| Ichthyopterygia C McGowan, R Motani Pfeil (Friedrich), 2003 | 349* | 2003 |
| Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia R Motani Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19 (3), 473-496, 1999 | 279 | 1999 |
| Nocturnality in dinosaurs inferred from scleral ring and orbit morphology L Schmitz, R Motani Science 332 (6030), 705-708, 2011 | 170 | 2011 |
| The evolution of marine reptiles R Motani Evolution: Education and Outreach 2, 224-235, 2009 | 169 | 2009 |
| Evolution of fish-shaped reptiles (Reptilia: Ichthyopterygia) in their physical environments and constraints R Motani Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 33, 395-420, 2005 | 167 | 2005 |
| Large eyeballs in diving ichthyosaurs R Motani, BM Rothschild, W Wahl Jr Nature 402 (6763), 747-747, 1999 | 157 | 1999 |
| On the evolution and homologies of ichthyopterygian forefins R Motani Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19 (1), 28-41, 1999 | 156 | 1999 |
| A basal ichthyosauriform with a short snout from the Lower Triassic of China R Motani, DY Jiang, GB Chen, A Tintori, O Rieppel, C Ji, JD Huang Nature 517 (7535), 485-488, 2015 | 130 | 2015 |
| Eel-like swimming in the earliest ichthyosaurs R Motani, C McGowan Nature 382 (6589), 347-348, 1996 | 113 | 1996 |
| PLoS One X Chen Plos One 10 (5), 2015 | 105* | 2015 |
| Phylogenetic versus functional signals in the evolution of form–function relationships in terrestrial vision R Motani, L Schmitz Evolution 65 (8), 2245-2257, 2011 | 102 | 2011 |
| Ichthyosaurian relationships illuminated by new primitive skeletons from Japan R Motani, N Minoura, T Ando Nature 393 (6682), 255-257, 1998 | 95 | 1998 |
| Scaling effects in caudal fin propulsion and the speed of ichthyosaurs R Motani Nature 415 (6869), 309-312, 2002 | 93 | 2002 |
| Morphological differences between the eyeballs of nocturnal and diurnal amniotes revisited from optical perspectives of visual environments L Schmitz, R Motani Vision research 50 (10), 936-946, 2010 | 85 | 2010 |
| Terrestrial origin of viviparity in Mesozoic marine reptiles indicated by Early Triassic embryonic fossils R Motani, D Jiang, A Tintori, O Rieppel, G Chen PloS one 9 (2), e88640, 2014 | 78 | 2014 |
| A large aberrant stem ichthyosauriform indicating early rise and demise of ichthyosauromorphs in the wake of the end-Permian extinction DY Jiang, R Motani, JD Huang, A Tintori, YC Hu, O Rieppel, NC Fraser, ... Scientific Reports 6 (1), 1-9, 2016 | 71 | 2016 |
| Biodiversity and sequence of the Middle Triassic Panxian marine reptile fauna, Guizhou Province, China D Jiang, R Motani, W Hao, O Rieppel, Y Sun, A Tintori, Z Sun, L Schmitz Acta Geologica Sinica‐English Edition 83 (3), 451-459, 2009 | 69 | 2009 |
| First record of placodontoidea (Reptilia, Sauropterygia, Placodontia) from the eastern Tethys DY Jiang, R Motani, WC Hao, O Rieppel, YL Sun, L Schmitz, ZY Sun Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (3), 904-908, 2008 | 68 | 2008 |
| Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia incorporating recent discoveries from South China C Ji, DY Jiang, R Motani, O Rieppel, WC Hao, ZY Sun Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36 (1), e1025956, 2016 | 67 | 2016 |
| A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the lower Middle Triassic of southwestern China and the phylogenetic relationships of Chinese pachypleurosaurs J Liu, O Rieppel, DY Jiang, JC Aitchison, R Motani, QY Zhang, CY Zhou, ... Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 (2), 292-302, 2011 | 67 | 2011 |
Dayong JiangProfessor of PaleontologyVerified email at pku.edu.cn
