| Organic compounds in carbonaceous meteorites MA Sephton Natural product reports 19 (3), 292-311, 2002 | 770 | 2002 |
| Extraterrestrial nucleobases in the Murchison meteorite Z Martins, O Botta, ML Fogel, MA Sephton, DP Glavin, JS Watson, ... Earth and planetary science Letters 270 (1-2), 130-136, 2008 | 466 | 2008 |
| Catastrophic soil erosion during the end-Permian biotic crisis MA Sephton, CV Looy, H Brinkhuis, PB Wignall, JW De Leeuw, ... Geology 33 (12), 941-944, 2005 | 292 | 2005 |
| Environmental mutagenesis during the end-Permian ecological crisis H Visscher, CV Looy, ME Collinson, H Brinkhuis, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (35), 12952-12956, 2004 | 267 | 2004 |
| Transitory microbial habitat in the hyperarid Atacama Desert D Schulze-Makuch, D Wagner, SP Kounaves, K Mangelsdorf, KG Devine, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (11), 2670-2675, 2018 | 243 | 2018 |
| Weathering of chondritic meteorites PA Bland, ME Zolensky, GK Benedix, MA Sephton Meteorites and the early solar system II 1, 853-867, 2006 | 197 | 2006 |
| Carbon and nitrogen in carbonaceous chondrites: Elemental abundances and stable isotopic compositions VK Pearson, MA Sephton, IA Franchi, JM Gibson, I Gilmour Meteoritics & Planetary Science 41 (12), 1899-1918, 2006 | 190 | 2006 |
| Shock synthesis of amino acids from impacting cometary and icy planet surface analogues Z Martins, MC Price, N Goldman, MA Sephton, MJ Burchell Nature Geoscience 6 (12), 1045-1049, 2013 | 183 | 2013 |
| Defining biominerals and organominerals: direct and indirect indicators of life RS Perry, N Mcloughlin, BY Lynne, MA Sephton, JD Oliver, CC Perry, ... Sedimentary Geology 201 (1-2), 157-179, 2007 | 158 | 2007 |
| Investigating the variations in carbon and nitrogen isotopes in carbonaceous chondrites MA Sephton, AB Verchovsky, PA Bland, I Gilmour, MM Grady, IP Wright Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67 (11), 2093-2108, 2003 | 158 | 2003 |
| Clay mineral‐organic matter relationships in the early solar system VK Pearson, MA Sephton, AT Kearsley, PA Bland, IA Franchi, I Gilmour Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37 (12), 1829-1833, 2002 | 154 | 2002 |
| Searching for life on Mars: selection of molecular targets for ESA's Aurora ExoMars mission J Parnell, D Cullen, MR Sims, S Bowden, CS Cockell, R Court, ... Astrobiology 7 (4), 578-604, 2007 | 152 | 2007 |
| δ13C of free and macromolecular aromatic structures in the Murchison meteorite MA Sephton, CT Pillinger, I Gilmour Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62 (10), 1821-1828, 1998 | 150 | 1998 |
| Report of the Mars 2020 science definition team JF Mustard, M Adler, A Allwood, DS Bass, DW Beaty, JF Bell, ... Mars Explor. Progr. Anal. Gr 150, 155-205, 2013 | 149 | 2013 |
| An introduction to astrobiology I Gilmour, MA Sephton Cambridge University Press, 2004 | 143* | 2004 |
| Analysis of conjugated steroid androgens: deconjugation, derivatisation and associated issues RL Gomes, W Meredith, CE Snape, MA Sephton Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis 49 (5), 1133-1140, 2009 | 140 | 2009 |
| On the origins of deep hydrocarbons MA Sephton, RM Hazen Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 75 (1), 449-465, 2013 | 135 | 2013 |
| Carbon molecules in space: from astrochemistry to astrobiology P Ehrenfreund, MA Sephton Faraday discussions 133, 277-288, 2006 | 133 | 2006 |
| Aromatic moieties in meteoritic macromolecular materials: Analyses by hydrous pyrolysis and δ13C of individual compounds MA Sephton, CT Pillinger, I Gilmour Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 64 (2), 321-328, 2000 | 128 | 2000 |
| Hydropyrolysis of insoluble carbonaceous matter in the Murchison meteorite: new insights into its macromolecular structure MA Sephton, GD Love, JS Watson, AB Verchovsky, IP Wright, CE Snape, ... Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68 (6), 1385-1393, 2004 | 125 | 2004 |
