| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0–50,000 Years cal BP | Radiocarbon | 2009 | 4,009 |
| 2 | A High-Resolution Absolute-Dated Late Pleistocene Monsoon Record from Hulu Cave, China | Science | 2001 | 2,594 |
| 3 | The Holocene Asian Monsoon: Links to Solar Changes and North Atlantic Climate | Science | 2005 | 2,115 |
| 4 | Millennial- and orbital-scale changes in the East Asian monsoon over the past 224,000 years | Nature | 2008 | 1,567 |
| 5 | Rheology of the Upper Mantle: A Synthesis | Science | 1993 | 1,483 |
| 6 | Water in the oceanic upper mantle: implications for rheology, melt extraction and the evolution of the lithosphere | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1996 | 1,423 |
| 7 | The half-lives of uranium-234 and thorium-230 | Chemical Geology | 2000 | 1,072 |
| 8 | Marine04 Marine Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 0–26 Cal Kyr Bp | Radiocarbon | 2004 | 1,040 |
| 9 | Magnetodendrimers allow endosomal magnetic labeling and in vivo tracking of stem cells | Nature Biotechnology | 2001 | 1,016 |
| 10 | Timing, Duration, and Transitions of the Last Interglacial Asian Monsoon | Science | 2004 | 1,013 |
| 11 | A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record | Science | 2008 | 873 |
| 12 | El Niño/Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millennium | Nature | 2003 | 797 |
| 13 | Ice Age Terminations | Science | 2009 | 794 |
| 14 | Rheology of the upper mantle and the mantle wedge: A view from the experimentalists | Geophysical Monograph Series | 2003 | 780 |
| 15 | Importance of anelasticity in the interpretation of seismic tomography | Geophysical Research Letters | 1993 | 763 |
| 16 | Water-Induced Fabric Transitions in Olivine | Science | 2001 | 730 |
| 17 | The Last Glacial Termination | Science | 2010 | 702 |
| 18 | Lattice preferred orientation of olivine aggregates deformed in simple shear | Nature | 1995 | 698 |
| 19 | A comparison of different magnetic methods for determining the relative grain size of magnetite in natural materials: Some results from lake sediments | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1982 | 690 |
| 20 | Sea-Surface Temperature from Coral Skeletal Strontium/Calcium Ratios | Science | 1992 | 677 |
| 21 | The pMELTS: A revision of MELTS for improved calculation of phase relations and major element partitioning related to partial melting of the mantle to 3 GPa | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2002 | 670 |
| 22 | Mantle solidus: Experimental constraints and the effects of peridotite composition | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2000 | 640 |
| 23 | Atmospheric Lifetime of Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2009 | 627 |
| 24 | FORCinel: An improved algorithm for calculating first‐order reversal curve distributions using locally weighted regression smoothing | Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems | 2008 | 584 |
| 25 | The large‐scale dynamics of grain‐size variation in alluvial basins, 1: Theory | Basin Research | 1992 | 553 |
| 26 | The role of hydrogen in the electrical conductivity of the upper mantle | Nature | 1990 | 551 |
| 27 | Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: a global synthesis | Climate Dynamics | 2011 | 536 |
| 28 | Abiogenic Methane Formation and Isotopic Fractionation Under Hydrothermal Conditions | Science | 1999 | 535 |
| 29 | WATER, MELTING, AND THE DEEP EARTH H2O CYCLE | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2006 | 513 |
| 30 | Strain modeling of displacement-field partitioning in transpressional orogens | Journal of Structural Geology | 1994 | 488 |
| 31 | Large floating clasts in turbidites: a mechanism for their emplacement | Sedimentary Geology | 1988 | 487 |
| 32 | Water, partial melting and the origin of the seismic low velocity and high attenuation zone in the upper mantle | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1998 | 478 |
| 33 | A Large Drop in Atmospheric 14C/12C and Reduced Melting in the Younger Dryas, Documented with 230Th Ages of Corals | Science | 1993 | 470 |
| 34 | An evaluation of quartzite flow laws based on comparisons between experimentally and naturally deformed rocks | International Journal of Earth Sciences | 2001 | 465 |
| 35 | Melting in the Earth's deep upper mantle caused by carbon dioxide | Nature | 2006 | 462 |
| 36 | Melt Segregation and Strain Partitioning: Implications for Seismic Anisotropy and Mantle Flow | Science | 2003 | 451 |
| 37 | Alkalic magmas generated by partial melting of garnet pyroxenite | Geology | 2003 | 450 |
| 38 | Characteristics-based marker-in-cell method with conservative finite-differences schemes for modeling geological flows with strongly variable transport properties | Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors | 2003 | 430 |
| 39 | The deformation matrix for simultaneous simple shearing, pure shearing and volume change, and its application to transpression-transtension tectonics | Journal of Structural Geology | 1993 | 424 |
| 40 | A cellular model of braided rivers | Nature | 1994 | 424 |
| 41 | Quantifying surface water-groundwater interactions using time series analysis of streambed thermal records: Method development | Water Resources Research | 2006 | 420 |
| 42 | MODERN ANALOGS IN QUATERNARY PALEOECOLOGY: Here Today, Gone Yesterday, Gone Tomorrow? | Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2004 | 418 |
| 43 | Rapid sea-level fall and deep-ocean temperature change since the last interglacial period | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2003 | 417 |
| 44 | Using pyrosequencing to shed light on deep mine microbial ecology | BMC Genomics | 2006 | 405 |
| 45 | Gravitational collapse of the continental crust: definition, regimes and modes | Tectonophysics | 2001 | 402 |
| 46 | Rock magnetic criteria for the detection of biogenic magnetite | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1993 | 400 |
| 47 | The “unreasonable effectiveness” of stratigraphic and geomorphic experiments | Earth-Science Reviews | 2009 | 399 |
| 48 | Uranium and thorium isotopic and concentration measurements by magnetic sector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry | Chemical Geology | 2002 | 395 |
| 49 | Deep global cycling of carbon constrained by the solidus of anhydrous, carbonated eclogite under upper mantle conditions | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2004 | 395 |
| 50 | Dynamic single-thread channels maintained by the interaction of flow and vegetation | Geology | 2007 | 391 |
