| Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 60 million years PN Pearson, MR Palmer Nature 406 (6797), 695-699, 2000 | 1774 | 2000 |
| Are we now living in the Anthropocene? J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, A Smith, TL Barry, AL Coe, PR Bown, ... Gsa Today 18 (2), 4, 2008 | 1081 | 2008 |
| Review and revision of Cenozoic tropical planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and calibration to the geomagnetic polarity and astronomical time scale BS Wade, PN Pearson, WA Berggren, H Pälike Earth-Science Reviews 104 (1-3), 111-142, 2011 | 936 | 2011 |
| Warm tropical sea surface temperatures in the Late Cretaceous and Eocene epochs PN Pearson, PW Ditchfield, J Singano, KG Harcourt-Brown, CJ Nicholas, ... Nature 413 (6855), 481-487, 2001 | 751 | 2001 |
| A revised tropical to subtropical Paleogene planktonic foraminiferal zonation WA Berggren, PN Pearson The Journal of Foraminiferal Research 35 (4), 279-298, 2005 | 746 | 2005 |
| Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene–Oligocene climate transition PN Pearson, GL Foster, BS Wade Nature 461 (7267), 1110-1113, 2009 | 427 | 2009 |
| Stable warm tropical climate through the Eocene Epoch PN Pearson, BE van Dongen, CJ Nicholas, RD Pancost, S Schouten, ... Geology 35 (3), 211-214, 2007 | 414 | 2007 |
| Changing atmospheric CO2 concentration was the primary driver of early Cenozoic climate E Anagnostou, EH John, KM Edgar, GL Foster, A Ridgwell, GN Inglis, ... Nature 533 (7603), 380-384, 2016 | 385 | 2016 |
| Cooling and ice growth across the Eocene-Oligocene transition CH Lear, TR Bailey, PN Pearson, HK Coxall, Y Rosenthal Geology 36 (3), 251-254, 2008 | 374 | 2008 |
| Diversity-dependence brings molecular phylogenies closer to agreement with the fossil record RS Etienne, B Haegeman, T Stadler, T Aze, PN Pearson, A Purvis, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1732), 1300-1309, 2012 | 337 | 2012 |
| Interplay between changing climate and species’ ecology drives macroevolutionary dynamics THG Ezard, T Aze, PN Pearson, A Purvis science 332 (6027), 349-351, 2011 | 311 | 2011 |
| Very large release of mostly volcanic carbon during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum M Gutjahr, A Ridgwell, PF Sexton, E Anagnostou, PN Pearson, H Pälike, ... Nature 548 (7669), 573-577, 2017 | 288 | 2017 |
| Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, R Fortey, A Smith, TL Barry, AL Coe, PR Bown, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical …, 2011 | 287 | 2011 |
| Middle Eocene seawater pH and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations PN Pearson, MR Palmer Science 284 (5421), 1824-1826, 1999 | 258 | 1999 |
| Microstructural and geochemical perspectives on planktic foraminiferal preservation:“Glassy” versus “Frosty” PF Sexton, PA Wilson, PN Pearson Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7 (12), 2006 | 257 | 2006 |
| Early Paleogene temperature history of the Southwest Pacific Ocean: Reconciling proxies and models CJ Hollis, KWR Taylor, L Handley, RD Pancost, M Huber, JB Creech, ... Earth and planetary science letters 349, 53-66, 2012 | 240 | 2012 |
| A phylogeny of Cenozoic macroperforate planktonic foraminifera from fossil data T Aze, THG Ezard, A Purvis, HK Coxall, DRM Stewart, BS Wade, ... Biological Reviews 86 (4), 900-927, 2011 | 232 | 2011 |
| Atlas of Eocene planktonic foraminifera PN Pearson, RK Olsson, BT Huber, C Hemleben, WA Berggren Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, 2006 | 229 | 2006 |
| The Miocene: the future of the past M Steinthorsdottir, HK Coxall, AM De Boer, M Huber, N Barbolini, ... Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 36 (4), e2020PA004037, 2021 | 199 | 2021 |
| Speciation in the fossil record MJ Benton, PN Pearson Trends in Ecology & Evolution 16 (7), 405-411, 2001 | 191 | 2001 |
