| Deepest known plant life discovered on an uncharted seamount MM Littler, DS Littler, SM Blair, JN Norris Science 227 (4682), 57-59, 1985 | 393 | 1985 |
| Marine plants of the Caribbean a field guide from Florida to Brazil DS Littler Washington Smithsonian Institution, 1989 | 297 | 1989 |
| Marine algae of the northern Gulf of California: Chlorophyta and Phaeophyceae JN Norris Smithsonian contributions to botany, 2010 | 287* | 2010 |
| Deep-water plant communities from an uncharted seamount off San Salvador Island, Bahamas: distribution, abundance, and primary productivity MM Littler, DS Littler, SM Blair, JN Norris Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers 33 (7), 881-892, 1986 | 227 | 1986 |
| Chemical defense in tropical marine algae JN Norris, W Fenical The Atlantic Barrier Reef Ecosystem at Carrie Bow Cay, Belize, I. Structure …, 1982 | 184 | 1982 |
| The regulation of morphological plasticity in tropical reef algae by herbivory SM Lewis, JN Norris, RB Searles Ecology 68 (3), 636-641, 1987 | 178 | 1987 |
| Systematics of the Gracilariales (Rhodophyta) including new subfamilies, tribes, subgenera, and two new genera, Agarophyton gen. nov. and Crassa gen. nov. CFD Gurgel, JN Norris, WE Schmidt, HN Le, S Fredericq Phytotaxa 374 (1), 1–23-1–23, 2018 | 105 | 2018 |
| A history and annotated account of the benthic marine algae of Taiwan JL Lewis, JN Norris | 100 | 1987 |
| CHEMOTAXONOMY IN MARINE ALGAE: CHEMICAL SEPARATION OF SOME LAURENCIA SPECIES (RHODOPHYTA) FROM THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA1 W Fenical, JN Norris Journal of Phycology 11 (1), 104-108, 1975 | 90 | 1975 |
| Articulated coralline algae of the Gulf of California, Mexico, I: Amphiroa Lamouroux JN Norris, HW Johansen | 87 | 1981 |
| Phospholipase A2 inhibitors from marine algae AMS Mayer, VJ Paul, W Fenical, JN Norris, MS De Carvalho, RS Jacobs Fourteenth International Seaweed Symposium: Proceedings of the Fourteenth …, 1993 | 83 | 1993 |
| Seaweeds of the Gulf of Mexico S Fredericq, TO Cho, SA Earle, CF Gurgel, DM Krayesky, LE Mateo-Cid, ... Gulf of Mexico origin, waters and biota 1, 187-259, 2009 | 77 | 2009 |
| Chemical variation in the tropical seaweed Stypopodium zonale (Dictyotaceae) WH Gerwick, W Fenical, JN Norris Phytochemistry 24 (6), 1279-1283, 1985 | 75 | 1985 |
| An early Holocene reef in the western Atlantic: submersible investigations of a deep relict reef off the west coast of Barbados, WI IG Macintyre, K Rützler, JN Norris, KP Smith, SD Cairns, KE Bucher, ... Coral Reefs 10, 167-174, 1991 | 74 | 1991 |
| Marine algae and seagrasses from Carrie Bow Cay, Belize JN Norris, KE Bucher Smithsonian Contribution Marine Science 12, 167-223, 1982 | 73 | 1982 |
| Eucheuma species (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta) that are major sources of carrageenan MS Doty Taxonomy of economic seaweeds with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean …, 1985 | 71 | 1985 |
| Taxonomy of economic seaweeds: with reference to some Pacific and Caribbean species IA Abbott, JN Norris | 65 | 1985 |
| The red alga Polysiphonia (Rhodomelaceae) in the Nothern Gulf of California GJ Hollenberg, JN Norris | 64 | 1977 |
| Seasonal reproduction and abundance of six sympatric species of Gracilaria Grev. (Gracilariaceae; Rhodophyta) on a Caribbean subtidal sand plain ME Hay, JN Norris Eleventh International Seaweed Symposium: Proceedings of the Eleventh …, 1984 | 63 | 1984 |
| A new order of red algae based on the Peyssonneliaceae, with an evaluation of the ordinal classification of the Florideophyceae (Rhodophyta) DM Krayesky, JN Norris, PW Gabrielson, D Gabriel, S Fredericq Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 122 (3), 364-391, 2009 | 62 | 2009 |
