| Technical report for the national freshwater ecosystem priority areas project JL Nel, KM Murray, AM Maherry, CP Petersen, DJ Roux, A Driver, L Hill, ... Water Research Commission Report 1081 (2), 11, 2011 | 231 | 2011 |
| Systematics of the subfamily danioninae (Teleostei: Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) KL Tang, MK Agnew, MV Hirt, T Sado, LM Schneider, J Freyhof, ... Molecular phylogenetics and Evolution 57 (1), 189-214, 2010 | 209 | 2010 |
| Implementation manual for freshwater ecosystem priority areas A Driver, JL Nel, K Snaddon, K Murray, DJ Roux, L Hill, ER Swartz, ... Draft Report for the Water Research Commission, 2011 | 152 | 2011 |
| The status and distribution of freshwater fishes D Tweddle, R Bills, E Swartz, W Coetzer, L Da Costa, J Engelbrecht, ... The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in southern Africa 21, 37, 2009 | 104 | 2009 |
| Biotic diversity in the Southern African winter-rainfall region HP Linder, SD Johnson, M Kuhlmann, CA Matthee, R Nyffeler, ER Swartz Current opinion in environmental sustainability 2 (1-2), 109-116, 2010 | 101 | 2010 |
| Repeated trans-watershed hybridization among haplochromine cichlids (Cichlidae) was triggered by Neogene landscape evolution J Schwarzer, ER Swartz, E Vreven, J Snoeks, FPD Cotterill, B Misof, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1746), 4389-4398, 2012 | 93 | 2012 |
| Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Pseudobarbus (Cyprinidae): shedding light on the drainage history of rivers associated with the Cape Floristic Region ER Swartz, PH Skelton, P Bloomer Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51 (1), 75-84, 2009 | 83 | 2009 |
| Invasion of a headwater stream by non-native fishes in the Swartkops River system, South Africa BR Ellender, OLF Weyl, ER Swartz African Zoology 46 (1), 39-46, 2011 | 81 | 2011 |
| Underwater video analysis as a non‐destructive alternative to electrofishing for sampling imperilled headwater stream fishes BR Ellender, A Becker, OLF Weyl, ER Swartz Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 22 (1), 58-65, 2012 | 79 | 2012 |
| Sea‐level changes, river capture and the evolution of populations of the Eastern Cape and fiery redfins (Pseudobarbus afer and Pseudobarbus phlegethon, Cyprinidae) across … ER Swartz, PH Skelton, P Bloomer Journal of Biogeography 34 (12), 2086-2099, 2007 | 78 | 2007 |
| Evolutionary drivers of diversification and distribution of a southern temperate stream fish assemblage: testing the role of historical isolation and spatial range expansion A Chakona, ER Swartz, G Gouws PLoS One 8 (8), e70953, 2013 | 77 | 2013 |
| A role for barcoding in the study of African fish diversity and conservation ER Swartz, M Mwale, R Hanner South African Journal of Science 104 (7), 293-298, 2008 | 68 | 2008 |
| Using a unified invasion framework to characterize Africa’s first loricariid catfish invasion RW Jones, OLF Weyl, ER Swartz, MP Hill Biological Invasions 15, 2139-2145, 2013 | 44 | 2013 |
| A new redfin species, Pseudobarbus skeltoni (Cyprinidae, Teleostei), from the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa A Chakona, ER Swartz Zootaxa 3686 (5), 565-577, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| Oreochromis mossambicus J Cambray, E Swartz IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2007 | 36 | 2007 |
| Walking the tightrope: trends in African freshwater systematic ichthyology PH Skelton, ER Swartz Journal of Fish Biology 79 (6), 1413-1435, 2011 | 34 | 2011 |
| A freshwater fish defies ancient mountain ranges and drainage divides: extrinsic and intrinsic influences on the evolutionary history of a recently identified galaxiid A Chakona, ER Swartz, G Gouws, P Bloomer Journal of Biogeography 40 (7), 1399-1412, 2013 | 33 | 2013 |
| Contrasting genetic patterns and population histories in three threatened redfin species (Cyprinidae) from the Olifants River system, western South Africa ER Swartz, AF Flemming, PFN Mouton Journal of Fish Biology 64 (5), 1153-1167, 2004 | 33 | 2004 |
| Descriptions of three new species of Marcusenius Gill, 1862 (Teleostei: Mormyridae) from South Africa and Mozambique PA Maake, O Gon, ER Swartz Zootaxa 3780 (3), 455-480, 2014 | 28 | 2014 |
| A new species of redfin (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Pseudobarbus) from the Verlorenvlei River system, South Africa A Chakona, ER Swartz, PH Skelton ZooKeys, 121, 2014 | 28 | 2014 |
