| Out of the tropics: evolutionary dynamics of the latitudinal diversity gradient D Jablonski, K Roy, JW Valentine Science 314 (5796), 102-106, 2006 | 925 | 2006 |
| Evolutionary paleoecology of the marine biosphere JW Valentine (No Title), 1973 | 718 | 1973 |
| Marine latitudinal diversity gradients: tests of causal hypotheses K Roy, D Jablonski, JW Valentine, G Rosenberg Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences 95 (7), 3699-3702, 1998 | 595 | 1998 |
| Phanerozoic marine diversity and the fossil record JJ Sepkoski Jr, RK Bambach, DM Raup, JW Valentine Nature 293 (5832), 435-437, 1981 | 531 | 1981 |
| On the origin of phyla JW Valentine University of Chicago Press, 2004 | 471 | 2004 |
| Plate-tectonic regulation of faunal diversity and sea level: a model JW Valentine, EM Moores Nature 228 (5272), 657-659, 1970 | 369 | 1970 |
| Fossils, molecules and embryos: new perspectives on the Cambrian explosion JW Valentine, D Jablonski, DH Erwin Development 126 (5), 851-859, 1999 | 361 | 1999 |
| Numerical analysis of marine molluscan ranges on the extratropical northeastern Pacific shelf 1 JW Valentine Limnology and Oceanography 11 (2), 198-211, 1966 | 346 | 1966 |
| Patterns of taxonomic and ecological structure of the shelf benthos during Phanerozoic time JW Valentine Palaeontology 12 (4), 684-709, 1969 | 340 | 1969 |
| Morphological complexity increase in metazoans JW Valentine, AG Collins, CP Meyer Paleobiology 20 (2), 131-142, 1994 | 317 | 1994 |
| Genetic variation in Tridacna maxima, an ecological analog of some unsuccessful evolutionary lineages FJ Ayala, D Hedgecock, GS Zumwalt, JW Valentine Evolution, 177-191, 1973 | 286 | 1973 |
| A comparative study of diversification events: the early Paleozoic versus the Mesozoic DH Erwin, JW Valentine, JJ Sepkoski Jr Evolution 41 (6), 1177-1186, 1987 | 280 | 1987 |
| Scales of climatic variability and time averaging in Pleistocene biotas: implications for ecology and evolution K Roy, JW Valentine, D Jablonski, SM Kidwell Trends in ecology & evolution 11 (11), 458-463, 1996 | 263 | 1996 |
| The Cambrian explosion: the construction of animal biodiversity E Douglas, JW Valentine The Cambrian explosion: the construction of animal biodiversity, 2013 | 257 | 2013 |
| Therapies for rare diseases: therapeutic modalities, progress and challenges ahead E Tambuyzer, B Vandendriessche, CP Austin, PJ Brooks, K Larsson, ... Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 19 (2), 93-111, 2020 | 247 | 2020 |
| Climate change and the integrity of science PH Gleick, RM Adams, RM Amasino, E Anders, DJ Anderson, ... Science 328 (5979), 689-690, 2010 | 237 | 2010 |
| Equilibrium models of evolutionary species diversity and the number of empty niches TD Walker, JW Valentine The American Naturalist 124 (6), 887-899, 1984 | 235 | 1984 |
| Dissecting latitudinal diversity gradients: functional groups and clades of marine bivalves K Roy, D Jablonski, JW Valentine Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2000 | 230 | 2000 |
| Global tectonics and the fossil record JW Valentine, EM Moores The Journal of Geology 80 (2), 167-184, 1972 | 215 | 1972 |
| Out of the tropics, but how? Fossils, bridge species, and thermal ranges in the dynamics of the marine latitudinal diversity gradient D Jablonski, CL Belanger, SK Berke, S Huang, AZ Krug, K Roy, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (26), 10487-10494, 2013 | 211 | 2013 |
