| Age, spreading rates, and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust R Muller, M Sdrolias, C Gaina, W Roest Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems-G3 9, 2008 | 2254 | 2008 |
| Global continental and ocean basin reconstructions since 200 Ma M Seton, RD Müller, S Zahirovic, C Gaina, T Torsvik, G Shephard, ... Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 | 1952 | 2012 |
| Ocean basin evolution and global-scale plate reorganization events since Pangea breakup RD Müller, M Seton, S Zahirovic, SE Williams, KJ Matthews, NM Wright, ... Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 44 (1), 107-138, 2016 | 963 | 2016 |
| Long-term sea-level fluctuations driven by ocean basin dynamics RD Müller, M Sdrolias, C Gaina, B Steinberger, C Heine science 319 (5868), 1357-1362, 2008 | 818 | 2008 |
| Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic KJ Matthews, KT Maloney, S Zahirovic, SE Williams, M Seton, RD Müller Global and Planetary Change 146, 226-250, 2016 | 710 | 2016 |
| GPlates: Building a virtual Earth through deep time RD Müller, J Cannon, X Qin, RJ Watson, M Gurnis, S Williams, ... Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 19 (7), 2243-2261, 2018 | 561 | 2018 |
| A global plate model including lithospheric deformation along major rifts and orogens since the Triassic RD Müller, S Zahirovic, SE Williams, J Cannon, M Seton, DJ Bower, ... Tectonics 38 (6), 1884-1907, 2019 | 463 | 2019 |
| Controls on back-arc basin formation M Sdrolias, RD Müller Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst 7 (4), Q04016, 2006 | 459 | 2006 |
| Catastrophic initiation of subduction following forced convergence across fracture zones CE Hall, M Gurnis, M Sdrolias, LL Lavier, RD Müller Earth and Planetary Science Letters 212 (1), 15-30, 2003 | 443 | 2003 |
| The role of oceanic plateau subduction in the Laramide orogeny L Liu, M Gurnis, M Seton, J Saleeby, RD Müller, JM Jackson Nature Geoscience 3 (5), 353-357, 2010 | 422 | 2010 |
| Zealandia: Earth’s hidden continent N Mortimer, HJ Campbell, AJ Tulloch, PR King, VM Stagpoole, RA Wood, ... GSA today 27 (3), 27-35, 2017 | 373 | 2017 |
| The cretaceous and cenozoic tectonic evolution of Southeast Asia S Zahirovic, M Seton, RD Müller Solid Earth 5 (1), 227-273, 2014 | 352 | 2014 |
| Major Australian-Antarctic plate reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor bend time JM Whittaker, RD Müller, G Leitchenkov, H Stagg, M Sdrolias, C Gaina, ... Science 318 (5847), 83-86, 2007 | 348* | 2007 |
| Plate tectonic reconstructions with continuously closing plates M Gurnis, M Turner, S Zahirovic, L DiCaprio, S Spasojevic, RD Müller, ... Computers & Geosciences, 2011 | 309 | 2011 |
| A global data set of present‐day oceanic crustal age and seafloor spreading parameters M Seton, RD Müller, S Zahirovic, S Williams, NM Wright, J Cannon, ... Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 21 (10), e2020GC009214, 2020 | 229 | 2020 |
| A global-scale plate reorganization event at 105− 100 Ma KJ Matthews, M Seton, RD Müller Earth and Planetary Science Letters 355, 283-298, 2012 | 229 | 2012 |
| An expression of Philippine Sea plate rotation: the Parece Vela and Shikoku basins M Sdrolias, WR Roest, RD Müller Tectonophysics 394 (1), 69-86, 2004 | 227 | 2004 |
| Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of the eastern Tethys since the latest Jurassic S Zahirovic, KJ Matthews, N Flament, RD Müller, KC Hill, M Seton, ... Earth-Science Reviews 162, 293-337, 2016 | 225 | 2016 |
| Ridge subduction sparked reorganization of the Pacific plate‐mantle system 60–50 million years ago M Seton, N Flament, J Whittaker, RD Müller, M Gurnis, DJ Bower Geophysical Research Letters 42 (6), 1732-1740, 2015 | 220 | 2015 |
| The tectonic evolution of the Arctic since Pangea breakup: Integrating constraints from surface geology and geophysics with mantle structure GE Shephard, RD Müller, M Seton Earth-Science Reviews 124, 148-183, 2013 | 213 | 2013 |