| The measurement of species diversity RK Peet Annual review of ecology and systematics 5, 285-307, 1974 | 2580 | 1974 |
| Factors influencing succession: lessons from large, infrequent natural disturbances MG Turner, WL Baker, CJ Peterson, RK Peet Ecosystems 1, 511-523, 1998 | 751 | 1998 |
| Plant succession: theory and prediction DC Glenn-Lewin, RK Peet, V Thomas T. Chapman and Hall, 1992 | 502 | 1992 |
| Competition and tree death RK Peet, NL Christensen BioScience 37, 586-595, 1987 | 483 | 1987 |
| Forest vegetation of the Colorado front range RK Peet Plant Ecology 45, 3-75, 1981 | 471 | 1981 |
| A flexible, multipurpose method for recording vegetation composition and structure RK Peet, TR Wentworth, PS White Castanea 63, 262-274, 1998 | 467 | 1998 |
| Plant species richness: the world records JB Wilson, RK Peet, J Dengler, M Pärtel Journal of Vegetation Science 23, 796-802, 2012 | 459 | 2012 |
| Forests and meadows of the Rocky Mountains RK Peet North American terrestrial vegetation, Second edition, 75-122, 2000 | 444 | 2000 |
| Succession: a population process RK Peet, NL Christensen Vegetatio 43, 131-140, 1980 | 388 | 1980 |
| Longleaf pine vegetation of the southern Atlantic and eastern Gulf Coast regions: a preliminary classification RK Peet, DJ Allard Proceedings of the Tall Timbers fire ecology conference 18, 45-81, 1993 | 355 | 1993 |
| Diversity and invasibility of southern Appalachian plant communities RL Brown, RK Peet Ecology 84, 32-39, 2003 | 353 | 2003 |
| Composition and species diversity of pine-wiregrass savannas of the Green Swamp, North Carolina J Walker, RK Peet Vegetatio 55, 163-179, 1984 | 336 | 1984 |
| Convergence during secondary forest succession NL Christensen, RK Peet Journal of Ecology 72, 25-36, 1984 | 317 | 1984 |
| Changes in chalk‐grassland structure and species richness resulting from selective nutrient additions JH Willems, RK Peet, L Bik Journal of Vegetation Science 4, 203-212, 1993 | 297 | 1993 |
| The Global Index of Vegetation‐Plot Databases (GIVD): a new resource for vegetation science J Dengler, F Jansen, F Glöckler, RK Peet, M De Cáceres, M Chytrý, ... Journal of Vegetation Science 22, 582-597, 2011 | 284 | 2011 |
| The taxonomic name resolution service: an online tool for automated standardization of plant names B Boyle, N Hopkins, Z Lu, JAR Garay, D Mozzherin, T Rees, N Matasci, ... BMC bioinformatics 14 (1), 16, 2013 | 273 | 2013 |
| Relative diversity indices RK Peet Ecology 56, 496-498, 1975 | 266 | 1975 |
| Forest vegetation of the Colorado Front Range: patterns of species diversity RK Peet Vegetatio 37, 65-78, 1978 | 256 | 1978 |
| Putting things in order: the advantages of detrended correspondence analysis RK Peet, RG Knox, JS Case, RB Allen The American Naturalist 131, 924-934, 1988 | 247 | 1988 |
| Community structure and ecosystem function RK Peet Plant succession: theory and prediction, 103-140, 1992 | 231 | 1992 |
