| Cenozoic geochronology WA Berggren, DV Kent, JJ Flynn, JA Van Couvering Geological Society of America Bulletin 96 (11), 1407-1418, 1985 | 1704 | 1985 |
| The Neogene: part 2 Neogene geochronology and chronostratigraphy WA Berggren, DV Kent, JA Van Couvering Geological Society, London, Memoirs 10 (1), 211-260, 1985 | 986 | 1985 |
| The late Neogene: biostratigraphy, geochronology, and paleoclimatology of the last 15 million years in marine and continental sequences WA Berggren, JA Van Couvering Elsevier, 2011 | 946 | 2011 |
| The two Phanerozoic supercycles AG Fischer Catastrophes and Earth history, 129-150, 1984 | 339 | 1984 |
| Encyclopedia of human evolution and prehistory E Delson, I Tattersall, J Van Couvering, AS Brooks Routledge, 2004 | 336 | 2004 |
| The base of the Zanclean Stage and of the Pliocene Series JA Van Couvering, D Castradori, MB Cita, FJ Hilgen, D Rio Episodes Journal of International Geoscience 23 (3), 179-187, 2000 | 243 | 2000 |
| The Global Standard Stratotype-section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Eocene Series in the Dababiya section (Egypt) MP Aubry Episodes: international geoscience newsmagazine/International Union of …, 2007 | 238 | 2007 |
| Palaeoenvironments in the east African Miocene P ANDREws, JAH Van Couvering Approaches to primate paleobiology 5, 62-103, 1975 | 217 | 1975 |
| Corrected age of the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary BU Haq, WA Berggren, JA Van Couvering Nature 269 (5628), 483-488, 1977 | 187 | 1977 |
| The fabric of Cretaceous marine extinctions EG Kauffman, WA Berggren, JA Van Couvering Catastrophes and earth history, 151-246, 1984 | 186 | 1984 |
| New chronology for the Early Miocene mammalian faunas of Kisingiri, Western Kenya RE Drake, JA Van Couvering, MH Pickford, GH Curtis, JA Harris Journal of the Geological Society 145 (3), 479-491, 1988 | 152 | 1988 |
| The correlation of the classical'Pikermian'mammal faunas Maragheh, Samos and Pikermi, with the European MN unit system RL Bernor The evolution of western Eurasian Neogene mammal faunas, 1996 | 145 | 1996 |
| The terminal Eocene event and the Polish connection JA Van Couvering, MP Aubry, WA Berggren, JP Bujak, CW Naeser, ... Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 36 (3-4), 321-362, 1981 | 138 | 1981 |
| The terminal Miocene event JA Van Couvering, WA Berggren, RE Drake, E Aguirre, GH Curtis Marine Micropaleontology 1, 263-286, 1976 | 128 | 1976 |
| Otavipithecus namibiensis, first Miocene hominoid from southern Africa GC Conroy, M Pickford, B Senut, JV Couvering, P Mein Nature 356 (6365), 144-148, 1992 | 121 | 1992 |
| The Fort Ternan hominoid site, Kenya: geology, age, taphonomy and paleoecology P Shipman, A Walker, JA Van Couvering, PJ Hooker, JA Miller Journal of Human Evolution 10 (1), 49-72, 1981 | 120 | 1981 |
| the Members of the Working Group on the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary (2007) The global standard stratotype-section and point (GSSP) for the base of the Eocene series in the … MP Aubry, K Ouda, C Dupuis, WA Berggren, JA Van Couvering Episodes 30 (4), 271-286, 2007 | 115 | 2007 |
| Catastrophes and earth history: the new uniformitarianism WA Berggren, JA Van Couvering Princeton University Press, 2014 | 101 | 2014 |
| The Miocene fossil beds of Maboko Island, Kenya: geology, age, taphonomy and palaeontology P Andrews, GE Meyer, DR Pilbeam, JA Van Couvering, ... Journal of Human Evolution 10 (1), 35-48, 1981 | 101 | 1981 |
| Biochronology WA Berggren, JA Van Couvering | 98 | 1978 |
