| Trends, rhythms, and aberrations in global climate 65 Ma to present J Zachos, M Pagani, L Sloan, E Thomas, K Billups science 292 (5517), 686-693, 2001 | 11439 | 2001 |
| Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim? J Hansen, M Sato, P Kharecha, D Beerling, R Berner, V Masson-Delmotte, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.1126, 2008 | 2168 | 2008 |
| Marked decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during the Paleogene M Pagani, JC Zachos, KH Freeman, B Tipple, S Bohaty science 309 (5734), 600-603, 2005 | 1078 | 2005 |
| Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum A Sluijs, S Schouten, M Pagani, M Woltering, H Brinkhuis, JSS Damsté, ... Nature 441 (7093), 610-613, 2006 | 807 | 2006 |
| Global cooling during the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition Z Liu, M Pagani, D Zinniker, R DeConto, M Huber, H Brinkhuis, SR Shah, ... Science 323 (5918), 1187-1190, 2009 | 772 | 2009 |
| High Earth-system climate sensitivity determined from Pliocene carbon dioxide concentrations M Pagani, Z Liu, J LaRiviere, AC Ravelo Nature Geoscience 3 (1), 27-30, 2010 | 629 | 2010 |
| Late Miocene atmospheric CO2 concentrations and the expansion of C4 grasses M Pagani, KH Freeman, MA Arthur Science 285 (5429), 876-879, 1999 | 585 | 1999 |
| Miocene evolution of atmospheric carbon dioxide M Pagani, MA Arthur, KH Freeman Paleoceanography 14 (3), 273-292, 1999 | 570 | 1999 |
| A 40-million-year history of atmospheric CO2 YG Zhang, M Pagani, Z Liu, SM Bohaty, R DeConto Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical …, 2013 | 461 | 2013 |
| Thresholds for Cenozoic bipolar glaciation RM DeConto, D Pollard, PA Wilson, H Pälike, CH Lear, M Pagani Nature 455 (7213), 652-656, 2008 | 461 | 2008 |
| Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum M Pagani, N Pedentchouk, M Huber, A Sluijs, S Schouten, H Brinkhuis, ... Nature 442 (7103), 671-675, 2006 | 458 | 2006 |
| Past extreme warming events linked to massive carbon release from thawing permafrost RM DeConto, S Galeotti, M Pagani, D Tracy, K Schaefer, T Zhang, ... Nature 484 (7392), 87-91, 2012 | 396 | 2012 |
| Carbon isotope ratio of Cenozoic CO2: A comparative evaluation of available geochemical proxies BJ Tipple, SR Meyers, M Pagani Paleoceanography 25 (3), 2010 | 373 | 2010 |
| The role of carbon dioxide during the onset of Antarctic glaciation M Pagani, M Huber, Z Liu, SM Bohaty, J Henderiks, W Sijp, S Krishnan, ... science 334 (6060), 1261-1264, 2011 | 342 | 2011 |
| The Early Origins of Terrestrial C4 Photosynthesis BJ Tipple, M Pagani Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 35, 435-461, 2007 | 332 | 2007 |
| Effects of rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary on neotropical vegetation C Jaramillo, D Ochoa, L Contreras, M Pagani, H Carvajal-Ortiz, LM Pratt, ... Science 330 (6006), 957-961, 2010 | 317 | 2010 |
| Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity Nature 491 (7426), 683-691, 2012 | 315 | 2012 |
| A 12-million-year temperature history of the tropical Pacific Ocean YG Zhang, M Pagani, Z Liu Science 344 (6179), 84-87, 2014 | 269 | 2014 |
| Antarctic and Southern Ocean influences on Late Pliocene global cooling R McKay, T Naish, L Carter, C Riesselman, R Dunbar, C Sjunneskog, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (17), 6423-6428, 2012 | 234 | 2012 |
| An ancient carbon mystery M Pagani, K Caldeira, D Archer, JC Zachos Science 314 (5805), 1556-1557, 2006 | 233 | 2006 |
