| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific | PLoS Biology | 2007 | 1,757 |
| 2 | VERTEX: carbon cycling in the northeast Pacific | Deep-sea Research Part A, Oceanographic Research Papers | 1987 | 1,731 |
| 3 | The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System | Science | 2000 | 1,601 |
| 4 | Increasing frequency of extreme El Niño events due to greenhouse warming | Nature Climate Change | 2014 | 1,572 |
| 5 | Archaeal dominance in the mesopelagic zone of the Pacific Ocean | Nature | 2001 | 1,373 |
| 6 | Testing the iron hypothesis in ecosystems of the equatorial Pacific Ocean | Nature | 1994 | 1,270 |
| 7 | The impact of global warming on the tropical Pacific Ocean and El Niño | Nature Geoscience | 2010 | 1,029 |
| 8 | Ozone depletion: ultraviolet radiation and phytoplankton biology in antarctic waters | Science | 1992 | 900 |
| 9 | The role of nitrogen fixation in biogeochemical cycling in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean | Nature | 1997 | 876 |
| 10 | Oceanic Rogue Waves | Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics | 2008 | 782 |
| 11 | An overview of ACE-Asia: Strategies for quantifying the relationships between Asian aerosols and their climatic impacts | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2003 | 725 |
| 12 | Dependence of phytoplankton carbon isotopic composition on growth rate and [CO2)aq: Theoretical considerations and experimental results | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1995 | 679 |
| 13 | Phytoplankton in the ocean use non-phosphorus lipids in response to phosphorus scarcity | Nature | 2009 | 662 |
| 14 | Man and the Last Great Wilderness: Human Impact on the Deep Sea | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 654 |
| 15 | Deep, diverse and definitely different: unique attributes of the world's largest ecosystem | Biogeosciences | 2010 | 619 |
| 16 | ENSO and greenhouse warming | Nature Climate Change | 2015 | 596 |
| 17 | Effect of Phytoplankton Cell Geometry on Carbon Isotopic Fractionation | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1998 | 594 |
| 18 | Dinitrogen fixation in the world's oceans | Biogeochemistry | 2002 | 586 |
| 19 | A comparison of global estimates of marine primary production from ocean color | Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | 2006 | 574 |
| 20 | An Equatorial Jet in the Indian Ocean | Science | 1973 | 567 |
| 21 | Advances in Quantifying Air-Sea Gas Exchange and Environmental Forcing | Annual Review of Marine Science | 2009 | 552 |
| 22 | Revisiting Carbon Flux Through the Ocean's Twilight Zone | Science | 2007 | 547 |
| 23 | Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the computation of greenhouse gas metrics: a multi-model analysis | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2013 | 517 |
| 24 | Abyssal food limitation, ecosystem structure and climate change | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2008 | 511 |
| 25 | Atmospheric Oxygen: Isotopic Composition and Solubility Fractionation | Science | 1972 | 494 |
| 26 | Attribution of aerosol light absorption to black carbon, brown carbon, and dust in China – interpretations of atmospheric measurements during EAST-AIRE | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2009 | 491 |
| 27 | Decreased abundance of crustose coralline algae due to ocean acidification | Nature Geoscience | 2008 | 483 |
| 28 | Recent Walker circulation strengthening and Pacific cooling amplified by Atlantic warming | Nature Climate Change | 2014 | 480 |
| 29 | Increased frequency of extreme La Niña events under greenhouse warming | Nature Climate Change | 2015 | 479 |
| 30 | Pacific western boundary currents and their roles in climate | Nature | 2015 | 474 |
| 31 | Quantitative distribution of presumptive archaeal and bacterial nitrifiers in Monterey Bay and the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre | Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 466 |
| 32 | Nutrient‐ and light‐limited growth of Thalassiosira fluviatilis in continuous culture, with implications for phytoplankton growth in the ocean1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1980 | 453 |
| 33 | Photosynthetic quotients, new production and net community production in the open ocean | Deep-sea Research Part A, Oceanographic Research Papers | 1991 | 451 |
| 34 | Physical and biogeochemical modulation of ocean acidification in the central North Pacific | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 440 |
| 35 | The Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) program: Background, rationale and field implementation | Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | 1996 | 430 |
| 36 | Fast airborne aerosol size and chemistry measurements above Mexico City and Central Mexico during the MILAGRO campaign | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 2008 | 411 |
| 37 | Minireviews: A Sea of Change: Biogeochemical Variability in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre | Ecosystems | 1999 | 378 |
| 38 | Seasonal and interannual variability in primary production and particle flux at Station ALOHA | Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | 1996 | 367 |
| 39 | Primary productivity and particle fluxes on a transect of the equator at 153°W in the Pacific Ocean | Deep-sea Research Part A, Oceanographic Research Papers | 1984 | 366 |
| 40 | Consistent fractionation of13C in nature and in the laboratory: Growth-rate effects in some haptophyte algae | Global Biogeochemical Cycles | 1997 | 363 |
| 41 | Diversity of bacteria associated with the Caribbean coral Montastraea franksi | Coral Reefs | 2001 | 361 |
| 42 | Biologically mediated dissolution of calcium carbonate above the chemical lysocline? | Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers | 1999 | 360 |
| 43 | Reactive trace metals in the stratified central North Pacific | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1994 | 352 |
| 44 | Bacterial vs. zooplankton control of sinking particle flux in the ocean's twilight zone | Limnology and Oceanography | 2008 | 350 |
| 45 | Photosynthetic picoplankton community structure in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean near Hawaii (station ALOHA) | Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers | 1993 | 333 |
| 46 | Diversity and Activity of Communities Inhabiting Plastic Debris in the North Pacific Gyre | MSystems | 2016 | 330 |
| 47 | Sorption of rare-earth elements from seawater onto synthetic mineral particles: An experimental approach | Chemical Geology | 1992 | 314 |
| 48 | A line in the sea | Nature | 1994 | 314 |
| 49 | Temporal variability of phytoplankton community structure based on pigment analysis | Limnology and Oceanography | 1993 | 310 |
| 50 | Methylmercury production below the mixed layer in the North Pacific Ocean | Nature Geoscience | 2013 | 298 |
