| Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates J Alroy, M Aberhan, DJ Bottjer, M Foote, FT Fürsich, PJ Harries, ... Science 321 (5885), 97-100, 2008 | 810 | 2008 |
| Extinctions in ancient and modern seas PG Harnik, HK Lotze, SC Anderson, ZV Finkel, S Finnegan, DR Lindberg, ... Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2012 | 299 | 2012 |
| On the potential for ocean acidification to be a general cause of ancient reef crises W Kiessling, C Simpson Global Change Biology 17 (1), 56-67, 2011 | 262 | 2011 |
| Long-term differences in extinction risk among the seven forms of rarity PG Harnik, C Simpson, JL Payne Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1749), 4969-4976, 2012 | 235 | 2012 |
| Reefs as cradles of evolution and sources of biodiversity in the Phanerozoic W Kiessling, C Simpson, M Foote Science 327 (5962), 196-198, 2010 | 203 | 2010 |
| Paleontological baselines for evaluating extinction risk in the modern oceans S Finnegan, SC Anderson, PG Harnik, C Simpson, DP Tittensor, ... Science 348 (6234), 567-570, 2015 | 158 | 2015 |
| Equatorial decline of reef corals during the last Pleistocene interglacial W Kiessling, C Simpson, B Beck, H Mewis, JM Pandolfi Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (52), 21378-21383, 2012 | 116 | 2012 |
| The evolutionary history of division of labour C Simpson Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1726), 116-121, 2012 | 93 | 2012 |
| Evolutionary diversification of reef corals: a comparison of the molecular and fossil records C Simpson, W Kiessling, H Mewis, RC Baron‐Szabo, J Müller Evolution 65 (11), 3274-3284, 2011 | 87 | 2011 |
| The miscellaneous transitions in evolution DW McShea, C Simpson | 64* | 2011 |
| A simple method for estimating informative node age priors for the fossil calibration of molecular divergence time analyses MD Nowak, AB Smith, C Simpson, DJ Zwickl PLoS One 8 (6), e66245, 2013 | 59 | 2013 |
| Assessing the role of abundance in marine bivalve extinction over the post-Paleozoic C Simpson, PG Harnik Paleobiology 35 (4), 2009 | 50 | 2009 |
| Differential niche dynamics among major marine invertebrate clades MJ Hopkins, C Simpson, W Kiessling Ecology letters 17 (3), 314-323, 2014 | 48 | 2014 |
| Species Selection and the Macroevolution of Coral Coloniality and Photosymbiosis C Simpson Evolution 67 (6), 1607-1621, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| How many levels are there? How insights from evolutionary transitions in individuality help measure the hierarchical complexity of life C Simpson The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited, 199 - 226, 2011 | 40 | 2011 |
| Marine extinction risk shaped by trait–environment interactions over 500 million years EA Orzechowski, R Lockwood, JEK Byrnes, SC Anderson, S Finnegan, ... Global Change Biology 21 (10), 3595-3607, 2015 | 37 | 2015 |
| Coloniality, clonality, and modularity in animals: The elephant in the room LS Hiebert, C Simpson, S Tiozzo Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental …, 2021 | 36 | 2021 |
| Species selection and driven mechanisms jointly generate a large-scale morphological trend in monobathrid crinoids C Simpson Paleobiology 36 (3), 481-496, 2010 | 32 | 2010 |
| Evolutionary determinants of morphological polymorphism in colonial animals C Simpson, JBC Jackson, A Herrera-Cubilla The American Naturalist 190 (1), 17-28, 2017 | 30 | 2017 |
| How similar are branching networks in nature? A view from the ocean: Caribbean gorgonian corals JA SANCHEZ, HR LASKER, Z WEI, VR COLUCI, C SIMPSON Journal Of Theoretical Biology 222, 135-138, 2003 | 24 | 2003 |
