| Age, spreading rates, and spreading asymmetry of the world's ocean crust RD Müller, M Sdrolias, C Gaina, WR Roest Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 9 (4), 2008 | 2253 | 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 113 (3-4), 212-270, 2012 | 1953 | 2012 |
| Phanerozoic polar wander, palaeogeography and dynamics TH Torsvik, R Van der Voo, U Preeden, C Mac Niocaill, B Steinberger, ... Earth-Science Reviews 114 (3-4), 325-368, 2012 | 1521 | 2012 |
| 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 |
| EMAG2: A 2–arc min resolution Earth Magnetic Anomaly Grid compiled from satellite, airborne, and marine magnetic measurements S Maus, U Barckhausen, H Berkenbosch, N Bournas, J Brozena, ... Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 10 (8), 2009 | 800 | 2009 |
| Global plate motion frames: toward a unified model TH Torsvik, RD Müller, R Van der Voo, B Steinberger, C Gaina Reviews of geophysics 46 (3), 2008 | 739 | 2008 |
| The tectonic history of the Tasman Sea: a puzzle with 13 pieces C Gaina, DR Müller, JY Royer, J Stock, J Hardebeck, P Symonds Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 103 (B6), 12413-12433, 1998 | 533 | 1998 |
| GlobSed: Updated total sediment thickness in the world's oceans EO Straume, C Gaina, S Medvedev, K Hochmuth, K Gohl, JM Whittaker, ... Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20 (4), 1756-1772, 2019 | 355 | 2019 |
| Major Australian-Antarctic plate reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor bend time JM Whittaker, RD Muller, G Leitchenkov, H Stagg, M Sdrolias, C Gaina, ... Science 318 (5847), 83-86, 2007 | 348* | 2007 |
| Breakup and early seafloor spreading between India and Antarctica C Gaina, RD Müller, B Brown, T Ishihara, S Ivanov Geophysical Journal International 170 (1), 151-169, 2007 | 310 | 2007 |
| Palaeocene–Recent plate boundaries in the NE Atlantic and the formation of the Jan Mayen microcontinent C Gaina, L Gernigon, P Ball Journal of the Geological Society 166 (4), 601-616, 2009 | 273 | 2009 |
| A recipe for microcontinent formation RD Müller, C Gaina, WR Roest, DL Hansen Geology 29 (3), 203-206, 2001 | 229 | 2001 |
| The African Plate: A history of oceanic crust accretion and subduction since the Jurassic C Gaina, TH Torsvik, DJJ van Hinsbergen, S Medvedev, SC Werner, ... Tectonophysics 604, 4-25, 2013 | 223 | 2013 |
| Integrated crustal thickness mapping and plate reconstructions for the high Arctic A Alvey, C Gaina, NJ Kusznir, TH Torsvik Earth and Planetary Science Letters 274 (3-4), 310-321, 2008 | 222 | 2008 |
| Plate tectonics and net lithosphere rotation over the past 150 My TH Torsvik, B Steinberger, M Gurnis, C Gaina Earth and Planetary Science Letters 291 (1-4), 106-112, 2010 | 210 | 2010 |
| Late Cretaceous–Cenozoic deformation of northeast Asia C Gaina, WR Roest, RD Müller Earth and Planetary Science Letters 197 (3-4), 273-286, 2002 | 205 | 2002 |
| A Precambrian microcontinent in the Indian Ocean TH Torsvik, H Amundsen, EH Hartz, F Corfu, N Kusznir, C Gaina, ... Nature geoscience 6 (3), 223-227, 2013 | 203 | 2013 |
| Chapter 3 Circum-Arctic mapping project: new magnetic and gravity anomaly maps of the Arctic C Gaina, SC Werner, R Saltus, S Maus, Camp-Gm Group Geological Society, London, Memoirs 35 (1), 39-48, 2011 | 201 | 2011 |
| Cenozoic tectonic and depth/age evolution of the Indonesian gateway and associated back-arc basins C Gaina, D Müller Earth-Science Reviews 83 (3-4), 177-203, 2007 | 166 | 2007 |
| Continental crust beneath southeast Iceland TH Torsvik, HEF Amundsen, RG Trønnes, PV Doubrovine, C Gaina, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (15), E1818-E1827, 2015 | 164 | 2015 |