| Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life BM Wiegmann, MD Trautwein, IS Winkler, NB Barr, JW Kim, C Lambkin, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (14), 5690-5695, 2011 | 1023 | 2011 |
| Phylogeny of the nematocerous families of Diptera (Insecta) P OOSTERBROEK, G COURTNEY Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 115 (3), 267-311, 1995 | 264 | 1995 |
| Phylogenetics and temporal diversification of the earliest true flies (Insecta: Diptera) based on multiple nuclear genes MA Bertone, GW Courtney, BM Wiegmann Systematic Entomology 33 (4), 668-687, 2008 | 234 | 2008 |
| Phylogeny and systematics of Diptera: two decades of progress and prospects DK Yeates, BM Wiegmann, GW Courtney, R Meier, C Lambkin, T Pape Zootaxa 1668 (1), 565–590-565–590, 2007 | 233 | 2007 |
| Morphology and terminolgoy of Diptera larvae GW Courtney Contribution to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera 1, 85-161, 2000 | 224 | 2000 |
| Biodiversity of diptera GW Courtney, T Pape, JH Skevington, BJ Sinclair Insect biodiversity: science and society, 229-278, 2017 | 214 | 2017 |
| The phylogenetic relationships among infraorders and superfamilies of Diptera based on morphological evidence CL Lambkin, BJ Sinclair, T Pape, GW Courtney, JH Skevington, R Meier, ... Systematic Entomology 38 (1), 164-179, 2013 | 135 | 2013 |
| Next-generation field guides EJ Farnsworth, M Chu, WJ Kress, AK Neill, JH Best, J Pickering, ... BioScience 63 (11), 891-899, 2013 | 106 | 2013 |
| Global diversity of dipteran families (Insecta Diptera) in freshwater (excluding Simulidae, Culicidae, Chironomidae, Tipulidae and Tabanidae) R Wagner, M Barták, A Borkent, G Courtney, B Goddeeris, JP Haenni, ... Hydrobiologia 595, 489-519, 2008 | 102 | 2008 |
| Aquatic Diptera. Part one. Larvae of aquatic Diptera GW Courtney, RW Merritt, HJ Teskey, BA Foote An introduction to the aquatic insects of North America 4, 687-722, 2008 | 98* | 2008 |
| Assessing macroinvertebrate biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems: advances and challenges in DNA-based approaches ME Pfrender, CP Hawkins, M Bagley, GW Courtney, BR Creutzburg, ... The Quarterly review of biology 85 (3), 319-340, 2010 | 94 | 2010 |
| Phylogenetic synthesis of morphological and molecular data reveals new insights into the higher‐level classification of Tipuloidea (Diptera) MJ Petersen, MA Bertone, BM Wiegmann, GW Courtney Systematic entomology 35 (3), 526-545, 2010 | 92 | 2010 |
| Ecological and societal services of aquatic Diptera PH Adler, GW Courtney Insects 10 (3), 70, 2019 | 89 | 2019 |
| Diptera:(Flies, Mosquitoes, Midges, Gnats) RW Merritt, GW Courtney, JB Keiper Encyclopedia of insects, 284-297, 2009 | 82 | 2009 |
| Biosystematics of the Nymphomyiidae (Insecta: Diptera): life history, morphology, and phylogenetic relationships GW Courtney | 63 | 1994 |
| Cuticular morphology of larval mountain midges (Diptera: Deuterophlebiidae): implications for the phylogenetic relationships of Nematocera GW Courtney Canadian Journal of Zoology 68 (3), 556-578, 1990 | 59 | 1990 |
| Phylogenetic analysis of the Blephariceromorpha, with special reference to mountain midges (Diptera: Deuterophlebiidae) GW Courtney Systematic Entomology 16 (2), 137-172, 1991 | 56 | 1991 |
| Order Diptera GW Courtney, PS Cranston Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates, 1043-1058, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
| Life history patterns of Nearctic mountain midges (Diptera: Deuterophlebiidae) GW Courtney Journal of the North American Benthological Society 10 (2), 177-197, 1991 | 34 | 1991 |
| Revision of the net-winged midges of the genus Blepharicera Macquart (Diptera: Blephariceridae) of eastern North America GW Courtney The Entomological Society of Washington No. 23, p. 1-99, 2000 | 29 | 2000 |