| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Inferring evolutionary processes from phylogenies | Zoologica Scripta | 1997 | 962 |
| 2 | Cladistics and polychaetes | Zoologica Scripta | 1997 | 591 |
| 3 | Mecoptera is paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera | Zoologica Scripta | 2002 | 434 |
| 4 | Phylogenetics and evolution of Capitata (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa), and the systematics of Corynidae | Zoologica Scripta | 2010 | 271 |
| 5 | Polychaete systematics: Past and present | Zoologica Scripta | 1997 | 268 |
| 6 | Phylogeny and the evolution of acoustic communication in extant Ensifera (Insecta, Orthoptera) | Zoologica Scripta | 2003 | 230 |
| 7 | A new molecular phylogeny offers hope for a stable family level classification of the Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera) | Zoologica Scripta | 2011 | 220 |
| 8 | Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea | Zoologica Scripta | 1999 | 212 |
| 9 | Gastropod evolutionary rates and phylogenetic relationships assessed using partial 28S rDNA and histone H3 sequences | Zoologica Scripta | 2000 | 198 |
| 10 | The use of allozyme electrophoresis in invertebrate systematics | Zoologica Scripta | 1994 | 190 |
| 11 | New records, species, genera, and a new family of gastropods from hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps* | Zoologica Scripta | 1993 | 184 |
| 12 | Phylogeny of the Hymenoptera: A cladistic reanalysis of Rasnitsyn's (1988) data | Zoologica Scripta | 1999 | 182 |
| 13 | Broadcasting fables: Is external fertilization really primitive? Sex, size, and larvae in sabellid polychaetes | Zoologica Scripta | 1994 | 171 |
| 14 | The Nemertodermatida are basal bilaterians and not members of the Platyhelminthes | Zoologica Scripta | 2002 | 169 |
| 15 | The articulation of annelids | Zoologica Scripta | 1995 | 163 |
| 16 | Population thinking and tree thinking in systematics | Zoologica Scripta | 1997 | 162 |
| 17 | Phylogeny and evolution of wasps, ants and bees (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea, Vespoidea and Apoidea) | Zoologica Scripta | 1999 | 162 |
| 18 | Composition and preservation of the Chengjiang fauna -a Lower Cambrian soft-bodied biota | Zoologica Scripta | 1991 | 154 |
| 19 | A phylogenetic supertree of oscine passerine birds (Aves: Passeri) | Zoologica Scripta | 2006 | 148 |
| 20 | Phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders: molecular evidence | Zoologica Scripta | 2002 | 147 |
| 21 | Deciphering the products of evolution at the species level: the need for an integrative taxonomy | Zoologica Scripta | 2009 | 146 |
| 22 | A revision of the Macrobiotus hufelandi group (Tardigrada, Macrobiotidae), with some observations on the taxonomic characters of eutardigrades | Zoologica Scripta | 1993 | 143 |
| 23 | Out of the blue: a novel, trans‐Atlantic clade of geckos (Gekkota, Squamata) | Zoologica Scripta | 2008 | 142 |
| 24 | Cryptic polychaete diversity: a review | Zoologica Scripta | 2014 | 140 |
| 25 | Total evidence requires exclusion of phylogenetically misleading data | Zoologica Scripta | 2005 | 135 |
| 26 | Phylogenetic relationships of the globally distributed freshwater prawn genus Macrobrachium (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae): biogeography, taxonomy and the convergent evolution of abbreviated larval development | Zoologica Scripta | 2005 | 133 |
| 27 | Nuclear DNA from old collections of avian study skins reveals the evolutionary history of the Old World suboscines (Aves, Passeriformes) | Zoologica Scripta | 2006 | 129 |
| 28 | Eutherian mammals from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia | Zoologica Scripta | 1989 | 126 |
| 29 | A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of the Neuropterida (lace‐wings, alderflies and snakeflies) and their relationship to the other holometabolous insect orders | Zoologica Scripta | 2009 | 122 |
| 30 | The phylogenomic forest of bird trees contains a hard polytomy at the root of Neoaves | Zoologica Scripta | 2016 | 122 |
| 31 | Sophisticated falsification and research cycles: Consequences for differential character weighting in phylogenetic systematics | Zoologica Scripta | 1997 | 121 |
| 32 | Molecular phylogenetics of Vespoidea indicate paraphyly of the superfamily and novel relationships of its component families and subfamilies | Zoologica Scripta | 2008 | 120 |
| 33 | A molecular phylogeny of heterodont bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta): new analyses of 18S and 28S rRNA genes | Zoologica Scripta | 2007 | 119 |
| 34 | The Early Cambrian Halkieria is a mollusc | Zoologica Scripta | 2005 | 118 |
| 35 | A taxonomic reappraisal of the European Daphnia longispina complex (Crustacea, Cladocera, Anomopoda) | Zoologica Scripta | 2008 | 115 |
| 36 | 18S rDNA phylogeny of Clitellata (Annelida) | Zoologica Scripta | 2004 | 114 |
| 37 | Gastrotricha and metazoan phylogeny | Zoologica Scripta | 2003 | 112 |
| 38 | Phylogenetic analysis of the Balanidae (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha) | Zoologica Scripta | 2004 | 108 |
| 39 | Microanatomy of the radius and lifestyle in amniotes (Vertebrata, Tetrapoda) | Zoologica Scripta | 2005 | 108 |
| 40 | Ontogeny of the Molluscan Shell Field: a Review | Zoologica Scripta | 1981 | 106 |
| 41 | Structural alignment of 18S and 28S rDNA sequences provides insights into phylogeny of Phytophaga (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea and Chrysomeloidea) | Zoologica Scripta | 2009 | 103 |
| 42 | Phylogenetic approaches in coevolution and biogeography | Zoologica Scripta | 1997 | 100 |
| 43 | The phylogeny and limits of Elateridae (Insecta, Coleoptera): is there a common tendency of click beetles to soft‐bodiedness and neoteny? | Zoologica Scripta | 2011 | 98 |
| 44 | Phylogeny of nereidids (Polychaeta, Nereididae) with paragnaths | Zoologica Scripta | 2005 | 96 |
| 45 | Phylogeny of caddisflies (Insecta, Trichoptera) | Zoologica Scripta | 2002 | 95 |
| 46 | Impact of mountain chains, sea straits and peripheral populations on genetic and taxonomic structure of a freshwater turtle, Mauremys leprosa (Reptilia, Testudines, Geoemydidae) | Zoologica Scripta | 2006 | 95 |
| 47 | Molecular insights into the phylogenetic structure of the spider genus Theridion (Araneae, Theridiidae) and the origin of the Hawaiian Theridion-like fauna | Zoologica Scripta | 2007 | 95 |
| 48 | A preliminary revision of the genus Plecotus (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) based on genetic and morphological results | Zoologica Scripta | 2006 | 94 |
| 49 | Phylogenetics and classification of Chalcidoidea and Mymarommatoidea - a review of current concepts (Hymenoptera, Apocrita) | Zoologica Scripta | 1999 | 93 |
| 50 | Patterns of septal biomineralization in Scleractinia compared with their 28S rRNA phylogeny: a dual approach for a new taxonomic framework | Zoologica Scripta | 2003 | 90 |
