| Family Tyrannidae (tyrant-flycatchers) JW Fitzpatrick, JM Bates, KS Bostwick, IC Caballero, BM Clock, ... Handbook of the birds of the world 9, 170-462, 2004 | 332 | 2004 |
| Specimen collection: An essential tool LA Rocha, A Aleixo, G Allen, F Almeda, CC Baldwin, MVL Barclay, ... Science 344 (6186), 814-815, 2014 | 314 | 2014 |
| Transitory states in relaxing ecosystems of land bridge islands J Terborgh, L Lopez, J Tello, D Yu, AR Bruni Tropical forest remnants: ecology, management, and conservation of …, 1997 | 202 | 1997 |
| A phylogenetic approach to disentangling the role of competition and habitat filtering in community assembly of Neotropical forest birds JP Gomez, GA Bravo, RT Brumfield, JG Tello, CD Cadena Journal of animal ecology 79 (6), 1181-1192, 2010 | 200 | 2010 |
| Phylogeny and phylogenetic classification of the tyrant flycatchers, cotingas, manakins, and their allies (Aves: Tyrannides) JG Tello, RG Moyle, DJ Marchese, J Cracraft Cladistics 25 (5), 429-467, 2009 | 163 | 2009 |
| Phylogenetic conservatism and antiquity of a tropical specialization: army-ant-following in the typical antbirds (Thamnophilidae) RT Brumfield, JG Tello, ZA Cheviron, MD Carling, N Crochet, ... Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 45 (1), 1-13, 2007 | 149 | 2007 |
| Bird communities in transition: the Lago Guri islands J Terborgh, L Lopez, J Tello S Ecology 78 (5), 1494-1501, 1997 | 131 | 1997 |
| Phylogeny and phylogenetic classification of the antbirds, ovenbirds, woodcreepers, and allies (Aves: Passeriformes: infraorder Furnariides) RG Moyle, RT Chesser, RT Brumfield, JG Tello, DJ Marchese, J Cracraft Cladistics 25 (4), 386-405, 2009 | 120 | 2009 |
| Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences LMP Ceríaco, EE Gutiérrez, A Dubois, M Carr Zootaxa 4196 (3), 435-445, 2016 | 116 | 2016 |
| Initial assessment of genetic diversity in ten bird species of South American Cerrado JM Bates, JG Tello, JMC Silva Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 38 (2), 87-94, 2003 | 55 | 2003 |
| Molecular phylogenetics of the tody-tyrant and flatbill assemblage of tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) JG Tello, JM Bates The Auk 124 (1), 134-154, 2007 | 49 | 2007 |
| Lekking behavior of the Round-tailed Manakin JG Tello The Condor 103 (2), 298-321, 2001 | 45 | 2001 |
| Frugivores at a fruiting Ficus in south-eastern Peru JG Tello Journal of Tropical Ecology 19 (6), 717-721, 2003 | 30 | 2003 |
| Reassessment of the systematics of the widespread Neotropical genus Cercomacra (Aves: Thamnophilidae) JG Tello, M Raposo, JM Bates, GA Bravo, CD Cadena, ... Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170 (3), 546-565, 2014 | 29 | 2014 |
| The avian biogeography of an Amazonian headwater: the Upper Ucayali River, Peru MG Harvey, GF Seeholzer, D Cáceres A, BM Winger, JG Tello, ... The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126 (2), 179-191, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| Diversification in the Neotropics: phylogenetic patterns and historical processes JM Bates, CD Cadena, JG Tello, RT Brumfield Ornitologia Neotropical 19 (Suppl.), 427-432, 2008 | 18 | 2008 |
| First description of a tent used by Platyrrhinus helleri (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) JG Tello, PM Velazco Acta Chiropterologica 5 (2), 269-276, 2003 | 18 | 2003 |
| A new species of hanging-parrot (Aves: Psittacidae: Loriculus) from Camiguin Island, Philippines JG Tello, JF Degner, JM Bates, DE Willard Fieldiana Zoology 2006 (106), 49-57, 2006 | 15 | 2006 |
| Avifauna del Río Manupare y Cráter Iturralde, un bosque amazónico en el departamento de La Paz, Bolivia O Maillard, JM Bates, JG Tello, MA Aponte Ornitologia Neotropical 18, 519-534, 2007 | 8 | 2007 |
| Patterns of morphological and molecular variation in Acrocephalus newtoni on Madagascar S Goodman, J Tello, O Langrand Ostrich 71 (3-4), 367-370, 2000 | 5 | 2000 |
