| Cretaceous tectonic evolution of South China: A preliminary synthesis J Li, Y Zhang, S Dong, ST Johnston Earth-Science Reviews 134, 98-136, 2014 | 630 | 2014 |
| The Laramide orogeny: What were the driving forces? JM English, ST Johnston International Geology Review 46 (9), 833-838, 2004 | 276 | 2004 |
| The Great Alaskan Terrane Wreck: reconciliation of paleomagnetic and geological data in the northern Cordillera ST Johnston Earth and Planetary Science Letters 193 (3-4), 259-272, 2001 | 254 | 2001 |
| Cocos-Nazca slab window beneath central America ST Johnston, DJ Thorkelson Earth and Planetary Science Letters 146 (3-4), 465-474, 1997 | 247 | 1997 |
| Diachronous post‐orogenic magmatism within a developing orocline in Iberia, European Variscides G Gutiérrez‐Alonso, J Fernández‐Suárez, TE Jeffries, ST Johnston, ... Tectonics 30 (5), 2011 | 225 | 2011 |
| The cordilleran ribbon continent of North America ST Johnston Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 36 (1), 495-530, 2008 | 200 | 2008 |
| Thermal modelling of the Laramide orogeny: testing the flat-slab subduction hypothesis JM English, ST Johnston, K Wang Earth and Planetary Science Letters 214 (3-4), 619-632, 2003 | 188 | 2003 |
| Self-subduction of the Pangaean global plate G Gutiérrez-Alonso, J Fernández-Suárez, AB Weil, J Brendan Murphy, ... Nature Geoscience 1 (8), 549-553, 2008 | 177 | 2008 |
| An Andean-type retro-arc foreland system beneath northwest South China revealed by SINOPROBE profiling J Li, S Dong, PA Cawood, G Zhao, ST Johnston, Y Zhang, Y Xin Earth and Planetary Science Letters 490, 170-179, 2018 | 174 | 2018 |
| Oroclines: Thick and thin ST Johnston, AB Weil, G Gutiérrez-Alonso Bulletin 125 (5-6), 643-663, 2013 | 169 | 2013 |
| Kinematic constraints on buckling a lithospheric-scale orocline along the northern margin of Gondwana: A geologic synthesis AB Weil, G Gutiérrez-Alonso, ST Johnston, D Pastor-Galán Tectonophysics 582, 25-49, 2013 | 166 | 2013 |
| New insights into Phanerozoic tectonics of south China: Part 1, polyphase deformation in the Jiuling and Lianyunshan domains of the central Jiangnan Orogen J Li, S Dong, Y Zhang, G Zhao, ST Johnston, J Cui, Y Xin Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 121 (4), 3048-3080, 2016 | 146 | 2016 |
| New insights into Phanerozoic tectonics of South China: Early Paleozoic sinistral and Triassic dextral transpression in the east Wuyishan and Chencai domains, NE Cathaysia J Li, Y Zhang, G Zhao, ST Johnston, S Dong, A Koppers, DP Miggins, ... Tectonics 36 (5), 819-853, 2017 | 124 | 2017 |
| Provenance variability along the Early Ordovician north Gondwana margin: Paleogeographic and tectonic implications of U-Pb detrital zircon ages from the Armorican Quartzite of … J Shaw, G Gutiérrez-Alonso, ST Johnston, DP Galán Bulletin 126 (5-6), 702-719, 2014 | 122 | 2014 |
| Oroclines of the Variscan orogen of Iberia: Paleocurrent analysis and paleogeographic implications J Shaw, ST Johnston, G Gutiérrez-Alonso, AB Weil Earth and Planetary Science Letters 329, 60-70, 2012 | 120 | 2012 |
| The missing Rheic Ocean magmatic arcs: provenance analysis of Late Paleozoic sedimentary clastic rocks of SW Iberia MF Pereira, M Chichorro, ST Johnston, G Gutiérrez-Alonso, JB Silva, ... Gondwana Research 22 (3-4), 882-891, 2012 | 118 | 2012 |
| Dating of lithospheric buckling: 40Ar/39Ar ages of syn-orocline strike–slip shear zones in northwestern Iberia G Gutiérrez-Alonso, AS Collins, J Fernández-Suárez, D Pastor-Galán, ... Tectonophysics 643, 44-54, 2015 | 114 | 2015 |
| Buckling an orogen: the Cantabrian Orocline G Gutiérrez-Alonso, ST Johnston, AB Weil, D Pastor-Galán, ... GSA Today 22 (7), 4-9, 2012 | 111 | 2012 |
| The Cape Fold Belt and Syntaxis and the rotated Falkland Islands: dextral transpressional tectonics along the southwest margin of Gondwana ST Johnston Journal of African Earth Sciences 31 (1), 51-63, 2000 | 103 | 2000 |
| The odyssey of the Cache Creek terrane, Canadian Cordillera: Implications for accretionary orogens, tectonic setting of Panthalassa, the Pacific superwell, and break-up of Pangea ST Johnston, GD Borel Earth and Planetary Science Letters 253 (3-4), 415-428, 2007 | 99 | 2007 |