| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | A confidence limit for the empirical mode decomposition and Hilbert spectral analysis | Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences | 2003 | 987 |
| 2 | Geochemical speciation and risk assessment of heavy metals in the river estuarine sediments—A case study: Mahanadi basin, India | Journal of Hazardous Materials | 2011 | 561 |
| 3 | The formation and fate of internal waves in the South China Sea | Nature | 2015 | 487 |
| 4 | Long-Term Sustainability of a High-Energy, Low-Diversity Crustal Biome | Science | 2006 | 350 |
| 5 | Contrasting the relative importance of species sorting and dispersal limitation in shaping marine bacterial versus protist communities | ISME Journal | 2018 | 328 |
| 6 | Seasonal variation of the circulation in the Taiwan Strait | Journal of Marine Systems | 2002 | 318 |
| 7 | Chemical hydrography and chlorophyll a distribution in the East China Sea in summer: implications in nutrient dynamics | Continental Shelf Research | 1996 | 295 |
| 8 | BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene | Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2018 | 289 |
| 9 | Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria) | PLoS ONE | 2008 | 268 |
| 10 | High‐resolution detection of geologic boundaries from potential‐field anomalies: An enhanced analytic signal technique | Geophysics | 1996 | 254 |
| 11 | Major impacts of climate change on deep-sea benthic ecosystems | Elementa | 2017 | 252 |
| 12 | Sources, solubility, and dry deposition of aerosol trace elements over the East China Sea | Marine Chemistry | 2010 | 240 |
| 13 | Upper-ocean currents around Taiwan | Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | 2003 | 231 |
| 14 | Fluctuating interaction network and time-varying stability of a natural fish community | Nature | 2018 | 209 |
| 15 | The Kuroshio East of Taiwan: Moored Transport Observations from the WOCE PCM-1 Array | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 2001 | 208 |
| 16 | The Growing Need for Sustainable Ecological Management of Marine Communities of the Persian Gulf | Ambio | 2011 | 205 |
| 17 | Provenance, structure, and formation of the mud wedge along inner continental shelf of the East China Sea: A synthesis of the Yangtze dispersal system | Marine Geology | 2012 | 203 |
| 18 | Neotectonic architecture of Taiwan and its implications for future large earthquakes | Journal of Geophysical Research | 2005 | 195 |
| 19 | New insights on 3-D plates interaction near Taiwan from tomography and tectonic implications | Tectonophysics | 2001 | 191 |
| 20 | Particulate organic carbon export from a subtropical mountainous river (Lanyang Hsi) in Taiwan | Limnology and Oceanography | 1996 | 189 |
| 21 | Speed and Evolution of Nonlinear Internal Waves Transiting the South China Sea | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 2010 | 188 |
| 22 | Abundant and rare picoeukaryotic sub‐communities present contrasting patterns in the epipelagic waters of marginal seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean | Environmental Microbiology | 2017 | 183 |
| 23 | Rapid transition from continental breakup to igneous oceanic crust in the South China Sea | Nature Geoscience | 2018 | 183 |
| 24 | Nutrient budgets for the South China Sea basin | Marine Chemistry | 2001 | 181 |
| 25 | Exchange of water masses between the East China Sea and the Kuroshio off northeastern Taiwan | Continental Shelf Research | 1995 | 175 |
| 26 | The flow pattern north of Taiwan and the migration of the Kuroshio | Continental Shelf Research | 2000 | 175 |
| 27 | Social–environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2019 | 175 |
| 28 | Determination of dissolved oxygen in seawater by direct spectrophotometry of total iodine | Marine Chemistry | 1993 | 172 |
| 29 | Structural features off southwestern Taiwan | Marine Geology | 1997 | 172 |
| 30 | Integrating chytrid fungal parasites into plankton ecology: research gaps and needs | Environmental Microbiology | 2017 | 171 |
| 31 | Organic carbon and nitrogen contents and their isotopic compositions in surficial sediments from the East China Sea shelf and the southern Okinawa Trough | Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography | 2003 | 165 |
| 32 | Prototypical solitons in the South China Sea | Geophysical Research Letters | 2006 | 165 |
| 33 | East Asia plate tectonics since 15 Ma: constraints from the Taiwan region | Tectonophysics | 2002 | 164 |
| 34 | Flux and fate of small mountainous rivers derived sediments into the Taiwan Strait | Marine Geology | 2008 | 161 |
| 35 | Higher plant n-alkane average chain length as an indicator of petrogenic hydrocarbon contamination in marine sediments | Marine Chemistry | 2006 | 158 |
| 36 | 40Ar–39Ar dating and geochemical characteristics of late Cenozoic basaltic rocks from the Zhejiang–Fujian region, SE China: eruption ages, magma evolution and petrogenesis | Chemical Geology | 2003 | 156 |
| 37 | Energy of nonlinear internal waves in the South China Sea | Geophysical Research Letters | 2005 | 154 |
| 38 | Vibrio ruber sp. nov., a red, facultatively anaerobic, marine bacterium isolated from sea water | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 2003 | 153 |
| 39 | Cross-shelf and along-shelf nutrient fluxes derived from flow fields and chemical hydrography observed in the southern East China Sea off northern Taiwan | Continental Shelf Research | 2000 | 147 |
| 40 | Feeding methane vents and gas hydrate deposits at south Hydrate Ridge | Geophysical Research Letters | 2004 | 146 |
| 41 | The Breaking and Scattering of the Internal Tide on a Continental Slope | Journal of Physical Oceanography | 2011 | 146 |
| 42 | Quantifying sample completeness and comparing diversities among assemblages | Ecological Research | 2020 | 141 |
| 43 | Estimation of Target Hazard Quotients and Potential Health Risks for Metals by Consumption of Seafood in Taiwan | Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology | 1998 | 140 |
| 44 | The nitrogen isotopic composition of nitrate in the Kuroshio Water northeast of Taiwan: evidence for nitrogen fixation as a source of isotopically light nitrate | Marine Chemistry | 1996 | 134 |
| 45 | Systematics of the grey mullets (Teleostei: Mugiliformes: Mugilidae): Molecular phylogenetic evidence challenges two centuries of morphology-based taxonomy | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2012 | 134 |
| 46 | Consequences and implication of heavy metal spatial variations in sediments of the Keelung River drainage basin, Taiwan | Chemosphere | 2003 | 133 |
| 47 | Physical and ecological processes of internal waves on an isolated reef ecosystem in the South China Sea | Geophysical Research Letters | 2007 | 130 |
| 48 | Functional diversity of microbial decomposers facilitates plant coexistence in a plant–microbe–soil feedback model | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 130 |
| 49 | Impact of Typhoons on the Ocean in the Pacific | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | 2014 | 129 |
| 50 | Crustal-scale seismic profiles across Taiwan and the western Philippine Sea | Tectonophysics | 2005 | 123 |
