*Kawano, Y., Isse, T., Takeo, A., Kawakatsu, H., Morishige, M., Shiobara, H., Takeuchi, N., Sugioka, H., Kim, Y., Utada, H., and Lee, S.-M., Seismic Structure of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System Beneath the Oldest Seafloor Revealed by Rayleigh-Wave Dispersion Analysis, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128(6), p.e2023JB026529, 2023.
*Kim, T.-S., Park, J.-H., Ko, J.-W., Oh, S.-Y., Witek, M., Chang., S.-J., Lee, S.-M., Kim., Y., Utada, H., Kawakatsu, H., Shiobara, H., Isse, T., Takeuchi., N., and Sugioka., H., Characteristics of Background Noise in the Oldest-1 Array Deplyed on the Oldest Part of the Pacific Plate, Bulletin of Seismological Society of America, DOI: 10.1785/0120220215, 2023.
* Vincent, Clément, Jung-Woo Park, Sang-Mook Lee, Jonguk Kim, Mi-Jung Lee, and Sidonie Révillon, Heterogeneous Fossil Réunion plume component in the source region of enriched MORB along the Central Indian Ridge between 12°S and 17°S, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127(12), DOI: 10.1029/2022JB025379, 2022.
* Hong, G., Till, J.L., Greve, A., Lee, S.-M. and Oman Drilling Project Phase 2 Science Party, New Rock Magnetic Analysis of Ultramafic Cores From the Oman Drilling Project and Its Implications for Alteration of Lower Crust and Upper Mantle, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127 (7), p.e2022JB024379, 2022.
* Shin, Y.H., Shum, C.K., Braitenberg, C., Lee, S.-M., Lim, M., Na, S.H., Dai, C., Zhang, C., Pan, Y., Do, S.H. and So, B.D., Decoupled Lithospheric Folding, Lower Crustal Flow Channels, and the Growth of Tibetan Plateau, Geophysical Research Letters, 49 (13), p.e2022GL099183, 2022.
* Kien, Pham Ngoc, and Sang-Mook Lee, 1DCSEMQWE: 1D Controlled Source Electromagnetic Method in Geophysics Using Quadrature With Extrapolation, SoftwareX, 19, 101128, 2022.
* Sang-Mook Lee, Scientific policies of developing countries and mid‑level entry strategy: from the perspective of a marine scientist, Geoscience Letters, doi.org/10.1186/s40562-022-00242-x, 2022.
* Sang-Mook Lee, New Opportunities in Global Ocean Research for Academia and Industry, Ocean Science Journal, doi.org/10.1007/s12601-022-00073-z, 2022.
* Sang-Mook Lee, Quality of Life Technology: An Initiative to Build Inclusive Society through Technological Development with Special Emphasis on Higher Education, AAC Research and Practice, 10 (1), 1-17, doi: 10.14818/aac.2022.6.10.1.1, 2022.
* Lee S. K., Parq J.-H., Yi Y. S., Lee S.-M., Kim H.-I., Lee S.-M., and Yu J., Structure and disorder in MgSiO3 glasses above megabar pressures via nuclear magnetic resonance: DFT calculations, J Am Ceram Soc., 1–16., doi.org/10.1111/jace.18481, 2022.
* Bae J. H. and Lee S.-M. (corresponding author), Investigation of SIS epidemics on dynamic network models with temporary link deactivation control schemes, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 19 (6): 6317–6330. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2022295, 2022.
* Fuji N, Jang H, Nakao A, Kim Y, Fernández-Blanco D, Lee S-M, Schroeder A and Konishi K. A Possible Roll-Over Slab Geometry Under the Caroline Plate Imaged by Monte Carlo Finite-Frequency Traveltime Inversion of Teleseismic SS Phases. Front. Earth Sci. 9:593947. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.593947, 2021.
* Eunyoung Kim, Douglas R. Toomey, Emilie E. E. Hooft, William S. D. Wilcock, Robert T. Weekly, Sang-Mook Lee, and YoungHee Kim, Upper crustal Vp/Vs ratios at the Endeavour segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge, from joint inversion of P and S travel times: Implications for hydrothermal circulation, G-Cubed, doi: 10.1029/2018GC007921, 20, 208-222, 2019.
* Sung Hyun Park, Peter J. Michael, George D. Kamenov, Sang-Mook Lee, Folkmar Hauff, and Kyeong Yong Lee, Petrogenesis of basalts along the eastern Woodlark spreading center, equatorial western Pacific, LITHOS, 316-317, 122-136, 2018.
* Yoon-Mi Kim, Sang-Mook Lee (corresponding author), Analysis of Gravity Anomalies in the Ulleung Basin (East Sea/Sea of Japan) and Its Implications for the Crustal Structure of Rift-dominated Back-arc Basin, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2017.10.002, 274, 2017.
* Jonguk Kim, Sang-Joon Pak, Jai-Woon Moon, Sang-Mook Lee, Jihye Oh, Finlay M. Stuart, Mantle heterogeneity in the source region of mid-ocean ridge basalts along the northern Central Indian Ridge (8°S-17°S), Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18, 4, 1419-1434, doi: 10.1002/2016GC006673, 2017.
* Jae-Hyeon Parq, Sung Keun Lee, Sang-Mook Lee, Jaejun Yu, Ab Initio Study of Elastic Properties of High-Pressure Polymorphs of CO2 Phases II and V, J. Phys. Chem. C, 120 (40), 23152-23164, doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b07833, 2016.
* Gabriele Morra, David A. Yuen, Sang‐Mook Lee, and Siqi Zhang, Source of the Cenozoic Volcanism in Central Asia, in Subduction Dynamics: From Mantle Flow to Mega Disasters, Geophysical Monograph 211, 97-113, first edition, edited by Gabriele Morra, David A. Yuen, Scott D. King, Sang-Mook Lee, and Seth Stein, American Geophysical Union, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2016.
* Gabriele Morra, David A. Yuen, Scott D. King, Sang‐Mook Lee, and Seth Stein, The Impact of Subduction Dynamics on Mantle Flow, Continental Tectonics, and Seismic Hazard, in Subduction Dynamics: From Mantle Flow to Mega Disasters, Geophysical Monograph 211, 1-4, first edition, edited by Gabriele Morra, David A. Yuen, Scott D. King, Sang-Mook Lee, and Seth Stein, American Geophysical Union, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2016.
* Young Hong Shin, C.K. Shum, Carla Braitenberg, Sang-Mook Lee, Sung -Ho Na, Kwang Sun Choi, Houtse Hsu, Young-Sue Park, Mutaek Lim, Moho topography, ranges and folds of Tibet by analysis of global gravity models and GOCE data, Scientific Reports, 5, 11681, doi:10.1038/srep11681, 2015.
* Chungwan Lim, Jaeho Jang, Insung Lee, Guebuem Kim, Sang-Mook Lee, Yeongmin Kim, Hyoungbum Kim, Alan J. Kaufman, Sulfur isotope and chemical compositions of the wet precipitation in two major urban areas, Seoul and Busan, Korea, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 79, 415-425, 2014.
* Byung-Dal So, David A. Yuen, Sang-Mook Lee, An efficient implicit-explicit adaptive time stepping scheme for multiple-time scale problems in shear zone development, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 14, 9, 3462-3478, 2013.
* Young-Gyun Kim, Sang-Mook Lee, Young Keun Jin, Boris Baranov, Anatoly Obzhirov, Alexander Salomatin, Hitoshi Shoji, The stability of gas hydrate field in the northeastern continental slope of Sakhalin Island, Sea of Okhotsk, as inferred from analysis of heat flow data and its implications for slope failures, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 45, 198-207, 2013.
* Gabriele Morra, Dave A. Yuen, Sang-Mook Lee, Subduction: From Mantle Flow to Great Earthquakes, EOS AGU, 93, 45, 457, 2012.
* Byung-Dal So, David A. Yuen, Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, Sang-Mook Lee, Asymmetric lithospheric instability facilitated by shear modulus contrast: Implications for shear zones, Geophysical Journal International, 190, 1, 23-36, 2012.
* Sheryl Burgstahler, Dan Comden, Sang-Mook Lee, Anthony Arnold, Kayla Brown, Computer and cell phone access for individuals with mobility impairments: An overview and case studies, Neurorehabilitation, 28, 3, 183-197, 2011.
* Y.-G. Kim, S.-M. Lee, and O. Matsubayashi, New heat flow measurements in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea(Sea of Japan): relationship to local BSR depth,and implications for regional heat flow distribution, doi:10.1007/s00367-010-0207-x, 2010. 
* S.-H.Park, S.-M. Lee, George D.Kamenov, S.-T. Kwon, and K.-Y. Lee, Tracing the origin of subduction components beneath the South East rift in the Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea, Chemical Geology 269, 339-349, 2010.
* Yoon-Mi Kim, S.-M. Lee, Kyoko Okino, Comparison of gravity anomaly between mature and immature intra-oceanic subduction zones in the western Pacific, Tectonophysics 474, 657-673, 2009.
* Shin, Y. H., C.-K. Shum, C. Braitenberg, S.-M. Lee, H. Xu, K. S. Choi, J. H. Baek, and J. U. Park, Three-dimensional fold structure of the Tibetan Moho from GRACE gravity data, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L01302, doi:10.1029/2008GL036068, 2009.
* Masako Tominaga, W. W. Sager, Tivey,M.A., and S.-M. Lee, Deep-tow magnetic anomaly study of the Pacific Jurassic Quiet Zone and implications for the geomagnetic polarity reversal timescale and geomagnetic field behavior, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, doi:10.1029/2007JB005527, 2008.
* Okino, K., Y. Ohara, T. Fujiwara, S.-M. Lee, K. Koizumi, Y. Nakamura, and S. Wue, Tectonics of the southern tip of the Parece Vela Basin, Tectonophysics, 2007.
* Lee, S.-M., and E. Ruellan, Tectonic and Magmatic Evolution of the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea: Review and New Synthesis, in Back-Arc Spreading Systems: Geological, Biological, Chemical, and Physical Interactions, edited by D. M. Christie, C. R. Fisher, S.-M . Lee, and S. Givens, Geophysical Monograph Series 166, 267-290, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2006.
* Tivey, M. A., W. W. Sager, S.-M. Lee, and M. Tominaga, Origin of the Pacific Jurassic quiet zone, Geology, 34, 789?792, doi: 10.1130/G22894.1, 2006.
* Park, S.-H., S.-M. Lee, and R. J. Arculus, Geochemistry of basalt from the Ayu Trough, equatorial western Pacific, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 248, 700 ? 714, 2006.
* Trung, N. N., S.-M. Lee, and B. C. Que, Satellite gravity anomalies and their correlation with the major tectonic features in the South China Sea, Gondwana Research, 7, 407-424, 2004.
* Lee, S.-M., and S.-S. Kim, Vector magnetic analysis within the southern Ayu Trough, equatorial western Pacific, Geophysical Journal International, 156, 213-221, 2004.
* Lee, S.-M., Deformation from the convergence of oceanic lithosphere into Yap Trench and its implications for early-stage subduction, Journal of Geodynamics, 37, 83-102, 2004.
* S.-M. Lee, J.-W. Kim, C.-E. Baag, 2-D Flexural Analysis of the Ulleung Back-Arc Basin, East Sea (Sea of Japan), TAO, 14, 431-444, 2003.
* Lee, T.-G., S.-M. Lee, J.-W. Moon, and K. Lee, Paleomagnetic investigation of seamounts in the vicinity of Ogasawara Fracture Zone northwest of Marshall Islands, western Pacific, Earth, Planets and Space, 55, 355-360, 2003.
* Lee, T.-G., S.-M. Lee, J.-W. Moon, and K. Lee, Total field Magnetic analysis of nine seamounts northwest of Marshall Islands, western Pacific, Ocean and Polar Research, 24, 197-205, 2002.
* Hong, J.-K, and S.-M. Lee, Reflection seismology in the southern Ayu Trough, a slow-spreading divergent boundary, Ocean and Polar Research, 24, 189-196, 2002.
* Jung, M.-S., and S.-M. Lee, Bathymetry and marine geophysical observations of the Ayu Trough, Southern Philippine Sea: Implications for crustal extension and structure, Ocean and Polar Research, 24, 179-187, (in Korean with abstract in English) 2002.
* Satur, D., L. Parson, V. Mendel, C. Rommevaux-Jestin, O. Gomez, A. Brais, C. Mevel, K. Tamaki, and FUJI Scientific Team, TOBI sidescan sonar imagery of the very slow-spreading Southwest Indian Ridge: Evidence for along-axis magma distribution, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 199, 81-95, 2002.
* Shipboard Scientific Party, Leg 193 summary, In Binns, R.A., Barriga, F.J.A.S., Miller, D.J., et al., Proceedings of ODP, Initial Report, 193, College Station TX (Ocean Drilling Program) 1-84, 2002.
* Lee, T.-G., S.-M. Lee, J.-W. Moon, and K. Lee, Total field Magnetic analysis of nine seamounts northwest of Marshall Islands, western Pacific, Ocean and Polar Research, 24, 197-205, 2002.
* Trung, N. N., B. C. Que, S.-M. Lee, and S.-J. Doh, Tectonic features in the Eastern Sea Basin from satellite gravity data, Advances in Natural Sciences, 2, 99-114, 2001.
* Lee, T.-G., S.-M. Lee, and J.-W. Moon, Magnetic anomaly analysis of two adjacent seamounts (Ita Mai Tai and OSM2) in the western Pacific, Journal of the Geological Society of Korea, 37, 587-596, (in Korean with abstract in English) 2001.
* Chang, S.-K., and S.-M. Lee, Geological achievements of the 20th century and their influence on geological thinking, Journal of the Korean Earth Science Society, 21, 635-646, (in Korean with abstract in English) 2000.
* Lee, S.-M., Constraining navigation by matching swath bathymetry and gravity measurements at ship track crossovers, Marine Geodesy, 23, 31-54, 2000.
* Lee, S.-M., and R. C. Searle, Crustal magnetization of the Reykjanes Ridge and implications for its along-axis variability and the formation of axial volcanic ridges, Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 5907-5930, 2000.
* German, C. R., E. T. Baker, C. Mevel, K. Tamaki, and the FUJI Scientific Team, Hydrothermal activity along the South West Indian Ridge, Nature, 395, 490-493, 1998.
* Searle, R. C., J. A. Keeton, R. B. Owens, R. S. White, R. Mecklenburgh, B. Parsons, and S.-M. Lee, The Reykjanes Ridge: Structure and tectonics of a hot-spot-influenced, slow-spreading ridge, from multibeam bathymetry, gravity and magnetic investigations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 160, 463-478, 1998.
* Lee, S.-M., S. C. Solomon, and M. A. Tivey, Fine-scale crustal magnetization variations and segmentation of the East Pacific Rise, 9°10′-9°50’N, Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 22,033-22,050, 1996.
* Lee, S.-M., and S. C. Solomon, Constraints from Sea Beam bathymetry on the development of normal faults on the East Pacific Rise, Geophysical Research Letters, 22, 3135-3138, 1995.