| Rates of dinosaur body mass evolution indicate 170 million years of sustained ecological innovation on the avian stem lineage RBJ Benson, NE Campione, MT Carrano, PD Mannion, C Sullivan, ... PLoS Biology 12 (5), e1001853, 2014 | 482 | 2014 |
| The phylogeny of tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda) MT Carrano, RBJ Benson, SD Sampson Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10 (2), 211-300, 2012 | 420 | 2012 |
| The latitudinal biodiversity gradient through deep time PD Mannion, P Upchurch, RBJ Benson, A Goswami Trends in ecology & evolution 29 (1), 42-50, 2014 | 345 | 2014 |
| Faunal turnover of marine reptiles during the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition RBJ Benson, P Druckenmiller Biological Reviews, 2013 | 265* | 2013 |
| A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) E Tschopp, O Mateus, RBJ Benson PeerJ 3, e857, 2015 | 229 | 2015 |
| A new clade of archaic large-bodied predatory dinosaurs (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) that survived to the latest Mesozoic RBJ Benson, MT Carrano, SL Brusatte Naturwissenschaften 97, 71-78, 2010 | 224 | 2010 |
| Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses HF Ketchum, RBJ Benson Biological Reviews 85 (2), 361-392, 2010 | 213 | 2010 |
| Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates RBJ Benson, RJ Butler, J Lindgren, AS Smith Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1683), 829-834, 2010 | 212 | 2010 |
| A description of Megalosaurus bucklandii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Bathonian of the UK and the relationships of Middle Jurassic theropods RBJ Benson Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (4), 882-935, 2010 | 209 | 2010 |
| Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians PD Mannion, RBJ Benson, MT Carrano, JP Tennant, J Judd, RJ Butler Nature communications 6 (1), 8438, 2015 | 177 | 2015 |
| Air‐filled postcranial bones in theropod dinosaurs: physiological implications and the ‘reptile’–bird transition RBJ Benson, RJ Butler, MT Carrano, PM O'Connor Biological Reviews 87 (1), 168-193, 2012 | 177 | 2012 |
| Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution RBJ Benson, G Hunt, MT Carrano, N Campione Palaeontology 61 (1), 13-48, 2018 | 173 | 2018 |
| Open data and digital morphology TG Davies, IA Rahman, S Lautenschlager, JA Cunningham, RJ Asher, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1852), 20170194, 2017 | 167 | 2017 |
| Rise of dinosaurs reveals major body-size transitions are driven by passive processes of trait evolution RB Sookias, RJ Butler, RBJ Benson Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1736), 2180-2187, 2012 | 160 | 2012 |
| High diversity, low disparity and small body size in plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic boundary RBJ Benson, M Evans, PS Druckenmiller PLoS One 7 (3), e31838, 2012 | 158 | 2012 |
| Extinction of fish-shaped marine reptiles associated with reduced evolutionary rates and global environmental volatility V Fischer, N Bardet, RBJ Benson, MS Arkhangelsky, M Friedman Nature communications 7 (1), 10825, 2016 | 155 | 2016 |
| The osteology of Neovenator salerii (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Wealden group (Barremian) of the Isle of Wight SL Brusatte, RBJ Benson, S Hutt Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 162 (631), 1-75, 2008 | 148 | 2008 |
| Evidence for a mid-Jurassic adaptive radiation in mammals RA Close, M Friedman, GT Lloyd, RBJ Benson Current Biology 25 (16), 2137-2142, 2015 | 138 | 2015 |
| Uncovering the diversification history of marine tetrapods: ecology influences the effect of geological sampling biases RBJ Benson, RJ Butler Geological Society, London, Special Publications 358 (1), 191-208, 2011 | 134 | 2011 |
| Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the ‘common cause’hypothesis in the terrestrial realm RJ Butler, RBJ Benson, MT Carrano, PD Mannion, P Upchurch Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1709), 1165-1170, 2011 | 132 | 2011 |