| Eocene greenhouse climate revealed by coupled clumped isotope-Mg/Ca thermometry D Evans, N Sagoo, W Renema, LJ Cotton, W Müller, JA Todd, ... Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 115 (6), 1174-1179, 2018 | 246 | 2018 |
| Extinction of larger benthic foraminifera at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary LJ Cotton, PN Pearson Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 311 (3-4), 281-296, 2011 | 66 | 2011 |
| First report of amber with spider webs and microbial inclusions from the earliest Cretaceous (c. 140 Ma) of Hastings, Sussex M Brasier, L Cotton, I Yenney Journal of the Geological Society 166 (6), 989-997, 2009 | 56 | 2009 |
| Hotspots of Cenozoic tropical marine biodiversity M Yasuhara, HHM Huang, M Reuter, SY Tian, JD Cybulski, A O’dea, ... Oceanography and Marine Biology, 243-300, 2022 | 40 | 2022 |
| Integrated stratigraphy of the Priabonian (upper Eocene) Urtsadzor section, Armenia LJ Cotton, EY Zakrevskaya, A Van Der Boon, G Asatryan, F Hayrapetyan, ... Newsletters on Stratigraphy 50 (3), 269-295, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
| Remarkable preservation of brain tissues in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur MD Brasier, DB Norman, AG Liu, LJ Cotton, JEH Hiscocks, RJ Garwood, ... | 34 | 2017 |
| Lithostratigraphy, biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy of Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene sediments from southern Tanzania: Tanzania Drilling Project Sites 27–35 ÀJ Berrocoso, BT Huber, KG MacLeod, MR Petrizzo, JA Lees, I Wendler, ... Journal of African Earth Sciences 70, 36-57, 2012 | 34 | 2012 |
| Shallow water records of the PETM: Novel insights from NE India (Eastern Tethys) S Sarkar, LJ Cotton, PJ Valdes, DN Schmidt Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 37 (7), e2021PA004257, 2022 | 26 | 2022 |
| Organic geochemistry of late Jurassic paleosols (Dirt Beds) of Dorset, UK R Matthewman, LJ Cotton, Z Martins, MA Sephton Marine and petroleum geology 37 (1), 41-52, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| A new stem group echinoid from the Triassic of China leads to a revised macroevolutionary history of echinoids during the end-Permian mass extinction WWDJB Jeffrey R. Thompson , Shi-xue Hu , Qi-Yue Zhang , Elizabeth Petsios ... Royal Society open science 5 (1), 171548, 2018 | 23 | 2018 |
| Carbonate crusts around volcanic islands: Composition, origin and their significance in slope stability ME Tucker, SN Carey, RSJ Sparks, A Stinton, M Leng, L Robinson, T Li, ... Marine Geology 429, 106320, 2020 | 17 | 2020 |
| Eocene shallow-marine ostracods from Madagascar: southern end of the Tethys? M Yasuhara, Y Hong, SY Tian, WK Chong, H Okahashi, K Littler, L Cotton Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 1-53, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| A new Eocene lineage of reticulate Nummulites (Foraminifera) from Kilwa district, Tanzania; a place for Nummulites ptukhiani? LJ Cotton, PN Pearson, W Renema Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14 (7), 569-579, 2016 | 17 | 2016 |
| Controls on potassium incorporation in foraminifera and other marine calcifying organisms R Nambiar, H Hauzer, WR Gray, MJ Henehan, L Cotton, J Erez, ... Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 351, 125-138, 2023 | 16 | 2023 |
| Post-Eocene coupled oroclines in the Talesh (NW Iran): Paleomagnetic constraints M Rezaeian, CB Kuijper, A van der Boon, D Pastor-Galán, LJ Cotton, ... Tectonophysics 786, 228459, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| Micropalaeontological evidence for the late Oligocene Oi‐2b global glaciation event at the Zarabanda section, Spain R Fenero, L Cotton, E Molina, S Monechi Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 369, 1-13, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |
| Stable isotope stratigraphy and larger benthic foraminiferal extinctions in the Melinau Limestone, Sarawak LJ Cotton, PN Pearson, W Renema Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 79, 65-71, 2014 | 15 | 2014 |
| LARGER BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA FROM THE MIDDLE EOCENE TO OLIGOCENE OF TANZANIA. LJ Cotton, PN Pearson Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences 105 (1), 2012 | 15 | 2012 |
| The Ordovician diversification of sea urchins: systematics of the Bothriocidaroida (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) JR Thompson, LJ Cotton, Y Candela, M Kutscher, M Reich, DJ Bottjer Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 19 (20), 1395-1448, 2022 | 13 | 2022 |
| Three dimensional reconstructions of Nummulites tests reveal complex chamber shapes W Renema, L Cotton PeerJ 3, e1072, 2015 | 12 | 2015 |