| Chemistry of porphyrins in fossil plants and animals M Tahoun, CT Gee, VE McCoy, PM Sander, CE Müller RSC advances 11 (13), 7552-7563, 2021 | 92 | 2021 |
| Factors controlling exceptional preservation in concretions VE Mccoy, RT Young, DEG Briggs Palaios 30 (4), 272-280, 2015 | 68 | 2015 |
| The ‘Tully monster’is a vertebrate VE McCoy, EE Saupe, JC Lamsdell, LG Tarhan, S McMahon, S Lidgard, ... Nature 532 (7600), 496-499, 2016 | 67 | 2016 |
| All the better to see you with: eyes and claws reveal the evolution of divergent ecological roles in giant pterygotid eurypterids VE McCoy, JC Lamsdell, M Poschmann, RP Anderson, DEG Briggs Biology letters 11 (8), 20150564, 2015 | 62 | 2015 |
| Structurally assisted super black in colourful peacock spiders DE McCoy, VE McCoy, NK Mandsberg, AV Shneidman, J Aizenberg, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1902), 20190589, 2019 | 61 | 2019 |
| What big eyes you have: the ecological role of giant pterygotid eurypterids RP Anderson, VE McCoy, ME McNamara, DEG Briggs Biology letters 10 (7), 20140412, 2014 | 56 | 2014 |
| The chemistry of American and African amber, copal, and resin from the genus Hymenaea VE McCoy, A Boom, MMS Kraemer, SE Gabbott Organic Geochemistry 113, 43-54, 2017 | 48 | 2017 |
| The complex role of microbial metabolic activity in fossilization K Janssen, B Mähler, J Rust, G Bierbaum, VE McCoy Biological Reviews 97 (2), 449-465, 2022 | 42 | 2022 |
| Chemical signatures of soft tissues distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois VE McCoy, J Wiemann, JC Lamsdell, CD Whalen, S Lidgard, P Mayer, ... Geobiology 18 (5), 560-565, 2020 | 41 | 2020 |
| A new model of the formation of Pennsylvanian iron carbonate concretions hosting exceptional soft‐bodied fossils in Mazon Creek, Illinois S Cotroneo, JD Schiffbauer, VE McCoy, UG Wortmann, SAF Darroch, ... Geobiology 14 (6), 543-555, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
| Telltale eyes: the lateral visual systems of Rhenish Lower Devonian eurypterids (Arthropoda, Chelicerata) and their palaeobiological implications M Poschmann, B Schoenemann, VE McCoy Palaeontology 59 (2), 295-304, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
| Ancient amino acids from fossil feathers in amber VE McCoy, SE Gabbott, K Penkman, MJ Collins, S Presslee, J Holt, ... Scientific reports 9 (1), 6420, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
| Sediment permeability and the preservation of soft-tissues in concretions: an experimental study VE Mccoy, RT Young, DEG Briggs Palaios 30 (8), 608-612, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| Air breathing in an exceptionally preserved 340-million-year-old sea scorpion JC Lamsdell, VE McCoy, OA Perron-Feller, MJ Hopkins Current Biology 30 (21), 4316-4321. e2, 2020 | 36 | 2020 |
| A review of preservational variation of fossil inclusions in amber of different chemical groups VE McCoy, C Soriano, SE Gabbott Earth and Environmental Science transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2018 | 35 | 2018 |
| Scorpion taphonomy: criteria for distinguishing fossil scorpion molts and carcasses VE McCoy, DS Brandt The Journal of Arachnology 37 (3), 312-320, 2009 | 34 | 2009 |
| Concretions as agents of soft-tissue preservation: a review VE McCoy The Paleontological Society Papers 20, 147-162, 2014 | 32 | 2014 |
| Unlocking preservation bias in the amber insect fossil record through experimental decay VE McCoy, C Soriano, M Pegoraro, T Luo, A Boom, B Foxman, ... PLoS One 13 (4), e0195482, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
| Exceptional fossilization of ecological interactions: Plant defenses during the four major expansions of arthropod herbivory in the fossil record VE McCoy, T Wappler, CC Labandeira Fossilization: understanding the material nature of ancient plants and …, 2021 | 26 | 2021 |
| Golden artefacts, resin figurines, body adhesives and tomb sediments from the pre-Columbian burial site El Caño (Gran Coclé, Panamá): Tracing organic contents using molecular … J Kaal, MM Seijo, C Oliveira, E Wagner-Wysiecka, VE McCoy, ... Journal of Archaeological Science 113, 105045, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
