| Tectonic forcing of late Cenozoic climate ME Raymo, WF Ruddiman nature 359 (6391), 117-122, 1992 | 2713 | 1992 |
| Onset of Asian desertification by 22 Myr ago inferred from loess deposits in China ZT Guo, WF Ruddiman, QZ Hao, HB Wu, YS Qiao, RX Zhu, SZ Peng, ... Nature 416 (6877), 159-163, 2002 | 2292 | 2002 |
| The anthropogenic greenhouse era began thousands of years ago WF Ruddiman Climatic change 61 (3), 261-293, 2003 | 2073 | 2003 |
| Earth's Climate: past and future WF Ruddiman Macmillan, 2001 | 1544 | 2001 |
| Influence of late Cenozoic mountain building on ocean geochemical cycles ME Raymo, WF Ruddiman, PN Froelich Geology 16 (7), 649-653, 1988 | 1070 | 1988 |
| Pleistocene evolution: Northern hemisphere ice sheets and North Atlantic Ocean WF Ruddiman, ME Raymo, DG Martinson, BM Clement, J Backman Paleoceanography 4 (4), 353-412, 1989 | 1009 | 1989 |
| Forcing of late Cenozoic northern hemisphere climate by plateau uplift in southern Asia and the American West WF Ruddiman, JE Kutzbach Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 94 (D15), 18409-18427, 1989 | 986 | 1989 |
| The North Atlantic Ocean during the last deglaciation WF Ruddiman, A McIntyre Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 35, 145-214, 1981 | 919 | 1981 |
| Late Pliocene variation in Northern Hemisphere ice sheets and North Atlantic deep water circulation ME Raymo, WF Ruddiman, J Backman, BM Clement, DG Martinson Paleoceanography 4 (4), 413-446, 1989 | 718 | 1989 |
| Climatic changes of the last 18,000 years: observations and model simulations Cohmap Members Science 241 (4869), 1043-1052, 1988 | 695 | 1988 |
| Plows, plagues, and petroleum: how humans took control of climate WF Ruddiman Princeton University Press, 2017 | 694 | 2017 |
| The anthropocene WF Ruddiman Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 41 (1), 45-68, 2013 | 685 | 2013 |
| Shaping of the continental rise by deep geostrophic contour currents BC Heezen, CD Hollister, WF Ruddiman Science 152 (3721), 502-508, 1966 | 683 | 1966 |
| Holocene carbon emissions as a result of anthropogenic land cover change JO Kaplan, KM Krumhardt, EC Ellis, WF Ruddiman, C Lemmen, ... The Holocene 21 (5), 775-791, 2011 | 647 | 2011 |
| Sensitivity of Eurasian climate to surface uplift of the Tibetan Plateau JE Kutzbach, WL Prell, WF Ruddiman The Journal of Geology 101 (2), 177-190, 1993 | 630 | 1993 |
| Sensitivity of climate to late Cenozoic uplift in southern Asia and the American west: numerical experiments JE Kutzbach, PJ Guetter, WF Ruddiman, WL Prell Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 94 (D15), 18393-18407, 1989 | 579 | 1989 |
| Climatic changes in the western United States since 18,000 yr BP RS Thompson, C Whitlock, PJ Bartlein, SP Harrison, WG Spaulding, ... Global climates since the last glacial maximum, 468-513, 1993 | 567 | 1993 |
| Matuyama 41,000-year cycles: North Atlantic Ocean and northern hemisphere ice sheets WF Ruddiman, M Raymo, A McIntyre Earth and Planetary Science Letters 80 (1-2), 117-129, 1986 | 567 | 1986 |
| Late Quaternary deposition of ice-rafted sand in the subpolar North Atlantic (lat 40 to 65 N) WF Ruddiman Geological Society of America Bulletin 88 (12), 1813-1827, 1977 | 565 | 1977 |
| Evolution of Atlantic-Pacific δ13C gradients over the last 2.5 my ME Raymo, WF Ruddiman, NJ Shackleton, DW Oppo Earth and Planetary Science Letters 97 (3-4), 353-368, 1990 | 441 | 1990 |
