| A Neoproterozoic snowball earth PF Hoffman, AJ Kaufman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag science 281 (5381), 1342-1346, 1998 | 3114 | 1998 |
| Did the breakout of Laurentia turn Gondwanaland inside-out? PF Hoffman Science 252 (5011), 1409-1412, 1991 | 2263 | 1991 |
| United plates of America, the birth of a craton: Early Proterozoic assembly and growth of Laurentia PF Hoffman Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 16 (1), 543-603, 1988 | 1888 | 1988 |
| The snowball Earth hypothesis: testing the limits of global change PF Hoffman, DP Schrag Terra nova 14 (3), 129-155, 2002 | 1809 | 2002 |
| Precambrian geology and tectonic history of North America PF Hoffman | 1235 | 1989 |
| Toward a Neoproterozoic composite carbon-isotope record GP Halverson, PF Hoffman, DP Schrag, AC Maloof, AHN Rice Geological Society of America Bulletin 117 (9-10), 1181-1207, 2005 | 1030 | 2005 |
| Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology PF Hoffman, DS Abbot, Y Ashkenazy, DI Benn, JJ Brocks, PA Cohen, ... Science Advances 3 (11), e1600983, 2017 | 508 | 2017 |
| Speculations on Laurentia's first gigayear (2.0 to 1.0 Ga) PF Hoffman Geology 17 (2), 135-138, 1989 | 471 | 1989 |
| A palaeogeographic context for Neoproterozoic glaciation PF Hoffman, ZX Li Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 277 (3-4), 158-172, 2009 | 412 | 2009 |
| On the initiation of a snowball Earth DP Schrag, RA Berner, PF Hoffman, GP Halverson Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 3 (6), 1-21, 2002 | 404 | 2002 |
| Aulacogens and their genetic relation to geosynclines, with a Proterozoic example from Great Slave Lake, Canada P Hoffman, JF Dewey, K Burke | 388 | 1974 |
| Algal mats, cryptalgal fabrics, and structures, Hamelin Pool, Western Australia BW Logan, P Hoffman, CD Gebelein AAPG Special Volumes 41, 140-194, 1974 | 381 | 1974 |
| Snowball earth PF Hoffmann, DP Schrag Scientific American 282 (1), 68-75, 2000 | 364 | 2000 |
| The break-up of Rodinia, birth of Gondwana, true polar wander and the snowball Earth PF Hoffman Journal of African Earth Sciences 28 (1), 17-33, 1999 | 350 | 1999 |
| Anatomy of North America: thematic geologic portrayals of the continent H Williams, PF Hoffman, JF Lewry, JWH Monger, T Rivers Tectonophysics 187 (1-3), 117-134, 1991 | 293 | 1991 |
| Are basal Ediacaran (635 Ma) post-glacial “cap dolostones” diachronous? PF Hoffman, GP Halverson, EW Domack, JM Husson, JA Higgins, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 258 (1-2), 114-131, 2007 | 289 | 2007 |
| Precise U-Pb zircon ages for early Damaran magmatism in the Summas Mountains and Welwitschia Inlier, northern Damara belt, Namibia PF Hoffman, DP Hawkins, CE Isachsen, SA Bowring Communications of the geological survey of Namibia 11, 47-52, 1996 | 262 | 1996 |
| Extreme winds and waves in the aftermath of a Neoproterozoic glaciation PA Allen, PF Hoffman Nature 433 (7022), 123-127, 2005 | 260 | 2005 |
| Comings and goings of global glaciations on a Neoproterozoic tropical platform in Namibia PF Hoffman, AJ Kaufman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag GSA today 8 (5), 1-9, 1998 | 255 | 1998 |
| Stromatolite morphogenesis in Shark Bay, Western Australia P Hoffman Developments in sedimentology 20, 261-271, 1976 | 234 | 1976 |
