| The bases of angiosperm phylogeny: palynology JW Walker, JA Doyle Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 664-723, 1975 | 839 | 1975 |
| Seed plant phylogeny and the origin of angiosperms: an experimental cladistic approach JA Doyle, MJ Donoghue The Botanical Review 52, 321-431, 1986 | 674 | 1986 |
| Early Cretaceous fossil evidence for angiosperm evolution LJ Hickey, JA Doyle The Botanical Review 43, 3-104, 1977 | 589 | 1977 |
| The importance of fossils in phylogeny reconstruction MJ Donoghue, JA Doyle, J Gauthier, AG Kluge, T Rowe Annual review of Ecology and Systematics 20 (1), 431-460, 1989 | 586 | 1989 |
| Morphological phylogenetic analysis of basal angiosperms: comparison and combination with molecular data JA Doyle, PK Endress International Journal of Plant Sciences 161 (S6), S121-S153, 2000 | 468 | 2000 |
| Pollen and leaves from the mid-Cretaceous Potomac Group and their bearing on early angiosperm evolution JA Doyle Origin and early evolution of angiosperms, 139-206, 1976 | 463 | 1976 |
| Reconstructing the ancestral angiosperm flower and its initial specializations PK Endress, JA Doyle American Journal of Botany 96 (1), 22-66, 2009 | 351 | 2009 |
| Towards a phylogenetic nomenclature of Tracheophyta PD Cantino, JA Doyle, SW Graham, WS Judd, RG Olmstead, DE Soltis, ... Taxon 56 (3), E1-E44, 2007 | 331 | 2007 |
| Cretaceous angiosperm pollen of the Atlantic Coastal Plain and its evolutionary significance JA Doyle Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 50 (1), 1-35, 1969 | 327 | 1969 |
| Phylogenies and angiosperm diversification JA Doyle, MJ Donoghue Paleobiology 19 (2), 141-167, 1993 | 301 | 1993 |
| The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification H Sauquet, M Von Balthazar, S Magallón, JA Doyle, PK Endress, ... Nature communications 8 (1), 1-10, 2017 | 293 | 2017 |
| Afropollis, a new genus of early angiosperm pollen, with notes on the Cretaceous palynostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of Northern Gondwana JA Doyle, S Jardiné, A Dorenkamp | 290 | 1982 |
| Sources of error and confidence intervals in estimating the age of angiosperms from rbcL and 18S rDNA data MJ Sanderson, JA Doyle American Journal of Botany 88 (8), 1499-1516, 2001 | 281 | 2001 |
| Angiosperm pollen zonation of the continental Cretaceous of the Atlantic Coastal Plain and its application to deep wells in the Salisbury Embayment JA Doyle, EI Robbins Taylor & Francis Group 1 (1), 41-78, 1977 | 281 | 1977 |
| Dark and disturbed: a new image of early angiosperm ecology TS Feild, NC Arens, JA Doyle, TE Dawson, MJ Donoghue Paleobiology 30 (1), 82-107, 2004 | 260 | 2004 |
| Seed plant phylogeny and the relationships of Gnetales JA Doyle International Journal of Plant Sciences 157 (S6), S3-S39, 1996 | 255 | 1996 |
| Origin of angiosperms JA Doyle Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 9 (1), 365-392, 1978 | 254 | 1978 |
| Hydatellaceae identified as a new branch near the base of the angiosperm phylogenetic tree JM Saarela, HS Rai, JA Doyle, PK Endress, S Mathews, AD Marchant, ... Nature 446 (7133), 312-315, 2007 | 250 | 2007 |
| Molecular and fossil evidence on the origin of angiosperms JA Doyle Annual review of earth and planetary sciences 40, 301-326, 2012 | 249 | 2012 |
| Seed ferns and the origin of angiosperms JA Doyle The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 133 (1), 169-209, 2006 | 246 | 2006 |
