| The generation, segregation, ascent and emplacement of granite magma: the migmatite-to-crustally-derived granite connection in thickened orogens M Brown Earth-Science Reviews 36 (1-2), 83-130, 1994 | 759 | 1994 |
| Metamorphic conditions in orogenic belts: a record of secular change M Brown International Geology Review 49 (3), 193-234, 2007 | 665 | 2007 |
| Granite: From genesis to emplacement M Brown GSA Bulletin 125 (7-8), 1079-1113, 2013 | 623 | 2013 |
| Duality of thermal regimes is the distinctive characteristic of plate tectonics since the Neoarchean M Brown Geology 34 (11), 961-964, 2006 | 545 | 2006 |
| Shear-zone systems and melts: feedback relations and self-organization in orogenic belts M Brown, GS Solar Journal of structural geology 20 (2-3), 211-227, 1998 | 432 | 1998 |
| Secular change in metamorphism and the onset of global plate tectonics M Brown, T Johnson American Mineralogist 103 (2), 181-196, 2018 | 419 | 2018 |
| Subduction styles in the Precambrian: Insight from numerical experiments E Sizova, T Gerya, M Brown, LL Perchuk Lithos 116 (3-4), 209-229, 2010 | 394 | 2010 |
| Delamination and recycling of Archaean crust caused by gravitational instabilities TE Johnson, M Brown, BJP Kaus, JA VanTongeren Nature Geoscience 7 (1), 47-52, 2014 | 387 | 2014 |
| Crustal melting and melt extraction, ascent and emplacement in orogens: mechanisms and consequences M Brown Journal of the Geological Society 164 (4), 709-730, 2007 | 379 | 2007 |
| Granite magma generation, ascent and emplacement within a transpressional orogen RS D’lemos, M Brown, RA Strachan Journal of the Geological Society 149 (4), 487-490, 1992 | 372 | 1992 |
| Earth’s first stable continents did not form by subduction TE Johnson, M Brown, NJ Gardiner, CL Kirkland, RH Smithies Nature 543 (7644), 239-242, 2017 | 371 | 2017 |
| Granite ascent and emplacement during contractional deformation in convergent orogens M Brown, GS Solar Journal of Structural Geology 20 (9-10), 1365-1393, 1998 | 352 | 1998 |
| When the continental crust melts EW Sawyer, B Cesare, M Brown Elements 7 (4), 229-234, 2011 | 349 | 2011 |
| P–T–t evolution of orogenic belts and the causes of regional metamorphism M Brown Journal of the Geological Society 150 (2), 227-241, 1993 | 304 | 1993 |
| Melt segregation in migmatites M Brown, YA Averkin, EL McLellan, EW Sawyer Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 100 (B8), 15655-15679, 1995 | 303 | 1995 |
| Behaviour of zircon and monazite during crustal melting C Yakymchuk, M Brown Journal of the Geological Society 171 (4), 465-479, 2014 | 282 | 2014 |
| The contribution of metamorphic petrology to understanding lithosphere evolution and geodynamics M Brown Geoscience Frontiers 5 (4), 553-569, 2014 | 281 | 2014 |
| The mechanism of ascent and emplacement of granite magma during transpression: a syntectonic granite paradigm M Brown, GS Solar Tectonophysics 312 (1), 1-33, 1999 | 280 | 1999 |
| Generation of felsic crust in the Archean: a geodynamic modeling perspective E Sizova, T Gerya, K Stüwe, M Brown Precambrian Research 271, 198-224, 2015 | 267 | 2015 |
| Plate tectonics and the Archean Earth M Brown, T Johnson, NJ Gardiner Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 48 (1), 291-320, 2020 | 256 | 2020 |
