| Abrupt and gradual extinction among Late Permian land vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa PD Ward, J Botha, R Buick, MO De Kock, DH Erwin, GH Garrison, ... Science 307 (5710), 709-714, 2005 | 398 | 2005 |
| Anatomy of a mass extinction: sedimentological and taphonomic evidence for drought-induced die-offs at the Permo-Triassic boundary in the main Karoo Basin, South Africa RMH Smith, J Botha-Brink Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 396, 99-118, 2014 | 211 | 2014 |
| The recovery of terrestrial vertebrate diversity in the South African Karoo Basin after the end-Permian extinction R Smith, J Botha Comptes Rendus Palevol 4 (6-7), 623-636, 2005 | 210 | 2005 |
| Rapid vertebrate recuperation in the Karoo Basin of South Africa following the end-Permian extinction J Botha, RMH Smith Journal of African Earth Sciences 45 (4-5), 502-514, 2006 | 194 | 2006 |
| The radiation of cynodonts and the ground plan of mammalian morphological diversity M Ruta, J Botha-Brink, SA Mitchell, MJ Benton Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1769), 20131865, 2013 | 132 | 2013 |
| Lystrosaurus species composition across the Permo–Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin of South Africa J Botha, RMH Smith Lethaia 40 (2), 125-137, 2007 | 120 | 2007 |
| Palaeohistological evidence for ancestral high metabolic rate in archosaurs LJ Legendre, G Guénard, J Botha-Brink, J Cubo Systematic Biology 65 (6), 989-996, 2016 | 115 | 2016 |
| The oldest cynodont: new clues on the origin and early diversification of the Cynodontia J Botha, F Abdala, R Smith Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149 (3), 477-492, 2007 | 106 | 2007 |
| Bone histology and growth patterns of some nonmammalian therapsids S Ray, J Botha, A Chinsamy Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24 (3), 634-648, 2004 | 106 | 2004 |
| Growth patterns deduced from the bone histology of the cynodonts Diademodon and Cynognathus J Botha, A Chinsamy Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 (4), 705-711, 2001 | 101 | 2001 |
| Osteohistology of the Triassic archosauromorphs Prolacerta, Proterosuchus, Euparkeria, and Erythrosuchus from the Karoo Basin of South Africa J Botha-Brink, RMH Smith Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 (6), 1238-1254, 2011 | 96 | 2011 |
| A giant dinosaur from the earliest Jurassic of South Africa and the transition to quadrupedality in early sauropodomorphs BW McPhee, RBJ Benson, J Botha-Brink, EM Bordy, JN Choiniere Current Biology 28 (19), 3143-3151. e7, 2018 | 85 | 2018 |
| Fossorial origin of the turtle shell TR Lyson, BS Rubidge, TM Scheyer, K de Queiroz, ER Schachner, ... Current Biology 26 (14), 1887-1894, 2016 | 83 | 2016 |
| Do extraordinarily high growth rates in Permo-Triassic dicynodonts (Therapsida, Anomodontia) explain their success before and after the end-Permian extinction? J Botha-Brink, KD Angielczyk Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160 (2), 341-365, 2010 | 82 | 2010 |
| GROWTH PATTERNS OF THRINAXODON LIORHINUS, A NON‐MAMMALIAN CYNODONT FROM THE LOWER TRIASSIC OF SOUTH AFRICA J Botha, A Chinsamy Palaeontology 48 (2), 385-394, 2005 | 77 | 2005 |
| Breeding young as a survival strategy during Earth’s greatest mass extinction J Botha-Brink, D Codron, AK Huttenlocker, KD Angielczyk, M Ruta Scientific reports 6 (1), 24053, 2016 | 75 | 2016 |
| Evidence from South Africa for a protracted end-Permian extinction on land PA Viglietti, RBJ Benson, RMH Smith, J Botha, CF Kammerer, Z Skosan, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (17), e2017045118, 2021 | 74 | 2021 |
| Growth and life habits of the Triassic cynodont Trirachodon, inferred from bone histology J Botha, A Chinsamy | 72 | 2004 |
| Origin of the unique ventilatory apparatus of turtles TR Lyson, ER Schachner, J Botha-Brink, TM Scheyer, M Lambertz, ... Nature communications 5 (1), 5211, 2014 | 64 | 2014 |
| A mixed-age classed ‘pelycosaur’aggregation from South Africa: earliest evidence of parental care in amniotes? J Botha-Brink, SP Modesto Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274 (1627), 2829-2834, 2007 | 63 | 2007 |
