| The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling WC Wheeler, JA Coddington, LM Crowley, D Dimitrov, PA Goloboff, ... Cladistics 33 (6), 574-616, 2017 | 524 | 2017 |
| The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae) MJ Ramírez Bulletin of the american Museum of Natural History 2014 (390), 1-374, 2014 | 389 | 2014 |
| Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny CE Griswold, MJ Ramirez, JA Coddington, NI Platnick | 315 | 2005 |
| Finding our way through phenotypes AR Deans, SE Lewis, E Huala, SS Anzaldo, M Ashburner, JP Balhoff, ... PLoS biology 13 (1), e1002033, 2015 | 236 | 2015 |
| The spider subfamily Amaurobioidinae (Araneae, Anyphaenidae): a phylogenetic revision at the generic level MJ Ramírez Bulletin of the American Museum of natural History 2003 (277), 1-262, 2003 | 162* | 2003 |
| When the cure kills—CBD limits biodiversity research KD Prathapan, R Pethiyagoda, KS Bawa, PH Raven, PD Rajan, ... Science 360 (6396), 1405-1406, 2018 | 153 | 2018 |
| Phylogeny of entelegyne spiders: affinities of the family Penestomidae (new rank), generic phylogeny of Eresidae, and asymmetric rates of change in spinning organ evolution … JA Miller, A Carmichael, MJ Ramírez, JC Spagna, CR Haddad, M Řezáč, ... Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55 (3), 786-804, 2010 | 137 | 2010 |
| Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences LMP Ceríaco, EE Gutiérrez, A Dubois, M Carr Zootaxa 4196 (3), 435-445, 2016 | 120 | 2016 |
| Respiratory system morphology and the phylogeny of haplogyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae) MJ Ramírez The Journal of Arachnology 28 (2), 149-157, 2000 | 114 | 2000 |
| The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic ILF Magalhaes, GHF Azevedo, P Michalik, MJ Ramírez Biological Reviews 95 (1), 184-217, 2020 | 102 | 2020 |
| Phylogenomic reclassification of the world’s most venomous spiders (Mygalomorphae, Atracinae), with implications for venom evolution M Hedin, S Derkarabetian, MJ Ramírez, C Vink, JE Bond Scientific reports 8 (1), 1636, 2018 | 100 | 2018 |
| Hunting the wolf: a molecular phylogeny of the wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) LN Piacentini, MJ Ramírez Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 136, 227-240, 2019 | 93 | 2019 |
| Evolutionary morphology of the male reproductive system, spermatozoa and seminal fluid of spiders (Araneae, Arachnida)–Current knowledge and future directions P Michalik, MJ Ramírez Arthropod Structure & Development 43 (4), 291-322, 2014 | 92 | 2014 |
| Phylogenomic analysis and revised classification of atypoid mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae), with notes on arachnid ultraconserved element loci M Hedin, S Derkarabetian, A Alfaro, MJ Ramírez, JE Bond PeerJ 7, e6864, 2019 | 88 | 2019 |
| Linking of digital images to phylogenetic data matrices using a morphological ontology MJ RAMirez, JA Coddington, WP Maddison, PE Midford, L Prendini, ... Systematic Biology 56 (2), 283-294, 2007 | 83 | 2007 |
| Homology as a parsimony problem: a dynamic homology approach for morphological data MJ Ramírez Cladistics 23 (6), 588-612, 2007 | 72 | 2007 |
| Tarsal organ morphology and the phylogeny of goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae), with notes on basal genera NI Platnick, N Abrahim, F Álvarez-Padilla, D Andriamalala, BC Baehr, ... American Museum Novitates 2012 (3736), 1-52, 2012 | 69 | 2012 |
| Andean uplift drives diversification of the bothriurid scorpion genus Brachistosternus FS Ceccarelli, AA Ojanguren‐Affilastro, MJ Ramírez, JA Ochoa, CI Mattoni, ... Journal of Biogeography 43 (10), 1942-1954, 2016 | 65 | 2016 |
| Further problems with the incongruence length difference test:“hypercongruence” effect and multiple comparisons MJ Ramírez Cladistics 22 (3), 289-295, 2006 | 62 | 2006 |
| A review of the spider family Filistatidae in Argentina (Arachnida, Araneae), with a cladistic reanalysis of filistatid genera MJ Ramírez, CJ Grismado Insect Systematics & Evolution 28 (3), 319-349, 1997 | 61 | 1997 |