| The world spider catalog, version 10.5 NI Platnick http://research. amnh. org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index. html, 2010 | 3039* | 2010 |
| Systematics and biogeography cladistics and vicariance VAL Below | 2261 | 1981 |
| The world spider catalog, version 7.5. American Museum of Natural History NI Platnick http://research. org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index. html, 2006 | 711 | 2006 |
| Advances in Spider Taxonomy, 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae Described Between 1940 and 1981 NI Platnick Manchester University Press, 1989 | 553* | 1989 |
| A method of analysis for historical biogeography NI Platnick, G Nelson Systematic zoology 27 (1), 1-16, 1978 | 480 | 1978 |
| Philosophy and the transformation of cladistics NI Platnick Systematic Zoology 28 (4), 537-546, 1979 | 369 | 1979 |
| The intellectual content of taxonomy: a comment on DNA taxonomy D Lipscomb, N Platnick, Q Wheeler Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18 (2), 65-66, 2003 | 364 | 2003 |
| On missing entries in cladistic analysis NI Platnick, CE Griswold, JA Coddington Cladistics 7 (4), 337-343, 1991 | 279 | 1991 |
| Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of haplogyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae) NI Platnick, JA Coddington, RR Forster, CE Griswold American Museum Novitates, 1991 | 245 | 1991 |
| Advances in spider taxonomy 1992-1995with redescriptions 1940-1980 NI Platnick, P Merrett | 238 | 1997 |
| The biological species concept E Mayr Species concepts and phylogenetic theory: a debate. Columbia University …, 2000 | 235 | 2000 |
| Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny CE Griswold, MJ Ramirez, JA Coddington, NI Platnick Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 2005 | 230 | 2005 |
| On areas of endemism NI Platnick Australian Systematic Botany 4 (1), 11-12, 1991 | 191 | 1991 |
| A revision of the spider genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in America. Bulletin of the AMNH; v. 155, article 1 NI Platnick, MU Shadab New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1975 | 173 | 1975 |
| Cladistic methods in textual, linguistic, and phylogenetic analysis NI Platnick, HD Cameron Systematic Biology 26 (4), 380-385, 1977 | 160 | 1977 |
| The world spider catalog, version 13.0 NI Platnick American Museum of Natural History, online at http://research. amnh. org/iz …, 2012 | 159 | 2012 |
| Towards a phylogeny of entelegyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae) CE Griswold, JA Coddington, NI Platnick, RR Forster Journal of Arachnology, 53-63, 1999 | 154 | 1999 |
| The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling WC Wheeler, JA Coddington, LM Crowley, D Dimitrov, PA Goloboff, ... Cladistics 33 (6), 574-616, 2017 | 144 | 2017 |
| A review of the North Asian ground spiders of the genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the AMNH; no. 212 VI Ovcharenko, NI Platnick, D Song [New York]: American Museum of Natural History, 1992 | 134 | 1992 |
| Three‐taxon statements: a more precise use of parsimony? G Nelson, NI Platnick Cladistics 7 (4), 351-366, 1991 | 134 | 1991 |
