| When and where did India and Asia collide? JC Aitchison, JR Ali, AM Davis Journal of Geophysical Research 112 (5), B05423, 2007 | 1073 | 2007 |
| Gondwana to Asia: plate tectonics, paleogeography and the biological connectivity of the Indian sub-continent from the Middle Jurassic through latest Eocene (166–35 Ma) JR Ali, JC Aitchison Earth-Science Reviews 88 (3), 145-166, 2008 | 665 | 2008 |
| The Paleogene Period HP Luterbacher, JR Ali, H Brinkhuis, FM Gradstein, JJ Hooker, S Monechi, ... A Geologic Time Scale 2004, 384-408, 2004 | 395 | 2004 |
| Origin and motion history of the Philippine Sea Plate: evidence from eastern Indonesia R Hall, JR Ali, CD Anderson, SJ Baker Tectonophysics 251 (1), 229-250, 1995 | 382 | 1995 |
| Volcanism, mass extinction, and carbon isotope fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China PB Wignall, YD Sun, DPG Bond, G Izon, RJ Newton, S Védrine, ... Science 324 (5931), 1179-1182, 2009 | 378 | 2009 |
| Emeishan large igneous province, SW China JR Ali, GM Thompson, MF Zhou, XY Song Lithos 79 (3), 475-489, 2005 | 377 | 2005 |
| Mammalian biodiversity on Madagascar controlled by ocean currents JR Ali, M Huber Nature 463 (7281), 653-656, 2010 | 330 | 2010 |
| Seven million years of glaciation in Greenland HC Larsen, AD Saunders, PD Clift, J Beget, W Wei, S Spezzaferri, JR Ali, ... Science 264 (5161), 952-955, 1994 | 324 | 1994 |
| The global standard stratotype-section and point (GSSP) for the base of the Eocene Series in the Dababiya section (Egypt) MP Aubry, K Ouda, C Dupuis, WA Berggren, JA Van Couvering, JR Ali, ... Episodes 30 (4), 271–286, 2007 | 276* | 2007 |
| Greater India JR Ali, JC Aitchison Earth-Science Reviews 72 (3-4), 169-188, 2005 | 258 | 2005 |
| Dating the onset and nature of the Middle Permian Emeishan large igneous province eruptions in SW China using conodont biostratigraphy and its bearing on mantle plume uplift models YD Sun, XL Lai, PB Wignall, M Widdowson, JR Ali, H Jiang, W Wang, ... Lithos 119 (1), 20-33, 2010 | 194 | 2010 |
| Detrital zircon U–Pb ages along the Yarlung-Tsangpo suture zone, Tibet: implications for oblique convergence and collision between India and Asia JC Aitchison, XP Xia, AT Baxter, JR Ali Gondwana Research 20 (4), 691-709, 2011 | 191 | 2011 |
| The Middle Permian (Capitanian) mass extinction on land and in the oceans DPG Bond, J Hilton, PB Wignall, JR Ali, LG Stevens, YD Sun, XL Lai Earth-Science Reviews 102 (1), 100-116, 2010 | 170 | 2010 |
| Spatial and temporal arrival patterns of Madagascar's vertebrate fauna explained by distance, ocean currents, and ancestor type KE Samonds, LR Godfrey, JR Ali, SM Goodman, M Vences, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 109 (14), 5352-5357, 2012 | 166 | 2012 |
| Emeishan Basalts (SW China) and the ‘end-Guadalupian’ crisis: magnetobiostratigraphic constraints JR Ali, GM Thompson, XY Song, YL Wang Journal of the Geological Society of London 159 (1), 21-29, 2002 | 158 | 2002 |
| Emeishan large igneous province (SW China) and the mantle-plume up-doming hypothesis JR Ali, JG Fitton, C Herzberg Journal of the Geological Society of London 167 (5), 953-959, 2010 | 155 | 2010 |
| The Philippine Sea Plate: magnetism and reconstructions R Hall, M Fuller, JR Ali, CD Anderson AGU Geophysical Monograph Series 88, 371-404, 1995 | 145 | 1995 |
| Paleomagnetism of Borneo M Fuller, JR Ali, SJ Moss, GM Frost, B Richter, A Mahfi Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 17 (1-2), 3-24, 1999 | 144 | 1999 |
| Late Cretaceous bioconnections between Indo‐Madagascar and Antarctica: refutation of the Gunnerus Ridge causeway hypothesis JR Ali, DW Krause Journal of Biogeography 38 (10), 1855-1872, 2011 | 142 | 2011 |
| Exploring the combined role of eustasy and oceanic island thermal subsidence in shaping biodiversity on the Galápagos JR Ali, JC Aitchison Journal of Biogeography 41 (7), 1227-1241, 2014 | 130 | 2014 |
