| Efficient estimators of abundance, for fish and plankton surveys M Pennington Biometrics, 281-286, 1983 | 660 | 1983 |
| Estimating the mean and variance from highly skewed marine data M Pennington Fishery Bull. 94, 498-505, 1996 | 260 | 1996 |
| Assessing the effect of intra-haul correlation and variable density on estimates of population characteristics from marine surveys M Pennington, JH Vølstad Biometrics, 725-732, 1994 | 182 | 1994 |
| Age and growth of larval Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus L., in the Gulf of Maine-Georges Bank region based on otolith growth increments RG Lough, M Pennington, G Boltz, A Rosenberg Fishery Bulletin 80 (2), 1982 | 140 | 1982 |
| Estimating the average food consumption by fish in the field M Pennington Dana 5, 81-86, 1981 | 137* | 1981 |
| Assessing the precision of frequency distributions estimated from trawl-survey samples. M Pennington, LM Burmeister, V Hjellvik Fishery Bulletin 100 (1), 74-81, 2002 | 126 | 2002 |
| Surveys as a research tool for managing dynamic stocks M Pennington, T Strømme Fisheries Research 37 (1-3), 97-106, 1998 | 114 | 1998 |
| Some statistical techniques for estimating abundance indices from trawl surveys. M Pennington Fishery Bulletin 84, 519-525, 1986 | 110 | 1986 |
| Effect of tow duration on length composition of trawl catches OR Godø, M Pennington, JH Vølstad Fisheries Research 9 (2), 165-179, 1990 | 109 | 1990 |
| A statistical evaluation of the design and precision of the shrimp trawl survey off West Greenland O Folmer, M Pennington Fisheries Research 49 (2), 165-178, 2000 | 91 | 2000 |
| The relation of the spatial distribution of early juvenile cod (Gadus morhua L.) in the Barents Sea to zooplankton density and water flux during the period 1978-1984 K Helle, M Pennington ICES Journal of Marine Science 56 (1), 15-27, 1999 | 89 | 1999 |
| Optimum size of sampling unit for estimating the density of marine populations M Pennington, JH Vølstad Biometrics, 717-723, 1991 | 81 | 1991 |
| Cost-efficient survey designs for estimating food consumption by fish B Bogstad, M Pennington, JH Vølstad Fisheries Research 23 (1-2), 37-46, 1995 | 69 | 1995 |
| Probability-based surveying using self-sampling to estimate catch and effort in Norway's coastal tourist fishery JH Vølstad, K Korsbrekke, KH Nedreaas, M Nilsen, GN Nilsson, ... ICES Journal of Marine Science 68 (8), 1785-1791, 2011 | 66 | 2011 |
| Estimating the relative abundance of fish from a series of trawl surveys M Pennington Biometrics, 197-202, 1985 | 61 | 1985 |
| On estimating the age composition of the commercial catch of Northeast Arctic cod from a sample of clusters A Sondre, M Pennington ICES journal of marine science 60 (2), 297-303, 2003 | 57 | 2003 |
| An evaluation of recruitment indices for Arcto-Norwegian cod (Gadus morhua L.) K Helle, B Bogstad, CT Marshall, K Michalsen, G Ottersen, M Pennington Fisheries Research 48 (1), 55-67, 2000 | 57 | 2000 |
| A survey-based assessment of the Northeast Arctic cod stock K Korsbrekke, S Mehl, O Nakken, M Pennington ICES Journal of Marine Science 58 (4), 763-769, 2001 | 55 | 2001 |
| Improving the West Greenland Trawl Survey for Shrimp (Pandalus borealis) D Carlsson, P Kanneworff, O Folmer, M Kingsley, M Pennington Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science 27, 2000 | 43 | 2000 |
| Measuring the effect of changes in catchability on the variance of marine survey abundance indices M Pennington, OR Godø Fisheries research 23 (3-4), 301-310, 1995 | 42 | 1995 |
