| Earth’s earliest biosphere WG Ernst Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1983 | 861* | 1983 |
| Experimental phase-equilibrium study of Al-and Ti-contents of calcic amphibole in MORB—A semiquantitative thermobarometer WG Ernst, J Liu American mineralogist 83 (9-10), 952-969, 1998 | 647 | 1998 |
| Tectonic history of subduction zones inferred from retrograde blueschist PT paths WG Ernst Geology 16 (12), 1081, 1988 | 558 | 1988 |
| Tectonic contact between the Franciscan mélange and the Great Valley sequence—Crustal expression of a late Mesozoic Benioff zone WG Ernst Journal of Geophysical Research 75 (5), 886-901, 1970 | 547 | 1970 |
| Tectonics of the Walker Lane belt, western Great Basin: Mesozoic and Cenozoic deformation in a zone of shear JH Stewart, WG Ernst Metamorphism and crustal evolution of the western United States 7, 683-713, 1988 | 491 | 1988 |
| High-pressure minerals from deeply subducted metamorphic rocks JG Liou, RY Zhang, WG Ernst, D Rumble, S Maruyama Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 37 (1), 33, 1998 | 418 | 1998 |
| Comparative study of low-grade metamorphism in the California Coast Ranges and the outer metamorphic belt of Japan WG Ernst, Geological Society of America Geological Society of America, 1970 | 384 | 1970 |
| Ultrahigh-pressure minerals and metamorphic terranes-The view from China JG Liou, WG Ernst, RY Zhang, T Tsujimori, BM Jahn Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 35 (3-4), 199-231, 2009 | 379 | 2009 |
| Contrasting plate-tectonic styles of the Qinling-Dabie-Sulu and Franciscan metamorphic belts WG Ernst, JG Liou Geology 23 (4), 353, 1995 | 377 | 1995 |
| The Dabie–Sulu continental collision zone: a comprehensive review RY Zhang, JG Liou, WG Ernst Gondwana Research 16 (1), 1-26, 2009 | 370 | 2009 |
| Metamorphic zonations on presumably subducted lithospheric plates from Japan, California and the Alps WG Ernst Contributions to mineralogy and petrology 34 (1), 43-59, 1971 | 354 | 1971 |
| Permo-Triassic collision, subduction-zone metamorphism, and tectonic exhumation along the East Asian continental margin WG Ernst, T Tsujimori, R Zhang, JG Liou Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 35 (1), 73-110, 2007 | 312 | 2007 |
| Significance of phengitic micas from low-grade schists WG Ernst American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials 48 (11-12 …, 1963 | 306 | 1963 |
| Metamorphism and tectonics of high-pressure and ultra-high-pressure belts in the Dabie-Sulu region, China JG Liou The tectonics of Asia, 300-344, 1996 | 305 | 1996 |
| Buoyancy-driven, rapid exhumation of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphosed continental crust WG Ernst, S Maruyama, S Wallis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94 (18), 9532, 1997 | 299 | 1997 |
| Subduction, ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism, and regurgitation of buoyant crustal slices—implications for arcs and continental growth WG Ernst Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 127 (1-4), 253-275, 2001 | 296 | 2001 |
| Stability of hydrous phases in subducting oceanic crust J Liu, SR Bohlen, WG Ernst Earth and Planetary Science Letters 143 (1-4), 161-171, 1996 | 258 | 1996 |
| An experimental study on the recrystallization of porcelanite and its bearing on the origin of some bedded cherts. WG Ernst American J. of Science 267, 114-133, 1969 | 249 | 1969 |
| Mineral parageneses in Franciscan metamorphic rocks, Panoche Pass, California WG Ernst Geological Society of America Bulletin 76 (8), 879-914, 1965 | 247 | 1965 |
| Metamorphic evolution of diamond‐bearing and associated rocks from the Kokchetav Massif, northern Kazakhstan RY Zhang, JG Liou, WG Ernst, RG Coleman, NV Sobolev, VS Shatsky Journal of Metamorphic Geology 15 (4), 479-496, 1997 | 221 | 1997 |
