| Rates of dinosaur body mass evolution indicate 170 million years of sustained ecological innovation on the avian stem lineage RBJ Benson, NE Campione, MT Carrano, PD Mannion, C Sullivan, ... PLoS Biology 12 (5), e1001853, 2014 | 356 | 2014 |
| The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) MT Carrano, RBJ Benson, SD Sampson Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10 (2), 211-300, 2012 | 295 | 2012 |
| The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time PD Mannion, P Upchurch, RBJ Benson, A Goswami Trends in ecology & evolution 29 (1), 42-50, 2014 | 211 | 2014 |
| Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the J urassic–C retaceous transition RBJ Benson, PS Druckenmiller Biological Reviews 89 (1), 1-23, 2014 | 196 | 2014 |
| A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic RBJ Benson, MT Carrano, SL Brusatte Naturwissenschaften 97 (1), 71-78, 2010 | 190 | 2010 |
| Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses HF Ketchum, RBJ Benson Biological Reviews 85 (2), 361-392, 2010 | 182 | 2010 |
| Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates RBJ Benson, RJ Butler, J Lindgren, AS Smith Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1683), 829-834, 2010 | 177 | 2010 |
| A description of Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bathonian of the UK and the relationships of Middle Jurassic theropods RBJ Benson Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (4), 882-935, 2010 | 172 | 2010 |
| A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) E Tschopp, O Mateus, RBJ Benson PeerJ 3, e857, 2015 | 144 | 2015 |
| Air‐filled postcranial bones in theropod dinosaurs: physiological implications and the ‘reptile’–bird transition RBJ Benson, RJ Butler, MT Carrano, PM O'Connor Biological Reviews 87 (1), 168-193, 2012 | 134 | 2012 |
| Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution RB Sookias, RJ Butler, RBJ Benson Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1736), 2180-2187, 2012 | 130 | 2012 |
| High diversity, low disparity and small body size in plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic boundary RBJ Benson, M Evans, PS Druckenmiller PLoS One 7 (3), e31838, 2012 | 118 | 2012 |
| Geological and anthropogenic controls on the sampling of the terrestrial fossil record: a case study from the Dinosauria P Upchurch, PD Mannion, RBJ Benson, RJ Butler, MT Carrano Geological Society, London, Special Publications 358 (1), 209-240, 2011 | 116 | 2011 |
| The osteology of Neovenator salerii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Wealden group (Barremian) of the Isle of Wight SL Brusatte, RBJ Benson, S Hutt Palaeontographical Society, 2008 | 116 | 2008 |
| Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians PD Mannion, RBJ Benson, MT Carrano, JP Tennant, J Judd, RJ Butler Nature communications 6 (1), 1-9, 2015 | 114 | 2015 |
| Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the ‘common cause’hypothesis in the terrestrial realm RJ Butler, RBJ Benson, MT Carrano, PD Mannion, P Upchurch Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1709), 1165-1170, 2011 | 111 | 2011 |
| The systematic utility of theropod enamel wrinkles SL Brusatte, RBJ Benson, TD Carr, TE Williamson, PC Sereno Journal of vertebrate Paleontology 27 (4), 1052-1056, 2007 | 105 | 2007 |
| Uncovering the diversification history of marine tetrapods: ecology influences the effect of geological sampling biases RBJ Benson, RJ Butler Geological Society, London, Special Publications 358 (1), 191-208, 2011 | 104 | 2011 |
| How do geological sampling biases affect studies of morphological evolution in deep time? A case study of pterosaur (Reptilia: Archosauria) disparity RJ Butler, SL Brusatte, B Andres, RBJ Benson Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution 66 (1), 147-162, 2012 | 99 | 2012 |
| Open data and digital morphology TG Davies, IA Rahman, S Lautenschlager, JA Cunningham, RJ Asher, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1852), 20170194, 2017 | 97 | 2017 |
