| Morphological phylogenetics in the genomic age MSY Lee, A Palci Current Biology 25 (19), R922-R929, 2015 | 200 | 2015 |
| The origin of squamates revealed by a Middle Triassic lizard from the Italian Alps TR Simoes, MW Caldwell, M Tałanda, M Bernardi, A Palci, O Vernygora, ... Nature 557 (7707), 706-709, 2018 | 181 | 2018 |
| The oldest known snakes from the Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous provide insights on snake evolution MW Caldwell, RL Nydam, A Palci, S Apesteguía Nature communications 6 (1), 5996, 2015 | 152 | 2015 |
| Diversification rates and phenotypic evolution in venomous snakes (Elapidae) MSY Lee, KL Sanders, B King, A Palci Royal Society open science 3 (1), 150277, 2016 | 133 | 2016 |
| Giant taxon‐character matrices: quality of character constructions remains critical regardless of size TR Simões, MW Caldwell, A Palci, RL Nydam Cladistics 33 (2), 198-219, 2017 | 97 | 2017 |
| A new basal mosasauroid from the Cenomanian (U. Cretaceous) of Slovenia with a review of mosasauroid phylogeny and evolution MW Caldwell, A Palci Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (4), 863-880, 2007 | 80 | 2007 |
| A new genus and subfamily of mosasaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of northern Italy A Palci, MW Caldwell, CA Papazzoni Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (3), 599-612, 2013 | 66 | 2013 |
| Geometric morphometrics, homology and cladistics: review and recommendations A Palci, MSY Lee Cladistics 35 (2), 230-242, 2019 | 56 | 2019 |
| A mid-Cretaceous embryonic-to-neonate snake in amber from Myanmar L Xing, MW Caldwell, R Chen, RL Nydam, A Palci, TR Simões, ... Science Advances 4 (7), eaat5042, 2018 | 56 | 2018 |
| Vestigial forelimbs and axial elongation in a 95 million-year-old non-snake squamate A Palci, MW Caldwell Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (1), 1-7, 2007 | 55 | 2007 |
| New skulls and skeletons of the Cretaceous legged snake Najash, and the evolution of the modern snake body plan FF Garberoglio, S Apesteguía, TR Simões, A Palci, RO Gómez, ... Science advances 5 (11), eaax5833, 2019 | 46 | 2019 |
| The morphology of the inner ear of squamate reptiles and its bearing on the origin of snakes A Palci, MN Hutchinson, MW Caldwell, MSY Lee Royal Society open science 4 (8), 170685, 2017 | 44 | 2017 |
| Patterns of postnatal ontogeny of the skull and lower jaw of snakes as revealed by micro‐CT scan data and three‐dimensional geometric morphometrics A Palci, MSY Lee, MN Hutchinson Journal of anatomy 229 (6), 723-754, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
| Aquatic adaptations in the four limbs of the snake-like reptile Tetrapodophis from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil MSY Lee, A Palci, MEH Jones, MW Caldwell, JD Holmes, RR Reisz Cretaceous Research 66, 194-199, 2016 | 32 | 2016 |
| Redescription of Acteosaurus tommasinii von Meyer, 1860, and a discussion of evolutionary trends within the clade Ophidiomorpha A Palci, MW Caldwell Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 (1), 94-108, 2010 | 32 | 2010 |
| Primary homologies of the circumorbital bones of snakes A Palci, MW Caldwell Journal of Morphology 274 (9), 973-986, 2013 | 30 | 2013 |
| Emended diagnosis and phylogenetic relationships of the Upper Cretaceous fossil snake Najash rionegrina Apesteguía and Zaher, 2006 A Palci, MW Caldwell, AM Albino Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (1), 131-140, 2013 | 30 | 2013 |
| Heterochronic shifts mediate ecomorphological convergence in skull shape of microcephalic sea snakes E Sherratt, KL Sanders, A Watson, MN Hutchinson, MSY Lee, A Palci Integrative and comparative biology 59 (3), 616-624, 2019 | 29 | 2019 |
| Reevaluation of the anatomy of the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) hind-limbed marine fossil snakes Pachyrhachis, Haasiophis, and Eupodophis A Palci, MW Caldwell, RL Nydam Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (6), 1328-1342, 2013 | 29 | 2013 |
| A new species of longirostrine plioplatecarpine mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco, with a re-evaluation of the problematic taxon … CRC Strong, MW Caldwell, T Konishi, A Palci Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 18 (21), 1769-1804, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
