| The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene CN Waters, J Zalasiewicz, C Summerhayes, AD Barnosky, C Poirier, ... Science 351 (6269), aad2622, 2016 | 2668 | 2016 |
| Are we now living in the Anthropocene? J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, A Smith, TL Barry, AL Coe, PR Bown, ... Gsa Today 18 (2), 4, 2008 | 1205 | 2008 |
| When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, M Williams, AD Barnosky, A Cearreta, ... Quaternary international 383, 196-203, 2015 | 1098 | 2015 |
| The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, JAI Do Sul, PL Corcoran, AD Barnosky, ... Anthropocene 13, 4-17, 2016 | 937 | 2016 |
| The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, CP Summerhayes, AP Wolfe, AD Barnosky, ... Anthropocene 19, 55-60, 2017 | 549 | 2017 |
| The Anthropocene as a geological time unit: a guide to the scientific evidence and current debate J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, M Williams, CP Summerhayes Cambridge University Press, 2019 | 417 | 2019 |
| A stratigraphical basis for the Anthropocene? CN Waters, JA Zalasiewicz, M Williams, MA Ellis, AM Snelling Geological Society, London, Special Publications 395 (1), 1-21, 2014 | 342 | 2014 |
| Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, CN Waters, AD Barnosky, J Palmesino, ... The Anthropocene Review 4 (1), 9-22, 2017 | 316 | 2017 |
| Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene W Steffen, R Leinfelder, J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, M Williams, ... Earth's Future 4 (8), 324-345, 2016 | 313 | 2016 |
| Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, R Fortey, A Smith, TL Barry, AL Coe, PR Bown, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical …, 2011 | 312 | 2011 |
| The anthropocene J Zalasiewicz, C Waters, M Williams Geologic time scale 2020, 1257-1280, 2020 | 271 | 2020 |
| Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch J Syvitski, CN Waters, J Day, JD Milliman, C Summerhayes, W Steffen, ... Communications Earth & Environment 1 (1), 32, 2020 | 270 | 2020 |
| The technofossil record of humans J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, CN Waters, AD Barnosky, P Haff The Anthropocene Review 1 (1), 34-43, 2014 | 258 | 2014 |
| Can nuclear weapons fallout mark the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch? CN Waters, JPM Syvitski, A Gałuszka, GJ Hancock, J Zalasiewicz, ... Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 71 (3), 46-57, 2015 | 244 | 2015 |
| Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Anthropocene Series: Where and how to look for potential candidates CN Waters, J Zalasiewicz, C Summerhayes, IJ Fairchild, NL Rose, ... Earth-Science Reviews 178, 379-429, 2018 | 222 | 2018 |
| Diachronous beginnings of the Anthropocene: The lower bounding surface of anthropogenic deposits M Edgeworth, D deB Richter, C Waters, P Haff, C Neal, SJ Price The Anthropocene Review 2 (1), 33-58, 2015 | 202 | 2015 |
| The Anthropocene: Comparing its meaning in geology (chronostratigraphy) with conceptual approaches arising in other disciplines J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, EC Ellis, MJ Head, D Vidas, W Steffen, ... Earth's Future 9 (3), e2020EF001896, 2021 | 172 | 2021 |
| Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: an analysis of ongoing critiques J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, AP Wolfe, AD Barnosky, A Cearreta, ... | 166 | 2017 |
| A lithostratigraphical framework for the Carboniferous successions of southern Great Britain (Onshore) CN Waters, RA Waters, WJ Barclay, JR Davies British Geological Survey, 2009 | 161 | 2009 |
| The geological cycle of plastics and their use as a stratigraphic indicator of the Anthropocene. Anthropocene 13: 4–17 J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, JA Ivar do Sul, PL Corcoran, AD Barnosky, ... | 139 | 2016 |
