| Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations JF Parham, PCJ Donoghue, CJ Bell, TD Calway, JJ Head, PA Holroyd, ... Systematic Biology 61 (2), 346-359, 2012 | 616 | 2012 |
| Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems AD Barnosky, EA Hadly, P Gonzalez, J Head, PD Polly, AM Lawing, ... Science 355 (6325), eaah4787, 2017 | 266 | 2017 |
| Giant boid snake from the Palaeocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures JJ Head, JI Bloch, AK Hastings, JR Bourque, EA Cadena, FA Herrera, ... Nature 457 (7230), 715-717, 2009 | 227 | 2009 |
| Homeotic effects, somitogenesis and the evolution of vertebral numbers in recent and fossil amniotes J Müller, TM Scheyer, JJ Head, PM Barrett, I Werneburg, PGP Ericson, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (5), 2118-2123, 2010 | 187 | 2010 |
| A new species of basal hadrosaurid (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Cenomanian of Texas JJ Head Journal of vertebrate Paleontology 18 (4), 718-738, 1998 | 153 | 1998 |
| Predation upon hatchling dinosaurs by a new snake from the Late Cretaceous of India JA Wilson, DM Mohabey, SE Peters, JJ Head PLoS biology 8 (3), e1000322, 2010 | 147 | 2010 |
| Evolution of the snake body form reveals homoplasy in amniote Hox gene function JJ Head, PD Polly Nature 520 (7545), 86-89, 2015 | 130 | 2015 |
| Eocene lizard from Germany reveals amphisbaenian origins J Müller, CA Hipsley, JJ Head, N Kardjilov, A Hilger, M Wuttke, RR Reisz Nature 473 (7347), 364-367, 2011 | 100 | 2011 |
| Turtle origins out to sea RR Reisz, JJ Head Nature 456 (7221), 450-451, 2008 | 89 | 2008 |
| Testing modularity and dissociation: the evolution of regional proportions in snakes PD Polly, JJ Head, MJ Cohn Beyond heterochrony: the evolution of development, 307-335, 2001 | 87 | 2001 |
| Fossils reveal the complex evolutionary history of the mammalian regionalized spine KE Jones, KD Angielczyk, PD Polly, JJ Head, V Fernandez, JK Lungmus, ... Science 361 (6408), 1249-1252, 2018 | 65 | 2018 |
| A reanalysis of the phylogenetic position of Eolambia caroljonesa (Dinosauria, Iguanodonte) JJ Head Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21 (2), 392-396, 2001 | 61 | 2001 |
| 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 | 58 | 2003 |
| The fossil calibration database—a new resource for divergence dating DT Ksepka, JF Parham, JF Allman, MJ Benton, MT Carrano, KA Cranston, ... Systematic Biology 64 (5), 853-859, 2015 | 57 | 2015 |
| First report of snakes (Serpentes) from the late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation, Myanmar JJ Head, PA Holroyd, JH Hutchison, RL Ciochon Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (1), 246-250, 2005 | 56 | 2005 |
| The ecology of morphology: the ecometrics of locomotion and macroenvironment in North American snakes AM Lawing, JJ Head, PD Polly Paleontology in ecology and conservation, 117-146, 2012 | 53 | 2012 |
| Snakes of the Siwalik Group (Miocene of Pakistan): systematics and relationship to environmental change JJ Head Palaeontologia Electronica 8 (1), 81-33, 2005 | 53 | 2005 |
| Fossil calibration dates for molecular phylogenetic analysis of snakes 1: Serpentes, Alethinophidia, Boidae, Pythonidae JJ Head Palaeontologia Electronica 18 (1), 1-17, 2015 | 49 | 2015 |
| Fossil calibration dates for molecular phylogenetic analysis of snakes 2: Caenophidia, Colubroidea, Elapoidea, Colubridae JJ Head, K Mahlow, J Müller Palaeontologia Electronica 19 (2), 1-21, 2016 | 48 | 2016 |
| Dissociation of somatic growth from segmentation drives gigantism in snakes JJ Head, P David Polly Biology Letters 3 (3), 296-298, 2007 | 46 | 2007 |
