| Melting and mixing states of the Earth's mantle after the Moon-forming impact M Nakajima, DJ Stevenson Earth and Planetary Science Letters 427, 286-295, 2015 | 176 | 2015 |
| Investigation of the initial state of the Moon-forming disk: Bridging SPH simulations and hydrostatic models M Nakajima, DJ Stevenson Icarus 233, 259-267, 2014 | 88 | 2014 |
| Formation, stratification, and mixing of the cores of Earth and Venus SA Jacobson, DC Rubie, J Hernlund, A Morbidelli, M Nakajima Earth and Planetary Science Letters 474, 375-386, 2017 | 80 | 2017 |
| Inefficient volatile loss from the Moon-forming disk: Reconciling the giant impact hypothesis and a wet Moon M Nakajima, DJ Stevenson Earth and Planetary Science Letters 487, 117-126, 2018 | 61 | 2018 |
| Controlled boiling on Enceladus. 2. Model of the liquid-filled cracks AP Ingersoll, M Nakajima Icarus 272, 319-326, 2016 | 54 | 2016 |
| Controlled boiling on Enceladus. 1. Model of the vapor-driven jets M Nakajima, AP Ingersoll Icarus 272, 309-318, 2016 | 45 | 2016 |
| Origin and evolution of water in the Moon's interior EH Hauri, AE Saal, M Nakajima, M Anand, MJ Rutherford, JA Van Orman, ... Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 45 (1), 89-111, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Scaling laws for the geometry of an impact-induced magma ocean M Nakajima, GJ Golabek, K Wünnemann, DC Rubie, C Burger, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 568, 116983, 2021 | 35 | 2021 |
| Absence of a long-lived lunar paleomagnetosphere JA Tarduno, RD Cottrell, K Lawrence, RK Bono, W Huang, CL Johnson, ... Science Advances 7 (32), eabi7647, 2021 | 35 | 2021 |
| Origin of the Moon RM Canup, K Righter, N Dauphas, K Pahlevan, M Ćuk, SJ Lock, ... Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 89 (1), 53-102, 2023 | 33 | 2023 |
| Ricochets on asteroids: Experimental study of low velocity grazing impacts into granular media E Wright, AC Quillen, J South, RC Nelson, P Sánchez, J Siu, H Askari, ... Icarus 351, 113963, 2020 | 20 | 2020 |
| Large planets may not form fractionally large moons M Nakajima, H Genda, E Asphaug, S Ida Nature Communications 13, 568, 2022 | 19 | 2022 |
| Excitation of tumbling in Phobos and Deimos AC Quillen, M Lane, M Nakajima, E Wright Icarus 340, 113641, 2020 | 19 | 2020 |
| Near/far side asymmetry in the tidally heated Moon AC Quillen, L Martini, M Nakajima Icarus 329, 182-196, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
| Hydrodynamic Escape does not Prevent the``Wet''Moon Formation M Nakajima, DJ Stevenson 45th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 2770, 2014 | 12 | 2014 |
| Geophysical Evolution During Rocky Planet Formation T Lichtenberg, LK Schaefer, M Nakajima, RA Fischer arXiv:2203.10023., 2022 | 11 | 2022 |
| Boulder stranding in ejecta launched by an impact generated seismic pulse E Wright, AC Quillen, J South, RC Nelson, P Sanchez, L Martini, ... Icarus 337, 113424, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| A Revision of the Formation Conditions of the Vredefort Crater NH Allen, M Nakajima, K Wünnemann, S Helhoski, D Trail Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 127 (8), e2022JE007186, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
| Ricochets on asteroids II: Sensitivity of laboratory experiments of low velocity grazing impacts on substrate grain size E Wright, AC Quillen, P Sanchez, SR Schwartz, M Nakajima, H Askari, ... Icarus 376, 114868, 2022 | 7 | 2022 |
| Accretion of ornamental equatorial ridges on Pan, Atlas and Daphnis AC Quillen, F Zaidouni, M Nakajima, E Wright Icarus 357, 114260, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
