| How many species are there on Earth and in the ocean? C Mora, DP Tittensor, S Adl, AGB Simpson, B Worm PLoS biology 9 (8), e1001127, 2011 | 3893 | 2011 |
| The new higher level classification of eukaryotes with emphasis on the taxonomy of protists SM Adl, AGB Simpson, MA Farmer, RA Andersen, OR Anderson, JR Barta, ... Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 52 (5), 399-451, 2005 | 2446 | 2005 |
| The revised classification of eukaryotes SM Adl, AGB Simpson, CE Lane, J Lukeš, D Bass, SS Bowser, MW Brown, ... Journal of eukaryotic microbiology 59 (5), 429-514, 2012 | 2112 | 2012 |
| The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): illuminating the functional diversity of eukaryotic life in the oceans through transcriptome sequencing PJ Keeling, F Burki, HM Wilcox, B Allam, EE Allen, LA Amaral-Zettler, ... PLoS biology 12 (6), e1001889, 2014 | 1077 | 2014 |
| The new tree of eukaryotes F Burki, AJ Roger, MW Brown, AGB Simpson Trends in ecology & evolution 35 (1), 43-55, 2020 | 800 | 2020 |
| CBOL protist working group: barcoding eukaryotic richness beyond the animal, plant, and fungal kingdoms J Pawlowski, S Audic, S Adl, D Bass, L Belbahri, C Berney, SS Bowser, ... PLoS biology 10 (11), e1001419, 2012 | 613 | 2012 |
| Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic “supergroups” V Hampl, L Hug, JW Leigh, JB Dacks, BF Lang, AGB Simpson, AJ Roger Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (10), 3859-3864, 2009 | 572 | 2009 |
| The evolution and diversity of kinetoplastid flagellates AGB Simpson, JR Stevens, J Lukeš Trends in parasitology 22 (4), 168-174, 2006 | 462 | 2006 |
| The real ‘kingdoms’ of eukaryotes AGB Simpson, AJ Roger Current biology 14 (17), R693-R696, 2004 | 439 | 2004 |
| Diversity, nomenclature, and taxonomy of protists SM Adl, BS Leander, AGB Simpson, JM Archibald, OR Anderson, D Bass, ... Systematic biology 56 (4), 684-689, 2007 | 382 | 2007 |
| Cytoskeletal organization, phylogenetic affinities and systematics in the contentious taxon Excavata (Eukaryota) AGB Simpson International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53 (6 …, 2003 | 278 | 2003 |
| Comprehensive multigene phylogenies of excavate protists reveal the evolutionary positions of “primitive” eukaryotes AGB Simpson, Y Inagaki, AJ Roger Molecular Biology and Evolution 23 (3), 615-625, 2006 | 215 | 2006 |
| Evolution: revisiting the root of the eukaryote tree AJ Roger, AGB Simpson Current biology 19 (4), R165-R167, 2009 | 186 | 2009 |
| Heterotrophic flagellates from coastal marine and hypersaline sediments in Western Australia DJ Patterson, AGB Simpson European Journal of Protistology 32 (4), 423-448, 1996 | 184 | 1996 |
| Phylogenomics demonstrates that breviate flagellates are related to opisthokonts and apusomonads MW Brown, SC Sharpe, JD Silberman, AA Heiss, BF Lang, AGB Simpson, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1769), 20131755, 2013 | 168 | 2013 |
| Some free-living flagellates (Protista) from anoxic habitats C Bernard, AGB Simpson, DJ Patterson Ophelia 52 (2), 113-142, 2000 | 153 | 2000 |
| Phylogenomics places orphan protistan lineages in a novel eukaryotic super-group MW Brown, AA Heiss, R Kamikawa, Y Inagaki, A Yabuki, AK Tice, ... Genome biology and evolution 10 (2), 427-433, 2018 | 148 | 2018 |
| The evolutionary history of kinetoplastids and their kinetoplasts AGB Simpson, J Lukeš, AJ Roger Molecular Biology and Evolution 19 (12), 2071-2083, 2002 | 142 | 2002 |
| The ultrastructure of Carpediemonas membranifera (Eukaryota) with reference to the “excavate hypothesis” AGB Simpson, DJ Patterson European Journal of Protistology 35 (4), 353-370, 1999 | 142 | 1999 |
| Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes G Lax, Y Eglit, L Eme, EM Bertrand, AJ Roger, AGB Simpson Nature 564 (7736), 410-414, 2018 | 136 | 2018 |
