| Global climatic drivers of leaf size IJ Wright, N Dong, V Maire, IC Prentice, M Westoby, S Díaz, RV Gallagher, ... Science 357 (6354), 917-921, 2017 | 804 | 2017 |
| The origin of grass-dominated ecosystems BF Jacobs, JD Kingston, LL Jacobs Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 590-643, 1999 | 740 | 1999 |
| Palaeobotanical studies from tropical Africa: relevance to the evolution of forest, woodland and savannah biomes BF Jacobs Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B …, 2004 | 329 | 2004 |
| Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia J Kappelman, D Tab Rasmussen, WJ Sanders, M Feseha, T Bown, ... Nature 426 (6966), 549-552, 2003 | 177 | 2003 |
| Neogene palaeontology and geochronology of the Baringo Basin, Kenya A Hill, R Drake, L Tauxe, M Monaghan, JC Barry, AK Behrensmeyer, ... Journal of Human Evolution 14 (8), 759-773, 1985 | 141 | 1985 |
| Chemical, experimental, and morphological evidence for diagenetically altered melanin in exceptionally preserved fossils C Colleary, A Dolocan, J Gardner, S Singh, M Wuttke, R Rabenstein, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (41), 12592-12597, 2015 | 128 | 2015 |
| The fossil history of palms (Arecaceae) in Africa and new records from the Late Oligocene (28–27 Mya) of north-western Ethiopia AD Pan, BF Jacobs, J Dransfield, WJ Baker Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 151 (1), 69-81, 2006 | 128 | 2006 |
| Estimation of rainfall variables from leaf characters in tropical Africa BF Jacobs Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 145 (1-3), 231-250, 1999 | 127 | 1999 |
| Eocene dry climate and woodland vegetation in tropical Africa reconstructed from fossil leaves from northern Tanzania BF Jacobs, PS Herendeen Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 213 (1-2), 115-123, 2004 | 112 | 2004 |
| A review of the Cenozoic vegetation history of Africa BF Jacobs, AD Pan, CR Scotese, L Werdelin, WJ Sanders Cenozoic mammals of Africa, 57-72, 2010 | 103 | 2010 |
| Estimation of low-latitude paleoclimates using fossil angiosperm leaves: examples from the Miocene Tugen Hills, Kenya BF Jacobs Paleobiology 28 (3), 399-421, 2002 | 94 | 2002 |
| Stratigraphy, age and environments of the late Miocene Mpesida Beds, Tugen Hills, Kenya JD Kingston, BF Jacobs, A Hill, A Deino Journal of Human Evolution 42 (1-2), 95-116, 2002 | 84 | 2002 |
| Test of climate-leaf physiognomy regression models, their application to two Miocene floras from Kenya, and 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Late Miocene Kapturo site BF Jacobs, AL Deino Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 123 (1-4), 259-271, 1996 | 84 | 1996 |
| The Conifer Frenelopsis ramosissima (Cheirolepidiaceae) in the Lower Cretaceous of Texas: Systematic, Biogeographical, and Paleoecological Implications BJ Axsmith, BF Jacobs International Journal of Plant Sciences 166 (2), 327-337, 2005 | 82 | 2005 |
| Fossil legumes from the middle Eocene (46.0 Ma) Mahenge flora of Singida, Tanzania PS Herendeen, BF Jacobs American Journal of Botany 87 (9), 1358-1366, 2000 | 80 | 2000 |
| A middle Miocene (12· 2 my old) forest in the East African Rift Valley, Kenya BF Jacobs, CHS Kabuye Journal of Human Evolution 16 (2), 147-155, 1987 | 79 | 1987 |
| Millennial-scale variability during the last glacial in vegetation records from North America G Jimenez-Moreno, RS Anderson, S Desprat, LD Grigg, EC Grimm, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 29 (21-22), 2865-2881, 2010 | 66 | 2010 |
| Oligocene terrestrial strata of northwestern Ethiopia: a preliminary report on paleoenvironments and paleontology BF Jacobs, N Tabor, M Feseha, A Pan, J Kappelman, T Rasmussen, ... | 66 | 2005 |
| Oldest placental mammal from sub-Saharan Africa: Eocene microbat from Tanzania—evidence for early evolution of sophisticated echolocation GF Gunnell, BF Jacobs, PS Herendeen, JJ Head, E Kowalski, CP Msuya, ... Palaeontologia Electronica 5 (2), 1-10, 2003 | 63 | 2003 |
| Paleontological investigations at the Eocene locality of Mahenge in north-central Tanzania, East Africa T Harrison, CP Msuya, AM Murray, BF Jacobs, AM Báez, R Mundil, ... Eocene biodiversity: unusual occurrences and rarely sampled habitats, 39-74, 2001 | 58 | 2001 |
