| Structure and dynamics of Earth's lower mantle EJ Garnero, AK McNamara science 320 (5876), 626-628, 2008 | 511 | 2008 |
| Thermochemical structures beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean AK McNamara, S Zhong Nature 437 (7062), 1136-1139, 2005 | 452 | 2005 |
| Continent-sized anomalous zones with low seismic velocity at the base of Earth's mantle EJ Garnero, AK McNamara, SH Shim Nature Geoscience 9 (7), 481-489, 2016 | 342 | 2016 |
| A benchmark study on mantle convection in a 3‐D spherical shell using CitcomS S Zhong, A McNamara, E Tan, L Moresi, M Gurnis Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 9 (10), 2008 | 298 | 2008 |
| Thermochemical structures within a spherical mantle: Superplumes or piles? AK McNamara, S Zhong Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 109 (B7), 2004 | 270 | 2004 |
| Tracking deep mantle reservoirs with ultra-low velocity zones AK McNamara, EJ Garnero, S Rost Earth and Planetary Science Letters 299 (1-2), 1-9, 2010 | 235 | 2010 |
| Deformation of (Mg,Fe)SiO3 Post-Perovskite and D'' Anisotropy S Merkel, AK McNamara, A Kubo, S Speziale, L Miyagi, Y Meng, TS Duffy, ... Science 316 (5832), 1729-1732, 2007 | 160 | 2007 |
| A review of large low shear velocity provinces and ultra low velocity zones AK McNamara Tectonophysics 760, 199-220, 2019 | 156 | 2019 |
| Development of anisotropic structure in the Earth's lower mantle by solid-state convection AK McNamara, PE Van Keken, SI Karato Nature 416 (6878), 310-314, 2002 | 154 | 2002 |
| Chemical complexity of hotspots caused by cycling oceanic crust through mantle reservoirs M Li, AK McNamara, EJ Garnero Nature Geoscience 7 (5), 366-370, 2014 | 152 | 2014 |
| Synthetic tomography of plume clusters and thermochemical piles AL Bull, AK McNamara, J Ritsema Earth and Planetary Science Letters 278 (3-4), 152-162, 2009 | 148 | 2009 |
| Mega ultra low velocity zone and mantle flow MS Thorne, EJ Garnero, G Jahnke, H Igel, AK McNamara Earth and Planetary Science Letters 364, 59-67, 2013 | 113 | 2013 |
| Localization of dislocation creep in the lower mantle: implications for the origin of seismic anisotropy AK McNamara, SI Karato, PE Van Keken Earth and Planetary Science Letters 191 (1-2), 85-99, 2001 | 109 | 2001 |
| Tomographic filtering of geodynamic models: Implications for model interpretation and large‐scale mantle structure J Ritsema, AK McNamara, AL Bull Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 112 (B1), 2007 | 99 | 2007 |
| Implications of lower-mantle structural heterogeneity for the existence and nature of whole-mantle plumes EJ Garnero, T Lay, A McNamara | 96 | 2007 |
| The difficulty for subducted oceanic crust to accumulate at the Earth's core‐mantle boundary M Li, AK McNamara Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 118 (4), 1807-1816, 2013 | 80 | 2013 |
| West African proximity of the Avalon terrane in the latest Precambrian AK McNamara, CM Niocaill, BA van der Pluijm, R Van der Voo Geological Society of America Bulletin 113 (9), 1161-1170, 2001 | 78 | 2001 |
| Compositionally-distinct ultra-low velocity zones on Earth’s core-mantle boundary M Li, AK McNamara, EJ Garnero, S Yu Nature Communications 8 (1), 177, 2017 | 73 | 2017 |
| 7.11: The core–mantle boundary region J Hernlund, A McNamara, G Schubert Treatise on geophysics 2 (7), 461-519, 2015 | 72 | 2015 |
| Core–mantle boundary topography as a possible constraint on lower mantle chemistry and dynamics TM Lassak, AK McNamara, EJ Garnero, S Zhong Earth and Planetary Science Letters 289 (1-2), 232-241, 2010 | 72 | 2010 |
