| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Restricted utility of the pristane/phytane ratio as a palaeoenvironmental indicator | Nature | 1987 | 654 |
| 2 | Tocopherols as likely precursors of pristane in ancient sediments and crude oils | Nature | 1984 | 464 |
| 3 | Black Sea sterol—a molecular fossil for dinoflagellate blooms | Nature | 1979 | 331 |
| 4 | Lignin pyrolysis products: Their structures and their significance as biomarkers | Organic Geochemistry | 1986 | 302 |
| 5 | Organic geochemical studies of a Messinian evaporitic basin, northern Apennines (Italy) I: Hydrocarbon biological markers for a hypersaline environment | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1985 | 251 |
| 6 | A new non-saponifiable highly aliphatic and resistant biopolymer in plant cuticles | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1986 | 208 |
| 7 | Chemical characterization of soil organic matter fractions by analytical pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry | Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis | 1986 | 194 |
| 8 | Isoprenoid thiophenes: novel products of sediment diagenesis? | Nature | 1986 | 184 |
| 9 | Analysis of modern and fossil plant cuticles by Curie point Py-GC and Curie point Py-GC-MS: Recognition of a new, highly aliphatic and resistant biopolymer | Organic Geochemistry | 1986 | 176 |
| 10 | The occurrence and identification of series of organic sulphur compounds in oils and sediment extracts. I. A study of Rozel Point Oil (U.S.A.) | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1987 | 173 |
| 11 | Free, esterified and residual bound sterols in Black Sea Unit I sediments | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1983 | 160 |
| 12 | Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of isolated, synthetic and degraded lignins | Organic Geochemistry | 1984 | 159 |
| 13 | Anomalies in steroid and hopanoid maturity indices | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1986 | 157 |
| 14 | Application of biological markers in the recognition of palaeohypersaline environments | Geological Society Special Publication | 1988 | 130 |
| 15 | The identification of mono-, di- and trimethyl 2-methyl-2-(4,8,12-trimethyltridecyl)chromans and their occurrence in the geosphere | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1987 | 129 |
| 16 | Origin of organic sulphur compounds and sulphur-containing high molecular weight substances in sediments and immature crude oils | Organic Geochemistry | 1988 | 128 |
| 17 | The fatty acid and sterol composition of two marine dinoflagellates | Phytochemistry | 1984 | 108 |
| 18 | Organic geochemistry of Walvis Bay diatomaceous ooze—I. Occurrence and significance of the fatty acids | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1975 | 103 |
| 19 | Occurrence and significance of prist-1-ene in kerogen pyrolysates | Nature | 1979 | 101 |
| 20 | Perylene in sediments from the Namibian Shelf | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1979 | 101 |
| 21 | The occurrence and identification of C30, C31 and C32 alkan-1, 15-diols and alkan-15-one-1-ols in Unit I and Unit II Black Sea sediments | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1981 | 98 |
| 22 | Chemical characterization of recent and buried woods by analytical pyrolysis | Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis | 1987 | 98 |
| 23 | Identification of homologous series of alkylated thiophenes, thiolanes, thianes and benzothiophenes present in pyrolysates of sulphur-rich kerogens | Journal of Chromatography A | 1988 | 90 |
| 24 | Lipids and their mode of occurrence in bacteria and sediments—II. Lipids in the sediment of a stratified, freshwater lake | Organic Geochemistry | 1989 | 89 |
| 25 | Fermentation kinetics ofZymomonas mobilis at high ethanol concentrations: Oscillations in continuous cultures | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | 1986 | 80 |
| 26 | Bacterial contribution to sedimentary organic matter; a comparative study of lipid moieties in bacteria and Recent sediments | Organic Geochemistry | 1986 | 75 |
| 27 | Bicadinane, a C30 pentacyclic isoprenoid hydrocarbon found in crude oil | Nature | 1986 | 73 |
| 28 | On the occurrence and structural identification of long chain unsaturated ketones and hydrocarbons in sediments | Physics and Chemistry of the Earth | 1980 | 70 |
| 29 | The influence of various polyelectrolytes on the precipitation of gypsum | Desalination | 1985 | 70 |
| 30 | Organic geochemical studies of a Messinian evaporitic basin, northern Apennines (Italy)—II Isoprenoid and n-alkyl thiophenes and thiolanes | Organic Geochemistry | 1986 | 70 |
| 31 | Identification of some sulphur species in a high organic sulphur coal | Fuel | 1987 | 70 |
| 32 | Mathematical modelling of growth and substrate conversion ofZymomonas mobilisat 30 and 35°C | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | 1985 | 69 |
| 33 | A flash pyrolysis and petrographic study of cutinite from the Indiana paper coal | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1989 | 64 |
| 34 | The analysis of wax esters, very long mid-chain ketones and sterol ethers isolated from walvis bay diatomaceous ooze | Marine Chemistry | 1979 | 63 |
| 35 | Late Quaternary Mediterranean sapropels. III: Assessment of source of input and palaeotemperature as derived from biological markers | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1987 | 58 |
| 36 | Organic geochemistry of Walvis Bay diatomaceous ooze—III. Structural analysis of the monoenoic and polycyclic fatty acids | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1978 | 56 |
| 37 | The Origin and Fate of Isoprenoid C20and C15Sulphur Compounds in Sediments and Oils | International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry | 1987 | 56 |
| 38 | Loliolides and dihydroactinidiolide in a recent marine sediment probably indicate a major transformation pathway of carotenoids | Tetrahedron Letters | 1984 | 54 |
| 39 | Pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of soil polysaccharides, soil fulvic acids and polymaleic acid | Organic Geochemistry | 1984 | 54 |
| 40 | Phase equilibria in binary mixtures of ethane + docosane and molar volumes of liquid docosane | Fluid Phase Equilibria | 1988 | 54 |
| 41 | The characterization of eight maceral concentrates by means of Curie point pyrolysis-gas chromatography and Curie point pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1988 | 51 |
| 42 | The inhibition of the maximum specific growth and fermentation rate ofZymomonas mobilis by ethanol | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | 1986 | 49 |
| 43 | Modeling the liquid flow in up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors | Biotechnology and Bioengineering | 1986 | 47 |
| 44 | Carbohydrates in recent marine sediments—I. Origin and significance of deoxy- and O-methyl-monosaccharides | Organic Geochemistry | 1984 | 46 |
| 45 | Polar lipid ester-linked fatty acid composition of Lake Vechten seston: an ecological application of lipid analysis | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 1986 | 46 |
| 46 | Chemical characterization of non-volatile organics in suspended matter and sediments of the river Rhine delta | Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis | 1980 | 44 |
| 47 | Relationships between algal coals and resistant cell wall biopolymers of extant algae as revealed by Py-GC-MS | Fuel Processing Technology | 1988 | 43 |
| 48 | The identification of 2,3-dimethyl-5-(2,6,10-trimethylundecyl)thiophene, a novel sulphur containing biological marker | Tetrahedron Letters | 1987 | 42 |
| 49 | Lipids and their mode of occurrence in bacteria and sediments—I.A methodological study of the lipid composition of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus LMD 79-41 | Organic Geochemistry | 1989 | 41 |
| 50 | Comparison of flash pyrolysis, differential scanning calorimetry, 13C NMR and IR spectroscopy in the analysis of a highly aliphatic biopolymer from plant cuticles | Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis | 1987 | 40 |
