| Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth’s changing climate during the last 540 million years CR Scotese, H Song, BJW Mills, DG van der Meer Earth-Science Reviews 215, 103503, 2021 | 529 | 2021 |
| Past climates inform our future JE Tierney, CJ Poulsen, IP Montañez, T Bhattacharya, R Feng, HL Ford, ... science 370 (6517), eaay3701, 2020 | 429 | 2020 |
| Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen TM Lenton, TW Dahl, SJ Daines, BJW Mills, K Ozaki, MR Saltzman, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (35), 9704-9709, 2016 | 317 | 2016 |
| COPSE reloaded: an improved model of biogeochemical cycling over Phanerozoic time TM Lenton, SJ Daines, BJW Mills Earth-Science Reviews 178, 1-28, 2018 | 285 | 2018 |
| Stepwise oxygenation of the Paleozoic atmosphere AJ Krause, BJW Mills, S Zhang, NJ Planavsky, TM Lenton, SW Poulton Nature Communications 9 (1), 4081, 2018 | 226 | 2018 |
| Possible links between extreme oxygen perturbations and the Cambrian radiation of animals T He, M Zhu, BJW Mills, PM Wynn, AY Zhuravlev, R Tostevin, ... Nature Geoscience 12 (6), 468-474, 2019 | 154 | 2019 |
| Atmospheric oxygen regulation at low Proterozoic levels by incomplete oxidative weathering of sedimentary organic carbon SJ Daines, BJW Mills, TM Lenton Nature Communications 8 (1), 14379, 2017 | 147 | 2017 |
| Modelling the long-term carbon cycle, atmospheric CO2, and Earth surface temperature from late Neoproterozoic to present day BJW Mills, AJ Krause, CR Scotese, DJ Hill, GA Shields, TM Lenton Gondwana Research 67, 172-186, 2019 | 145 | 2019 |
| Stepwise Earth oxygenation is an inherent property of global biogeochemical cycling LJ Alcott, BJW Mills, SW Poulton Science 366 (6471), 1333-1337, 2019 | 138 | 2019 |
| Unique Neoproterozoic carbon isotope excursions sustained by coupled evaporite dissolution and pyrite burial GA Shields, BJW Mills, M Zhu, TD Raub, SJ Daines, TM Lenton Nature Geoscience 12 (10), 823-827, 2019 | 127 | 2019 |
| Reconciling proxy records and models of Earth's oxygenation during the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic R Tostevin, BJW Mills Interface focus 10 (4), 20190137, 2020 | 93 | 2020 |
| Timing of Neoproterozoic glaciations linked to transport-limited global weathering B Mills, AJ Watson, C Goldblatt, R Boyle, TM Lenton Nature geoscience 4 (12), 861-864, 2011 | 92 | 2011 |
| Rapid cross-density ocean mixing at mid-depths in the Drake Passage measured by tracer release AJ Watson, JR Ledwell, MJ Messias, BA King, N Mackay, MP Meredith, ... Nature 501 (7467), 408-411, 2013 | 85 | 2013 |
| Proterozoic oxygen rise linked to shifting balance between seafloor and terrestrial weathering B Mills, TM Lenton, AJ Watson Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (25), 9073-9078, 2014 | 83 | 2014 |
| Ocean deoxygenation, the global phosphorus cycle and the possibility of human-caused large-scale ocean anoxia AJ Watson, TM Lenton, BJW Mills Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical …, 2017 | 80 | 2017 |
| Early Palaeozoic ocean anoxia and global warming driven by the evolution of shallow burrowing S Van De Velde, BJW Mills, FJR Meysman, TM Lenton, SW Poulton Nature Communications 9 (1), 2554, 2018 | 78 | 2018 |
| Deep CO2 in the end-Triassic Central Atlantic Magmatic Province M Capriolo, A Marzoli, LE Aradi, S Callegaro, J Dal Corso, RJ Newton, ... Nature communications 11 (1), 1670, 2020 | 72 | 2020 |
| Tectonic controls on the long-term carbon isotope mass balance GA Shields, BJW Mills Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (17), 4318-4323, 2017 | 72 | 2017 |
| Long-term organic carbon preservation enhanced by iron and manganese OW Moore, L Curti, C Woulds, JA Bradley, P Babakhani, BJW Mills, ... Nature 621 (7978), 312-317, 2023 | 69 | 2023 |
| Changing tectonic controls on the long‐term carbon cycle from M esozoic to present B Mills, SJ Daines, TM Lenton Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 15 (12), 4866-4884, 2014 | 68 | 2014 |