| Phylogeny and taxonomy of the JS LaPolla, SG Brady, SO Shattuck Prenolepis, 2010 | 154* | 2010 |
| Ants and the Fossil Record JS LaPolla, GM Dlussky, V Perrichot Annual review of entomology 58 (1), 609, 2013 | 98 | 2013 |
| A new ant genus from the Greater Antilles and Central America, Zatania (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), exemplifies the utility of male and molecular character systems JS LAPOLLA, RJ KALLAL, SG BRADY Systematic Entomology 37, 200-214, 2012 | 94 | 2012 |
| The importance of using multiple approaches for identifying emerging invasive species: the case of the Rasberry crazy ant in the United States D Gotzek, SG Brady, RJ Kallal, JS LaPolla Plos one 7 (9), e45314, 2012 | 67 | 2012 |
| Predation by the army ant Neivamyrmex rugulosus on the fungus-growing ant Trachymyrmex arizonensis JS LaPolla, UG Mueller, M Seid, SP Cover Insectes Sociaux 49 (3), 251-256, 2002 | 47 | 2002 |
| Leaf litter ant diversity in Guyana JS LaPolla, T Suman, J Sosa-Calvo, TR Schultz Biodiversity and Conservation 16 (2), 491-510, 2007 | 40 | 2007 |
| Monograph of Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the World: An introduction to the systematics and biology of the genus JS LaPolla, SG Brady, SO Shattuck Zootaxa 3110 (1), 1-9, 2011 | 37 | 2011 |
| Monograph of Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world, part II: Nylanderia in the Nearctic RJ Kallal, JS Lapolla Zootaxa 3508 (1), e64, 2012 | 35 | 2012 |
| Evidence of niche shift and global invasion potential of the Tawny Crazy ant, Nylanderia fulva S Kumar, EG LeBrun, TJ Stohlgren, JA Stabach, DL McDonald, DH Oi, ... Ecology and Evolution 5 (20), 4628-4641, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| Monograph of Nylanderia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world, part I: Nylanderia in the Afrotropics JS LaPolla, PG Hawkes, BL Fisher Zootaxa 3110 (1), 10-36, 2011 | 30 | 2011 |
| Assessment of the effects of ants on Hawaiian crickets JS LaPolla, D Otte, LA Spearman Journal of Orthoptera Research, 139-148, 2000 | 30 | 2000 |
| Natural history of the mealybug-tending ant, Acropyga epedana, with descriptions of the male and queen castes JS LaPolla, SP Cover, UG Mueller Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 367-376, 2002 | 28 | 2002 |
| Phylogenomics, biogeography and diversification of obligate mealybug-tending ants in the genus Acropyga BB Blaimer, JS LaPolla, MG Branstetter, MW Lloyd, SG Brady Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 102, 20-29, 2016 | 26 | 2016 |
| Systematics of the mealybug tribe Xenococcini (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae), with a discussion of trophobiotic associations with Acropyga Roger ants SA Schneider, JS LaPOLLA Systematic Entomology 36 (1), 57-82, 2011 | 24 | 2011 |
| Why weight? KM Kjer, Z Swigonova, JS LaPolla, RE Broughton Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43 (3), 999-1004, 2007 | 21 | 2007 |
| Taxonomic revision of the ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) genus Paraparatrechina in the Afrotropical and Malagasy Regions JS LaPOLLA, CH Cheng, BL Fisher Zootaxa 2387 (1), 1-27, 2010 | 20 | 2010 |
| Taxonomic revision of the Southeast Asian ant genus Euprenolepis JS Lapolla Zootaxa 2046 (1), 1-25, 2009 | 18 | 2009 |
| Biogeography of mutualistic fungi cultivated by leafcutter ants UG Mueller, HD Ishak, SM Bruschi, CC Smith, JJ Herman, SE Solomon, ... Molecular ecology 26 (24), 6921-6937, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
| Then there were five: a reexamination of the ant genus Paratrechina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) JS LaPolla, BL Fisher ZooKeys, 35, 2014 | 17 | 2014 |
| Review of the ant genus Rogeria (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Guyana JS Lapolla, J Sosa-Calvo Zootaxa 1330, 59-68, 2006 | 17 | 2006 |