| A semiquantitative field classification of ichnofabric ML Droser, DJ Bottjer Journal of Sedimentary Research 56 (4), 1986 | 819 | 1986 |
| The great Ordovician biodiversification event BD Webby, F Paris, ML Droser, IG Percival Columbia University Press, 2004 | 551 | 2004 |
| Late Precambrian oxygenation; inception of the clay mineral factory M Kennedy, M Droser, LM Mayer, D Pevear, D Mrofka Science 311 (5766), 1446-1449, 2006 | 328 | 2006 |
| A new ecological-severity ranking of major Phanerozoic biodiversity crises GR McGhee Jr, ME Clapham, PM Sheehan, DJ Bottjer, ML Droser Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 370, 260-270, 2013 | 252 | 2013 |
| Ecological ranking of Phanerozoic biodiversity crises: ecological and taxonomic severities are decoupled GR McGhee Jr, PM Sheehan, DJ Bottjer, ML Droser Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 211 (3-4), 289-297, 2004 | 249 | 2004 |
| Trace fossils and substrates of the terminal Proterozoic–Cambrian transition: implications for the record of early bilaterians and sediment mixing ML Droser, S Jensen, JG Gehling Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (20), 12572-12576, 2002 | 216 | 2002 |
| Decoupling of taxonomic and ecologic severity of Phanerozoic marine mass extinctions ML Droser, DJ Bottjer, PM Sheehan, GR McGhee Jr Geology 28 (8), 675-678, 2000 | 215 | 2000 |
| Evaluating the ecological architecture of major events in the Phanerozoic history of marine invertebrate life ML Droser, DJ Bottjer, PM Sheehan Geology 25 (2), 167-170, 1997 | 165 | 1997 |
| The advent of animals: the view from the Ediacaran ML Droser, JG Gehling Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (16), 4865-4870, 2015 | 159 | 2015 |
| The rise of animals in a changing environment: global ecological innovation in the late Ediacaran ML Droser, LG Tarhan, JG Gehling Annual review of earth and planetary sciences 45, 593-617, 2017 | 148 | 2017 |
