| Faunae and stratigraphy of Jurassic-Cretaceous in Beijing and the adjacent areas D Ren, LW Lu, ZG Guo, SA Ji Geological Publishing House, Beijing 8 (1), 222, 1995 | 315 | 1995 |
| A probable pollination mode before angiosperms: Eurasian, long-proboscid scorpionflies D Ren, CC Labandeira, JA Santiago-Blay, A Rasnitsyn, CK Shih, ... Science 326 (5954), 840-847, 2009 | 294 | 2009 |
| The distribution of integumentary structures in a feathered dinosaur Q Ji, MA Norell, KQ Gao, SA Ji, D Ren Nature 410 (6832), 1084-1088, 2001 | 241 | 2001 |
| Flower-associated Brachycera flies as fossil evidence for Jurassic angiosperm origins D Ren Science 280 (5360), 85-88, 1998 | 236 | 1998 |
| Stratigraphic division of the Jurassic in the Daohugou area, Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia D Ren, KQ Gao, ZG Guo, SA Ji, JJ Tan, Z Song Geological bulletin of China 21 (8-9), 584-591, 2002 | 219 | 2002 |
| Silent stories: insect fossil treasures from Dinosaur Era of the Northeastern China D Ren, CK Shih (No Title), 2010 | 191 | 2010 |
| XXXVI.—Fossil arthropods in the British Museum.—I TDA Cockerell Annals and magazine of Natural History 5 (27), 273-279, 1920 | 187* | 1920 |
| Wing stridulation in a Jurassic katydid (Insecta, Orthoptera) produced low-pitched musical calls to attract females JJ Gu, F Montealegre-Z, D Robert, MS Engel, GX Qiao, D Ren Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (10), 3868-3873, 2012 | 139 | 2012 |
| A paleobiologic perspective on plant–insect interactions CC Labandeira Current Opinion in Plant Biology 16 (4), 414-421, 2013 | 118 | 2013 |
| A remarkable new family of Jurassic insects (Neuroptera) with primitive wing venation and its phylogenetic position in Neuropterida Q Yang, VN Makarkin, SL Winterton, AV Khramov, D Ren Public Library of Science 7 (9), e44762, 2012 | 110 | 2012 |
| On the new fossil genera and species of Neuroptera (Insecta) from the Late Jurassic of northeast China RENDG ZI-GUANG Acta Zootax. Sin 22 (4), 461-479, 1996 | 109 | 1996 |
| Ancient pinnate leaf mimesis among lacewings Y Wang, Z Liu, X Wang, C Shih, Y Zhao, MS Engel, D Ren Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (37), 16212-16215, 2010 | 107 | 2010 |
| Jurassic mimicry between a hangingfly and a ginkgo from China Y Wang, CC Labandeira, C Shih, Q Ding, C Wang, Y Zhao, D Ren Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (50), 20514-20519, 2012 | 100 | 2012 |
| The age of the Yixian stage and the boundary of Jurassic-Cretaceous-the establishment and study of stratotypes of the Yixian stages WL Wang, LJ Zhang, SL Zheng, D Ren, YJ Zheng, QH Ding, H Zhang, ... Geological Review 51 (3), 234-242, 2005 | 97 | 2005 |
| The evolutionary convergence of mid-Mesozoic lacewings and Cenozoic butterflies CC Labandeira, Q Yang, JA Santiago-Blay, CL Hotton, A Monteiro, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283 (1824), 20152893, 2016 | 94 | 2016 |
| Rhythms of insect evolution: evidence from the Jurassic and Cretaceous in northern China D Ren, C Shih, T Gao, Y Wang, Y Yao John Wiley & Sons, 2019 | 90 | 2019 |
| Extinct and extant rove beetles meet in the matrix: Early Cretaceous fossils shed light on the evolution of a hyperdiverse insect lineage (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Staphylininae) A Solodovnikov, Y Yue, S Tarasov, D Ren Cladistics 29 (4), 360-403, 2013 | 85 | 2013 |
| Mid-Mesozoic flea-like ectoparasites of feathered or haired vertebrates T Gao, C Shih, X Xu, S Wang, D Ren Current biology 22 (8), 732-735, 2012 | 84 | 2012 |
| At last, a Pennsylvanian stem-stonefly (Plecoptera) discovered O Béthoux, Y Cui, B Kondratieff, B Stark, D Ren BMC evolutionary Biology 11, 1-12, 2011 | 82 | 2011 |
| An updated review of the Middle‐Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota: Chronology, taphonomy, paleontology and paleoecology X Xu, Z Zhou, C Sullivan, Y Wang, D Ren Acta Geologica Sinica‐English Edition 90 (6), 2229-2243, 2016 | 76 | 2016 |
