| Microfossils of the Early Archean Apex chert: new evidence of the antiquity of life JW Schopf Science 260 (5108), 640-646, 1993 | 1859 | 1993 |
| Early Archean (3.3-billion to 3.5-billion-year-old) microfossils from Warrawoona Group, Australia JW Schopf, BM Packer Science 237 (4810), 70-73, 1987 | 885 | 1987 |
| Earth's earliest biosphere: its origin and evolution JW Schopf Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, USA, 1983 | 772 | 1983 |
| Microflora of the Bitter Springs formation, late Precambrian, central Australia JW Schopf Journal of Paleontology, 651-688, 1968 | 734 | 1968 |
| Laser–Raman imagery of Earth's earliest fossils JW Schopf, AB Kudryavtsev, DG Agresti, TJ Wdowiak, AD Czaja Nature 416 (6876), 73-76, 2002 | 733 | 2002 |
| Fossil evidence of Archaean life JW Schopf Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 361 …, 2006 | 633 | 2006 |
| Cradle of life: The discovery of Earth's earliest fossils JW Schopf Princeton University Press, 1999 | 455 | 1999 |
| Evidence of Archean life: stromatolites and microfossils JW Schopf, AB Kudryavtsev, AD Czaja, AB Tripathi Precambrian Research 158 (3-4), 141-155, 2007 | 427 | 2007 |
| The Proterozoic biosphere: a multidisciplinary study JW Schopf, C Klein Cambridge University Press, 1992 | 427 | 1992 |
| Filamentous fossil bacteria from the Archean of Western Australia SM Awramik, JW Schopf, MR Walter Developments in Precambrian Geology 7, 249-266, 1983 | 422 | 1983 |
| Genome of the long-living sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) R Ming, R VanBuren, Y Liu, M Yang, Y Han, LT Li, Q Zhang, MJ Kim, ... Genome biology 14, 1-11, 2013 | 376 | 2013 |
| The fossil record: tracing the roots of the cyanobacterial lineage JW Schopf The ecology of cyanobacteria: their diversity in time and space, 13-35, 2002 | 355 | 2002 |
| Archean microfossils: new evidence of ancient microbes JW Schopf Earth's earliest biosphere, its origin and evolution, 214-239, 1983 | 353 | 1983 |
| New microorganisms from the Bitter Springs Formation (late Precambrian) of the north-central Amadeus Basin, Australia JW Schopf, JM Blacic Journal of Paleontology, 925-960, 1971 | 317 | 1971 |
| Microorganisms three billion years old from the Precambrian of South Africa ES Barghoorn, JW Schopf Science 152 (3723), 758-763, 1966 | 316 | 1966 |
| Exceptional seed longevity and robust growth: ancient sacred lotus from China J Shen‐Miller, MB Mudgett, JW Schopf, S Clarke, R Berger American Journal of Botany 82 (11), 1367-1380, 1995 | 295 | 1995 |
| Morphological biosignatures and the search for life on Mars SL Cady, JD Farmer, JP Grotzinger, JW Schopf, A Steele Astrobiology 3 (2), 351-368, 2003 | 280 | 2003 |
| Environmental evolution of the Archean-early Proterozoic Earth JCG Walker, C Klein, M Schidlowski, JW Schopf, DJ Stevenson, ... IN: Earth's earliest biosphere: Its origin and evolution (A84-43051 21-51 …, 1983 | 266 | 1983 |
| Precambrian paleobiology: problems and perspectives JW Schopf Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 (1), 213-249, 1975 | 258 | 1975 |
| The evolution of the earliest cells JW Schopf Scientific American 239 (3), 110-139, 1978 | 257 | 1978 |
