| Disparity as an evolutionary index: a comparison of Cambrian and Recent arthropods MA Wills, DEG Briggs, RA Fortey Paleobiology, 93-130, 1994 | 343 | 1994 |
| Morphological disparity in the Cambrian DEG Briggs, RA Fortey, MA Wills Science 256 (5064), 1670-1673, 1992 | 256 | 1992 |
| Quality of the fossil record through time MJ Benton, MA Wills, R Hitchin Nature 403 (6769), 534-537, 2000 | 235 | 2000 |
| The Cambrian evolutionary ‘explosion’: decoupling cladogenesis from morphological disparity RA Fortey, DEG Briggs, MA Wills Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 57 (1), 13-33, 1996 | 211 | 1996 |
| Pancrustacean phylogeny in the light of new phylogenomic data: support for Remipedia as the possible sister group of Hexapoda BM von Reumont, RA Jenner, MA Wills, E Dell’Ampio, G Pass, ... Molecular biology and evolution 29 (3), 1031-1045, 2012 | 209 | 2012 |
| A supertree approach to shorebird phylogeny GH Thomas, MA Wills, T Székely BMC Evolutionary Biology 4 (1), 1-18, 2004 | 167 | 2004 |
| The choice of model organisms in evo–devo RA Jenner, MA Wills Nature Reviews Genetics 8 (4), 311-314, 2007 | 148 | 2007 |
| Clades reach highest morphological disparity early in their evolution M Hughes, S Gerber, MA Wills Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (34), 13875-13879, 2013 | 146 | 2013 |
| An arthropod phylogeny based on fossil and recent taxa MA Wills, DEG Briggs, RA Fortey, M Wilkinson, PHA Sneath Arthropod fossils and phylogeny. Columbia University Press, New York, 33-105, 1998 | 137 | 1998 |
| Cambrian and recent disparity: the picture from priapulids MA Wills Paleobiology, 177-199, 1998 | 131 | 1998 |
| Congruence between phylogeny and stratigraphy: randomization tests and the gap excess ratio MA Wills Systematic Biology 48 (3), 559-580, 1999 | 125 | 1999 |
| The Cambrian evolutionary ‘explosion’recalibrated RA Fortey, DEG Briggs, MA Wills BioEssays 19 (5), 429-434, 1997 | 120 | 1997 |
| Adaptation limits diversification of experimental bacterial populations A Buckling, MA Wills, N Colegrave Science 302 (5653), 2107-2109, 2003 | 119 | 2003 |
| A phylogeny of recent and fossil Crustacea derived from morphological characters MA Wills Arthropod relationships, 189-209, 1998 | 103 | 1998 |
| Evolutionary paleobiology DH Erwin, JH Lipps | 101 | 1996 |
| Fossils impact as hard as living taxa in parsimony analyses of morphology A Cobbett, M Wilkinson, MA Wills Systematic Biology 56 (5), 753-766, 2007 | 100 | 2007 |
| Crustacean disparity through the Phanerozoic: comparing morphological and stratigraphic data MA Wills Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 65 (4), 455-500, 1998 | 94 | 1998 |
| The significance of fossils in understanding arthropod evolution MA Wills, DEG Briggs, RA Fortey, M Wilkinson VERHANDLUNGEN-DEUTSCHEN ZOOLOGISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT 88, 203-216, 1995 | 94 | 1995 |
| The ties linking rock and fossil records and why they are important for palaeobiodiversity studies AB Smith, AJ McGowan Geological Society, London, Special Publications 358 (1), 1-7, 2011 | 84* | 2011 |
| Cambrian and Recent morphological disparity M Foote, SJ Gould, MSY Lee, DEG Briggs, RA Fortey, MA Wills Science, 1816-1818, 1992 | 84 | 1992 |
