| Arc-assembly and continental collision in the Neoproterozoic African orogen: implications for the consolidation of Gondwanaland RJ Stern Annual review of earth and planetary sciences 22, 319-351, 1994 | 1699 | 1994 |
| Subduction zones RJ Stern Reviews of geophysics 40 (4), 3-1-3-38, 2002 | 1369 | 2002 |
| Subduction zone infancy: examples from the Eocene Izu-Bonin-Mariana and Jurassic California arcs RJ Stern, SH Bloomer Geological Society of America Bulletin 104 (12), 1621-1636, 1992 | 864 | 1992 |
| Subduction initiation: spontaneous and induced RJ Stern Earth and Planetary Science Letters 226 (3-4), 275-292, 2004 | 768 | 2004 |
| Geochemical mapping of the Mariana arc‐basin system: Implications for the nature and distribution of subduction components JA Pearce, RJ Stern, SH Bloomer, P Fryer Geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems 6 (7), 2005 | 727 | 2005 |
| Geochronologic and isotopic constraints on late Precambrian crustal evolution in the Eastern Desert of Egypt RJ Stern, CE Hedge American Journal of Science 285 (2), 97-127, 1985 | 698 | 1985 |
| The saharan metacraton MG Abdelsalam, JP Liégeois, RJ Stern Journal of African Earth Sciences 34 (3-4), 119-136, 2002 | 647 | 2002 |
| Fore‐arc basalts and subduction initiation in the Izu‐Bonin‐Mariana system MK Reagan, O Ishizuka, RJ Stern, KA Kelley, Y Ohara, J Blichert‐Toft, ... Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 11 (3), 2010 | 626 | 2010 |
| Origin of back-arc basin magmas: trace element and isotope perspectives JA Pearce, RJ Stern Geophysical Monograph-American Geophysical Union 166, 63, 2006 | 586 | 2006 |
| Late Cryogenian–Ediacaran history of the Arabian–Nubian Shield: a review of depositional, plutonic, structural, and tectonic events in the closing stages of the northern East … PR Johnson, A Andresen, AS Collins, AR Fowler, H Fritz, W Ghebreab, ... Journal of African Earth Sciences 61 (3), 167-232, 2011 | 555 | 2011 |
| Continental lithosphere of the Arabian Plate: a geologic, petrologic, and geophysical synthesis RJ Stern, P Johnson Earth-Science Reviews 101 (1-2), 29-67, 2010 | 528 | 2010 |
| Evidence from ophiolites, blueschists, and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terranes that the modern episode of subduction tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time RJ Stern Geology 33 (7), 557-560, 2005 | 513 | 2005 |
| Orogen styles in the East African Orogen: a review of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian tectonic evolution H Fritz, M Abdelsalam, KA Ali, B Bingen, AS Collins, AR Fowler, ... Journal of African Earth Sciences 86, 65-106, 2013 | 504 | 2013 |
| Crustal evolution in the East African Orogen: a neodymium isotopic perspective RJ Stern Journal of African Earth Sciences 34 (3-4), 109-117, 2002 | 492 | 2002 |
| Sutures and shear zones in the Arabian-Nubian Shield MG Abdelsalam, RJ Stern Journal of African Earth Sciences 23 (3), 289-310, 1996 | 457 | 1996 |
| An overview of the Izu-Bonin-Mariana subduction factory RJ Stern, MJ Fouch, SL Klemperer GEOPHYSICAL MONOGRAPH-AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION 138, 175-222, 2003 | 412 | 2003 |
| Early arc volcanism and the ophiolite problem: a perspective from drilling in the western Pacific SH Bloomer, B Taylor, CJ MacLeod, RJ Stern, P Fryer, JW Hawkins, ... Active margins and marginal basins of the western Pacific 88, 1-30, 1995 | 406 | 1995 |
| The Najd fault system, Saudi Arabia and Egypt: A late Precambrian rift‐related transform system? RJ Stern Tectonics 4 (5), 497-511, 1985 | 384 | 1985 |
| Pan‐African crustal evolution in the Nubian segment of northeast Africa A Kröner, R Greiling, T Reischmann, IM Hussein, RJ Stern, S Dürr, ... Proterozic Lithospheric Evolution 17, 235-257, 1987 | 373 | 1987 |
| Chemical and isotopic composition of lavas from the northern Mariana Trough: Implications for magmagenesis in back-arc basins RF Gribble, RJ Stern, S Newman, SH Bloomer, T O'Hearn Journal of Petrology 39 (1), 125-154, 1998 | 356 | 1998 |
