| The origin and early evolution of plants on land P Kenrick, PR Crane Nature 389 (6646), 33-39, 1997 | 1605 | 1997 |
| The origin and early diversification of land plants: a cladistic study P Kenrick, PR Crane (No Title), 1997 | 1125 | 1997 |
| The origin and early diversification of angiosperms PR Crane, EM Friis, KR Pedersen Nature 374 (6517), 27-33, 1995 | 894 | 1995 |
| Mapping tree density at a global scale TW Crowther, HB Glick, KR Covey, C Bettigole, DS Maynard, SM Thomas, ... Nature 525 (7568), 201-205, 2015 | 888 | 2015 |
| Phylogenetic analysis of seed plants and the origin of angiosperms PR Crane Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 716-793, 1985 | 735 | 1985 |
| Early flowers and angiosperm evolution EM Friis, PR Crane, KR Pedersen Cambridge University Press, 2011 | 713 | 2011 |
| The convention on biological diversity's 2010 target A Balmford, L Bennun, B Ten Brink, D Cooper, IM Côté, P Crane, ... Science 307 (5707), 212-213, 2005 | 615 | 2005 |
| Early evolution of land plants: phylogeny, physiology, and ecology of the primary terrestrial radiation RM Bateman, PR Crane, WA DiMichele, PR Kenrick, NP Rowe, T Speck, ... Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29 (1), 263-292, 1998 | 419 | 1998 |
| Cretaceous angiosperm flowers: innovation and evolution in plant reproduction EM Friis, KR Pedersen, PR Crane Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology 232 (2-4), 251-293, 2006 | 417 | 2006 |
| Phylogenetic pattern, diversity, and diversification of eudicots S Magallon, PR Crane, PS Herendeen Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 297-372, 1999 | 399 | 1999 |
| Angiosperm diversification and paleolatitudinal gradients in Cretaceous floristic diversity PR Crane, S Lidgard Science 246 (4930), 675-678, 1989 | 382 | 1989 |
| The 2010 challenge: data availability, information needs and extraterrestrial insights A Balmford, P Crane, A Dobson, RE Green, GM Mace Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 360 …, 2005 | 323 | 2005 |
| Hemisphere-scale differences in conifer evolutionary dynamics AB Leslie, JM Beaulieu, HS Rai, PR Crane, MJ Donoghue, S Mathews Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (40), 16217-16221, 2012 | 315 | 2012 |
| Rate heterogeneity among lineages of tracheophytes: integration of molecular and fossil data and evidence for molecular living fossils PS Soltis, DE Soltis, V Savolainen, PR Crane, TG Barraclough Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (7), 4430-4435, 2002 | 281 | 2002 |
| Archaenthus: an early angiosperm from the cenomanian of the western interior of North America DL Dilcher, PR Crane Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 351-383, 1984 | 269 | 1984 |
| Phylogeny of basal eudicots based on three molecular data sets: atpB, rbcL, and 18S nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences SB Hoot, S Magallon, PR Crane Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1-32, 1999 | 258 | 1999 |
| Fossil evidence of water lilies (Nymphaeales) in the Early Cretaceous EM Friis, KR Pedersen, PR Crane Nature 410 (6826), 357-360, 2001 | 247 | 2001 |
| Early angiosperm diversification: the diversity of pollen associated with angiosperm reproductive structures in Early Cretaceous floras from Portugal EM Friis, KR Pedersen, PR Crane Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 259-296, 1999 | 233 | 1999 |
| Quantitative analyses of the early angiosperm radiation S Lidgard, PR Crane Nature 331 (6154), 344-346, 1988 | 221 | 1988 |
| Angiosperm diversification and Cretaceous floristic trends: a comparison of palynofloras and leaf macrofloras S Lidgard, PR Crane Paleobiology 16 (1), 77-93, 1990 | 218 | 1990 |
