melt-rich channel observed at the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary | Nature | 2013 | 216 |
| 20 | Evidence of fluid-filled upper crust from observations of postseismic deformation due to the 1992Mw7.3 Landers earthquake | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2004 | 194 |
| 21 | An inversion for radial viscosity structure using seismic tomography | Geophysical Research Letters | 1992 | 187 |
| 22 | Evidence for a smaller magma chamber beneath the East Pacific Rise at 9°30′ N | Nature | 1990 | 178 |
| 23 | Deformation on Nearby Faults Induced by the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake | Science | 2002 | 171 |
| 24 | Numerical integration of related Hankel transforms by quadrature and continued fraction expansion | Geophysics | 1983 | 170 |
| 25 | Triple-frequency GPS precise point positioning with rapid ambiguity resolution | Journal of Geodesy | 2013 | 166 |
| 26 | Ambient Earth noise: A survey of the Global Seismographic Network | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2004 | 160 |
| 27 | Connected subglacial lake activity on lower Mercer and Whillans Ice Streams, West Antarctica, 2003–2008 | Journal of Glaciology | 2009 | 147 |
| 28 | The relationship between near-axis hydrothermal cooling and the spreading rate of mid-ocean ridges | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1996 | 135 |
| 29 | An Analysis of Near-Bottom Magnetic Anomalies: Sea-Floor Spreading and the Magnetized Layer | Geophysical Journal International | 1975 | 134 |
| 30 | Particle fallout, thermal disequilibrium and volcanic plumes | Bulletin of Volcanology | 1991 | 132 |
| 31 | Simultaneous time-domain deconvolution with application to the computation of receiver functions | Geophysical Journal International | 1995 | 132 |
| 32 | Limits on differential rotation of the inner core from an analysis of the Earth's free oscillations | Nature | 1999 | 131 |
| 33 | Shallow slip deficit due to large strike-slip earthquakes in dynamic rupture simulations with elasto-plastic off-fault response | Geophysical Journal International | 2011 | 131 |
| 34 | GlobalPandPPtraveltime tomography: rays versus waves | Geophysical Journal International | 2004 | 130 |
| 35 | Lower-mantle structure from ScS–S differential travel times | Nature | 1991 | 124 |
| 36 | Ultra-high pressure minerals in the Luobusa Ophiolite, Tibet, and their tectonic implications | Geological Society Special Publication | 2004 | 124 |
| 37 | The Use of Velocity Spectrum For Stacking Receiver Functions and Imaging Upper Mantle Discontinuities | Geophysical Journal International | 1994 | 123 |
| 38 | Bed-form dynamics: Does the tail wag the dog? | Geology | 1997 | 122 |
| 39 | Attenuation in the earth at low frequencies | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | 1983 | 120 |
| 40 | The density and shear velocity contrast at the inner core boundary | Geophysical Journal International | 1990 | 107 |
| 41 | Corner frequencies ofPandSwaves and models of earthquake sources | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 1973 | 106 |
| 42 | Observably split multiplets-data analysis and interpretation in terms of large-scale aspherical structure | Geophysical Journal International | 1992 | 98 |
| 43 | On the electrical conductivity of the mid-mantle-I. Calculation of equivalent scalar magnetotelluric response functions | Geophysical Journal International | 1987 | 97 |
| 44 | A Quantitative Assessment of DInSAR Measurements of Interseismic Deformation: The Southern San Andreas Fault Case Study | Pure and Applied Geophysics | 2012 | 97 |
| 45 | Weakly dispersive nonlinear gravity waves | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 1985 | 96 |
| 46 | Geodetic slip rates in the southern San Andreas Fault system: Effects of elastic heterogeneity and fault geometry | Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth | 2013 | 93 |
| 47 | Observations from the IDA network of attenuation and splitting during a recent earthquake | Nature | 1979 | 92 |
| 48 | Properties of a marine ice layer under the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica | Journal of Glaciology | 2009 | 92 |
| 49 | A transient electric dipole‐dipole method for mapping the conductivity of the sea floor | Geophysics | 1986 | 89 |
| 50 | Iceberg calving from the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica | Annals of Glaciology | 2002 | 84 |
