| Rank | Title | Journal | Year | PubWeight™‹?› |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heterogeneous Hadean hafnium: evidence of continental crust at 4.4 to 4.5 ga. | Science | 2005 | 2.92 |
| 2 | A short timescale for terrestrial planet formation from Hf-W chronometry of meteorites. | Nature | 2002 | 2.54 |
| 3 | Short-lived chemical heterogeneities in the archean mantle with implications for mantle convection. | Science | 1994 | 0.86 |
| 4 | Evidence from Sardinian basalt geochemistry for recycling of plume heads into the Earth's mantle. | Nature | 2000 | 0.75 |
| 5 | Cryptic striations in the upper mantle revealed by hafnium isotopes in southeast Indian ridge basalts. | Nature | 2006 | 0.75 |