| Variations in the Earth's Orbit: Pacemaker of the Ice Ages: For 500,000 years, major climatic changes have followed variations in obliquity and precession. JD Hays, J Imbrie, NJ Shackleton science 194 (4270), 1121-1132, 1976 | 5025 | 1976 |
| Age dating and the orbital theory of the ice ages: development of a high-resolution 0 to 300,000-year Chronostratigraphy1 DG Martinson, NG Pisias, JD Hays, J Imbrie, TC Moore Jr, NJ Shackleton Quaternary research 27 (1), 1-29, 1987 | 4289 | 1987 |
| The orbital theory of Pleistocene climate: support from a revised chronology of the marine d18O record J Imbrie, JD Hays, DG Martinson, A McIntyre, AC Mix, JJ Morley, ... D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1984 | 4287 | 1984 |
| Pliocene-Pleistocene sediments of the equatorial Pacific: their paleomagnetic, biostratigraphic, and climatic record JD Hays, T Saito, ND Opdyke, LH Burckle Geological Society of America Bulletin 80 (8), 1481-1514, 1969 | 647 | 1969 |
| Lithospheric plate motion, sea level changes and climatic and ecological consequences JD Hays, WC PITMAN III Nature 246 (5427), 18-22, 1973 | 563 | 1973 |
| Paleomagnetic Study of Antarctic Deep-Sea Cores: Paleomagnetic study of sediments in a revolutionary method of dating events in Earth's history. ND Opdyke, B Glass, JD Hays, J Foster Science 154 (3747), 349-357, 1966 | 386 | 1966 |
| Evidence for lower productivity in the Antarctic Ocean during the last glaciation RA Mortlock, CD Charles, PN Froelich, MA Zibello, J Saltzman, JD Hays, ... Nature 351 (6323), 220-223, 1991 | 353 | 1991 |
| Antarctic Radiolaria, Magnetic Reversals, and Climatic Change: Disappearances of some Radiolaria closely correlate with magnetic reversals during the last 5 million years. JD Hays, ND Opdyke Science 158 (3804), 1001-1011, 1967 | 326 | 1967 |
| Reconstruction of the Atlantic and western Indian Ocean sectors of the 18,000 BP Antarctic Ocean JD Hays, JA Lozano, N Shackleton, G Irving | 321 | 1976 |
| High resolution stratigraphic correlation of benthic oxygen isotopic records spanning the last 300,000 years NG Pisias, DG Martinson, TC Moore Jr, NJ Shackleton, W Prell, J Hays, ... Marine Geology 56 (1-4), 119-136, 1984 | 308 | 1984 |
| Radiolaria and late Tertiary and Quaternary history of Antarctic seas1 JD Hays Biology of the Antarctic Seas II 5, 125-184, 1965 | 294 | 1965 |
| Mediterranean island arcs and origin of high potash volcanoes D Ninkovich, JD Hays Earth and Planetary Science Letters 16 (3), 331-345, 1972 | 203 | 1972 |
| Stratigraphy and evolutionary trends of Radiolaria in North Pacific deep-sea sediments JD Hays | 191 | 1970 |
| Towards a Quaternary Time Scale1 WA Berggren, LH Burckle, MB Cita, HBS Cooke, BM Funnell, S Gartner, ... Quaternary Research 13 (3), 277-302, 1980 | 180 | 1980 |
| The last interglacial ocean RML Cline, JD Hays, WL Prell, WF Ruddiman, TC Moore, NG Kipp, ... Quaternary Research 21 (2), 123-224, 1984 | 174* | 1984 |
| Milankovitch and climate J Imbrie, JD Hays, DG Martinson, A McIntyre, AC Mix, JJ Morley, ... Part 1, 269-305, 1984 | 171 | 1984 |
| Investigation of late Quaternary paleoceanography and paleoclimatology RM Cline, JD Hays Geological Society of America, 1976 | 168 | 1976 |
| Estimates of Antarctic Ocean seasonal sea-ice cover during glacial intervals DW Cooke, JD Hays Antarctic geoscience 131, 1017-1025, 1982 | 162 | 1982 |
| Faunal extinctions and reversals of the Earth's magnetic field JD Hays Geological Society of America Bulletin 82 (9), 2433-2447, 1971 | 154 | 1971 |
| Late Pleistocene oxygen isotope records of biogenic silica from the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean A Shemesh, LH Burckle, JD Hays Paleoceanography 10 (2), 179-196, 1995 | 150 | 1995 |
