| New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia JM Bowler, H Johnston, JM Olley, JR Prescott, RG Roberts, W Shawcross, ... Nature 421 (6925), 837-840, 2003 | 918 | 2003 |
| Australia's oldest human remains: age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton A Thorne, R Grün, G Mortimer, NA Spooner, JJ Simpson, M McCulloch, ... Journal of human evolution 36 (6), 591-612, 1999 | 495 | 1999 |
| Pleistocene extinction of Genyornis newtoni: human impact on Australian megafauna GH Miller, JW Magee, BJ Johnson, ML Fogel, NA Spooner, MT McCulloch, ... Science 283 (5399), 205-208, 1999 | 448 | 1999 |
| The human colonisation of Australia: optical dates of 53,000 and 60,000 years bracket human arrival at Deaf Adder Gorge, Northern Territory RG Roberts, R Jones, NA Spooner, MJ Head, AS Murray, MA Smith Quaternary Science Reviews 13 (5-7), 575-583, 1994 | 419 | 1994 |
| The anomalous fading of infrared-stimulated luminescence from feldspars NA Spooner Radiation Measurements 23 (2-3), 625-632, 1994 | 391 | 1994 |
| Direct dating of Florisbad hominid R Grün, JS Brink, NA Spooner, L Taylor, CB Stringer, RG Franciscus, ... Nature (London) 382 (6591), 500-501, 1996 | 325 | 1996 |
| On the optical dating signal from quartz NA Spooner Radiation Measurements 23 (2-3), 593-600, 1994 | 324 | 1994 |
| Continuous 150 ky monsoon record from Lake Eyre, Australia: insolation-forcing implications and unexpected Holocene failure JW Magee, GH Miller, NA Spooner, D Questiaux Geology 32 (10), 885-888, 2004 | 297 | 2004 |
| When did Homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul? JF O’Connell, J Allen, MAJ Williams, AN Williams, CSM Turney, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (34), 8482-8490, 2018 | 257 | 2018 |
| Creeping soil AM Heimsath, J Chappell, NA Spooner, DG Questiaux Geology 30 (2), 111-114, 2002 | 226 | 2002 |
| Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia G Hamm, P Mitchell, LJ Arnold, GJ Prideaux, D Questiaux, NA Spooner, ... Nature 539 (7628), 280-283, 2016 | 170 | 2016 |
| Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia P Veth, I Ward, T Manne, S Ulm, K Ditchfield, J Dortch, F Hook, F Petchey, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 168, 19-29, 2017 | 161 | 2017 |
| Optical dating: preliminary results on the anomalous fading of luminescence from feldspars NA Spooner Quaternary Science Reviews 11 (1-2), 139-145, 1992 | 152 | 1992 |
| Optical dating of sediments: initial quartz results from Oxford BW Smith, EJ Rhodes, S Stokes, NA Spooner, MJ Aitken Archaeometry 32 (1), 19-31, 1990 | 150 | 1990 |
| Archaeological dating by infrared-stimulated luminescence using a diode array NA Spooner, MJ Aitken, BW Smith, M Franks, C McElroy Radiation Protection Dosimetry 34 (1-4), 83-86, 1990 | 144 | 1990 |
| A benchmark quantum yield for water photoreduction on amorphous carbon nitride MZ Rahman, PC Tapping, TW Kee, R Smernik, N Spooner, J Moffatt, ... Advanced Functional Materials 27 (39), 1702384, 2017 | 127 | 2017 |
| Tunnel afterglow, fading and infrared emission in thermoluminescence of feldspars R Visocekas, NA Spooner, A Zink, P Blanc Radiation Measurements 23 (2-3), 377-385, 1994 | 124 | 1994 |
| The effect of illumination wavelength on the bleaching of the thermoluminescence (TL) of quartz NA Spooner, JR Prescott, JT Hutton Quaternary Science Reviews 7 (3-4), 325-329, 1988 | 124 | 1988 |
| Quantifying the rate and depth dependence of bioturbation based on optically-stimulated luminescence (OSL) dates and meteoric ¹⁰Be M Johnson, S Mudd, B Pillans, N Spooner, L Fifield, M Kirkby, M Gloor John Wiley & Sons, 2014 | 111 | 2014 |
| Kinetics of red, blue and UV thermoluminescence and optically-stimulated luminescence from quartz NA Spooner, DG Questiaux Radiation Measurements 32 (5-6), 659-666, 2000 | 106 | 2000 |
