| The mussel watch ED Goldberg, VT Bowen, JW Farrington, G Harvey, JH Martin, PL Parker, ... Environmental conservation 5 (2), 101-125, 1978 | 1158 | 1978 |
| Organic micropollutants in marine plastics debris from the open ocean and remote and urban beaches H Hirai, H Takada, Y Ogata, R Yamashita, K Mizukawa, M Saha, C Kwan, ... Marine pollution bulletin 62 (8), 1683-1692, 2011 | 920 | 2011 |
| Combustion-derived polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the environment—a review ALC Lima, JW Farrington, CM Reddy Environmental Forensics 6 (2), 109-131, 2005 | 681 | 2005 |
| US" Mussel Watch" 1976-1978: an overview of the trace-metal, DDE, PCB, hydrocarbon and artificial radionuclide data JW Farrington, ED Goldberg, RW Risebrough, JH Martin, VT Bowen Environmental Science & Technology 17 (8), 490-496, 1983 | 653* | 1983 |
| Sediment porewater partitioning of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in three cores from Boston Harbor, Massachusetts SE McGroddy, JW Farrington Environmental science & technology 29 (6), 1542-1550, 1995 | 414 | 1995 |
| Bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the aquatic environment AE McElroy, JW Farrington, JM Teal Metabolism of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Aquatic Environment …, 1989 | 399 | 1989 |
| Sedimentary polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: the historical record RA Hites, RE LaFlamme, JW Farrington Science 198 (4319), 829-831, 1977 | 388 | 1977 |
| Hydrocarbons in western North Atlantic surface sediments JW Farrington, BW Tripp Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 41 (11), 1627-1641, 1977 | 367 | 1977 |
| Comparison of the in situ and desorption sediment-water partitioning of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls SE McGroddy, JW Farrington, PM Gschwend Environmental science & technology 30 (1), 172-177, 1995 | 309 | 1995 |
| Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in an anoxic sediment core from the Pettaquamscutt River (Rhode Island, USA) RA Hites, RE Laflamme, JG Windsor, JW Farrington, WG Deuser Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 44 (6), 873-878, 1980 | 295 | 1980 |
| Trace organic contamination in the Americas: an overview of the US National Status & Trends and the International ‘Mussel Watch’programmes JL Sericano, TL Wade, TJ Jackson, JM Brooks, BW Tripp, JW Farrington, ... Marine Pollution Bulletin 31 (4-12), 214-225, 1995 | 288 | 1995 |
| Petroleum hydrocarbons in Narragansett Bay I.Survey of hyrocarbons in sediments and clams(Mercenaria Mercenaria). JW Farrington, JG Quinn Estuarine and Coastal Marine Science 1, 71-79, 1973 | 265 | 1973 |
| Aspects of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon geochemistry of recent sediments in the Georges Bank region PD Boehm, JW Farrington Environmental science & technology 18 (11), 840-845, 1984 | 260 | 1984 |
| Biogeochemistry of particulate organic matter in the oceans: results from sediment trap experiments SG Wakeham, C Lee, JW Farrington, RB Gagosian Deep Sea Research Part A. Oceanographic Research Papers 31 (5), 509-528, 1984 | 257 | 1984 |
| Lipid composition of coastal marine sediments from the Peru upwelling region JK Volkman, JW Farrington, RB Gagosian, SG Wakeham Advances in Organic Geochemistry 1981, 228-240, 1983 | 251 | 1983 |
| Biogeochemistry of PCBs in interstitial waters of a coastal marine sediment BJ Brownawell, JW Farrington Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 50 (1), 157-169, 1986 | 218 | 1986 |
| Edward D. Goldberg's proposal of “the Mussel Watch”: Reflections after 40years JW Farrington, BW Tripp, S Tanabe, A Subramanian, JL Sericano, ... Marine Pollution Bulletin 110 (1), 501-510, 2016 | 215 | 2016 |
| Early diagenesis of amino acids and organic matter in two coastal marine sediments SM Henrichs, JW Farrington Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 51 (1), 1-15, 1987 | 210 | 1987 |
| The West Falmouth oil spill after 20 years: Fate of fuel oil compounds and effects on animals JM Teal, JW Farrington, KA Burns, JJ Stegeman, BW Tripp, B Woodin, ... Marine Pollution Bulletin 24 (12), 607-614, 1992 | 203 | 1992 |
| Use of the alkenone unsaturation ratio U37K to determine past sea surface temperatures: core-top SST calibrations and methodology considerations EL Sikes, JW Farrington, LD Keigwin Earth and Planetary Science Letters 104 (1), 36-47, 1991 | 193 | 1991 |
