| Encyclopedia of marine mammals WF Perrin, B Würsig, JGM Thewissen Academic Press, 2009 | 1395 | 2009 |
| Skeletons of terrestrial cetaceans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyls JGM Thewissen, EM Williams, LJ Roe, ST Hussain Nature 413 (6853), 277-281, 2001 | 409 | 2001 |
| Whales originated from aquatic artiodactyls in the Eocene epoch of India JGM Thewissen, LN Cooper, MT Clementz, S Bajpai, BN Tiwari Nature 450 (7173), 1190-1194, 2007 | 395 | 2007 |
| Vestibular evidence for the evolution of aquatic behaviour in early cetaceans F Spoor, S Bajpai, ST Hussain, K Kumar, JGM Thewissen Nature 417 (6885), 163-166, 2002 | 258 | 2002 |
| Fossil evidence for the origin of aquatic locomotion in archaeocete whales JGM Thewissen, ST Hussain, M Arif Science 263 (5144), 210-212, 1994 | 258 | 1994 |
| From land to water: the origin of whales, dolphins, and porpoises JGM Thewissen, LN Cooper, JC George, S Bajpai Evolution: Education and Outreach 2, 272-288, 2009 | 214 | 2009 |
| Morphoregulation of teeth: modulating the number, size, shape and differentiation by tuning Bmp activity MV Plikus, M Zeichner‐David, JA Mayer, J Reyna, P Bringas, ... Evolution & development 7 (5), 440-457, 2005 | 211 | 2005 |
| Developmental basis for hind-limb loss in dolphins and origin of the cetacean bodyplan JGM Thewissen, MJ Cohn, LS Stevens, S Bajpai, J Heyning, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (22), 8414-8418, 2006 | 181 | 2006 |
| Ambulocetus natans, an Eocene cetacean (Mammalia) from Pakistan JGM Thewissen, SI Madar, ST Hussain Senckenbergische Naturforschende Ges. 190, 1-86, 1996 | 162 | 1996 |
| Early Eocene warming events and the timing of terrestrial faunal exchange between India and Asia M Clementz, S Bajpai, V Ravikant, JGM Thewissen, N Saravanan, ... Geology 39 (1), 15-18, 2011 | 153 | 2011 |
| Sound transmission in archaic and modern whales: anatomical adaptations for underwater hearing S Nummela, JGM Thewissen, S Bajpai, T Hussain, K Kumar The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary …, 2007 | 151 | 2007 |
| Evolution of Paleocene and Eocene Phenacodontidae (Mammalia, Condylarthra) JGM Thewissen Museum of Paleontology, the University of Michigan 29, 1-107, 1990 | 143 | 1990 |
| Locomotor evolution in the earliest cetaceans: functional model, modern analogues, and paleontological evidence JGM Thewissen, FE Fish Paleobiology 23 (4), 482-490, 1997 | 135 | 1997 |
| The early radiations of Cetacea (Mammalia): evolutionary pattern and developmental correlations JGM Thewissen, EM Williams Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33 (1), 73-90, 2002 | 132 | 2002 |
| Cranial anatomy of Ignacius graybullianus and the affinities of the Plesiadapiformes RF Kay, JGM Thewissen, AD Yoder American Journal of Physical Anthropology 89 (4), 477-498, 1992 | 131 | 1992 |
| Eocene evolution of whale hearing S Nummela, JGM Thewissen, S Bajpai, ST Hussain, K Kumar Nature 430 (7001), 776-778, 2004 | 128 | 2004 |
| Aquatic adaptation and the evolution of smell and taste in whales T Kishida, JGM Thewissen, T Hayakawa, H Imai, K Agata Zoological Letters 1, 1-10, 2015 | 125 | 2015 |
| Sensory evolution on the threshold: adaptations in secondarily aquatic vertebrates JGMH Thewissen, S Nummela Univ of California Press, 2008 | 123 | 2008 |
| A retroposon analysis of Afrotherian phylogeny H Nishihara, Y Satta, M Nikaido, JGM Thewissen, MJ Stanhope, N Okada Molecular biology and evolution 22 (9), 1823-1833, 2005 | 120 | 2005 |
| The emergence of whales: evolutionary patterns in the origin of Cetacea JGM Thewissen Springer Science & Business Media, 2013 | 119 | 2013 |