| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Magnetic Anomalies Over Oceanic Ridges | Nature | 1963 | 1,257 |
| 2 | Active tectonics of the Alpine--Himalayan belt: the Aegean Sea and surrounding regions | Geophysical Journal International | 1978 | 1,192 |
| 3 | The Evolution of the Indian Ocean since the Late Cretaceous | Geophysical Journal International | 1971 | 749 |
| 4 | Evolution of Triple Junctions | Nature | 1969 | 669 |
| 5 | Convection in the earth's mantle: towards a numerical simulation | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 1974 | 626 |
| 6 | Plate Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region | Nature | 1970 | 614 |
| 7 | Plate Tectonics of the Red Sea and East Africa | Nature | 1970 | 566 |
| 8 | The use of a priori data to resolve non-uniqueness in linear inversion | Geophysical Journal International | 1979 | 397 |
| 9 | Convection in a compressible fluid with infinite Prandtl number | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 1980 | 259 |
| 10 | Sequence and geochronology of the Kenya rift volcanics | Tectonophysics | 1971 | 220 |
| 11 | Magnetic Anomalies over a Young Oceanic Ridge off Vancouver Island | Science | 1965 | 218 |
| 12 | An experimental study of thermal convection in a rotating liquid | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | 1958 | 197 |
| 13 | Evolution of the Central Indian Ridge, Western Indian Ocean | Bulletin of the Geological Society of America | 1971 | 178 |
| 14 | Archimedes and the Tauern eclogites: the role of buoyancy in the preservation of exotic eclogite blocks | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1979 | 165 |
| 15 | Formation of Magnetic Anomaly Pattern of Mid-Atlantic Ridge | Geophysical Journal International | 1967 | 151 |
| 16 | The initiation of trenches: A finite amplitude instability | Maurice Ewing Series | 1977 | 149 |
| 17 | Some experiments on thermal convection in a rotating liquid | Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society | 1953 | 136 |
| 18 | The thermal history of the Bruderheim meteorite | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1966 | 135 |
| 19 | Dissipative heating in convective flows | Journal of Fluid Mechanics | 1975 | 135 |
| 20 | The East Anatolian Fault: A major structure in Eastern Turkey | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1976 | 135 |
| 21 | A Method for Calculating the Output Pressure Waveform from an Air Gun | Geophysical Journal International | 1970 | 131 |
| 22 | The Direction of the Geomagnetic Field in Remote Epochs in Great Britain | Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity | 1954 | 128 |
| 23 | Can Precession Power the Geomagnetic Dynamo? | Geophysical Journal International | 1975 | 128 |
| 24 | New Hominid Remains and Early Artefacts from Northern Kenya: Radioisotopic Age Determinations of Lake Rudolf Artefact Site | Nature | 1970 | 116 |
| 25 | Gravity, bathymetry and convection in the earth | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1973 | 110 |
| 26 | Sediment deformation and plate tectonics in the Gulf of Oman | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1976 | 107 |
| 27 | The Earth's core | Transactions, American Geophysical Union | 1954 | 97 |
| 28 | The method for potassium-argon age determination | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1968 | 96 |
| 29 | Succession of Cainozoic Vertebrate Assemblages from the Northern Kenya Rift Valley | Nature | 1971 | 92 |
| 30 | A Reappraisal of the 40Ar/39Ar Stepwise Degassing Technique | Geophysical Journal International | 1972 | 89 |
| 31 | The Fort Ternan hominoid site, Kenya: Geology, age, taphonomy and paleoecology | Journal of Human Evolution | 1981 | 89 |
| 32 | The Pathogenesis of Milia and Benign Tumors of the Skin1 | Journal of Investigative Dermatology | 1956 | 87 |
| 33 | The Crustal Structure of Rockall Plateau Microcontinent | Geophysical Journal International | 1972 | 86 |
| 34 | Geology and Geochronology of the Seychelles Islands and Structure of the Floor of the Arabian Sea | Nature | 1963 | 85 |
| 35 | Inversion of the geomagnetic induction problem | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 1970 | 85 |
| 36 | Sea-floor spreading: The central anomaly magnetization high | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1976 | 83 |
| 37 | The crustal structure of the Reykjanes Ridge at 59 30'N | Geophysical Journal International | 1980 | 82 |
| 38 | Late Australopithecine from Baringo District, Kenya | Nature | 1971 | 79 |
| 39 | Measurement of the velocity distribution along a vertical line through a glacier | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 1952 | 77 |
| 40 | Temperature and potential temperature beneath island arcs | Tectonophysics | 1970 | 75 |
| 41 | The electrical conductivity of the Earth's mantle | Transactions, American Geophysical Union | 1955 | 74 |
| 42 | Relationship of Palæomagnetic Reversals and Micropalæontology in Two Late Cænozoic Cores from the Pacific Ocean | Nature | 1964 | 74 |
| 43 | The removal of trend from magnetic surveys | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 1967 | 71 |
| 44 | Dating of the rock succession containing fossil hominids at East Rudolf, Kenya | Nature | 1974 | 67 |
| 45 | A discussion concerning the floor of the northwest Indian Ocean - An area on the crest of the Carlsberg Ridge: petrology and magnetic survey | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | 1966 | 66 |
| 46 | Seismic slip rates in the Mediterranean and Middle East | Nature | 1974 | 66 |
| 47 | Remanent Magnetism of Rocks and the History of the Geomagnetic Field | Nature | 1951 | 65 |
| 48 | A STUDY OF ROCK DENSITIES IN THE ENGLISH MIDLANDS | Geophysical Journal International | 1952 | 64 |
| 49 | Seismic measurements made by H.M.S Challenger in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans and in the Mediterranean Sea, 1950-53 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | 1958 | 64 |
| 50 | On the driving mechanism of plate tectonics | Tectonophysics | 1977 | 64 |
