| Homo cepranensis sp. nov. and the evolution of African-European Middle Pleistocene hominids F Mallegni, E Carnieri, M Bisconti, G Tartarelli, S Ricci, I Biddittu, A Segre Comptes Rendus Palevol 2 (2), 153-159, 2003 | 116 | 2003 |
| Biogeographic relationships of the Galapagos terrestrial biota: parsimony analyses of endemicity based on reptiles, land birds and Scalesia land plants Bisconti, Landini, Bianucci, Cantalamessa, Carnevale, Ragaini, Valleri Journal of Biogeography 28 (4), 495-510, 2001 | 77 | 2001 |
| Morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a new eschrichtiid genus (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Early Pliocene of northern Italy M Bisconti Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 153 (1), 161-186, 2008 | 65 | 2008 |
| Evolutionary history of Balaenidae M Bisconti Cranium 20 (1), 9-50, 2003 | 59 | 2003 |
| Trophic interaction between white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, and cetaceans: a comparison between Pliocene and recent data from central Mediterranean Sea G Bianucci, M Bisconti, W Landini, T Storai, M Zuffa, S Giuliani, A Mojetta 4th Europ. Elasm. Assoc. Meeting, Livorno, Italy, 33-48, 2000 | 57 | 2000 |
| Comparative osteology and phylogenetic relationships of Miocaperea pulchra, the first fossil pygmy right whale genus and species (Cetacea, Mysticeti … M Bisconti Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166 (4), 876-911, 2012 | 56 | 2012 |
| A new basal balaenopterid whale from the Pliocene of northern Italy M Bisconti Palaeontology 50 (5), 1103-1122, 2007 | 54 | 2007 |
| The oldest eschrichtiid mysticete and a new morphological diagnosis of Eschrichtiidae (gray whales) M Bisconti, A Varola Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 112 (3), 447, 2006 | 51 | 2006 |
| Skull morphology and phylogenetic relationships of a new diminutive balaenid from the Lower Pliocene of Belgium M Bisconti Palaeontology 48 (4), 793-816, 2005 | 51 | 2005 |
| A new balaenopterid whale from the late Miocene of the Stirone River, northern Italy (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti) M Bisconti Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (3), 943-958, 2010 | 50 | 2010 |
| Taxonomic revision of Isocetus depauwi (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti) and the phylogenetic relationships of archaic ‘cetothere’ mysticetes M Bisconti, O Lambert, M Bosselaers Palaeontology 56 (1), 95-127, 2013 | 48 | 2013 |
| Anatomy of a new cetotheriid genus and species from the Miocene of Herentals, Belgium, and the phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographical relationships of Cetotheriidae ss … M Bisconti Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 13 (5), 377-395, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| Morphology and postnatal growth trajectory of rorqual petrosal M Bisconti Italian Journal of Zoology 68 (2), 87-93, 2001 | 45 | 2001 |
| Late Pliocene fossils of Ecuador and their role in the development of the Panamic bioprovince after the rising of Central American Isthmus W Landini, G Bianucci, G Carnevale, L Ragaini, C Sorbini, G Valleri, ... Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 39 (1), 27-41, 2002 | 42 | 2002 |
| New description of ‘Megaptera’hubachi Dathe, 1983 based on the holotype skeleton held in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin M Bisconti Quaderni del Museo di Storia Naturale di Livorno 23, 37-68, 2010 | 36 | 2010 |
| New description, character analysis and preliminary phyletic assessment of two Balaenidae skulls from the Italian Pliocene M Bisconti Palaeontographia Italica 87, 37-66, 2000 | 35 | 2000 |
| A new balaenopterid whale from the late Miocene of the Southern North Sea Basin and the evolution of balaenopterid diversity (Cetacea, Mysticeti) M Bisconti, DK Munsterman, K Post PeerJ 7, e6915, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| Animal resources and subsistence strategies F Alhaique, M Bisconti, E Castiglioni, C Cilli, L Fasani, G Giacobini, ... Collegium antropologicum 28 (1), 23-40, 2004 | 32 | 2004 |
| Fragilicetus velponi: a new mysticete genus and species and its implications for the origin of Balaenopteridae (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti) M Bisconti, M Bosselaers Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177 (2), 450-474, 2016 | 31 | 2016 |
| Titanocetus, a new baleen whale from the middle Miocene of northern Italy (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti) M Bisconti Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26 (2), 344-354, 2006 | 29 | 2006 |