| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | New, improved version of generic mapping tools released | Eos | 1998 | 6,259 |
| 2 | Free software helps map and display data | Eos | 1991 | 3,255 |
| 3 | New version of the generic mapping tools | Eos | 1995 | 2,031 |
| 4 | El Niño in a changing climate | Nature | 2009 | 1,325 |
| 5 | The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary | Science | 2010 | 1,140 |
| 6 | Genome Streamlining in a Cosmopolitan Oceanic Bacterium | Science | 2005 | 1,034 |
| 7 | The role of nitrogen fixation in biogeochemical cycling in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean | Nature | 1997 | 876 |
| 8 | Nitrogenase gene diversity and microbial community structure: a cross-system comparison | Environmental Microbiology | 2003 | 844 |
| 9 | An astronomically dated record of Earth’s climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years | Science | 2020 | 791 |
| 10 | Sea Surface Temperature Variability: Patterns and Mechanisms | Annual Review of Marine Science | 2010 | 788 |
| 11 | Phosphate Depletion in the Western North Atlantic Ocean | Science | 2000 | 734 |
| 12 | Lead Isotopic Ages of Chondrules and Calcium-Aluminum-Rich Inclusions | Science | 2002 | 713 |
| 13 | Dependence of phytoplankton carbon isotopic composition on growth rate and [CO2)aq: Theoretical considerations and experimental results | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1995 | 679 |
| 14 | Unicellular cyanobacteria fix N2 in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean | Nature | 2001 | 678 |
| 15 | The Asian summer monsoon: an intercomparison of CMIP5 vs. CMIP3 simulations of the late 20th century | Climate Dynamics | 2013 | 657 |
| 16 | Effect of Phytoplankton Cell Geometry on Carbon Isotopic Fractionation | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1998 | 594 |
| 17 | Timing of Hot Spot--Related Volcanism and the Breakup of Madagascar and India | Science | 1995 | 586 |
| 18 | Dinitrogen fixation in the world's oceans | Biogeochemistry | 2002 | 586 |
| 19 | Absorption Angstrom Exponent in AERONET and related data as an indicator of aerosol composition | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2010 | 554 |
| 20 | Nitrogen fixation byTrichodesmiumspp.: An important source of new nitrogen to the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic Ocean | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 2005 | 536 |
| 21 | Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics: a multi-model analysis | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2013 | 517 |
| 22 | High rates of N2 fixation by unicellular diazotrophs in the oligotrophic Pacific Ocean | Nature | 2004 | 511 |
| 23 | Pathways of marine debris derived from trajectories of Lagrangian drifters | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2012 | 498 |
| 24 | CO2 Mitigation and Renewable Oil from Photosynthetic Microbes: A New Appraisal | Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change | 2007 | 490 |
| 25 | Plastic pollution in the South Pacific subtropical gyre | Marine Pollution Bulletin | 2013 | 485 |
| 26 | Quantitative distribution of presumptive archaeal and bacterial nitrifiers in Monterey Bay and the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre | Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 466 |
| 27 | The Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) program: Background, rationale and field implementation | Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | 1996 | 430 |
| 28 | Elemental composition of marine Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus: Implications for the ecological stoichiometry of the sea | Limnology and Oceanography | 2003 | 427 |
| 29 | MAGIC: A sensitive and precise method for measuring dissolved phosphorus in aquatic environments | Limnology and Oceanography | 1992 | 403 |
| 30 | Minireviews: A Sea of Change: Biogeochemical Variability in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre | Ecosystems | 1999 | 378 |
| 31 | The origins of tropical marine biodiversity | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 377 |
| 32 | Global monsoon: Dominant mode of annual variation in the tropics | Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans | 2008 | 368 |
| 33 | Seasonal and interannual variability in primary production and particle flux at Station ALOHA | Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | 1996 | 367 |
| 34 | Magmatic and amagmatic seafloor generation at the ultraslow-spreading Gakkel ridge, Arctic Ocean | Nature | 2003 | 366 |
| 35 | Diversity of bacteria associated with the Caribbean coral Montastraea franksi | Coral Reefs | 2001 | 361 |
| 36 | Advance and prospectus of seasonal prediction: assessment of the APCC/CliPAS 14-model ensemble retrospective seasonal prediction (1980–2004) | Climate Dynamics | 2009 | 347 |
| 37 | The Holocene temperature conundrum | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 344 |
| 38 | Observed estimates of convergence in the Savu Sea, Indonesia | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2003 | 339 |
| 39 | An ultrafine sea-salt flux from breaking waves: Implications for cloud condensation nuclei in the remote marine atmosphere | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2006 | 335 |
| 40 | Reduced mixing generates oscillations and chaos in the oceanic deep chlorophyll maximum | Nature | 2006 | 333 |
| 41 | An immense shield volcano within the Shatsky Rise oceanic plateau, northwest Pacific Ocean | Nature Geoscience | 2013 | 330 |
| 42 | The Sissano, Papua New Guinea tsunami of July 1998 — offshore evidence on the source mechanism | Marine Geology | 2001 | 328 |
| 43 | Global declines in oceanic nitrification rates as a consequence of ocean acidification | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 316 |
| 44 | Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates | Earth System Science Data | 2012 | 315 |
| 45 | Temporal variability of phytoplankton community structure based on pigment analysis | Limnology and Oceanography | 1993 | 310 |
| 46 | Long-term changes in plankton community structure and productivity in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre: The domain shift hypothesis | Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | 2001 | 297 |
| 47 | Estimation of diversity and community structure through restriction fragment length polymorphism distribution analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA genes from a microbial mat at an active, hydrothermal vent system, Loihi Seamount, Hawaii | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1994 | 297 |
| 48 | Multi-scale climate variability of the South China Sea monsoon: A review | Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans | 2009 | 293 |
| 49 | Phylogenetic diversity of the bacterial community from a microbial mat at an active, hydrothermal vent system, Loihi Seamount, Hawaii | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1995 | 290 |
| 50 | Conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation and its applications | Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics | 2003 | 283 |
