| Skeletal indicators of locomotor adaptations in living and extinct rodents JX Samuels, B Van Valkenburgh Journal of morphology 269 (11), 1387-1411, 2008 | 305 | 2008 |
| Biodiversity and topographic complexity: modern and geohistorical perspectives C Badgley, TM Smiley, R Terry, EB Davis, LRG DeSantis, DL Fox, ... Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32 (3), 211-226, 2017 | 275 | 2017 |
| Cranial morphology and dietary habits of rodents JX Samuels Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156 (4), 864-888, 2009 | 247 | 2009 |
| Postcranial morphology and the locomotor habits of living and extinct carnivorans JX Samuels, JA Meachen, SA Sakai Journal of morphology 274 (2), 121-146, 2013 | 181 | 2013 |
| Aquatic adaptations in the nose of carnivorans: evidence from the turbinates B Van Valkenburgh, A Curtis, JX Samuels, D Bird, B Fulkerson, ... Journal of Anatomy 218 (3), 298-310, 2011 | 109 | 2011 |
| Evolution in coyotes (Canis latrans) in response to the megafaunal extinctions JA Meachen, JX Samuels Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (11), 4191-4196, 2012 | 92 | 2012 |
| Craniodental adaptations for digging in extinct burrowing beavers JX Samuels, BV Valkenburgh Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (1), 254-268, 2009 | 81 | 2009 |
| The impacts of Cenozoic climate and habitat changes on small mammal diversity of North America JX Samuels, SSB Hopkins Global and Planetary Change 149, 36-52, 2017 | 56 | 2017 |
| New rodent material from the John Day Formation (Arikareean, middle Oligocene to early Miocene) of Oregon WW Korth, JX Samuels Annals of Carnegie Museum 83 (1), 19-84, 2015 | 50 | 2015 |
| Morphological variation of the forelimb and claw in Neotropical sigmodontine rodents (Rodentia: Cricetidae) MJ Tulli, LV Carrizo, JX Samuels Journal of Mammalian Evolution 23, 81-91, 2016 | 45 | 2016 |
| A new species of Gulo from the Early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site (Eastern United States); rethinking the evolution of wolverines JX Samuels, KE Bredehoeft, SC Wallace PeerJ, 1-29, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
| Locomotory adaptations in entoptychine gophers (Rodentia: Geomyidae) and the mosaic evolution of fossoriality JJM Calede, JX Samuels, M Chen Journal of Morphology 280 (6), 879-907, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
| Ecometric estimation of present and past climate of North America using crown heights of rodents and lagomorphs JA Schap, JX Samuels, TA Joyner Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 562, 110144, 2021 | 26 | 2021 |
| Re-evaluation of Sinocastor (Rodentia: Castoridae) with implications on the origin of modern beavers N Rybczynski, EM Ross, JX Samuels, WW Korth PLoS One 5 (11), e13990, 2010 | 25 | 2010 |
| The last fossil primate in North America, new material of the enigmatic Ekgmowechashala from the Arikareean of Oregon JX Samuels, LB Albright, TJ Fremd American Journal of Physical Anthropology 158 (1), 43-54, 2015 | 23 | 2015 |
| The earliest known fisher (Mustelidae), a new species from the Rattlesnake Formation of Oregon JX Samuels, J Cavin Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (2), 448-454, 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
| An early Hemphillian occurrence of Castor (Castoridae) from the Rattlesnake Formation of Oregon JX Samuels, J Zancanella Journal of Paleontology 85 (5), 930-935, 2011 | 20 | 2011 |
| Yucatán carnivorans shed light on the Great American Biotic Interchange BW Schubert, JC Chatters, J Arroyo-Cabrales, JX Samuels, LH Soibelzon, ... Biology Letters 15 (5), 20190148, 2019 | 19 | 2019 |
| The NOW database of fossil mammals I Žliobaitė, M Fortelius, RL Bernor, LW Van den Hoek Ostende, CM Janis, ... Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 Years of the NOW …, 2023 | 18 | 2023 |
| The earliest mustelid in North America R Paterson, JX Samuels, N Rybczynski, MJ Ryan, HC Maddin Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188 (4), 1318-1339, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
