| Trench-parallel flow beneath the Nazca plate from seismic anisotropy RM Russo, PG Silver Science 263 (5150), 1105-1111, 1994 | 557 | 1994 |
| Coupling of South American and African plate motion and plate deformation PG Silver, R M. Russo, C Lithgow-Bertelloni Science 279 (5347), 60-63, 1998 | 273 | 1998 |
| Cordillera formation, mantle dynamics, and the Wilson cycle RM Russo, PG Silver Geology 24 (6), 511-514, 1996 | 190 | 1996 |
| Mantle contamination and the Izu-Bonin-Mariana (IBM)‘high-tide mark’: evidence for mantle extrusion caused by Tethyan closure MFJ Flower, RM Russo, K Tamaki, N Hoang Tectonophysics 333 (1-2), 9-34, 2001 | 169 | 2001 |
| Seismicity and tectonics of the southeastern Caribbean RM Russo, RC Speed, EA Okal, JB Shepherd, KC Rowley Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 98 (B8), 14299-14319, 1993 | 104 | 1993 |
| Shear-wave splitting in northeast Venezuela, Trinidad, and the eastern Caribbean RM Russo, PG Silver, M Franke, WB Ambeh, DE James Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 95 (3-4), 251-275, 1996 | 92 | 1996 |
| Oblique collision and tectonic wedging of the South American continent and Caribbean terranes RM Russo, RC Speed Geology 20 (5), 447-450, 1992 | 92 | 1992 |
| Subduction of the Chile Ridge: Upper mantle structure and flow RM Russo Gsa Today 20, 2010 | 91 | 2010 |
| Detailed look at final stage of plate break‐off is target of study in Romania F Wenzel, U Achauer, D Enescu, E Kissling, R Russo, V Mocanu, ... Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 79 (48), 589-594, 1998 | 89 | 1998 |
| Source-side shear wave splitting and upper mantle flow in the Chile Ridge subduction region RM Russo, A Gallego, D Comte, VI Mocanu, RE Murdie, JC VanDecar Geology 38 (8), 707-710, 2010 | 74 | 2010 |
| Evidence for a rheologically strong chemical mantle root beneath the Ontong–Java Plateau ER Klosko, RM Russo, EA Okal, WP Richardson Earth and Planetary Science Letters 186 (3-4), 347-361, 2001 | 71 | 2001 |
| Historical seismicity of the southeastern Caribbean and tectonic implications RM Russo, EA Okal, KC Rowley pure and applied geophysics 139, 87-120, 1992 | 58 | 1992 |
| Aseismic continuation of the Lesser Antilles slab beneath continental South America JC VanDecar, RM Russo, DE James, WB Ambeh, M Franke Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 108 (B1), 2003 | 57 | 2003 |
| Spectral analysis of gravity anomalies and the architecture of tectonic wedging, NE Venezuela and Trinidad RM Russo, RC Speed Tectonics 13 (3), 613-622, 1994 | 55 | 1994 |
| Seismic attenuation in the Carpathian bend zone and surroundings RM Russo, V Mocanu, M Radulian, M Popa, KP Bonjer Earth and Planetary Science Letters 237 (3-4), 695-709, 2005 | 53 | 2005 |
| Mantle-driven deformation of orogenic zones and clutch tectonics B Tikoff, R Russo, C Teyssier, A Tommasi Geological Society, London, Special Publications 227 (1), 41-64, 2004 | 51 | 2004 |
| A geodynamic framework for eastern Mediterranean kinematics P Lundgren, D Giardini, RM Russo Geophysical Research Letters 25 (21), 4007-4010, 1998 | 50 | 1998 |
| Seismic anisotropy in ocean basins: Resistive drag of the sublithospheric mantle? A Tommasi, A Vauchez, R Russo Geophysical Research Letters 23 (21), 2991-2994, 1996 | 50 | 1996 |
| The nature of the subduction wedge in an erosive margin: Insights from the analysis of aftershocks of the 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel earthquake beneath the Chilean Coastal Range D Comte, M Farias, S Roecker, R Russo Earth and Planetary Science Letters 520, 50-62, 2019 | 44 | 2019 |
| Seismic anisotropy in the region of the Chile margin triple junction RE Murdie, RM Russo Journal of South American Earth Sciences 12 (3), 261-270, 1999 | 37 | 1999 |
