| Evidence for a mid-Jurassic adaptive radiation in mammals RA Close, M Friedman, GT Lloyd, RBJ Benson Current Biology 25 (16), 2137-2142, 2015 | 142 | 2015 |
| The spatial structure of Phanerozoic marine animal diversity RA Close, RBJ Benson, EE Saupe, ME Clapham, RJ Butler Science 368 (6489), 420-424, 2020 | 110 | 2020 |
| How should we estimate diversity in the fossil record? Testing richness estimators using sampling‐standardised discovery curves RA Close, SW Evers, J Alroy, RJ Butler Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9 (6), 1386-1400, 2018 | 97 | 2018 |
| Controlling for the species-area effect supports constrained long-term Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate diversification RA Close, RBJ Benson, P Upchurch, RJ Butler Nature Communications 8 (1), 15381, 2017 | 86 | 2017 |
| Biodiversity across space and time in the fossil record RBJ Benson, R Butler, RA Close, E Saupe, DL Rabosky Current Biology 31 (19), R1225-R1236, 2021 | 79 | 2021 |
| Diversity change during the rise of tetrapods and the impact of the ‘Carboniferous rainforest collapse’ EM Dunne, RA Close, DJ Button, N Brocklehurst, DD Cashmore, GT Lloyd, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1872), 20172730, 2018 | 75 | 2018 |
| The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases RA Close, RBJ Benson, J Alroy, MT Carrano, TJ Cleary, EM Dunne, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1924), 20200372, 2020 | 68 | 2020 |
| Comparative analysis of vestibular ecomorphology in birds RBJ Benson, E Starmer‐Jones, RA Close, SA Walsh Journal of Anatomy 231 (6), 990-1018, 2017 | 62 | 2017 |
| The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstätten M Friedman, HT Beckett, RA Close, Z Johanson Geological Society, London, Special Publications 430 (1), 165-200, 2016 | 61 | 2016 |
| Functional morphometric analysis of the furcula in Mesozoic birds RA Close, EJ Rayfield PLoS One 7 (5), e36664, 2012 | 56 | 2012 |
| Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale RA Close, RBJ Benson, J Alroy, AK Behrensmeyer, J Benito, MT Carrano, ... Nature ecology & evolution 3 (4), 590-597, 2019 | 52 | 2019 |
| Earliest Gondwanan bird from the Cretaceous of southeastern Australia RA Close, P Vickers-Rich, P Trusler, LM Chiappe, J O'connor, TH Rich, ... Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 (2), 616-619, 2009 | 29 | 2009 |
| Mosaicism in a new Eocene pufferfish highlights rapid morphological innovation near the origin of crown tetraodontiforms RA Close, Z Johanson, JC Tyler, RC Harrington, M Friedman Palaeontology 59 (4), 499-514, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| A lower jaw of Palaeoxonodon from the Middle Jurassic of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, sheds new light on the diversity of British stem therians RA Close, BM Davis, S Walsh, AS Wolniewicz, M Friedman, RBJ Benson Palaeontology 59 (1), 155-169, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Mechanistic neutral models show that sampling biases drive the apparent explosion of early tetrapod diversity EM Dunne, SED Thompson, RJ Butler, J Rosindell, RA Close Nature ecology & evolution 7 (9), 1480-1489, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |
| Early Cenozoic increases in mammal diversity cannot be explained solely by expansion into larger body sizes GL Benevento, RBJ Benson, RA Close, RJ Butler Palaeontology 66 (3), e12653, 2023 | 5 | 2023 |
| Apparent timescaling of fossil diversification rates is caused by sampling bias BR Reijenga, RA Close Current Biology, 2025 | | 2025 |
| Reefal regions were biodiversity hotspots throughout the Phanerozoic RA Close, RBJ Benson, W Kiessling, EE Saupe bioRxiv, 2025.01. 16.633324, 2025 | | 2025 |
| Data from: Standardising fossil disparity metrics using sample coverage M Jones, R Close Dryad, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Standardizing fossil disparity metrics using sample coverage M Jones, R Close Palaeontology 67 (5), e12729, 2024 | | 2024 |
