| Echinoid palaeobiology AB Smith (No Title), 1984 | 789 | 1984 |
| Systematics and the fossil record: documenting evolutionary patterns AB Smith John Wiley & Sons, 2009 | 748 | 2009 |
| The phylogeny and classification of post-Palaeozoic echinoids A Kroh, AB Smith Journal of systematic Palaeontology 8 (2), 147-212, 2010 | 464 | 2010 |
| Preliminary conclusions of the Royal Society and Academia Sinica 1985 geotraverse of Tibet C Chengfa, C Nansheng, MP Coward, D Wanming, JF Dewey, A Gansser, ... Nature 323 (6088), 501-507, 1986 | 383 | 1986 |
| Large–scale heterogeneity of the fossil record: implications for Phanerozoic biodiversity studies AB Smith Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B …, 2001 | 372 | 2001 |
| The Cretaceous-tertiary biotic transition N MacLeod, PF Rawson, PL Forey, FT Banner, MK Boudagher-Fadel, ... Journal of the geological Society 154 (2), 265-292, 1997 | 344 | 1997 |
| The early radiation and phylogeny of echinoderms CRC Paul, AB Smith Biological Reviews 59 (4), 443-481, 1984 | 321 | 1984 |
| The echinoid directory AB Smith, A Kroh Natural History Museum, 2000 | 320 | 2000 |
| Tectonics from fossils? Analysis of reef-coral and sea-urchin distributions from late Cretaceous to Recent, using a new method BR Rosen, AB Smith Geological Society, London, Special Publications 37 (1), 275-306, 1988 | 301 | 1988 |
| Rooting molecular trees: problems and strategies AB Smith Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 51 (3), 279-292, 1994 | 287 | 1994 |
| Stereom microstructure of the echinoid test AB Smith | 281 | 1980 |
| Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives BJ Swalla, AB Smith Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363 …, 2008 | 274 | 2008 |
| Sea-level change and rock-record bias in the Cretaceous: a problem for extinction and biodiversity studies AB Smith, AS Gale, NEA Monks Paleobiology 27 (2), 241-253, 2001 | 261 | 2001 |
| Problems of reproducibility–does geologically ancient DNA survive in amber–preserved insects? JJ Austin, AJ Ross, AB Smith, RA Fortey, RH Thomas Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 1997 | 261 | 1997 |
| The shape of the Phanerozoic marine palaeodiversity curve: how much can be predicted from the sedimentary rock record of Western Europe? AB Smith, AJ McGOWAN Palaeontology 50 (4), 765-774, 2007 | 251 | 2007 |
| Marine biodiversity through the Late Cenomanian–Early Turonian: palaeoceanographic controls and sequence stratigraphic biases AS Gale, AB Smith, NEA Monks, JA Young, A Howard, DS Wray, ... Journal of the Geological Society 157 (4), 745-757, 2000 | 231 | 2000 |
| Dating the time of origin of major clades: molecular clocks and the fossil record AB Smith, KJ Peterson Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 30 (1), 65-88, 2002 | 220 | 2002 |
| Ophiuroid phylogeny and higher taxonomy: morphological, molecular and palaeontological perspectives AB Smith, GLJ Paterson, B Lafay Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 114 (2), 213-243, 1995 | 220 | 1995 |
| Sedimentology, palaeoecology and palaeoenvironmental evolution of the 1985 Lhasa to Golmud Geotraverse MR Leeder, AB Smith, Y Jixiang Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A …, 1988 | 219 | 1988 |
| Testing the molecular clock: molecular and paleontological estimates of divergence times in the Echinoidea (Echinodermata) AB Smith, D Pisani, JA Mackenzie-Dodds, B Stockley, BL Webster, ... Molecular biology and evolution 23 (10), 1832-1851, 2006 | 195 | 2006 |
